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Default What exactly is 'home made'?

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:07:49 -0800, gtr > wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:51:17 -0800 (PST), A Moose in Love
> wrote:
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>> The other day, I posted a super simple recipe for steak sauce. 'Home Made'.
>> However, I used bottled wurster sauce, bottled ketchup and cider vinegar.
>> Is it truly home made? If it were truly home made then I would make
>> the worcestershire sauce myself, as well as the ketchup, all made from
>> garden ingredients. Also I put in some hot sauce(an ingredient which I
>> omitted when I posted the recipe)which is also bottled.
>> If I add mustard, should I make mustard from mustard seed which I purchased?
>> etc.
>> Where do you draw the line?

>
>If it's an abstraction, who cares where the abstract borders lie?
>
>I figure if I should or want to take credit for a dish, a sauce, or
>some such, I'll call it home made. If I sprinkle or pour something over
>a purchased pot-pie, or canned/frozen food, I wouldn't call that home
>made. If I made a pie in a store-bought shell, I'd call it home made,
>no matter what the hell was in it.
>
>If I made a made a packaged dinner, like a pilaf mix or falafel I
>wouldn't call it home made, but I would call it home *cooking*.
>Actually I don't think I really use the phrase "home made" it seems to
>have lost its meaning unless it's like a quenelle or something. Or
>perhaps to distinguish it from the obvious alternative: "home made"
>yogurt, or "home made fried chicken.
>
>Actually I think finely mincing such terms is kind of a semantic game,
>rather than a cooking thing. Doesn't everybody?


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