[Sca-cooks] Substitution Challenge
Sharon Palmer
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Tue Apr 5 23:16:33 PDT 2011
Awhile ago Urtatim did a challenge for period substitutions. Here
are a few from Rumpolt. See if you can guess before looking them up.
1) (Lamb) Meat to braise with onions. Brown it well to the point
(until done)// and then put it in a fish kettle/ pour wine and
vinegar on it/ also a little beef broth/ and brown a little flour in
it/ put in onions/ and let it simmer with each other/ and when it is
half cooked/ then mix it with pepper/ saffron and a little sugar/
then let it simmer again/ and when it has cooked/ then check it/ if
it is well tasting. Have you no onions/ then take _________/ then it
is good and well tasting.
2) Orach. Take orach/ pick it and poach it in boiling water/ put it
on a strainer/ cool it/ and press it well off/ that the water comes
from it/ take boiled bacon/ that is fresh/ chop it with the leaves
through each other/ then put it in a fish kettle/ set it on coals/
and roast it well with each other/ dissolve with a good beef broth/
that is not over salted/ put a little ginger in it/ so it becomes
good and well tasting. Have you no beef broth/ then pour good
_________ in it.
3) Wash the spinach nicely off/ and press the water well from it/
throw it in hot butter in a pan/ and roast it well in it/ pour a
little pea broth/ and a little bacon into it/ also put a little sugar
and small raisins into it/ a little pepper and ginger/ together let
it again simmer/ that a short broth develops/ so it becomes good and
well tasting. Have you no sugar/ then pour a sweet _________ / into
it/ and let simmer with it/ so it becomes also good.
4) Take (beef) meat and beef fat/ a little onion and saffron/ also
eggs/ and chop it together/ make long or wide dumplings from it.
Make a grill hot/ lay them on it and roast them/ and make them nicely
brown on both sides/ lay them in a tinned fish kettle/ and pour a
good beef broth over then/ Have you no broth/ then take water/ cut
_______ in it/ and crush a little juniper/ take pepper and a little
saffron over it/ and steam it together/ like this it becomes good and
well tasting.
5) Cut up the udder/ and take pepper and salt through each other/
have you no pepper/ then take _________ with it/ and when you have
browned the udder/ then baste with fresh unmelted butter/ and when
you dress it then sprinkle the pepper and salt over it/ then it
becomes good and lovely.
And a few less surprising ones
have you no beef broth/ then take water
have you no vinegar/ then put verjuice in it/ from the unripe grapes/
have you no beef fat/ then chop bacon in it/
have you no lard/ then take the fat skimmed from beef broth
have you no bacon/ then baste with butter
have you no wine vinegar/ then take beer vinegar
have you no broth/ then take water
have you no beef broth/ then take the broth the mutton cooked in
have you no wine/ then take vinegar
have you no isinglass/ then take calves foot (to set an almond cheese)
have you no roasted fish/ then take a fried one (in a fish soup)
Ranvaig
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