[Sca-cooks] Re: Cooked for Thanksgiving

[Susan Fox]

Devra at aol.com wrote:

>        This year I tried four new things, of which three turned out very 
>nice and one was dubious. The dubious one was a Weight=Watchers' cranberry sauce, 
>made with raw berries, chopped dried apricots, unsweetened applesauce, and 
>'spreadable fruit' orange,  cooked together. It turned out very sharp and I 
>thought it was nasty. Others thought it might be improved with some sweetening, 
>but I say forget it.
>
WW recipes are not all gems, are they?  Ah well.  I've seen one [non-WW] 
cranberry sauce recipe kicking around that featured candied ginger 
instead of the usual raw oranges.  It just so happens that I have about 
half a jar of wet candied ginger, in a lot of syrup that needs to get 
used.  Hmmm.

>
>     The ones that worked: Lady Selene's Cream of Turnip soup from this list, 
>

Baroness Muirath's, actually.  I'm still not sure if it is "period" but 
it is very nice and comforting.  Next time I make it, I use an immersion 
blender, that will be so much easier than shoveling hot chunky stuff in 
and out of food processors!

>
>a buttermilk spoonbread from Bon Apetit, and a fruit dressing meant to go 
>with goose (also from Bon Apetit) which was my favorite: a filling of cooked 
>bacon, onion, chopped tart apples, canned chestnuts, chopped celeraic, sherry, 
>chicken broth, and whole prunes, cooked together and then topped with a mixture 
>of cubed bread, cream, eggs, grated parmesan and seasonings. Baked until puffy. 
>Very nice indeed.
>     Devra
>
Mmmm, coming to your house next year.  Don't I wish.  I chickened out on 
Doing Thanksgiving this year and we all went to a hotel restaurant and 
let someone else get crazy and clean up.  I'm saving my brain cells for 
Twelfth Night soteltie work instead.

Selene