I keep dripping in the larder & fridge and use it regularly. Try an egg fried in dripping instead of oil and then dip the bread in the pan and make one of the best sandwiches in the world. I prefer pork dripping to spread on my bread and toast. But for frying chips and cooking roast potatoes only beef dripping will do (with the addition of neatsfoot oil if you can find it). I know Minty had a foray into the lard department but she now needs to ratchet that up a notch and get into dripping. I use olive oil too but only use EV for dressing or dipping (or even on occasion - drinking), frying or roasting with bog-standard olive oil (I manage to blag Berriot at £6 for 5 litres) imparts the flavour without risking the burning you get with EV.
There's a place for both dripping and olive oil in my kitchen and always will be
I keep dripping in the larder & fridge and use it regularly. Try an egg fried in dripping instead of oil and then dip the bread in the pan and make one of the best sandwiches in the world. I prefer pork dripping to spread on my bread and toast. But for frying chips and cooking roast potatoes only beef dripping will do (with the addition of neatsfoot oil if you can find it). I know Minty had a foray into the lard department but she now needs to ratchet that up a notch and get into dripping. I use olive oil too but only use EV for dressing or dipping (or even on occasion - drinking), frying or roasting with bog-standard olive oil (I manage to blag Berriot at £6 for 5 litres) imparts the flavour without risking the burning you get with EV.
There's a place for both dripping and olive oil in my kitchen and always will be
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:12 pm
Mintball
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Only started using lard late last year. Unbelievable stuff. Best chips I've ever made. Great pastry. And divine fried bread. And yes, a fried egg too. I've got some dripping in recently and have started using it occasionally, depending on what I'm cooking.
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Post subject: Re: Food thread ... another serving ...
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:53 pm
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Good eggs should never be fried. Poached only.
And use the correct eggs for the correct dish.
Undyed smoked haddock with a poached duck egg and a little chopped parsley is the best breakfast in the world.
I love olive oil and I love dripping and lard. They just need to be used correctly, I read something on here earlier that said that only older people (these people weren't older people) understand this and understand cooking, well, I'm thirty seven, I'm a pretty banged up thirty seven but I'm not the only person of my age that can cook.
And I can.
Come round to my house, you'll eat like a king. Ms. Terrorist will probably flay you, but you'll have had a good dinner.
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Apart from the fact he must view jars of dripping while standing on his head. I've never seen dripping where the jelly is on top of the fat
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Post subject: Re: Food thread ... another serving ...
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:25 pm
cod'ead
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Sandra The Terrorist wrote:Good eggs should never be fried. Poached only.
And use the correct eggs for the correct dish.
Undyed smoked haddock with a poached duck egg and a little chopped parsley is the best breakfast in the world.
I enjoy poached eggs but they should be at least 36 hours old, otherwise the white is too fresh to set, without the yolk setting all the way through. As for duck eggs, they should be consigned with turkey eggs and goose eggs, to making sponges & cakes, they're just too "eggy" for my palate.
I can't wait for Emma to get her arse back to work and visit the vet in Sussex who keeps rare-breed hens & pigs. I supply them with fish which we barter for eggs, sausages and hams. The eggs are especially delightful, no two the same size or colour and they are only ever eaten poached (on toast because finnan haddock would overpower them) or soft-boiled for soldiers to be dipped into
The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan
Post subject: Re: Food thread ... another serving ...
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:34 pm
cod'ead
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Mintball wrote:About eight-inch piece of bone, split lengthways, with very small amount of breadcrumbs, grilled and with toasted baguette. Fab.
Isn't the bone a bit tough?
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Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
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