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GrahamH

Joined: 23 May 2015
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 15 9:39 am Post subject: A Years Cookery

I have always enjoyed cookery books and one of my favorites dates from 1879......

It has for each day of the year a suggested menu for breakfast, luncheon and dinner. Sunday menus list breakfast, dinner, tea and supper.
Included is how to cook, the marketing for the day and the tomorrow and also 'things that must not be forgotten'.

Todays entry......

If you can't make out the photo,
Breakfast....Eggs on the dish, bath chap, teacakes, dry toast, brown and white bread and butter and plum porridge.

Luncheon....Rabbit gateau, suet dumplings with jam.

Dinner....Croute au pot, stewed chicken with tomatoes and mushrooms, potato snow, cabbage, apple pie, cheese.

One of the items in todays things not to forget is.....soak a large cupful of hominy in cold water all night.

The dates after the dish tells where the recipe details are listed. Anyone need the recipe to bath chaps?

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Piggyphile

Joined: 02 Apr 2009
Posts: 891
Location: Galicia

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 15 10:10 am Post subject:
Yum but a full time job to cook it all. I assume there were staff.

GrahamH

Joined: 23 May 2015
Posts: 432

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 15 10:19 am Post subject:
Hi Piggyphile, According to Phyllis...... I have specially addressed myself to people of moderate income with moderate domestic help..... One of the pieces of kitchen utensils she suggests is a hair sieve. It is a book I can pick up and read a couple of pages of then put down but I also use some of the recipes.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6518
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 15 5:47 am Post subject:
what is "Bath Chap"?

GrahamH

Joined: 23 May 2015
Posts: 432

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 15 6:17 am Post subject:

I too had no idea.
It's pickled pigs cheek. If it's been dried after being pickled it would need to be soaked for 2 hrs; if straight from the pickle it can be cooked after a rinse.
Boil for two and a half hours, draw off the skin, cover with bread raspings and set before the fire for 5 minutes.
So Lorraine, are your pig cheeks dried or still in the pickle jar?

We used to have pigs cheek when I was young, not pickled though. My mother called it 'chuck'.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6518
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 15 9:00 am Post subject:
yuk!

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34274
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 15 10:04 am Post subject:
Cheeks are delicious. One of the least appreciated cuts.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 38206
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 15 3:02 pm Post subject:

very yumm .

peasant cured with dry sea salt for a while at the top of the tub until they have lost about half the water ,a quick soak in clean water and

slice and fry like bacon(add the rest of breakfast as you go along)
or
dry ,slash,cook in hot oven for crackling with a meaty middle
or
slow cook in a big pot of root veg .

bath chaps are ace (dont google that

)
all the best aspects of porcine yummywonderfulness in a single portion sized cut

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 38206
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 15 3:56 pm Post subject:
when im "doing a pig" the chaps get chosen as a snack long before the bacon so im a bit unsure about how it would dry . as each chap is quite small with a big surface to volume ratio salting and drying times are quite short ,i expect so is shelf life .

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34274
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 15 4:13 pm Post subject:
If I cook them, it's long slow and sticky. Works well with cow face, too. If I cure them, I use half sugar, half salt, with lots of pepper for an Italian style bacon.

jettejette

Joined: 01 Jun 2013
Posts: 225

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 15 8:35 am Post subject:
Gorgeous book! I suppose no central heating or mod cons meant that people needed a bit more 'fuel' for energy in the way of food than we do now. Certainly a book to treasure!

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