There is a new book out on scrapple called "Country Scrapple", by William
Ways Weaver. He also wrote a book called "Sauerkraut Yankees." The book
covers history of scrapple, plus other similar dishes such as panhas,goetta,
and poor-do. I have not read it yet, but I am taking the train to
Harrisburg, PA this weekend, and plan to read it along the way since
Harrisburg is in Scrapple Country.

Tom

mary wrote:

There is a new book out on scrapple called "Country Scrapple", by William
Ways Weaver. He also wrote a book called "Sauerkraut Yankees." The book
covers history of scrapple, plus other similar dishes such as
panhas,goetta, and poor-do. I have not read it yet, but I am taking the
train to Harrisburg, PA this weekend, and plan to read it along the way
since Harrisburg is in Scrapple Country.

Mmmmm. Scrapple.

I have a standing invitation from Harlan Ellison to join him for a scrapple
breakfast with him should he ever be in my neck of the woods. All because I
called him an asshole...

--
Darryl L. Pierce
Visit the Infobahn Offramp - http://mypage.org/mcpierce
"What do you care what other people think, Mr. Feynman?"

"mary" wrote in message
...
snip

I have not read it yet, but I am taking the train to
Harrisburg, PA this weekend, and plan to read it along the way since
Harrisburg is in Scrapple Country.

Tom



Tom,

Wave as you go by...and don't eat the souse :-)

Jason

"Darryl L. Pierce" wrote in message
s.com...
mary wrote:

There is a new book out on scrapple called "Country Scrapple", by
William
Ways Weaver. He also wrote a book called "Sauerkraut Yankees." The book
covers history of scrapple, plus other similar dishes such as
panhas,goetta, and poor-do. I have not read it yet, but I am taking the
train to Harrisburg, PA this weekend, and plan to read it along the way
since Harrisburg is in Scrapple Country.

Mmmmm. Scrapple.

I have a standing invitation from Harlan Ellison to join him for a
scrapple
breakfast with him should he ever be in my neck of the woods. All because
I
called him an asshole...


Look at the bright side....at least you didn't call him scrapple and have an
offer to dine on...oh, never mind.

Jack Rectoscrapplus

Hark! I heard "mary" say:

There is a new book out on scrapple called "Country Scrapple", by William
Ways Weaver. He also wrote a book called "Sauerkraut Yankees." The book
covers history of scrapple, plus other similar dishes such as panhas,goetta,
and poor-do. I have not read it yet, but I am taking the train to
Harrisburg, PA this weekend, and plan to read it along the way since
Harrisburg is in Scrapple Country.

My husband is Pennsylvanian and he likes scrapple. I guess there's
no accounting for taste... ;-)


--
j.j. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~
...fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!

Steve Wertz wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:01:30 -0500, "mary"
wrote:

There is a new book out on scrapple called "Country Scrapple", by William
Ways Weaver. He also wrote a book called "Sauerkraut Yankees." The book
covers history of scrapple, plus other similar dishes such as panhas,goetta,
and poor-do. I have not read it yet, but I am taking the train to
Harrisburg, PA this weekend, and plan to read it along the way since
Harrisburg is in Scrapple Country.

I lived in Harrisburg for a few summers and was a scrapple fanatic. I
just made some last week, even - lots of pepper and sage. I'm still
having trouble getting the right consistency, though, so that it stays
together while frying.

Steve,
Do you put some buckwheat flour in it? That's in the
Marcia Adams recipe (of Indiana Amish origin). I don't
bother with it myself as I don't use it for anything
else and it's too much trouble to find but I did use it
the first time I made her recipe and it did seem to
help it hold together a little better. But I don't really
find it holding together to be a big problem. I use
a teflon-coated pan and I make sure to wait long enough
for a good crust to form on the bottom before trying to
turn it. If you turn it too soon, even in teflon, it
tends to break up because the crust is not solid enough
to hold it together yet.

Kate
--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

"Darryl L. Pierce" wrote:

mary wrote:

There is a new book out on scrapple called "Country Scrapple", by William
Ways Weaver. He also wrote a book called "Sauerkraut Yankees." The book
covers history of scrapple, plus other similar dishes such as
panhas,goetta, and poor-do. I have not read it yet, but I am taking the
train to Harrisburg, PA this weekend, and plan to read it along the way
since Harrisburg is in Scrapple Country.

Mmmmm. Scrapple.

I have a standing invitation from Harlan Ellison to join him for a scrapple
breakfast with him should he ever be in my neck of the woods. All because I
called him an asshole...

Harlan Ellison? You know Harlan Ellison? Wow!
One of my all-time favorite writers. Plus his
stories have the best titles I've ever seen -
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" being one of
my favorites and "Repent Harlequin Said the Ticktock
Man", and for understatement "A Boy and His Dog".

Harlan is infamous in my family where I am the only
one who reads sf. We were playing charades once
and I gave the other side Harlan Ellison. Not one
single person knew who he was. However do to good
charades playing they still managed to guess the
name. But they have never let me live that down -
complaining that it was unfair to give them a name
they had never heard of (who knew? I have heard
the names of people in lots of genres I don't read,
such as Anne Rice, etc.) So I said, what's the big
deal? You got the answer, after all. ;-)

I used to love watching that late night show
with Tom Whatsisname (Snyder, maybe?. Harlan used
to be on there from time to time and did great interviews.
(Was that the Tomorrow Show? It was one over 20 years
ago - one of the big 3 networks - I think NBC, not
sure.

Nostalgically,
Kate
--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

Kate Connally wrote:

There is a new book out on scrapple called "Country Scrapple", by
William Ways Weaver. He also wrote a book called "Sauerkraut Yankees."
The book covers history of scrapple, plus other similar dishes such as
panhas,goetta, and poor-do. I have not read it yet, but I am taking the
train to Harrisburg, PA this weekend, and plan to read it along the way
since Harrisburg is in Scrapple Country.

Mmmmm. Scrapple.

I have a standing invitation from Harlan Ellison to join him for a
scrapple breakfast with him should he ever be in my neck of the woods.
All because I called him an asshole...

Harlan Ellison? You know Harlan Ellison? Wow!

Not really. I met him at a book signing in Philly. The story was this:

I was there with a girlfriend and her mom. We were sitting waiting for him
to show up in one of the lecture halls. At the front was an attractive
redhead and a few others who were getting his books read to sell and sign.
A guy walks into the room and says, very rudely, "damn! who's the hot
redhead?" I turned around and, before looking, said, "who's the asshole
asking?" It was Harlan Ellison!

I stood in line for about 30 minutes with my copy of _Ellison Wonderland_
and _Paingod_ waiting for him to sign it (they were collecting money for
the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and autographs were $1 each). He kept
giving me somewhat nasty looks (though with him it's hard to tell the
difference sometimes g) while chatting it up with the people in front of
me. When I got there, he looked me in the eye and sai, "you're the guy that
called me an asshole, aren't you?"

gulp "Yeah, that was me. I..."

"Y'know what, I *am* an asshole. Glad to see you're honest!"

And we chatted for about 5 minutes. I told him I was from NJ and he said
that he always goes to the greasy diners for scrapple when he's in the
area. He then invited me to join him for a scrapple breakfast if I'm ever
in his neck of the woods. I'm sure he forgot 2 minutes later, but for me it
was a big kick!

One of my all-time favorite writers. Plus his
stories have the best titles I've ever seen -
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" being one of
my favorites and "Repent Harlequin Said the Ticktock
Man", and for understatement "A Boy and His Dog".

_The Glass Teat_ and _The Other Glass Teat_.

Harlan is infamous in my family where I am the only
one who reads sf.

I certainly hope the "s" stands for speculative.

We were playing charades once
and I gave the other side Harlan Ellison. Not one
single person knew who he was. However do to good
charades playing they still managed to guess the
name. But they have never let me live that down -
complaining that it was unfair to give them a name
they had never heard of (who knew? I have heard
the names of people in lots of genres I don't read,
such as Anne Rice, etc.) So I said, what's the big
deal? You got the answer, after all. ;-)

I used to love watching that late night show
with Tom Whatsisname (Snyder, maybe?. Harlan used
to be on there from time to time and did great interviews.
(Was that the Tomorrow Show? It was one over 20 years
ago - one of the big 3 networks - I think NBC, not
sure.


There was a show on SciFi Channel called "SciFi Buzz" a few years ago that
had a segment for Ellison to do a few minutes on whatever he wanted (back
when SciFi was worth watching). He was great. I went to a Q&A of his that
was supposed to be 30 minutes and stayed for 3 hours! He's quite worth
listening to and has plenty of great stories!

--
Darryl L. Pierce
Visit the Infobahn Offramp - http://mypage.org/mcpierce
"What do you care what other people think, Mr. Feynman?"

Jack Schidt® wrote:

Mmmmm. Scrapple.

I have a standing invitation from Harlan Ellison to join him for a
scrapple
breakfast with him should he ever be in my neck of the woods. All because
I
called him an asshole...


Look at the bright side....at least you didn't call him scrapple and have
an offer to dine on...oh, never mind.

Isn't that an ingredient in scrapple anyway?

--
Darryl L. Pierce
Visit the Infobahn Offramp - http://mypage.org/mcpierce
"What do you care what other people think, Mr. Feynman?"

Steve Wertz wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:01:30 -0500, "mary"
wrote:

There is a new book out on scrapple called "Country Scrapple", by William
Ways Weaver.

Not to nitch or pick, but the book I have by a Willaim W--- Weaver is
Woys not Ways.
Heirloom Veggie Gardening.
blacksalt

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:45:20 -0600, Steve Wertz wrote:

Scrapple has excellent flavor. UNless you don't like sage, I don't
think anyone wouldn't like the taste. It's the rumors of what it's
made of (some versions are true) that turn most people off. I make my
scrapple with pork butt and stock of bones and it tastes great, it
just doesn't stay together in the pan.

I had it for the first time visiting a cousin in Pennsylvania. It's great
with grape jelly!

Doug

Doug Weller wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:45:20 -0600, Steve Wertz wrote:

Scrapple has excellent flavor. UNless you don't like sage, I don't
think anyone wouldn't like the taste. It's the rumors of what it's
made of (some versions are true) that turn most people off. I make my
scrapple with pork butt and stock of bones and it tastes great, it
just doesn't stay together in the pan.

I had it for the first time visiting a cousin in Pennsylvania. It's great
with grape jelly!

Do I have a recipe for meatballs for you!

(laugh) nancy

in article , Nancy Young at
wrote on 12/21/03 9:08 AM:

Doug Weller wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:45:20 -0600, Steve Wertz wrote:

Scrapple has excellent flavor. UNless you don't like sage, I don't
think anyone wouldn't like the taste. It's the rumors of what it's
made of (some versions are true) that turn most people off. I make my
scrapple with pork butt and stock of bones and it tastes great, it
just doesn't stay together in the pan.

I had it for the first time visiting a cousin in Pennsylvania. It's great
with grape jelly!

Do I have a recipe for meatballs for you!

(laugh) nancy

Made those last night.
MMMM good!!!
I'm telling you, Nancy, if you ate one, didn't know there was grape jelly,
you'd like them.

What if you made them with cranberry sauce instead of grape jelly?

Sheryl Rosen wrote:

in article , Nancy Young at

Doug Weller wrote:

I had it for the first time visiting a cousin in Pennsylvania. It's great
with grape jelly!

Do I have a recipe for meatballs for you!

(laugh) nancy

Made those last night.
MMMM good!!!
I'm telling you, Nancy, if you ate one, didn't know there was grape jelly,
you'd like them.

See, that's just it!!! I had them once at the department's grab bag/
Christmas food thing. I was piggy, I took two as I really like
meatballs. They were sitting there looking all yummy in a crockpot.
Well, I ate the first one, YUCK, there is something seriously not
good about this meatball.

Then, the fateful question, did you like the meatball? Self
preservation kicked in and I said, oh yeah, delicious. She said,
do you know what's in that (one of my least favorite questions after
I've just eaten something). What? Chili sauce and grape jelly.

Suddenly I could taste both flavors separately, yuck, but managed to
keep a straight face and expressing interested surprise. (laughing)

So I did try them without knowing what was in it, and I didn't like
them.

What if you made them with cranberry sauce instead of grape jelly?

To be fair, in general, I dislike fruit on meat. Some exceptions,
but not along the lines of grape jelly.

nancy

in article , Nancy Young at
wrote on 12/21/03 10:07 AM:

Sheryl Rosen wrote:

in article , Nancy Young at

Doug Weller wrote:

I had it for the first time visiting a cousin in Pennsylvania. It's great
with grape jelly!

Do I have a recipe for meatballs for you!

(laugh) nancy

Made those last night.
MMMM good!!!
I'm telling you, Nancy, if you ate one, didn't know there was grape jelly,
you'd like them.

See, that's just it!!! I had them once at the department's grab bag/
Christmas food thing. I was piggy, I took two as I really like
meatballs. They were sitting there looking all yummy in a crockpot.
Well, I ate the first one, YUCK, there is something seriously not
good about this meatball.

Then, the fateful question, did you like the meatball? Self
preservation kicked in and I said, oh yeah, delicious. She said,
do you know what's in that (one of my least favorite questions after
I've just eaten something). What? Chili sauce and grape jelly.

Suddenly I could taste both flavors separately, yuck, but managed to
keep a straight face and expressing interested surprise. (laughing)

So I did try them without knowing what was in it, and I didn't like
them.

What if you made them with cranberry sauce instead of grape jelly?

To be fair, in general, I dislike fruit on meat. Some exceptions,
but not along the lines of grape jelly.

nancy

Ok. I'll buy that.
Maybe it's the spices in the chili sauce you don't like.
I never actually tasted chili sauce before, separate from the sauce that
forms. I did last night, and really tasted something I consider a "sweet"
spice....cinnamon? Ginger? I was thinking if there was anything I could else
I could use chili sauce for, ya know? It's not that I didn't like it, but it
seemed "misplaced". Not sure if I'd like chili sauce on fries or burgers,
for example, it's sweeter than ketchup. (in a different way). And when I
ate the meatballs, I realized the jelly and the juices from the meat temper
that spice flavor and I like it much better that way.

There is something else to consider about the meatball you had, Nancy,
because this happened to me. I usually make the meatballs at a potluck. One
time, at work, I did, and someone else did. Only I made my meatballs from
scratch, she used FROZEN STORE BOUGHT meatballs from BJ's or wherever. She
also used ketchup, not chili sauce. I did a side-by-side, and her sauce was
fine, not the same as mine, but it would have been passable, except the
MEATBALLs themselves were disgusting! First of all, they were seasoned
Italian style, and the flavors of oregano and basil just dont' go with the
flavors of the sweet and sour sauce. The other is that they were commercial
meatballs, loaded with bread and TVP as extenders to the meat. And lord only
knows what kind of meat they made with.

The meatballs were crap to start with, and they tasted like it. The sauce
only made it worse. And I wasn't the only one who felt that way. My
crockpot was empty at the end of the luncheon, hers, only about half were
gone. And when people took 1-2 of mine, 1-2 of hers, because they looked
almost the same and they didn't want hurt feelings, (my sauce was thicker
than hers), they didn't like hers, and didn't eat what was on their plates,
while going back for more of mine. Now, listen, its not that they were
MINE, it's that the ones I brought were homemade, not some crap from the
freezer. And when I bit into her meatballs, not knowing they were frozen
crap, my thought was 'These meatballs just ain't right!". I said "Oh,
Marie....you have to give me your recipe for these!" (Notice I didn't say I
liked them, but I had to know why they tasted like crap when she told me she
was bringing the same dish as me.) And then she told me "Go to BJ's, get the
biggest bag of meatballs you can find.....put them in the pot with the sauce
ingredients, and let it simmer....it's SO easy!" And I'm thinking "and so
awful!" I'll stick to homemade meatballs, thanks.

I was just kidding you, Nancy about trying them. Hey, you don't like them,
you don't. You are the only person I've ever "met" who doesn't, though.
Whenever I bring them to parties, they get scarfed up so fast, we fight over
the last one. Maybe there have been a couple of folks who don't care for
them, and I don't notice because the raves are louder? Could be.

I did try the hot artichoke dip at a party last week, the one baked with
mayonaise. I normally wouldn't eat somethign I know has mayo in it, but I
figured this is baked, maybe I won't realize I'm eating mayo. Well, the
texture wasn't all that mayonaise-y, but the flavor was there.....sort of
tangy, but not in a lemony way. Nope, didn't care for it, not one bit. And I
love artichoke hearts!

However, Jack's onion tart went over well!