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"Joseph Littleshoes" > wrote in message ... > Ophelia wrote: > >> "Joseph Littleshoes" > wrote in message >> ... >> > Wayne Boatwright wrote: >> >> On Thu 28 Apr 2005 06:18:57a, Ophelia wrote in rec.food.cooking: >> >> > "Joseph Littleshoes" > wrote in message >> >> > ... >> >> >> Have you heard of the English "bubble and squeak"? 200 years or >> so >> >> ago >> >> >> it was called in England "long worts" vegetables but especially >> >> >> cabbage and beef. Not made with "sauerkraut" but rather raw >> >> cabbage. >> >> >> > Bubble and Squeak is made with mashed potato and cooked cabbage. >> >> > Usually >> >> > made with leftovers >> >> >> >> And a very good use of leftovers it is! >> >> >> >> > Ophelia >> >> > Scotland >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Wayne Boatwright *¿* >> > >> > I am no authority on "bubble & squeak" but happen to have a recipe >> > given >> > to me more than 30 years ago by an elderly English cook, it is >> > quite >> >> > possible that she "tweaked" the recipe to appeal to her employers. >> But >> > here it is as it was written down for me. >> > >> > Comments in brackets [...] are mine. >> > >> > "For this dish, as for a Hash, select those parts of a roasted >> > joint >> >> > that are least done [rarest]; it is usually made with slices of >> > cold >> >> > boiled beef, sprinkled with a little pepper and just slightly >> browned >> > with a bit of butter in a frying pan. If fried too much it will >> > become >> > hard. >> > >> > Boil a cabbage, squeeze it quite dry, and chop it small. Take the >> > beef >> > out of the frying pan and lay the cabbage in it. Sprinkle with a >> > little >> > pepper and salt over it; keep the pan moving over the fire for a >> > few >> >> > minuets; lay the cabbage in the middle of a serving platter and the >> > meat >> > around it." >> > >> > As far as i knew this was standard bubble and squeak but the person >> i >> > got the recipe from would accompany the dish with what she called >> "wow >> > wow sauce" >> > >> > "Chop some parsley leaves very fine, quarter 2 or 3 dill pickles >> > [and/or] pickled walnuts and set them aside. Put into a sauce pan >> > a >> >> > bit >> > of butter as big as an egg; when it is melted stir in a tablespoon >> of >> > flour and about 1/2 pint of beef broth; add a tablespoon of >> vinegar, >> > a >> > tablespoon of mushroom ketchup [preferably home made mushroom >> ketchup >> > but ordinary commercial ketchup will suffice] or port wine or both >> and >> > a >> > teaspoonful of prepared mustard; let it simmer together till it is >> as >> > thick a you wish it, put in the reserved parsley and pickles to get >> > warm >> > and pour it over the beef or rather send it up in a sauce tureen". >> > >> > While i can not confirm the authenticity of the "bubble & squeak" i >> > can >> > confirm it is qutie good, even with out the "wow wow" sauce, i >> usually >> > serve it with a generous quantity of garlic butter. But then i am >> > very >> > fond of cabbage as a cooking ingrdient. I always put about 1/4 of >> > a >> >> > head of raw cabbage, finely minced, in my 1 lb. meat loaf. >> >> Well... as a citizen of UK I can tell you that Bubble and Squeak is >> not >> like that now. Take an amount of leftover mashed potato and leftover >> cabbage and fry in butter, well mixed, and than allowed to brown on >> one >> side. Turn and allow the other side to be browed I don't serve it >> with >> meat but with a fried egg on top and some bacon  >> >> O > > Hmmmm...i would call what you describe "collcannon" but then again, i > am no authority.-- Similar |
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