[Sca-cooks] Yankees, Hash, and Beets, was and still is: Winter comfort food...

[Jeff Gedney]

>It has been alleged, and _possibly_ (and _only_ possibly) with a  
>little more authority, that Red Flannel Hash is supposed to be made  
>with the various assorted remains of a New England Boiled Dinner,  
>which, in some circles, is just a little more involved than your  
>standard Corned Beef and Cabbage with Potatoes. Consequently, there  
>are Red Flannel Hash recipes out there which call not only for beets  
>(in addition to the other stuff), but for chopped, cooked cabbage as  
>well.

Oh, magister meum... 
Ain't nobody makes that wonderful treat no more. 
There is no better source for whatever hash you wanna 
make than a _proper_ boiled dinner. 

Gawd... I just gotta make that again, one time before 
I die, but my Manhattanite wife doesn't seem to get past 
the notion of a "boiled dinner" not equalling flavorless 
glop. 
(Actually She has been dubbed "Iron Chef Takeout" due to 
the fact that her entire time before emigrating from 
that mysterious isle, she used only a refrigerator and 
microwave for kitchen appliances. 
Her take on cooking is "Why should I? that's why I 
married you!" but it used to be "Why should I? the 
world's best food is only a phone call away and it 
delivers right to my doorman" 
*sigh* I knew what I was getting into when I married 
her though.) 

>However, even if I am the UUY, I'm not, strictly speaking, as much of  
>a Yankee as Cap'n Elias, so it's possible I'm not up on all the  
>research into this particular field. Now, if we were talking  
>cheowdah, it'd be different...

Heck, I aint no "down-eastah"... I'm just from a long 
line of "Connecticut Swamp yankees".

You wanna discuss chowdah, do that... 
Just dont pass off that watery tomato and clam soup as 
chowdah.... them's fighting words!

Chowdah is white as snow, thick as perdition, and tasty 
as sin. Anything else is just soup. 

And if it dont start with rendering fatback it dont 
count.

But that is my humble, yankee-fied, opinion.
Yours may vary (if it does, though, I'll ignore it ;) )

Capt Elias
Dragonship Haven, East
(Stratford, CT, USA)
Apprentice in the House of Silverwing

-Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas
- Help! I am being pecked to death by the Ducks of Dilletanteism! 
There are SO damn many more things I want to try in 
the SCA than I can possibly have time for. 
It's killing me!!!

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