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- From: cmiller@shasta.UUCP (Carole Miller)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Scrapple
- Date: 21 Dec 85 06:45:55 GMT
- Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Laboratory
- Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE SCRAPPLE-1 M "11 Dec 85" 1986
- .RZ "SCRAPPLE" "Eastern-style scrapple (a breakfast food like sausage)"
- I grew up in Maryland, and in Maryland people eat scrapple for breakfast.
- Among my schoolmates, the story was that if you ever found out what was in
- commercial scrapple you would stop eating it, and I did stop eating it for
- many years. But now I know how to make my own. I got this recipe from the
- University of Maryland poultry farming people, though I have added more
- seasonings because they seem to like blander foods than I do.
-
- .IH "serves 6 hungry farmers"
- .IG "3 cups" "chicken broth" "750 ml"
- .IG "1 1/3 cups" "cornmeal" "225 g"
- (yellow)
- .IG "1 Tbsp" "flour" "15 ml"
- .IG "1 1/2 tsp" "salt" "7.5 ml"
- .IG "1/4 tsp" "sage," "1 ml"
- ground fine
- .IG "1/4 tsp" "thyme," "1 ml"
- ground fine
- .IG "1/4 tsp" "cayenne" "1 ml"
- .IG "2 pounds" "chicken parts" "1 kg"
- .IG "1" "onion,"
- chopped
- .IG "6" "peppercorns"
- (cracked\(emhit them with a hammer, perhaps)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Bring the chicken broth to a boil; add chopped onion and peppercorns.
- Add chicken and cook until the meat falls off the bones (about 1 hour).
- .SK 2
- Strain the cooked chicken out of the broth and save the broth. Remove the
- bones and inedible parts from the cooked chicken, then chop or grind the
- cooked meat into fine pieces. Be careful if you use a food processor, so
- that you don't pur\z\(aaee the meat.
- .SK 3
- Simmer the chicken broth in a large pan.
- .SK 4
- Mix cornmeal, flour, salt, thyme, sage, and cayenne with
- .AB "1 cup" "250 ml"
- of cold water. Stir well. Now slowly stir this mixture into the simmering
- broth.
- .SK 5
- Add the cooked, ground chicken to the simmering pot. Simmer and stir for
- about 5 minutes.
- .SK 6
- Pour hot mixture into well-greased loaf pans. Chill until firm.
- .SK 7
- To serve: remove from pan, cut into slices, roll in flour
- or cornmeal, and fry in a greased frying pan.
- .NX
- Vary the amount of salt in this recipe to suit your taste. You can make
- scrapple out of almost any meat, though chicken and pork are traditional.
- For a different, and truly authentic Maryland taste, leave out the salt and
- cayenne and substitute
- .AB "2 tsp" "10 ml"
- of \fIOld Bay\fR seasoning.
- .PP
- A loaf of home-made scrapple will keep for 10 days in the refrigerator, or
- it can be cut into slices and frozen.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 1 hour preparation and cooking, several hours cooling, 5 minutes to fry.
- .I Precision:
- no need to measure.
- .WR
- Carole Miller
-