18th century recipes

[Brokennock]

Screwed up a reply, edited to try to delete

 

[Brokennock]

Hopefully that reply disappeared, it was meant for another topic.

 

[THE_LAST_WORD]

well it is yalls thread i am going to just sit here and listen while you and the others on this thread tell what you know. so i can soak it in. when its done ill transfer it to notepad files and sort and organize it for use with a thumb drive and a device running on solar so ill have the knowledge when its needed. so by all means everyone continue with the conversation, agaihn thank you all.

 

[tenngun]

hmmm so is trichinosis a bacteria or virus, cause if bacteria id use coconut oil , naturally destroys bacteria. but if it is viral it has to be cooked .

Trich is a small parasitic worm. It lives in the fibers of the muscle. While it will weaken and kill the host it does so slowly.
The killer for it is infection of tge major organs, that leads to dysfunction real quick. If it gets in the brain it produces everything from headaches and personality changes, to stroke like symptoms or insanity.
It doesn’t respond well to antibiotics or antiparasitic.
Salting pork enough to preserve it will kill it. Temps over 160F will kill it. A human with it in the organs likely has it all over. And it’s a killer to try and treat.
Brain infections with it are almost always terminal or if treated severely damage the brain.
That’s why you have to cook pork.
Kosher and halaal meats usually are immune to trich.

 

[THE_LAST_WORD]

and thus i am glad i cook pork well no matter if its leftovers or not. thanks, scary but thanks

 

[Bushfire]

I don't mind threads going on a bit of a tangent e.g. cooking to trichonosis, but please keep politics out of it.

 

[THE_LAST_WORD]

I don't mind threads going on a bit of a tangent e.g. cooking to trichonosis, but please keep politics out of it.

agreed and understood

 

[Meriwether]

I've done a bit of clean up. This is not the place for political talk.
Recipes is the topic.

 

[THE_LAST_WORD]

thank you friend, do any of you good people add sugar to your cornbread?

 

[JEBMs]

That was hashed out in a thread called “Southern Cornbread” a short while ago. I believe it says in the Bible “thou shalt NOT put sugar in thy cornbread” I’m not quite sure of chapter and verse but i think it is there several times. Also French nobility answered the question when they said “let them eat cake” if they need sugar in their cornbread.
Hope this helps.

 

[THE_LAST_WORD]

smiles , figured as much. course i was a kid last time i made cornbread and thats the only explanation i got for ya.
ok , so whats the best seasoning and how do you get the beans to absorb that seasoning? what would you describe the taste of that as, to a person who has never tasted it before and was blind?
it gets us back onto and around the original topic of the thread. smiles

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

I make hoecakes and johnny cakes with white millstone ground corn. This is easy to make out in the woods.

Corn meal was called "Indian Meal" in colonial times. Corn meal that you buy at the grocery store is not the same as stone ground indian meal. Now days they remove the germ and the hull. It's ground with steel rollers. It's just the starch. Millstone ground cornmeal is courser and more nutritious.

Some recipes I've used:

Johnny Cakes:
Indian Meal, salt.
Water.
Make a dough, shape into a cake.
Bake in a lightly oiled skillet.
Eat it plain or add Muscovado sugar.

Hoe Cakes:
1 part flour, 2 parts Indian Meal, Salt. Cayenne pepper.
Lard.
Scolded milk or warm water.
mix the dry ingredients, cut some lard in. Add milk, Make a dough, shape into a cake.
Bake in a lightly oiled skillet.

 

[THE_LAST_WORD]

that sounds delicious.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

hmmm so is trichinosis a bacteria or virus, cause if bacteria id use coconut oil , naturally destroys bacteria. but if it is viral it has to be cooked .

It's larger. It's a parasitic worm. Salting helps a lot and then you cook the ham.

LD

 

[chorizo]

Richard Brigg’s 1788 cookbook, The English Art of Cookery:

https://books.google.com/books?id=z...QXHt8jZCA&ved=0CGUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false