General Chat

I'm easily distracted.
Just now, I came across a book called 'Kitchen Front Recipes', published in 1941.
On looking at the recipes, I came across:
Cheese Bread & Butter Pudding
Chocolate Rice Pudding
Chops, Stuffed (how? Must look at that!) :-D
Dandelion Salad
Dandelion - to cook
Fritters, Bread

...that's a few recipes from the first page of the contents:-D

as anyone tried any of these?

We still live on wartime food!

Sounds interesting.

I'd give all those a try, although I'd prefer to save any chocolate and not put it into rice pudding.

I suppose if one can stuff a mushroom, then stuffing a chop could be possible too ?
Hardly stuffed though surely, more a case of something just piled on top.

Well, I'm currently cooking a chicken carcass, to make either soup or a stew! :-D
Not exactly wartime, just Universal Credit cooking!

It has a recipe for Flower Fritters!
Also, Green Tomato Jam, and another one for Potato Apple cake :-S

Like you, Gwyn - I'd rather eat the chocolate as a treat!
I says to use either melted chocolate, or cocoa.

Is that nasturtium flowers? I've heard about them in salads too.

I make green tomato jam which has sliced lemons in it, that's the best bit.

I always thought Marguerite Patten should have been made a dame.

I know about nasturtiums too, JoyLouise.
My eldest (who could walk at 9 months and would eat anything) used to try to eat the gladioli flowers - I 'redirected' her to the easier to pick, and safe to eat, nasturtiums and marigolds :-D :-D

These Flower fritters are made out of marrow flowers!
The author first had them in France.

I think Marguerite Patten should have been honoured in some way, too, Sharron.

This book is by Ambrose Heath.
Just looked online. Someone's selling one, in a similar condition to mine, (well used) for £29.99 :-0

Squash flowers are quite haute cuisine now. I think they stuff them with cream cheese before they batter them.

It makes sense to use the male flowers because they are no use to the plant after pollination and get picked off. Why not eat them?

Oh how things change!
Oysters used to be the food of the poor - now they're grossly overpriced.

Apparently, "Fried zucchini blossoms are a traditional Cucina Povera type of recipe in Italy".

Several years ago I spent hours simmering the turkey carcass with various herbs etc hoping for a nice soup, got out the colander and strained it thro that straight into the sink as you would normally do with veg etc. So ended up with a colander of bones and everything else straight down the plughole!
On an earlier thread I said that my slices of tomato had sprouted well and I had quite a few tomatoes - one of them is turning red so I just might get one baby plum tomato to eat after all that!

You don't actually know which emotion to choose when you do something like that, do you?

Falling about laughing here Susie. Sorry. :-D :-D :-D

Sue!!! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Stop it Sharron, you're reminding me of Thora Hird doing her best not to smile - and failing. :-D

Oh, so refained (not refined as we know it) when faced with the Vicar on one side and Compo and gang on the other. :-D

CornishSue ................

you can ripen green tomatoes inside.

Pick them now, lay a tea towel on the bottom of an empty drawer, lay the tomatoes on that, trying to make sure they don't touch, and cover with another towel, then close the drawer.

Check every 2 or 3 days

Try not to forget .......... as I often do. :-(

I remembered 2 or 3 days ago that I had some green tomatoes in a drawer that I'd put in there over a month ago :-0

They had all turned red, but luckily had not dried out too much, so we're eating them now.

OH brought in another branch from one of our tomato plants, about 6 green tomatoes of varying sizes on it. So they are now in the drawer.

I've found this works better than leaving them on a windowsill.


I try to keep one drawer empty, or able to be emptied, just for ripening tomatoes in late September and October.

What's an empty drawer?

I came on here to ask the same question! :-D :-D :-D

Lovely recipe for Cheese and Onion bread and butter pudding here (yum, yum):-

https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/savoury-bread-butter-pudding-recipe

Kath. x