[Sca-cooks] Weird pseudo cooking program on PBS

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Sep 2, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> The website does include this recipe--
> *Simon*
> Our inspiration came from the first recorded recipe for 'bred  
> puddyng',
> included in Eliza Brampton's *'Boke Of Cokery'* published in 1571. We
> bought it at a Sotheby's auction for £17,500, to save it for the  
> nation.
> Our house, Crowe Hall, is open to the public during the second week of
> August every year. Come and visit our safe and admire it. *No  
> beards or
> children*, naturally.
>
> /'Take bred. Frye hit yn oyle. Grynde hit with reysons and drawe hit.
> Claryfy honye with gleyr of eyron and water. Scom hit clenel and  
> put hit
> to that othir.' We could go on. And we will. 'Do therto clovy,  
> macez and
> gynger mynsed. Loke hit be stondyng and floresch hit with annes in
> confite.'/
>
> *Simon*
> That's what we did. But what do you do if you're ordinary? The first
> thing you do is buy yourself a bottle of *1986 Barsac*. The chalky  
> soil
> at Barsac produces the world's finest sweet wines. Go there and rub a
> hundred grams between your thumb and fingertips. Sniff it. It's the
> source of vinicultural greatness. *Sniff it again*. *Sniff it hard*.
> *Lick it*. Go on. Now swallow. Swallow that soil and you'll understand
> why we made it compulsory. You can't order our Bread AND Butter  
> Pudding
> without an '86 Barsac.
>
> Some rules are made to be broken. That is not one of them.
>
> *Ingredients:*
> 29 currants from Corinth
> Cognac
> 10 soupcons of milk, organic cow's, wholly pasteurised, utterly
> non-homogenised and totally semi-skimmed
> 1 pinche of Caster sugar
> 1 demerara sugar
> Vanilla essence
> 3 layers of trusted organic wholemeal bread, thinly abused
> 2 of Arthur Legg-Bourke's eggs
> Fennel, close-shaved
>
> The most important ingredient in our *'AND'* is the currants. For two
> thousand years, Greek men with moussaka-flavoured moustaches have  
> dried
> grapes on sheets in the sun south of Corinth. *Only buy Greek  
> currants,
> from Greek men, in Greece*. We do our Currant Run in early May,  
> when the
> mimosa is just out, the hotels are half-empty and the boys are just
> starting to put their shorts back on...

Yes, to me this is pretty much what MFK Fisher sounds like... ;-)

Adamantius