Re: Explain Marrow Toast for her Huggy

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: : : : : 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

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: Well, Bill, I have to say that I first encountered 'marrow toast' while living in Nova Scotia!  I HAVE 'partaken' and - it's not so bad, though has too 'fatty' a constituency for me.  However, here in Britain, there is a variation which has been served up for generations - bread and 'dripping' and not something to which *I* prescribe!! However, it has kept thousands of 'little Brits' in peak condition, throughout the years!! 

: Howsever, I DO like liver!!!  Sorry folks, but... the way my Grannie made it, was to die for!!! Yep, onions on the side IS good!!  Kidney, I can eat and enjoy.  Once those little nephrons are cooked, it makes NO DIFFERENCE what their original use was!! And by golly, Liver and Kidneys are absolutely CRAMMED FULL of those essential vitamins and minerals... 

: Sausages?  Well, in a 'synthetic' skin, if you please! And, particularly made up of Aberdeen Angus beef or, for a different taste, Venison IS good!!!  (Yuuummmm... geez, I'm gettin' hungry and it's lunch time!!)

: 'Brains' and other vital organs - no! no! no!!  

: I've tried all kinds of things from many parts of the world, alligator, camel, squid (talk about RUBBER!!), some things in Morocco I NEVER DID know their 'original identity' and long may it remain so!! 

: However, there is ONE thing (though in two forms) that I will NEVER, NEVER, EVER, E-V-E-R try!!  Nothing that wriggles and has no legs!!! Adele mentioned that Haggis was something that no sane person would taste - sorry, Adele, but the English habit of eating 'Jellied squiggly things' really makes my skin crawl!!!! (eels to the uninitiated!!!)

: AAAARRRRGGGG!!! Now there is NO WAY I can face lunch!! 

: Kate.



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