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That's how they're meant to be, Laura. Dry. If you want gravy, you pour it over the pasty.
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Originally posted by Roseofsharon:
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Originally posted by ken:
In Britain and Ireland the tradition has been a mixed system - cows are used for milk, bullocks for beef.
Dairy cattle are not normally used for beef nowadays
Yes, that's why I put it in the past tense...
And also why lacto-vegetarianism still kills animals. If there is milk in your fridge there is blood on your hands.
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Ken, I'm confused. How can you say it's past tense when what you wrote was quote:
cows are used for milk, bullocks for beef
or is this subtle irony that I'm not getting? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Originally posted by Gracious rebel:
Ken, I'm confused. How can you say it's past tense when what you wrote was quote:
cows are used for milk, bullocks for beef
or is this subtle irony that I'm not getting?
I wonder whether Ken is using the present perfect "has been used" - but that implies that they sre still being used up till this point. "Had been used" would be the past... Or is this English teacher getting confused too...?! Perfectly possible!!! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Read all of what Ken said, o grammarians, not just a couple of words (which might on other boards be called proof texting -- done it myself many times).
He said "cows are used for milk, bullocks for beef" "has been" the practice. "Has been" is not a present tense, it is a continuing tense: something has been happening for some time and may or may not still be going on.
He then went on to say that the practice which "has been" in use, is not being used any longer.
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Originally posted by John Holding:
Read all of what Ken said, o grammarians, not just a couple of words (which might on other boards be called proof texting -- done it myself many times).
He said "cows are used for milk, bullocks for beef" "has been" the practice. "Has been" is not a present tense, it is a continuing tense: something has been happening for some time and may or may not still be going on.
He then went on to say that the practice which "has been" in use, is not being used any longer.
John
Where did he say that last bit then? I've just reread his post and I don't see it.
Not that this really matters of course, but for once I feel better informed than Ken (never normally happens, so I'm going to milk it for all its worth, 'scuse the pun) as like RoseofSharon I listen to Farming Today!
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Ahem. Can we please put the grammar issue to rest and return to the recipes? Many thanks.
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Originally posted by Izzybee:
Speaking of Real Scottish Oatcakes, anyone have a recipe? I searched online and all the ones I found involved brown sugar and cream and things I'm certain are not correct.
It's one of the things I miss about the UK - availability of Oatcakes (which everyone else in my family seemed to hate).
Izzybee, here's two to try.
This one is very crumbly but more authentic and is Josceline Dimbleby's out of The Almost Vegetarian Cookbook Preheat oven to 190 c/375 f /Gas Mark 5 and mix 125g medium oatmeal (I can't get it here so I have to blend rolled oats) with 1/2 teaspn salt and a pinch of bicarbonate of soda. Melt 15g (1/2 oz) butter with 4 tablespoons hot water and bring to boil. Pour the liquid into the oat mixture. Sprinkle a baking sheet with oatmeal and press the dough into a rough 20cm (8 inch)circle and score through it into 'pie' slices. Bake for 20-25 mins.
The other is my Aunt Noela's. I suspect her Scottish grandmother is turning in her grave over this, but it isn't as crumbly and is great with cheese:
Preheat oven to 180 c/ 350 f. Cream 4 oz butter with 1/4 cup sugar. Add 1 egg and mix in with 1 1/2 cups oat bran and add up to 1 1/2 cups of self raising flour to a consistency you can roll out. Cut into rounds and bake until light brown.
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Sorry for the double post
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
Ahem. Can we please put the grammar issue to rest and return to the recipes? Many thanks.
Mamacita, Heavenly Host
But Mamacita, a "has been" is what happens when you drop one on the floor when one is stringing them (just like an esca-pea)
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Originally posted by Izzybee:
Speaking of Real Scottish Oatcakes, anyone have a recipe?
I saw these made on TV for a Burns night supper. they were thicker than the ones you buy, but it's up to you how thick you slice the dough.
Oatkcakes
120g fine oatmeal
100g plain flour
pinch of salt
pinch of baking powder
50g of lard
cold water to bind
- In a bowl add the oatmeal, flour, salt and baking powder
- Add the lard and mix in as breadcrumbs. Add the water to bind and and mix together
- Roll into a log shape and leave to rest in the fridge for at least 1 hour
- Cut into slices and cook on a non stick baking tray for 10 minutes until golden brown at 180oC.
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Regarding pasties, I mostly agree with ken. In my mind they should be "dry", but not dry - a little bit of juice may leak and brown on/into the crust during baking (num num), and the filling should be moist, but no interior sauce.
That said, I grew up with the variant known as "Finnish Pasties" - Finns in Michigan's copper country adopted the pasty from Cornish miners, and made it their own. My family has always eaten pasties with tomato ketchup, I was a little wierded out the first time I saw pasties served with gravy, in college (Michigan Tech, originally Michigan College of Mines, in the copper country). Another variant I discovered a year or so ago (from a little hole-in-the wall restaurant with pasties to die for) is to serve pasties with butter/margarine. Since I don't like ketchup, I've adopted it.
I make my pasties with coarsely-ground beef, browned, with onions. Boiled potatoes and carrots, and rutabaga if I can find it. Season with salt & pepper. Do all the things you're not supposed to with a crust recipe, so that it comes out fairly tough (because we like the crust that way, and so that leftovers can be taken for lunch without disintegrating). Now, some friends of ours assemble with the meat raw. Not sure about the spuds, etc. They're also very good.
I need to make pasties again...
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
That's how they're meant to be, Laura. Dry. If you want gravy, you pour it over the pasty.
Thanks -- good to know I did it right. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) I'm making them again tonight, and I'm using the same recipe but I added a little sherry and a little bit of broth to make it the teensiest bit juicer. Like I said, I like the flavor, I just wanted a tiny bit more moisture. And since it's mine and I'm not a Cornish miner, I can do that. Well, until the pasty police turn up.
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Allrecipes.com (where I am a member and regular offender) has all kinds of pasty recipes including several takes on the Michigander/Yooper version. And this gives me an excuse to explain one of my favorite regionalisms. I have a friend from Michigan who explained to me about how folks from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, or "U.P." are "Yoopers", and the Yoopers refer to people from the "mitten" part of the state to the south as "trolls" ... they live "under" the bridge ,you see -- the Mackinac Straits bridge that connects the U.P. with the rest of the state.
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I learnt to make pasties with cut up stewing beef (raw), cubed potatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, and salt/pepper. And yes, we always put butter or margarine on the outside when we ate them. Yum.
Don't know who started it, though. My mother's from Michigan, and her mother from Iowa.
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....and that did the trick. They were moister and tastier. Yum! Thanks for the suggestions.
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Just a quick question - does "num num" mean the same as "yum yum" or "yummy"? Its the second time I've seen it on the boards and its not something I'm familiar with... (first time I saw it I assumed it was a typo!)
PS - Google was not my friend.
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Laura: Yep, I'm a troll, although both my father and Mr. Otter are Yoopers. We'd be back to da UP ASAP if we could find jobs.
Emma: Yes, "num num" is the same as yum yum. I think it comes from "nummy" but I am not an etymologist.
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"Num num" is onamatopoetic -- the mumbling sound you make when appreciating good food.
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It's not Lent yet for us Orthodox types, so I've got a couple of super-easy recipes for ribs.
Super-easy pork spare ribs
The Day Before
Cut the ribs in to serving-sized pieces.
Wrap the ribs in a double layer of aluminum foil. (You can have several pieces of ribs in the packet, but don't stack them up on each other.)
Bake at 350F for an hour and a half.
Remove the ribs from the oven.
Pour a cup or so of barbecue sauce into the bottom of a glass baking dish.
Unwrap the ribs, and put them in a single layer in the baking dish. Pour more barbecue sauce over the top.
Cover tightly and refrigerate overnight.
The Next Day
Spray a broiler pan generously with Pam.
Move the ribs from the baking dish in which they've been marinating to the broiler pan.
Bake at 350F for about 30 minutes, until they're hot all the way through.
Super easy beef short ribs
Cut the ribs into serving sized pieces.
In a heavy skillet, brown the pieces of ribs on all sides.
Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.
Move ribs to a baking dish (I use a deep cast iron skillet).
Add enough red wine to the skillet that the ribs are about half covered.
Cover the baking dish tightly.
Bake at 325F for two hours.
Remove ribs to a serving dish. Separate the grease from the wine and juices left in the pan. Discard the grease. Make a gravy from what's left.
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You're missing Memphis, aren't you Josephine?
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OK, a question for cooks on the other side of the pond.
Last night I cooked Sloppy Joes from this recipe.
I wanted something quick and easy to cook, had a pound of minced beef handy, and remembered reading about Sloppy Joes ages ago on this thread (I think). They are not well-known over here.
I followed the recipe except for adding the sugar, as ketchup is already very sweet - 25% sugar by weight, according to the small print on the bottle. The finished result was very palatable, but definitely sweeter than main courses we normally eat here.
Is American ketchup less sweet than ours, so that the sugar is necssary, or are Sloppy Joes really very sweet? I will make them again, but will substitute half tomato puree (paste) for ketchup, to get a less sweet flavour.
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I make sloppy joes, but I've never put sugar in them.
My recipe:
1 pound ground beef, browned and drained
1 onion, chopped
1 large bell pepper, chopped
1/2 pound mushrooms, chopped
bottled barbecue sauce
Brown and drain the ground beef, set aside.
Saute the vegetables in a bit of oil until they're soft and the onion is beginning to brown. Toss the beef back in the pan.
Add bottled barbecue sauce to get the amount of liquid you like. (Some people like them barely moistened. Some like then really, really sloppy.) Add a bit of salt if needed.
There's sugar in the barbecue sauce, like there is in the ketchup. I have never seen any reason to add any extra. You want the flavor to be a bit sharp (which is why there's prepared mustard in that recipe, I presume), and ever-so-slightly sweet. The recipe you linked to would be, I think, not quite sharp enough, and much too sweet.
ETA: How much salt and pepper did you add? It might be that a heavier hand with the black pepper would overcome some of the sweetness.
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I used to use tinned sauces that claimed to be made specifically for Sloppy Joes, but they too seemed a bit too sweet for me, so I changed to a commercially-made spaghetti sauce that contained a basic marinara with onions, garlic, peppers, olives and mushrooms. To perk it up just a bit, I added a drop of tabasco sauce and a splat of Worcestershire sauce.
No sugar or barbecue sauce, though. My Sloppy Joes had more of a pizza like taste, but without the cheese. I also used very lean hamburger, which ordinarily doesn't have as good a taste as the regular hamburger which is 15 % fat, but with the spaghetti sauce, one didn't notice the lack of beef fat.
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Here's what looks like a delicious recipe for home-made vegetarian catsup, which calls for very little sweetener (only 1/4 tsp. for 3 cups of product) Home Made Catsup with Tomato Paste
Do they still have "Mushroom Catsup" in Britain?
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Originally posted by Leetle Masha:
I also used very lean hamburger, which ordinarily doesn't have as good a taste as the regular hamburger which is 15 % fat, but with the spaghetti sauce, one didn't notice the lack of beef fat.
If you get a chance, you might try hamburger from locally grown, grass fed cows.
The hamburger we get at our local farm is so lean that you actually have to add a bit of oil to the pan when you brown it, and you end up with no oil to drain off. I thought, the first time I used it, that it wouldn't have any flavor at all.
Boy, was I wrong! It's the best hamburger meat I've ever had. Much better than anything I've ever gotten at the grocery store.
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Thank you for your assistance! I will try barbecue sauce (I had none handy last night). I would add mushrooms, but the boys aren't keen, and it irritates me to see them pick them out!
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Originally posted by Josephine:
If you get a chance, you might try hamburger from locally grown, grass fed cows...<snip>...It's the best hamburger meat I've ever had. Much better than anything I've ever gotten at the grocery store.
Happy cows - that's the ticket!
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I've inherited a wonderful 'Pudding Book' from my grandmother ... ('One Thousand and Seventy Recipes for Puddings Plain and Rich, Baked and Boiled: Pastry Dishes Large and Small: Fritters, Pancakes, Fruit Dishes, Custards, Creams, Junkets, Jellies, and Sweet Dishes of Every Kind!!!!!!')
I want to cook a Cumberland Pudding, but one of the ingredients is '4 ounces of citron'. I've never heard of it! I've looked citron up on Wiki, but I've never seen the thing on sale in this country. It seems to be rather different from orange or lemon. Will an orange do, or can anyone suggest an alternative? What does your Cumberland Pudding recipe say?
Thanks,
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How is it used?
The best substitute could either be lemon or candied peel depending on context.
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Someone asks more or less the same question here - might the suggestions given help you?
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Thanks for those suggestions. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
The recipe goes:
Take 6 ounces of peeled and cored apples, 6 ounces of suet, and 4 ounces of citron; put them all together through a mincer. Add 6 ounces of cleaned currants, six ounces of sugar, six ounces of stale breadcrumbs, and one tsp salt. Mix thoroughly; stir in six beaten yolks, and the juice and grated rind of 1 orange. Lastly, add 6 egg shites, whisked stiff. Steam for 4-6 hours in a buttered mould holding 4 lbs (or in 2 smaller ones)
I think it must mean citron peel (thanks for the link, daisydaisy), as I can't imagine the fresh fruit being very common in the UK when the book was given to my grandmother in 1923. I rather like the link's suggestion of using golden raisins instead, though it already has a whole load of currants! And I think an extra squeeze of lemon juice as well wouldn't go amiss.
I'll let you know how I get on ...
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I think it can be taken to be candied peel if so then if you really want to you can make your own however you might find some more accurate American equivalent.
Nothing I know of really has that sweet, sharp taste though maybe glace pineapple might do at a pinch.
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I popped in to say thank you to Jengie, and just noticed the terribly unheavenly typo in my last post. It is language that I never never use! I grovel in apology.
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Excuse me while I go and write out 'Preview Post Is My Friend' at least 100 times.
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I am crying with laughter at that typo ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) (sorry, cottontail) but the recipe sounds wonderful - will try it.
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Hey, I'm glad I made your day!
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Citron peel is commonly found around here in health and bulk food shops in the run up to Christmas. Along with the candied orange and lemon peel and all the rest of it.
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I am so impressed! My thanks to all.
I made the recipe anyway, substituting sultanas and adding an extra squeeze of lemon juice. And it was fab - much lighter than you might expect from a suet pudding. The apple wasn't too prominent ... it kind of melted into the pudding.
I halved the quantities, and it still fed 4 people with ample portions. I also cut the sugar by 1/3 as I was using eating apples, and it was fine. Serve with custard, of course!
Proper citron next time!
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I used to make pickled onions on a fairly regular basis. I stopped about two years ago when I found the onions in three large jars to be soft. One can imagine how furious I was.
Are there any pickled onion enthusiasts willing to share tips? My guess is that I hadn't sterilised the jars properly, but I have broken many jars doing so, and I am a bit unwilling to use a chemical steriliser instead.
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How are you sterilizing your jars?
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If you process the canning jar full of onions in a boiling water bath after you have put them in the jar, you don't have to sterilize the jar.
Of course, the jar has to be clean and it should be hot to prevent it cracking when you put the hot onions in it.
I used to keep the canning jars hot by leaving them in the dishwasher on the 'heated dry' setting.
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Cottontail: Alternatively heating them in the oven, or boiling them.
Moo: do you mean that I should boil the onions in the pickling mixture?
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The normal way of canning anything in the US is to heat it to the boiling point, put it in hot jars, put the lids on, and process it. If the food is sufficiently acid, you can process it in a boiling water bath.
You put the sealed jars on a rack in a very tall pot of boiling water. The boiling water has to come at least two inches above the tops of the jars. This drives the air out of the jars. You process them for a certain length of time, most commonly ten minutes, remove them from the boiling water, and let them cool.
Here is a website that describes the process.
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Thanks very much indeed.
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Does anyone have a recipe for peanut butter cookies that does not use lard? But does use natural peanut butter?
I'd be using Equal™ with a little jaggery to substitute for brown sugar.
Many thanks.
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Cranks* recipe for Peanut rounds
Butter or margarine 4oz (100g)
Raw brown sugar 4ox (100g)
Free-range egg 1
Peanut butter 3oz (75g)
Peanuts, roughly chopped 3oz (75g)
100% wholemeal flour 3oz (75g)
Baking powder 1/2 tsp (2.5ml)
Flaked wheat 5oz (150g)
Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy,. Beat in teh egg, then add the remaining ingredients and work the mixture together to give a manageable dough. Roll out fairly thinly on a lightly floured surface and stamp out 3" (7.5cm) rounds with a fluted cutter. Place on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven at 190ºC (375ºF/Mark 5) for about 15 minutes, until golden. Cool on a wire tray. Store in an airtight tin.
Makes about 25 biscuits
* Vegetarian wholefood restaurant chain
If I've made these I cheated and used more flour or porridge oats to replace the flaked wheat.
Alternatively I have a recipe for a peanut butter cake/bread which I have definitely made.
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I'm sure this is a question I ought to know the answer to, but tant pis...
I bought a boned shoulder of lamb (to cook with rosemary, honey & cider - yum!) from the butchers. He also gave me the bones. What should I do with them? Boil them for gravy? Soup? I don't know... Can you suggest anything?
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Yes, you can boil them - skim the scum that rises to the surface. You can put some aromatics in with them - onion, carrot, celery, peppercorns. Simmer for an hour or so, then strain off the stock and freeze it for when you next want to make soup or a lamb casserole.
It does make a surprising difference to flavour. I made a very memorable soup once by doing the above procedure (albeit with beef), then re-heating, seasoning and poaching shreds of venison in it. mmmmmmmmmmm.
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Thirty-five pages is long enough. New recipes can be posted on "The Recipe Thread: Another Helping" in Heaven.
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