Re: [london.food] Things I have learnt whilst cooking roast dinner in America

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From: Simon Wistow
Subject: Re: [london.food] Things I have learnt whilst cooking roast dinner in America
Date: 06:06 on 19 Dec 2006
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:46:13AM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble said:
> How did you find a Yorkshire tray?  We've been hunting for one to give 
> to the brother-in-law for Xmas here in Australia.  (Fortunately I 
> brought mine from the UK, so I'm alright :)

I think it was just a muffin or fairy cake tin. As a backup I was going
to use a round pie dish and make a big one (oooerr, missus).

 
> What's so different about American milk?  They pasteurise and homogenise 
> it, don't they?  And the grades are broadly similar: full fat is the 
> same, half-and-half = lite, skim = skim?

It seems to be a bit ... hmm, creamier. And not in a nice way. I love my
full fat milk (although for the past 6 years I've been using green
lidded semi-skimmed) but, after having bought out some PG Tips for my
morning and afternoon cuppas (all previous attempts at using English and
Irish Breakfast having failed to produce the desired brew[*]) I've
noticed that even half-and-half just wasn't the right 'texture'. I've
taken to using skimmed which I would never consider back in Blighty
since it magically turns all tea in to something horrifyingly akin to
dishwater.

Oh dear, I shall just have to practice. Woe is me.

:)

Simon

[*] I am, of course, oblijed to quote the late, great D. Adams Esq

"He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a 
plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, 
entirely unlike tea.

The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was 
pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the 
subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's 
metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural 
pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was 
likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this 
because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but 
not quite, entirely unlike tea."



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