Posted by MMMMarcia on March 09, 2001 at 13:20:16:
In Reply to: Re: Explain Marrow Toast for her Huggy posted by Bill R on March 09, 2001 at 12:49:04:
: : : : Bill writes:
: : : : : But yup! So much of my holiday memories are centered around good old English traditions! Roasted Chestnuts. Christmas pudding. Roast of Beef with Yorkshire. Marrow toast. Yummmm.
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: : : : Ummmmmmm...Christmas pudding! Ummmmmmm...roast beef with Yorkshire! Ummmmmmmm...marrow toast....MARROW TOAST???? What the he** is MARROW TOAST??? I don't theenk I like the sound o' THIS!!
: : : : MMMM
: : : Huggy? Would you like to explain this delicacy to her?
: : : Billygnome
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: : OK.....not that I have ever had this....it is quite an old English dish not eaten much anymore. Basically, beef bones are cooked either by roasting, or boiling in soup/stew, and then they are hacked open, and the marrow inside the bone is removed and spread on toast. Thats it! I think that it isn't common in the US to eat anything other than the obvious cuts of meat, but here in England, we are a little less wasteful.....and of course, if you go to Scotland.....they don't waste a damn thing! Just check the recipe for haggis! Personally speaking, I have limits as to what I can eat.....don't get me started on tripe....ewwwwww!
: : HM
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: Why Huggy! I'm surprised at you! And here I was believing you were such a traditional English lass. Never had Marrow Toast? I like it better when the bones are roasted rather than boiled. I have,on occasion, bought soup bones just to roast and crack open for the marrow. It is sweet and delicious on toast. My mother, when we had broiled ham steak, would save the little round bone for me. I saved it for last of all, and dug the little broiled marrow out as the best treat of the meal.
: Anybody who has had hot dogs, sausage or the like has had intestines....it's what you stuff the hot dogs, sausages etc in ya know. Liver isnt so bad if you smother it, really smother it, in onions and bake it with beef consume. Our Jewish neighbors invited us over for beef heart, and it was pretty good however they made it. How could you make good old English Steak and Kidney pie, without kidney??? And giblets for the gravy on thanksgiving? You GOTTA have the heart and kidneys, and of course the neck meat. Have not crossed the line to brains or other organ meats, and if I did an Indian Jones stirring my soup and came up with an eyeball I'd die right in place with the Mother of all Heart Attacks. And no, don't serve me any of those damn mountain oysters either.
: Bill R
Sorry, Bill...you may convince Huggy, but you don't convince ME! Turkey giblets get braised for the cats...I make a wonderful turkey gravy from the pan drippings that folks RAVE about. No liver-flavoring, if you please. And the marrow in the round steak bones, or cracked chicken bones, or any other bones goes immediately to the cats, also, who relish it, to be sure.
As for hotdogs, they make them skinless now, ya know. I will admit that I have had some homemade sausage about which I don't want TOO much information...but it has so much seasoning & spice in it that it managed to taste good, and the objectionable bits weren't recognizable to the human eye.
Liver is disgusting to me, no matter how it's prepared (yes, Eric, that includes North Carolina's famous livermush). There aren't enough onions in the WORLD to smother that strong, rank taste. And when I think of the JOBS that livers and kidneys perform, well it's enough right there to make me swear off of them forever, unless starvation sets in. LUCKILY, with the way I've carefully placed myself in Famine Management Mode, I've stored enough to live on a LOOOOONG time before I have to resort to either of 'em! Yay!
She-Who-Prefers-Porterhouse