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Interests => All Things Edible (and how to prepare them) => Topic started by: franksolich on February 23, 2013, 05:05:50 PM
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http://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com/100-wartime-recipes/
Oh my.
This is a blast.
"100 war-time recipes re-created"
Anzac biscuits, eggless pancakes, pumpkin soup, what not.
Even if one's not into cooking, it's well worth the read at the link above.
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http://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com/100-wartime-recipes/
Oh my.
This is a blast.
"100 war-time recipes re-created"
Anzac biscuits, eggless pancakes, pumpkin soup, what not.
Even if one's not into cooking, it's well worth the read at the link above.
Some of those look worth trying out.
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Two pounds of flour? Also, that's a whole lot of yeast. Here's my recipe:
4c flour
1-1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp yeast
2 cups of water
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Two pounds of flour? Also, that's a whole lot of yeast. Here's my recipe:
4c flour
1-1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp yeast
2 cups of water
That's really an interesting site; she's British,
Check out the videos of a war-time farm in England. They're great.
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That's really an interesting site; she's British,
Check out the videos of a war-time farm in England. They're great.
And since when have the brits been known for good food? That is if you only like bangers and eggs!
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I've actually followed her blog for a while. She used to post on a very regular basis. She has a lot of very interesting looking recipes. :cheersmate:
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Hey, my mom's British and she's an awesome cook.
It may have had something to do with her working in France for a few years, though.
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I've actually followed her blog for a while. She used to post on a very regular basis. She has a lot of very interesting looking recipes. :cheersmate:
So.....you've heard of her before, and never shared?
It's a very folksy, human-interest, sort of site.
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Our friends on EBT could use this site to stretch their monthly food benefits.
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Hey, my mom's British and she's an awesome cook.
It may have had something to do with her working in France for a few years, though.
Nah, mine is a good cook too. She can make anything out of anything and it tastes good. Brits are resourceful that's for sure.
As for traditional British food: they have the art of picnic buffet to a science ie scotch eggs and sausage rolls.....YUM
and Dundee Cake is a fruitcake that's actually edible, not to mention the affinity for alcohol in their desserts :whistling: Good stuff
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After reading the ingredients of Bubble and Squeak, I can only imagine its name is derived from what occurs at the end or the digestive system. :rotf:
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Our friends on EBT could use this site to stretch their monthly food benefits.
The WW2 diet was combined with hard work and frugality.....ingredients unknown to modern DUmmies.
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And since when have the brits been known for good food? That is if you only like bangers and eggs!
I dunno why the English have this undeserved reputation.
Some of the best eggs, bacon, and potatoes I've ever dined upon were in cheap run-down bed-and-breakfasts in England (I spent three winters there).
I wasn't too fond of the orange marmalade with mold growing on top, or the burnt toast, but the eggs, bacon, and potatoes were usually exquisite; some of the finest food one can hope to dine upon.
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I've been watching a lot of episodes of "Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" lately. The restaurants are in Great Britain.
They mostly prepare British style recipes and they look good to me.
He has another show called; "Kitchen Nightmares" that are all in the U.S.
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I've been watching a lot of episodes of "Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" lately. The restaurants are in Great Britain.
They mostly prepare British style recipes and they look good to me.
He has another show called; "Kitchen Nightmares" that are all in the U.S.
I wish I could find the story because my brother loves that show, but the other week I saw an article that said something like 30-40% of the restaurants on his shows fail after the first year.
I'll stick with Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives even if Guy Fieri is an enormous dipshit. At least the food looks good.
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I wasn't too fond of the orange marmalade with mold growing on top, or the burnt toast, but the eggs, bacon, and potatoes were usually exquisite; some of the finest food one can hope to dine upon.
Did they just scrape the mold off, like what is commonly done with cheese?
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That's disgusting.
My mother made her own orange marmalade, but I don't ever remember seeing any mold on it. Also, orange marmalade is a great base for homemade honey mustard sauce (we ran out at work one day).
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I wish I could find the story because my brother loves that show, but the other week I saw an article that said something like 30-40% of the restaurants on his shows fail after the first year.
They were already in the toilet when they call him in to try and turn the place around. What's funny about the shows are the owners. It's no wonder some restaurants have a high turnover rate, the people are good candidates for the DUmp.
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There's a guy that had a successful restaurant in New Orleans for years that was destroyed during Katrina. He moved up here and reopened, but apparently wasn't doing too well. He brought Gordon Ramsay in to film an episode and he said it ruined their business. I'm not sure how much Ramsay had to do with it, I think he was already in bankruptcy at the time.
Personally, I think his restaurant is in a bad spot. Lots of cross-traffic with poor parking.
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There's a guy that had a successful restaurant in New Orleans for years that was destroyed during Katrina. He moved up here and reopened, but apparently wasn't doing too well. He brought Gordon Ramsay in to film an episode and he said it ruined their business. I'm not sure how much Ramsay had to do with it, I think he was already in bankruptcy at the time.
Personally, I think his restaurant is in a bad spot. Lots of cross-traffic with poor parking.
When you see the conditions of some of the kitchens and how they handle the food, you wouldn't want to eat under that ownership whether Ramsay had been there or not. Location, chef, food quality/prices, advertising, competition etc all are factors.
We have a high end Mexican restaurant nearby that constantly turns over to new management and the food just never improves. It's a shame. We had a Casa Maria's there years ago and you couldn't get in that place it was so crowded and the food was fantastic.
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The WW2 diet was combined with hard work and frugality.....ingredients unknown to modern DUmmies.
True.
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After reading the ingredients of Bubble and Squeak, I can only imagine its name is derived from what occurs at the end or the digestive system. :rotf:
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My British mother has confirmed that she believes bubble and squeak is named precisely for the reasons surmised in this thread lol
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What did the little chicked say when his momma laid an orange?
"HEY! Look at the orange marmalade!"
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And since when have the brits been known for good food? That is if you only like bangers and eggs!
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Nah, mine is a good cook too. She can make anything out of anything and it tastes good. Brits are resourceful that's for sure.
As for traditional British food: they have the art of picnic buffet to a science ie scotch eggs and sausage rolls.....YUM
and Dundee Cake is a fruitcake that's actually edible, not to mention the affinity for alcohol in their desserts :whistling: Good stuff
Just looked up "Dundee Cake" on internet and saw the pictures.
My mother made what she called a fruit cake, with walnuts in it, and made in in an angel food cake pan.
The pictures of the "white" Dundee cake look just like it!!!
I have tried for years to find a recipe like what my mother would make. Her recipe box was lost soon after she died,(when I was 13) and that recipe was has been "gone" to me. Her fruit cake was nothing like what sells as fruit cake these days. Hers was like a golden colored pound cake with cherries, raisins, and peels with chopped walnuts. More cake than fruit or nuts.
One of the other's I have tried and not been able to find, is what she called Bishop's Bread. She made it in a 9x13 and cut it into 4 loaf like slabs. I would get a couple of pieces in the morning for breakfast with butter spread on it. It had a crumb-type topping and was the consistency of like pumpkin or banana bread.