The Poultry Keeper

Diane · Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 274 Location: Dorset

Condensed milk sandwiches - fantastic!

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1425 Location: Leicestershire

Just got home from work . . . . was forced to eat 2 slices of toast and dripping Confused

- 2 slices just aren't enough Laughing

Never tried the condensed milk one, heard good reports of it though.

My best was when I had a cow - slice (or 2) of freshly baked bread, spread liberally with home made butter, spread liberally again with home made jam, and topped of with a slice (slice?) of semi ripened cream. The cream was so thick that after a few days you could slice it, and when unpasteurized cream starts to ripen . . . . mmmm

Clucky · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2187 Location: Shropshire

hoosier · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject:

Am I understanding these posts correctly? Do you spread/dip toast in what is left in pan after cooking meat? If so, is it all sorts of meat or just certain ones? Isn't it greasy?

Clucky · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2187 Location: Shropshire

Its the meat juices that have kinda gone like a mushy paste bit that you dip into.....well that's what I do Smile

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1425 Location: Leicestershire

Bread and dip is bread dipped or wiped over a roasting joint, it includes meat juices and fat, but does tend to have more juices, the meat would normally be beef or pork, but lamb can be used too although lamb fat doesn't do it for me, you then sprinkle it liberally with salt and eat.

Dripping is beef or pork fat that is cold and set, with sometimes meat juice on the bottom which has set to a jelly, again spread and sprinkled with salt. The dripping I had was obtained from roasting a very fat loin of pork. You used to be able to buy dripping in butchers, probably still can but I suspect it's not as popular as it used to be, it was a cheap (and tasty) bread spread in the days when money wasn't as readily available as it is today (much nicer than the horrible yellow stuff called margarine)

Itsybitsy

Fenn · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 2292 Location: Shrewsbury

You can still buy dripping in the supermarket, but it's not the same as the stuff I used to have from the butcher - me and my grandad queued for ages each week cos he was the best butcher in town Smile

I love all the foods I shouldn't have - one of my other faves is to cook bacon in the microwave then soak bread in the cooking juices before making it all into a soggy sandwich Very Happy

Henwife · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3413 Location: Monmouthshire

In a rare moment of truth I pointed out to my doctor that all the things he was telling me I ought not to eat (butter, cream, full fat cheese, whole milk etc) I had no intention of giving up. His response was that it was a great relief to be told that as people usually said they do what they were told and then didn't. I suspect that some of us need a lot more 'fatty' foods than others, and since I shall inevitably die, I have every intention of enjoying life.

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7311 Location: isle of lewis

i tend to look on foods that are low fat with great suspision ,i work in the dairy in a supermarket and we often get asked for yogert ect that is suitable for diabetics ,and often the people who ask start looking at the low fat stuff ,for some reason low fat seems to suggest to them low sugar ,they soon put it back as it's loaded with sugar to give it a taste ,i'm the same i eat what i want ,love fat Embarassed

,best bit of meat Wink

imo ,the children have the meat and i have the fat ,whole milk ,and butter ,but i don't have salt /well very little,except on chips ,unfortunatly it means that most posseced food tastes as if it has a ton of the stuff on it Shocked

dripping is lovely Very Happy

,don't you have dripping in the states

CP · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

I suspect Grandmothers around the country used to say "A little of what you fancy does you good." Mine certainly did. Wink

Anything to excess is bad for you, even water! Shocked

And there's no such thing as 'junk food' only a junk diet. Wink

Unfortunately I love the naughty things a little too much! Rolling Eyes

My New Year's resolution is usually to eat less exercise more, but it's well forgotten by the middle of January! Rolling Eyes

mojo · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject:

my new year resalution.....not to eat anything high in fat ,sugar salt or anthing that is remotely bad for you.........................whilst i am asleep

AtomicRooster · Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 993 Location: Hampshire

CP is on a see food diet Very Happy

hoosier · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject:

Pan drippings are used for gravy [well, for those of us that don't subscribe to the idea that gravy=death]. Bacon drippings are commonly used by us 'non health nuts' to fry eggs in. I have heard a lot stories about what people ate during the Great Depression and while I may have heard of grease sandwiches, I don't think they were a staple.

I eat WAY too much sugar (probably half of my caloric intake Embarassed

) and probably too much fat. I grew up without much salt so I don't have a taste for it. Like milkmaid said, I can really pick up on it in processed foods.

mojo - Mr. Hoosier says thanks for a resolution he can get behind. Very Happy

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1425 Location: Leicestershire

What's with the "grease sandwiches"? grease is what is used to lubricate metal joints on vehicles etc. we are talking here of dripping - a delicacy, spread on bread or toast as thickly as you would butter - which is also an animal fat or margarine which can be of dubious origin but is nevertheless fat.

Also the Great Depression??? Just how old do you think I am???

Laughing

Itsybitsy

AtomicRooster · Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 993 Location: Hampshire

Let them eat cake! Laughing