Tom Nealon
Sweetbreads can’t be made to look like hedgehogs
The Accomplished Housekeeper, and Universal Cook by T. Williams, 1797
They just didn’t look like hedgehogs – I fluffed them out, made them all spikey, but as soon as they started cooking they flattened right out again. If you did them in more of a batter, and deep fried them, it could work.
Naturally [...]
Blomæth Høns – Chicken Dressed As Chicken
Neither chicken, nor something disguised as chicken, it’s chicken disguised as something disguised as chicken; a sort of entremet for the third estate.
A Brief History of Sauce Espagnole [née Partridge Sauce Espagnole]
The earliest recipe I’ve found for sauce Espagnole is in François Massialot’s Cuisinier Royal et Bourgeois which first appeared in 1691 – the edition is from 1705, but there wasn’t a revised edition until 1712. Massialot’s appears under the recipe “Perdrix sausse à L’Espagnole” or Partridge sauce Espagnole and calls for Burgundy wine, partridge [...]
Rolled, Grilled, Polish Steaks with Sauce Espagnole
Filets de Boeuf grillés à la Polonoise.
Vous Prenez un filet de Boeuf motifié, vous le parez, le coupez en deux & en levez plusieurs feuilles, que vous étendez, en les battant; vous avez une farce de foyes gras que vous mettez dessus, & les roulez feuille par feuille, & les mettez griller en les arrosant [...]
Chiles verdes rellenos (picadillo)
Recipe taken from Encarnación’s Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California itself a translation of Encarnación Pinedo’s, El cocinero español (San Francisco, 1898), the first Spanish language cookery text published in California. Pinedo presents her recipes as Spanish (despite the profusion of Mexican ingredients) and in the European tradition traced from Apicius (whom she names) [...]
Found some nice donkey recipes…
Found some nice donkey recipes, just in case: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5446377h
Schedule of North End feasts h…
Schedule of North End feasts http://bit.ly/dDxhDI via @universalhub
No CSF fish delivery today, an…
No CSF fish delivery today, and I here I was hoping for lamprey. http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1663/04/04/
I’d eat that – “Cave art may d…
I’d eat that – “Cave art may depict bird which went extinct 40,000 years ago” http://goo.gl/fb/vR0zX via @historytweeter
Quail Stuffed Grape Leaves
Game birds are more difficult to find for a reasonable price than you’d like – makes you think about buying a shotgun – but I turned up some lovely frozen quail at my local market (The Roslindale Fish Market for those in the Boston area) and did them up with a sort of composite recipe [...]
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