[Sca-cooks] Re: pantry foods was Cooking Spam

[UlfR]

Olwen the Odd <olwentheodd at hotmail.com> [2001.11.12] wrote:
> Never had black pudding.  I LOVE lingonberry jam but can seldom find it.
> Apparently you have the best of those two worlds.

Better... all the lingonberry jam in my home is home made, from
lingonberries, sugar and water (with a stick of cinnamon tossed in) by
my "common law mother-in-law" (being Swedish me and my GF naturally live
in sin...). The stuff you buy in the stores are heavilly adulterated
with apples.

> Can you post to me a copy
> of your redaction for malaches?

I posted it to the list a bit over a year ago:

: Malaches (Forme of Cury)
:
: 159 Malaches. Take blode of swyne, floure, & larde idysed, salt & mele;
: do hit togedre. Bake hyt in a trappe wyt wyte gres.
:
: 8 dl pigs blood
: 3-4 dl flour (mixed wheat and rye)
: 75 g butter (I was out of lard)
: salt
:
: I mixed the blood, the flour, salt, and most of the butter (diced). I
: poured it into a greased deep tin in an 200 C oven, for 75 minutes, with
: a foil cover. By that time a knife point came out fairly clean, and the
: internal temperature was 75 C.
:
: The result is slightly dry, bland but not bad at all. I suspect that if
: I used some fat source that did not "go into solution" completely the
: dryness might be solved. Alteantively I could melt the butter before
: mixing it in, but That Is Not Supported By The Original Recipie, so I
: couldn't do that.

Adamantius pointed out one place where I had gone wrong; chop
lard, fatback, or possibly bacon (i.e. the tissue, not rendered fat)
instead of the butter. We also had a discussion of the nature of a
trappe, IIRC the conclusion was that the author wanted us to grease a
pan, not make a pie crust.  Pity in a way. To quote Adamantius:

= Plus, you get to inflict it on people who aren't
= expecting it ;  ). "What's this? More weird food? No? Only pie? Thank
= goodness! About time!"

Ohh, and to help out all the metrically callenged; "dl" is decilitre,
i.e. one tenth of a litre (100 ml, 3.38 fl oz). We are thus talking
about 3 cups of blood, 2.5 cups of flour and about 3 oz fat. The quick
and dirty oven temperature conversion between C and F is to double the
number to get degrees Frankenstein. A bit short for the 75 C (that's 167
degrees F), but fine for the oven temp.

UlfR

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