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That wedding........
Posted by Andrew2 on 12 April 2011 - 3:18pm.
http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20395222_20480928,00.htm...
Greetings from the USA - where Royal Wedding "Journalism" seems to be reaching new depths of insanity. Special Engilish recipes to eat with your viewing pleasure - chicken salad and walnut sandwiches????. So what would the Massive suggest as the perfect Royal celebration food and drink?
Oh - and check out the Kate doll tour of London photos - great great journalism!
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I'll have...
A pint of Old Speckled Hemlock, with a side order of arsenic pork scratchings please.
Up the revolution.
Traditional English fayre
Four cans of Carling and a kebab.
Cucumber sandwiches
with the crusts cut off. And a nice cup of tea from a bone china teacup (with saucer). Followed by a piece of fruit cake. Lovely jubbly!
Coronation Chicken
and bitter.
I will have traditional scottish fayre...
So a munchy box and some buckfast it is...
Cor!
I know it's wrong, but I could eat that right now.
Wot - no
Mars bar?
We're just waiting
for it to come out of the deep fat fryer - be with you shortly.
Mmmm, Glasgow salad
I can almost feel my arteries hardening just looking at it!
That's FANTASTIC.
Yum yum pig's bum. And as it's early evening here in Melbourne, I am inspired for dinner tonight! Cheers.
Some recipe
Ingredients for Chicken Salad with Walnuts include 1 and a quarter cups of chicken salad! What kind of a recipe is that?
Me, I shall be wearing my tiara and pearls with some fancy pyjamas but then that's my mode of attire every morning (well the whole day in fact).
The cup measure.
I don't know how this wormed itself into American cooking and how it has remained there. As a way of measuring dry ingredients, it makes sense but for stuff like butter? I think not.
Any recipe I see which uses cups, I avoid.
Cups
I use 'em all the time, and like 'em, although it's no good using any cup at all - it's a specific measure, and you need a proper set of measuring cups. Americans generally don't use cups for butter, though - they use sticks, and there's a recognized metric equivalent. 1 stick butter = 113 grams.
another vote for cups
I like, I use. The matza crack I made for the last mingle is just one of my cups recipes.
I just happened to stumble upon this.
It's a fine example of what I'm going on about.
How can a cup be used to accurately measure shredded vegetables? Not that quantities are particularly important in this sort of recipe but would not "1 shredded cabbage" or "18oz of shredded cabbage" (or whatever) be more accurate and, for that matter, easier to measure?
And as for "a tbsp of thinly sliced ginger" what a load of cock. Grated, perhaps.
Volumetric measures are fine for liquid or fine particulate materials. For everything else, there's a set of scales.
My advice here
Would be to not use recipes that come in cartoon form. Ever.
Have you come across
Len Deighton's Action Cookbook, Fraser?
Crikey
It actually exists. I assumed you had made that up.
I have quite a few strange cookbooks, but my favourite is probably Tito's Cookbook - a very limited edition English language version (it's been badly translated from the original Serbian). It's full of pictures of the General with Sophia Loren and recipes for borscht.
It's well worth
the four or five quid it's selling for on ebay.
You'll have to out-bid me
Been meaning to track down a copy of that for years, it does sound amazing.
Half a tonne
of frozen vol au vents from Iceland for a quid with lashings of Lambrini