On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:18:30 +1100, Welsh Dog >
wrote:

>An old chef I used to work for in the Royal Hotel in Cardiff during
>the 1960's had a dish he used to make regularly for the staff. He
>called it 'Alabama Pie'.
>
>When I asked him what the recipe was he said he just whatever was left
>over in the fridge, chopped up, boiled with a couple of tins of
>tomatoes, salt and pepper... let it 'reduced' til it was thick and
>then he wrapped it in pastry and baked it.
>
>I never ate it again.
>
>Apparently he learned it from his mother up when he was a kid in the
>South of the USA. He was 60 then... so this must have been in the
>early part of the century.
>
>He told me the family was so poor he and his brothers used to go to
>the bins at the back of the restaurants of 'white folk' and bring back
>anything they could find that might be edible. Half eaten bits of
>fish, chicken or meat... old veg... whatever they could scrounge.
>
>His mother would cut the worst bits off and throw the rest in the pot.
>
>Hard to believe how poor some people could be.
>
>Just something to remember while we're stuffing our faces over Xmas

Thank you very much for sharing that, Welsh Dog. Makes me feel
downright prosperous. And humble.

Carol