Miche
I used cod, frozen and thawed (try getting fresh fish way up here in the
mountains!)

Now that you mention it, YES, by god...the fish & chips I thought were
so fantastic in London DID seem to be tempura like.

Now...do you use the cod cold from the frige...? cold fish into the
batter and into the hot oil? Maybe I screwed up by letting the cod come
to almost room temp?

BEER in the batter! WOW I LIKE the thought of that! Instead of the club
soda...

New Zealand is one of the places Id most like to visit. My "view" is
limited to the two or three movies Ive seen that were about/filmed
there. It appears to be breath-takingly beautiful.

You wont believe this...but a few months ago we FINALLY made the sale of
beer legal in my county! For reasons nobody understood, we could get
wine in the grocery store and "hard liquor" in the one liquor store in
town, but NO beer anywhere in the whole county!

NOW, thank god, we can. I wonder...for the Fish & Chips, do I want a
dark beer? or a regular light colored one?

Lass


Made my OWN RICE FLOUR

Group: rec.food.cooking Date: Sat, Oct 18, 2008, 2:29pm (EDT+17) From:
(Miche)
In article >,
(Lass Chance_2) wrote:
Miche--
really? It's the ONLY recipe for F&C I looked at. It claimed to be
"Authentic Fish and Chips" and was weird in a few ways. Not just the
rice flour, but also the coating, made with an egg, rice flour and CLUB
SODA.
Fizzy things are often used to give a bit of a "lift" to batter. Beer is
a very common one.
I had the extreme pleasure of having F&C in London and man was it
wonderful! SO crisp and definitely MUCH lighter than regular flour could
do...and the crust is sorta...puffy. * Very very thin and puffy. I
expect the club soda must give it a bit of "rise" and perhaps that's the
puffy part.
It was probably beer batter.
Im dying to get it right. They use a wedge shape for the chips...not the
skinny strips we generally make for "fries".
You could probably cut the potatoes any shape you like. IMO chips are
not wedge-shaped -- if they were, they'd be called wedges.
**A good splash of malt
vinegar over the whole works, ob baby.
Oh, I'm so with you on that one. I love vinegar on chips.
Plus, they come wrapped in a
piece of newspaper and I swear you can kind of taste the paper, LOL.
Maybe that was my imagination.
I'm afraid it is your imagination -- the paper next to the chips
themselves is plain ol' food paper. The newsprint is the top layer, and
for looks only.
Miche
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