[Sca-cooks] Pork Fruitcake - Is This a Joke?

[Martin G. Diehl]

Tara Sersen Boroson wrote:

[snip]

> That said, I've been experimenting with roasting chickens 
> at low temps for long times, on the advice of the farm 
> where I buy them.  I put one in last week at 200 degrees 
> and expected it to take about 6-7 hours.  I checked the 
> temp at 6 hours, and it was 203 degrees and the chicken 
> just fell apart.  

I remember doing clay pot cooking and seeing the chicken 
done to perfection, moist and falling apart.  

That was with the oven set to 480 for 80 minutes ... but 
I had no way of telling how hot it was inside the clay pot.  

Remember that type of cooking starts with an unglazed clay 
pot soaked in water; generally the ingredients all go in 
together; don't preheat the oven; cook for the specified 
time; use heavy gloves to move the pot from the oven to a 
safe non metallic surface.  

> I think 5 hours would have been sufficient, and next time
> I'll remember to put my electronic thermometer in at the 
> start of the process ;)
> 
> So, two hours at 275 degrees may well be plenty of time.  
> There is only one way to find out - make it and keep tabs 
> on the internal temperature! 
> 
> -Magdalena vander Brugghe
> 
> >As far as the low temp, I would think it would be
> >fine.  I looked at the quantity of pork (1 1/5 lbs) to
> >the quantity it makes- 4 loaves.  That is roughly 6 oz
> >of meat per loaf.  Not like you are cooking meatloaf
> >and have 1 1/2 lbs of meat in one pan.  Just my 2
> >cents.
> >
> >Alexa
> >
> >--- Elise Fleming <alysk at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Greetings!  My daughter in San Francisco asked me
> >>about a Pork Fruitcake
> >>recipe she'd found.  I said I'd ask if any of you
> >>had ever heard of such a
> >>thing.  I wondered if it might have been based on
> >>mincemeat, although with
> >>boiling coffee...!  The boiling liquid would do a
> >>little to help cook the
> >>pork, but I wondered if such a low temperature even
> >>for two hours would
> >>suffice to fully cook it.  Any comments?  Anyone
> >>want to try it??  FYI, I
> >>will be unsubscribing (hopefully) by Tuesday.  I'll
> >>be in England for five
> >>weeks!
> >>
> >>>From the cookbook "125 Years of Favorites Old and
> >>New, Vasa Lutheran Church 1855-1980", a 621 page
> >>compendium by
> >>Minnesotan Lutherans comes the treat Pork Fruit
> >>Cake. It's in the section
> >>called Food with a Foreign Flair.
> >>
> >>Pork Fruit Cake by Carol Mitchener
> >>
> >>1.5 lb ground pork
> >>Pour 3 cups boiling coffee over pork and stir.
> >>
> >>3 c brown sugar
> >>2 lbs raisins
> >>2 c nutmeats
> >>1 lb currants
> >>1 lb dates, cut fine(ly)
> >>1 c citron
> >>1 c lemon and orange peel
> >>2 tsp soda
> >>1 tsp allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt
> >>6-7 c flour
> >>
> >>Put into 4 bread pans. Bake at 275 degrees for
> >>approximately 2 hours.
> >>
> >>Alys Katharine
> >>
> >>Elise Fleming
> >>alysk at ix.netcom.com
> >>http://home.netcom.com/~alysk/
> >>
> >>
> 
> --
> Tara Sersen Boroson
> 
> 'Normal' is getting dressed in clothes that you buy 
> for work, driving through traffic in a car you are still 
> paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so 
> you can pay for the clothes, car, and the house that you 
> leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. 
> --Ellen Goodman

LOL

Vincenzo

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