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- From: phys218@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.new-zealand
- Subject: Re: NZ home cooking cuisine
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.095600.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:56:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: csc.1993Jan26.095600.1
- Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- In the middle of Hamish Marson's authentic recipe for proper New
- Zealand gravy, one mrichardson@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu added a
- horrible, non-traditional suggestion:
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- "lob in some Vegemite/Marmite for flavour and colour".
-
- Ugh! The flavour you get is the flavour of the yeast extract, like one
- of those vile packet gravies. The real thing gets all of its colour and
- flavour from the cooking of the flour in the dripping before you add the
- water (preferably by draining a pot in which you have cooked some
- vegetables).
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- Hamish wrote, "1. Empty most of the oil from the roast into a disk (Save
- it in the fridge for later roasts)..."
-
- What sort of disk are you using, Hamish? Back in the old days my mother
- only had the old 8-inch disks, and they hardly held enough kilobytes of
- dripping to drain a sausage. Things are easier for her now with the
- modern high-density disks, but we are thinking of buying her a hard disk
- for her stove when Mother's Day comes round.
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- Lyndon Watson L.Watson@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
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