[Sca-cooks] was mad cow... now brains

[Ana Valdés]

I know, I mean more "familiar stories", type, "my grandfather did the 
food that way" ,etc.
I want the book filled not only with recipes but also with culinary 
curious facts and anecdots.
Ana

Elaine Koogler wrote:

> There should be something in the Florilegium about it as I know we 
> have discussed this several times in the past.
>
> Kiri
>
> Ana Valdés wrote:
>
>> Please, do anyone have recipes or stories about that kind of food? I 
>> am now completing my longterm project about the cookbook I am 
>> writing, about "cruel food". And I need recipes and tales about 
>> lambtesticles and brains and all people in different cultural times 
>> has eaten.
>> My idea with the book is punctualize its not any "forbidden or 
>> disgusting food", everything is eadible if you need or fancy doing that.
>> Have now  an enormous bibliography about these kind of alimentary 
>> taboos.
>> Ana
>>
>> Pixel, Goddess and Queen wrote:
>>
>>> My grandfather liked scrambled eggs and calves's brains. I don't know
>>> about pork brains. And we always made dumplings out of poultry 
>>> livers, but
>>> beef livers got fried with onions. We loved liver dumplings (which 
>>> then go
>>> into soup) but we hated the liver and onions. We had to eat it, but we
>>> were allowed as much ketchup as we wanted. :-)
>>>
>>> Margaret
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Mmmm, scrambled brains and eggs.  It's been a few decades, but my
>>>> grandmother would do that for breakfast from time to time.  Back 
>>>> then she
>>>> could get pig brains at certain groceries in town.
>>>>
>>>> Very tasty.
>>>>
>>>> Mairi Ceilidh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> Yup...when my grandparents butchered their animals in the late 
>>>>> fall, my
>>>>> father would bring home a "mess" (yes, that's what they were 
>>>>> called) of
>>>>> brains, which my mother, saint that she was, would cook them with 
>>>>> eggs
>>>>> for him.  However, my memory tells me that it was pork brains rather
>>>>> than beef.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kiri
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>
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