Re: More Food for Thought

Oh the heel is the best - that's the part of the bread I eat first!!   I get
all my bread from the PA Dutch bakery here in town - wonderful stuff.

On 1/12/09, Patricia Dickson <pdickson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Kitty,
> Sounds like my kind of recipe.  A girl asked me for my salsa recipe the
> other
> day... I told her what I buy then told her that if it is too white add
> tomatoes...if too red add onions....  just my way to cooking.
> I would love to have your recipe.... even with the 'looks right'
> ingredients!
> Tricia
>
> --- On Mon, 1/12/09, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] More Food for Thought
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 4:48 PM
>
> Re >I love potato bread, got a recipe you would like to share?
>
> My grandmother came from Ireland and of course used her own recipe from
> there.  Ma never had a lot of patience with older kids, so it was difficult
> to get her to share the recipe, which of course was in her head.  She did
> try to explain it once, but when she said to add flour and I asked how
> much,
> the reply was "until it looks right."  I asked what looked right and
> she
> dismissed that and moved on.  Then you were supposed to add a bit of salt
> or
> some such ingredient.  How much is a bit?  She gave up.
>
> Years later I found a recipe for Irish soda bread.  Ma's wasn't a soda
> bread; she used yeast.  But I tried it anyway and the consistency wasn't
> far
> off, though it didn't have the flavor.  So I played with the recipe, adding
>
> potato water and raisins.  That meant more flour.  It took more time to
> bake. It was a bit dry; needed more shortening to balance the other extra
> ingredients.  Now the dough was too large, had to split it in half.  But I
> eventually got it pretty darned close.  My family adores it.
>
> Unfortunately, my recipe is now too much like Ma's.  You have to add
> ingredients "until it looks right."  Still want the recipe?
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 8:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] More Food for Thought
>
>
> >I love potato bread, got a recipe you would like to share?
> >
> > Donna
> >
> >
> > --- On Sun, 1/11/09, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] More Food for Thought
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 3:24 PM
> >
> > In my earlier years we lived on homemade potato bread for everything
> > except
> > for an occasional loaf of Rosen's Rye.  When we moved to Indiana when
> I
> > was
> >
> > 10, we started eating something like Wonderbread - awful stuff.  Anytime
> a
> > family member would visit us from Chicago, they'd be sure to bring
> some
> > Rosen's.  The crust on that was so tough, your teeth had to fight with
>
> > it -
> >
> > it was THAT GOOD!  And delicious seeds.  I can't believe it now when I
> see
> > seedless soft rye bread available in stores. What IS the point?
> >
> > Kitty
> > neIN, Zone 5
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "james singer" <inlandjim1@q.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] More Food for Thought
> >
> >
> >> We were always told that eating the crusts would make our hair curly--
> >> which, for some reason, was supposed to be a good thing. But it
> wasn't
> >> until I moved away from home and began buying bread from a baker
> >> rather than from a grocer that I discovered the joys of a good, chewy
> >> crust.
> >>
> >> On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Kitty wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am sitting here eating a delightful grilled cheese sandwich. I
> had
> >>> to use the heel for one side of the sandwich which I normally
> >>> wouldn't use for grilling because it is not level as are
> slices.
> >>> But um, yumm, that was good.
> >>>
> >>> This got me thinking about how kids today (from what I have heard)
> >>> don't like bread heels.  Many go so far as to insist that mom
> cut
> >>> the crusts off. Strange, as I've always loved the end pieces
> of
> > any
> >>> bread - mmm crust has more texture!
> >>>
> >>> My guess is that this was subterfuge on their mom's part.  I
> grew
> > up
> >>> having to fight 2 sister's for the heels and, being the
> youngest,
> >>> rarely won.  This was the coveted piece of bread and you
> couldn't
> > go
> >>> out of turn, reaching to the back for it.  The end had to become
> >>> available after the slices were used.  Or you had to open a new
> >>> loaf , which was forbidden until the previous loaf was finished.
> In
> >>> the case of homemade bread, you weren't allowed to just turn
> it
> >>> around and cut yourself some crust...there were rules!
> >>>
> >>> So, as babyboomers grew up and had their own kids, they didn't
> >>> mention how good the crust was.  Instead, mom served the kids
> first
> >>> and then took the heel for herself.  The kids assume that mom is
> >>> being dutiful to her children, giving them the best and eating the
> >>> crummy (not crumby) stuff herself.  Then the day comes when
> mom's
> >>> eating a yogurt and the kids are getting sandwiches and
> there's
> > just
> >>> enough bread left, but someone has to take the heel.  The wailing
> >>> and carrying on is deafening!  Hadn't they suffered enough
> when
> > they
> >>> were told they had to eat their crusts?!  An END piece?  Are you
> >>> crazy?  Those are for adults!
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, they are.
> >>>
> >>> The end.
> >>>
> >>> Kitty
> >>> neIN, Zone 5
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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