SC - Re: documentation
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Thu Dec 11 11:27:41 PST 1997
Re: SC - Disgusting recipes
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Oh, apologies to any Aussies who love vegemite...I actually have eaten
vegemite, I lost a bet with Elffin while drunk on madeira and he made
me a vegemite sandwich: toasted roll, lots of butter, thin spread of
vegemite. I survived it.
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:14:49 -0400
From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at spambegone.asan.com>
Subject: Re: SC - Disgusting recipes
Jeanne Stapleton wrote:
> I've been intermittently cruising the web looking at other
> historical food sites in my research process--I'm not only
> interested in medieval/Renaissance food--and I found two things this
> afternoon I just had to mention:
>
> Vegemite Quiche (taken from the back of an Australia jar
> of vegemite, submitted by an En
> Zedder)
>Does that strike you as substantially worse than all the things that
>Americans put Lipton's Onion Soup mix in?
I strongly suspect i haven't *seen* everything Lipton's Onion Soup mix
goes in, but thanks for giving me another research vector. :-) I use
it in meatloaf and chip dip, and that's it. I actually have a couple
of Australian cookbooks and there are soup and stew recipes that
recommend a couple of tablespoonfuls of vegemite; it works fine.
But Vegemite Quiche...especially when I tell you the cheese is Kraft
Processed Cheddar..
BTW, does anyone want to see the recipe? Happy to post it.
>Of course, I wouldn't call the dish Potage a la
>Knorr-Swiss, since I don't expect the entire character of my dish to
>rely on the more peculiar ingredients.
True, but vegemite itself is not a brand name.-Kraft is a big one Down
Under. I once bounced over to Baroness Viviana's breakfast sideboard
and noticed three squeezy bears: one honey, one peanut butter and one
i thought was chocolate spread. It wasn't. It was vegemite.
> Swabian Liver Dumplings (which are, according to the
> submitter, period, although
> he didn't have any kind of
> cite to mail me)
>They probably are period, actually. It would just be difficult to say
>how much their period ancestors resemble the modern article, and I
>would therefore be inclined to lean away from using a modern recipe
>for them, for our purposes.
As would I.
> I suppose if one liked liver (which I don't, unless it's in the form
> of pate) the second could be quite good if done properly. I,
> however, don't like liver.
>
> Has anyone else run across something that just sounded unbelievable
> when cruising through food sources?
>How about canned steak-and-kidney pie? Kinda like chunky dog food
>under this layered amalgam of library paste and car wax, which
>theoretically turns into puff pastry when you bake it. In practice,
>it doesn't.
Ewww...where did you find that?
>Oh. I also once ate instant trifle, for fear of insulting my host. It
>appeared to be a dried, compressed, rectangle of sponge cake, just
>like the flattened sponges you buy in the hardware store. Just add
>water and POOF! You then smear it with this sort of jammy goo from a
>plastic packet, and over that goes the Bird's Instant Custard Mix.
That doesnot sound pleasant. But then I love making trifle from
scratch.
>I'm not sure if this answers your question in any other than a
>spiritual way: I don't think there are too many Web pages devoted to
>such stuff. UseNet news, on the other hand...; )
Since I'm not looking for definitive answers to my questions, but
lively discussion and sharing, I think it answers it just fine.
There's no Web page called "Cultural Cuisine Oddities" or "disgusting
recipes", but as I said, I found these when I searched web browsers
for "quiche", "dumplings," et al.
>There wasn't anyone eating while reading this, was there? If so, I
>apologize, as long as what you were trying to eat wasn't instant
>trifle, of course, in which case you deserve whatever happens.
No, but I did go home and tell my housemates about it over dinner.
They freaked. Genevieve thought for a second I actually wanted to
serve the liver dumplings weekend after next.
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 11:25:29 +1100 (EST)
From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn at sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: SC - Disgusting recipes
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Jeanne Stapleton wrote:
[snip]
> I just had to mention:
>
> Vegemite Quiche (taken from the back of an Australia jar
> of vegemite, submitted by an En Zedder)
Vegemite quiche (like vegemite and avocado toast, and lots of other
stuff with vegemite) is actually good.
>For those who are unsure, vegemite is made by taking the yeast
>deposit left after brewing beer. Add a lot of salt, a few other
>things, and you have a black substance that looks a bit like tar.
>(But then my mother ate tar Ice-cream in Helsinki last month. And I
>know of somebody called Cariadoc, who is a respectable person with a
>proper job. It does take all sorts)
Japan has blue cheese ice cream and poppy seed ice cream. I quite
like green tea ice cream.
>I heard of an australian who went to Czechoslovakia in the early
>eighties. He took, as Australians do, a survival jar of Vegemite
>(About a pint).
All of my Aussie houseguests packed their own.
>It should be noted that while some of us eat vegemite spread like
>cheese on a pizza, most eat it spread VERY thin - the amount that
>would sit on my (large) thumbnail is plenty for the average vegemite
>sandwich.
That is the trick, I guess: it's not like peanut butter.
Speaking of Australian pizzas...the fried egg baked in the middle was
a trifle tough to get used to...
[Cute story about customs and eating vegemite with a spoon from the
jar]
And before I forget...we don't generally do birthdays much on this
list, but I'd like to mention that two subscribers had birthdays
within the past couple of days:
Baroness Morgana yr Oerfa on Dec. 9
Viscountess Annora de Montfort of Shadowood on Dec. 10
Happy birthday, ladies!!!
jstaplet at adm.law.du.edu
University of Denver
College of Law
Ext. 6288
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