[Sca-cooks] Fruit and Meat

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Aug 13, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Dragon said:
> <<< I think a large part of the problem is that people in the U.S. are
> acculturated to assume fruit = sweet = dessert while meat = not sweet
> = not dessert. >>>
>
> Some of this may be true. Can anyone give me a "dessert" dish that  
> *does* contain meat?
>
> The only one I could think of is mincemeat pie, but I also believe  
> mincemeat pie doesn't actually contain any meat.


It used to; there are several extant 17th (and, I think, 16th) century  
recipes calling for beef or veal, plus suet. The filling is  
essentially a sausage mixture with lots of fruit mixed in.

Many modern recipes still call for the suet, though.

There's also suet in quite a few English steamed, boiled and baked  
puddings that are sweet and eaten as desserts.

Adamantius




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