Rubbish Recipes

[Sakkarin Profile]

artichoke heart

Maybe if artichoke heart comes under "grated vegetables". Not Grapefruit. Or anything citrus.

[Seatallan Profile]

Looks more like a melon to me.

[mistakened Profile]

I still add a splosh of brandy to Marie Rose sauce a la Fanny.

Do I remember a R Carrier book with an elegant photo of a wok and what turned out to be the Chinese equivalent of a pan scrubber?

[Earthmaiden Profile]

It looks too bumpy for melon or citrus - I tend to agree with cabbage.
There's definitely a parsley garnish though - are those sprouts perched on top of the garnish .

I have to own up to being very impressed when we first went to Australia in the late '60s at being served half a rock melon shell - prettily cut as per the 'cabbage' picture - filled with a wonderful fresh fruit salad. It was the decadence of knowing they must have used 3 whole melons plus other fruit we considered exotic to make the salad which was particularly impressive!

I think I'll pass on the sardines in lemon shells but do remember sweet frozen concoctions served in orange or lemon shells. I have a vague recollection of Birds Eye selling the orange ones, maybe the orange part was made from something edible like sorbet.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Bertorelli (famous London Italian restaurant and ice cream maker) used to sell hollowed out orange and lemon shells filled with sorbet made from the juice - I think my friend and I made them ourselves but you could buy them at Bejam

I think people who sold ready made desserts to restaurants copied the idea, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised to find you can still get them at Brake Brothers or even on the menu at a Spaghetti House

[Sakkarin Profile]

Ah, didn't see Stokey's "cabbage" post, must have cross posted.

Here's the recipe, not sure what any of the garnishes are, although there's half a fieldful of curly parsley:

EDIT: P.S. Odd that the cover pic on a book called "Home COOKING" should be raw veg.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Grim

[miss mouse Profile]

Grim

Grim indeed. Yuk.

[Sakkarin Profile]

I wonder if the video is on YouTube...

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I don’t see what’s grim about that - it’s just a version of coleslaw, served in a hollowed out cabbage

Fine as one dish among many but I don’t think I’ll bother

[miss mouse Profile]

I wonder if the video is on YouTube...

I can't find it but did find a youthful Mary Berry and Judith Chalmers


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGRHFjhHLnM

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I don’t see what’s grim about that - it’s just a version of coleslaw, served in a hollowed out cabbage

I'm not sure if the cabbage is a serving bowl for the table or the individual. I had assumed the latter and would find that much coleslaw served neat quite grim. If it's for the table then fine!

Love the omelette!

[ZeroCook Profile]

I don’t see what’s grim about that - it’s just a version of coleslaw, served in a hollowed out cabbage

It's grim.

I wonder if the video is on YouTube...

I can't find it but did find a youthful Mary Berry and Judith Chalmers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGRHFjhHLnM

And grimmer. Say it ain't so, Mary.

When British cuisine was an oxymoron.

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[halfateabag Profile]

Yesterday I took a ton of those styled cook books to the charity shop. I moved them here from the last house and have NEVER even opened them in the 14 years we have been here. I need the space for the newer styled ones that I do use and the magazine and paper clipped recipes that also are used for reference. Mind you I am finding that I use Lord Google more and more for recipes these days. The ones I use a lot are kept under bookmark on this laptop so finding what I want is easier.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Re Marguerite Patten and Dame Mary who basically I guess reinvent(ed) their old recipes as fashion changes, you have to give a bit of kudos to Delia who has given all that up.

[Sakkarin Profile]

Dear me, that video is dreadful, not so much an omelette as a frying pan full of stuff, and various other bowls full of stuff. Texas Celery Massacre. And Mary, the oven is the hot one, the fridge the cold one.

"Spoon with a sawn off end!" What was that, a DIY accident?

Potato "salad" with potato "omelette". Hmm. And why tinned potatoes when there's all those leftover proper potatoes? They're disgusting! And she didn't wash the celery before she brutalised it. Yuk.

What is scariest is that it is 1973, not 1943.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I don’t the she believed in hygiene - there’s a video of her applying honey to the skin of a raw chicken, rubbing it the honey on with her fingers which she repeatedly dips into a nearly full jar

However, I always feel the need to point out that I learned a lot of the basics from her tv series - bèchamel, crème pat, sweet shortcrust

[karadekoolaid Profile]

Going back to the hollowed-out cabbage, it looks a bit like a radish flower on top. With some peeled radish flowers round the side. I´d have thought that artichokes were almost non-existent back in the 70s!

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I thought they were sprouts round the side with a radish flower on top

[KeenCook2 Profile]

I thought it was a gherkin on top