Old timey food (polls)

Kedgeree

This dish is a smoked haddock, milk, and rice stir-fry, topped with halved or quartered boiled eggs and seasoned with curry, coriander, and turmeric

yeah, I know its still widely eaten in the UK, but it seems really old timey to me so

  • yeah, I’d have that
  • fuck that
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Saloop

A hot drink made with a sassafras bark flour and flavored with milk and sugar, saloop was considered a hearty and nutritious drink similar to tea.

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Pretty sure people (Scottish) still be eating Kedgeree

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Kedgeree is very delicious

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I might have it in a restaurant / café (likewise cullen skink), but there’s no way I’m cooking smoked haddock and eggs in my own house. Pongy!

Monk style wooden board with big hunk of bread, big hunk of cheese, a wooden thing of ale and a big knife

  • yeah, I’d have that
  • fuck that

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Are monks not allowed plates?

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I’ll eat anything but if I was eating kedgeree I’d consider it a missed opportunity to be eating something nicer

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only wooden plates.

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They’d love a gastro pub

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Haddock in tasty sauce

This dish is a type of civet , which is a form of stew, usually made with meat of game. In old dishes the cook is usually told to ‘drawe’ a fish, animal or bird, so this recipe interprets ‘yopened’ to mean that the fish or meat should be cut open and boned. It could then easily be cut in pieces and eaten with a spoon. Oil could be used by strict (and wealthy) dieters for frying food in Lent, but poor people would probably use butter, and omit the costly saffron, as we’ve done here as it’s still costly!

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I go plenty 'o Kedge, yo! almost suggested it for dinner last night, in fact. Like a delicious smoked biryani, ennit.

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Massive chicken leg eaten without a knife and fork

  • yeah, I’d have that
  • fuck that

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the corned beef of my childhood

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  • fuck that

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I wonder if there’s an old timey version of the Hanseatic Seafood Platter. Hanseatic monk with a big wooden board, hunk of bread, fuckload of pickled and smoked fishes.

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Athenian Cabbage

‘Cabbage should be sliced with the sharpest possible iron blade, then washed, drained, and chopped with plenty of coriander and rue. Then sprinkle with honey vinegar and add just a little bit of silphium. Incidentally, you can eat this as a meze.’ – Mnesitheus, quoted in Oribasius, Medical Collections 4, 4, 1

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Silphium is an unidentified plant that was used in classical antiquity as a seasoning, perfume, aphrodisiac, and medicine. It also was used as a contraceptive by ancient Greeks and Romans

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Jellied Eels

  • fuck that
  • yeah i’d have that

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This thread has reminded me that I own a cookbook with the blurb describing it as “reimagining 18th-century English gastronomy for a 21st-century palate”. Recipes include white soup, potted pig’s cheek with dripping toast, and parkin tea cake.

It was a gift.

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