[Sca-cooks] Winter comfort food...

[Nick Sasso]

As in a dish found in Apicius.  Fried Creamed Wheat (I've done it with Cream
of Wheat <TM> with
pretty good results as well.)

I do have that sort of embarrassed love for the triangled tater tots <vbg>.

These cakes from Apicius appeal to me as a simple dish that people in
southeastern US can relate to and still admit they are eating food from 200
AD.  Fried mush where the mush is actually wheat instead of corn.  You can
translate it into corn polenta instead and make it still more familiar, but
less Roman.  I plan to use it at a banquet this weekend and use a blend of
semolina and coarse corn meal as my grains, chicken stock as my liquid, and
butter, parmesan and a pinch of saffron as my seasonings.

Cook until very thick; cool; cut into diamonds or triangles; egg wash and
breadcrumbs; fry until golden brown (I'll deep fry for convenience sake).
They hold for 45 minutes to an hour with little quality drop.

niccolo difrancesco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
> [mailto:adamantius.magister at verizon.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 11:55 AM
> To: grizly at mindspring.com; Cooks within the SCA
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Winter comfort food...
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> On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Nick Sasso wrote:
>
> > If you cut it in smaller pieces, dredge in breadcrumbs
> instead then fry,
> > and serve with a roast, you get an Apician dish that goes
> > fabulously with Prime Rib roast for the holidays!!
>
> Apician as in, fit for a gourmet, or Apician as in, there's a recipe
> in Apicius for this?
>
> > It ain't yorkshire pudding . . . and it is reminiscent of those
> > fried potato triangles you get at Arby's in the south USA.
>
> Don't you just love all those foods that you sort of have to be
> embarrassed to _admit_ that you love, but still love them? ;-)
>
> Adamantius
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> "S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la
> brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
> eat cake!"
>      -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques
> Rousseau,
> "Confessions", 1782
>
> "Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
>      -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry
> Holt, 07/29/04
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