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<DIV>Phil (and the world), I have it - and here it is!</DIV>
<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Brekke</DIV>
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<DIV>White Pudding of Fish</DIV>
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<DIV>Master Gideanus Tacitus Adamantius </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>This recipe was, essentially, developed by committee consisting of
Gideanus Tacitus , Countess Brekke Franksdottir, Lord Audric Eisenherz, and lady
Morgaine of Lynne. It is a synthesis combining aspects of various 17th
century English white pudding recipes (from sources like Dawson, Markham, and
Digby) with a Norman recipe, probably 18th-19th century. Unlike most
sausages, they are not designed for long shelf life. However, they can be
frozen after their preliminary poaching. The same mixture can also be
cooked as a loaf, in the oven.</DIV>
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<DIV>Serves 8 or more<BR>5 slices firm white bread, crusts removed<BR>1.5 Cups
heavy cream<BR>0.75 pound skinless, boneless Cod fillet<BR>0.75 lb sea
scallops<BR>6 egg whites or 3 whole eggs<BR>Salt<BR>White pepper<BR>Fresh grated
nutmeg<BR>Approx. 6 feet pork sausage casing, soaked ½ hour.</DIV>
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<DIV>Start a large pot of salted poaching water going. It should taste of
the salt.</DIV>
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<DIV>Meanwhile, in a food processor, whiz the bread slices into crumbs.
You should have about 2 cups or so. In a bowl, stir ½ - ¾ C cream into the
bread crumbs, until they are moist and beginning to soften. Let them sit
while you grind the cod and scallops. Rough chop them in the food
processor set on pulse. Use a reubber spatula every so often to scrape
down the sides of the food processor bowl, making sure there are no large chunks
left. Add the soaked bread crumbs and process, adding the eggs or
whites in increments, until the mixture is a puree. Add the remaining
cream while continuing to puree. Add about 1 rounded teaspoon of salt, 1
rounded ¼ tsp white pepper, and 1 level ¼ teaspoon of salt. Try
grinding/grating the spices onto a sheet of foil or paper to measure. Make
sure the mixture is smooth.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuff the mixture into casings (We recommend this not be the first sausage
recipe you try; a little experience goes a long way on this one). Use
either a piston-driven sausage stuffing machine, which pumps the mixture into
the casing, or a large-bore funnel, using gravity and the handle of a wooden
spoon to push the fish through. Tie sausages off in 4 - 6 inch lengths, or
make loops like kielbasa. When picking them up, support them evenly, like
a baby. Unlike most sausages, they are heavy but not stiff enough to
support any of their own weight, and it is easy to tear the casings if you
overstress them.</DIV>
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<DIV>Making sure the pot of water is at no more than poaching heat (160° F.,
with small bubbles on the sides and bottom of the pot, steam but no bubbles
rising, for those without thermometers) GENTLY place the sausages in the
water. Don’t let the water reach anything but a low simmer. Boiling
is RIGHT OUT! They will explode and you’ll have cream of fish soup, and a
not very good example of it, either! Poach the sausages for about 20
minutes. Eat immediately or reheat in the water, the oven, or with butter in a
saute pan over medium heat.</DIV>
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<DIV>A more Scandinavian, but also more modern, method is to cook the mixture as
a loaf or as dumplings, forming little balls with two wet spoons and lowering
them gently into the poaching water. Cook as loaf in a 350° oven, with the
pan inside another pan, with boiling water coming ¾ up the side of the loaf pan,
for about 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until an inserted knife comes out
clean. For dumplings, poach the balls till they float, and leave them to
simmer gently for two or three minutes after they are floating. Remove
with a slotted spoon.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:adamantius@verizon.net">Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:sca-cooks@ansteorra.org">Cooks within the SCA</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 20, 2003 1:19 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Sca-cooks] fish sausages
recipe please</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 10:07 AM, Olwen the Odd
wrote:<BR><BR>> Hi all.<BR>> I was reading thorugh the illusions food
section in the Florilethingy <BR>> and saw a post from Adamantius about
fish sausages. If you are here, <BR>> could you please post the
recipe and any special notes on technique?<BR><BR>I'm having a little trouble
finding my recipe, but I'm in the process <BR>of editing and compressing an
hour of video footage which is very <BR>processor-intensive, and
eeeeevvvverryythhhiiiinnnggggg iiissssss <BR>gooooiiiiiinnnnnnggggg
verrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy slooooooooooooowwwwlllyyyy. <BR>I may have better luck
later. Will post if I do.<BR><BR>This is a staple of modern Normandy, although
I can think of at least <BR>one white pudding recipe that involves a meatless
filling stuffed into <BR>a sturgeon gut (Ising Puddings, in, I think, John
Murrell) from <BR>in-or-near-period, so I imagine dishes like this did exist
in regional <BR>cuisines if not in Ye Olde Offysshyll Periode Courte Cookery.
Of <BR>course, this is speculation on my part.<BR><BR>As I recall the last
time we did this, we used cod, scallops, a small <BR>amount of white bread
(fresh crumb, no crust) soaked in heavy cream, <BR>and egg whites. A little
chervil, I think. Pork casings, although there <BR>are other options for those
wishing to avoid the meat aspect. They come <BR>out a beautiful ivory white if
you don't use any shellfish that turn <BR>pink when you cook them. I would
advise against using frozen seafood <BR>for this; it releases a lot of water
in the cooking process, which <BR>affects the texture.<BR><BR>Countess Brekke
may have the recipe closer to hand at the moment; <BR>perhaps she can post if
she gets this message before I find my copy.<BR><BR>Back to 4 frames per
second, ~50,000 frames to
go...<BR><BR>Adamantius<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Sca-cooks
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