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Post-Pandemic Cuisine
- Thread starter YamadudeXS650C
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I just went to UTube to check out Hoe Cakes. I must try some. With corn bread, hoe cakes and Johnny cakes is wheat flour usually mixed with the ground corn? If so, what is a typical mixing ration?
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Regarding the video, the use of nitrite in meat curing recieved a huge amount of bad press. Instead of adding nitrites to certain products some manufacturers have switched to adding celery juice. This juice is high in nitrite but does no have to appear on the packaging ingredients label as nitrite, but as celery juice.
Hoe Cake:
1 cup self rising yellow corn meal. Aunt Jemima's is best! ( If not self rising, add 4 teaspoons baking powder to each cup and a dash of salt)
1 egg
Enough water, milk or buttermilk to make a batter slightly thicker than pancake batter.
Heat cast Iron skillet with small amount of cooking oil. I use Crisco on a paper towel and give the bottom a swab after each run.Turn down to lower heat and cook like you would pancakes. Don't burn them. More, just double the recipe.
Nothing to it.
In the good old days, you had to get up early, milk the cow, get an egg from the hen house, churn the butter, to the smokehouse for the lard, measure ground corn, build a fire in the stove...
1 cup self rising yellow corn meal. Aunt Jemima's is best! ( If not self rising, add 4 teaspoons baking powder to each cup and a dash of salt)
1 egg
Enough water, milk or buttermilk to make a batter slightly thicker than pancake batter.
Heat cast Iron skillet with small amount of cooking oil. I use Crisco on a paper towel and give the bottom a swab after each run.Turn down to lower heat and cook like you would pancakes. Don't burn them. More, just double the recipe.
Nothing to it.
In the good old days, you had to get up early, milk the cow, get an egg from the hen house, churn the butter, to the smokehouse for the lard, measure ground corn, build a fire in the stove...
Yep, JMM. I've read Crisco isn't what it's cracked up to be. Mom used it all her life. She passed on at 93. Lard is probably just as good and makes great Muzzle Loader patch lube!
Thuban - Thank you. Corn meal is not a common thing in the UK, but I can get some whole dried corn and grind it myself. When I visited the US in about 2000 everywhere I went seemed to have corn bread. I quite liked it. The best I had was somewhere in Houston.
Yep, Paul. If you can find cleaned whole corn and grind it. But most whole corn here is from the feed store. It's used by Deer Hunters for bait. It's triple cleaned and I've used it ground. Taste may vary depending. Cornbread has more added to it like flour and oil. Basic Hoe cake, just cornmeal, egg, baking powder, salt and water. Don't mix your batter too early before the skillet gets hot, and don't make the batter too thick. Play with the salt until you get the taste you want.
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Paul, you can buy corn meal in the UK. Tesco have it at £1.85 for 1½ kg and it's probably available other places too.
This discussion is tempting me to try some of those corn breads.
This discussion is tempting me to try some of those corn breads.
Raymond, you have corn meal in the Highlands?
Thuban, I don't live in the Highlands.
By reputation, they have oats in the Highlands and they live on oats as porridge for breakfast and oats and meat stuffed in a sheep's stomach as haggis for other meals. But that information might be out of date. No idea if they have corn meal, but since they have Tesco in some of the more civilised parts then probably do.
By reputation, they have oats in the Highlands and they live on oats as porridge for breakfast and oats and meat stuffed in a sheep's stomach as haggis for other meals. But that information might be out of date. No idea if they have corn meal, but since they have Tesco in some of the more civilised parts then probably do.
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Thanks Raymond. I have not been to Tesco for years and years. I am sure I once bought some years ago but haven't seen it lately. It was probably at Tesco with the chapati flour and bulk rice bags. I will check next time I go near one. I also need some whole oats (groats??) to grind. In NZ we had a flour called VIMAX with a unique flavor and I believe it was based on oats.
...Oops...The name VIMAX seems to be a viagra type product in the UK.
...Oops...The name VIMAX seems to be a viagra type product in the UK.
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A fat salad. Olives, avocado, feta, Brazil nuts, olive oil dressing and the usual green stuff.
Grass fed beef, ready for a lump charcoal fire.
I HATE this guy! 
Yeah. I probably got carried away. Truthfully, there’s enough fat in that salad that it’s satiating on its own. Leave the feta and it’s vegan.I HATE this guy!
Pass it this way! I'll take it!
Here's a quick tip. You go to cook something or have a bowl of cereal, need milk. You grab the milk and it's expired, stinking to high heaven! It only last a week!
But If you had bought Heavy Whipping Cream, it last fresh two months or more! Need milk? 1 part heavy Whipping Cream to 3 parts water. Adjust as you like. Need butter? Pour it in a bowl, put it under a mixer and when the mixer starts jumping up and down on the counter, it's butter. Pick out the butter and squeeze it out. Salt it if you like. Were not done! Cover the squeezing's and let sit on the counter for a few days. Butter milk! Or you can cook with the squeezing's or use it fresh as sweet milk. Of course you can whip it to top pies. Next time you go to the store, look at the expiration date on the heavy Whipping Cream!
But If you had bought Heavy Whipping Cream, it last fresh two months or more! Need milk? 1 part heavy Whipping Cream to 3 parts water. Adjust as you like. Need butter? Pour it in a bowl, put it under a mixer and when the mixer starts jumping up and down on the counter, it's butter. Pick out the butter and squeeze it out. Salt it if you like. Were not done! Cover the squeezing's and let sit on the counter for a few days. Butter milk! Or you can cook with the squeezing's or use it fresh as sweet milk. Of course you can whip it to top pies. Next time you go to the store, look at the expiration date on the heavy Whipping Cream!
Did you find it made the mixture too stiff?
Raymond, exactly!!
Funny. We keep heavy cream in the house, no milk. Lots of Kerry Gold butter. No cereal. I often use coconut cream in my coffee. I have coffee in the morning. Nothing else. Today, it’s black.Here's a quick tip. You go to cook something or have a bowl of cereal, need milk. You grab the milk and it's expired, stinking to high heaven! It only last a week!
But If you had bought Heavy Whipping Cream, it last fresh two months or more! Need milk? 1 part heavy Whipping Cream to 3 parts water. Adjust as you like. Need butter? Pour it in a bowl, put it under a mixer and when the mixer starts jumping up and down on the counter, it's butter. Pick out the butter and squeeze it out. Salt it if you like. Were not done! Cover the squeezing's and let sit on the counter for a few days. Butter milk! Or you can cook with the squeezing's or use it fresh as sweet milk. Of course you can whip it to top pies. Next time you go to the store, look at the expiration date on the heavy Whipping Cream!