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On 9 Dec 2005 at 13:37, Bruno wrote:
> phaedrus,
>
> this may be a duplicate entry because i do not know if you got the
> first one I sent.
> I would appreciate it if you can get me a recipe on how to make
> homemade italian capicola?
> thank you for your time,
> bruno
>
Hello Bruno,
The below recipe is the only one that I could find.
Phaed
Capicola - Dry Cured Ingredients For 25 Lbs.
1 lb. salt 3 ozs. powdered dextrose 1 oz. Prague Powder No. 2
Meat:
Lean boneless pork butts that are 3-4 lbs. apiece and well-trimmed
should be used. The internal temperature of the butts should be
chilled to 34-36 degrees F. before use. About 25 lbs.
Processing:
Rub all the pork butts very well with the above dry cure mix. Lay
down a layer of this cure mixture in the container; place the first
layer of pork butts inside. Leftover cure then is sprinkled in
between each layer, and butts are placed into the cooler at 36-46
degrees F. for not less than 25 days. After 10-12 days, the pork
butts should be over hauled; the top ones placed on the bottom,
and the bottom ones placed on top. Be sure you have additional
spice-cure mixture ready to lay down in between each layer. After
25 days, the pork butts are removed from the cooler and washed
lightly. Allow to drain; then rub with Spanish paprika and red
ground pepper. The pepper to be rubbed in depends on individual
preference. The pork butts are then stuffed into beef bungs. After
stuffing, there will be many air pockets; be sure you pin prick
these air pockets to allow the entrapped air to escape. Hang on
smokesticks, properly space.
Smoking:
Pork butts are placed in a preheated smokehouse at 90 degrees F.
with the dampers wide open to dry the casings. Hold at this
temperature for 10 hours. During this period, you may close
dampers to 1/4 open after the casings are dry, applying a light
smoke; continue to smoke for another 15-20 hours at 90 degrees F.
Butts then are removed from the smoker and dipped in hot boiling
water momentarily to shrink the casing onto the capicola. Then
place in dry room at 70-75 degrees F. with a relative humidity o
f 65-75%.
Capicola must be held in dry room not less than 20 days before using.
On 9 Dec 2005 at 17:54, kim wrote:
> Hi,
> Im looking for a recipie for cream de cocoa liqueur that I can make
> at home. Could you help me please. By the way your website is great.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kim
>
Hi Kim,
See below.
Phaed
Creme de cocoa
Categories: Liqueurs
Yield: 1 Servings
1 c Powdered cocoa
1 ts Cloves
3 c 80 proof vodka
1 c Water
2 c White sugar
Make sure that you use powdered cocoa for this instead of chocolate
drink mix. Pour the cocoa into a mixing bowl, slowly add the water,
mixing with a spoon until you have a thick paste. Stir carefully
and make sure you do not have any lumps. Pour vodka into mixing jar,
add the cocoa syrup mixture. Add the powdered cloves and the white
sugar. Shake vigorously until the sugar is dissolved. Cover, let
mixture sit for a week. strain through fine strainer into bottle.
More sugar may be added if you want a heavier liqueur. Shake until
the sugar is dissolved and then let the mixture rest overnight.
It will not be necessary to strain again.
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Creme de Cacao
1 pint (2 cups) chocolate syrup
1 pint (2 cups) white corn syrup
1 quart (4 cups) high proof vodka
2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
Mix chocolate syrup, corn syrup, vodka and vanilla. Makes 2 quarts.
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Homemade Chocolate Liqueur
Ingredients:
1.50 c Sugar
0.75 c Water
3.00 c Vodka
5.00 tb Unsweetened cocoa
1.00 ea Vanilla bean, split
Directions:
Combine sugar and water in small saucepan; cook over medium heat,
stirring occasionally, until mixture boils. Reduce heat to low;
simmer, stirring occasionally, until sugar has completely dissolved.
Remove from heat; cool to room temperature. Measure 1 cup of the
mixture; combine with vodka, cocoa and vanilla bean in clean 2-quart
glass container. Cover tightly; keep in cool dark place for 14 days,
shaking thoroughly every 2 days. Strain liqueur through dampened
coffee filter paper into clean glass container. (Change filter paper
in mid-process or, if necessary, let drip overnight as cocoa residue
is very thick.) Repeat straining process if residue remains. Remove
vanilla bean. Cover tightly; let liqueur age in cool, dark place for
at least 1 month. About 1 quart.
From: Hershey's Chocolate Treasury
On 11 Dec 2005 at 21:39, Krishna wrote:
> Dear Phaedrus,
>
> Hello again!
>
> Once, my husband and I bought a jar of Patak's sweet eggplant relish.
> It was so fantastic and I would like to make something like it at
> home. I remember that it said sweet in the title, but we disagree if
> it said relish, or pickle on the label. I am pretty sure that it said
> relish, but that is a totally un-Indian term so by power of reasoning
> I would deduct that it was actually an Indian pickle.
>
> On Patak's website I could only find a brinjal pickle, but it did not
> say that it was sweet.
>
> Can you find any Indian sweet eggplant pickle/relish recipes?
>
> Thanks!
> Krishna
>
Hi Krishna,
It seems that the Patak's product is labeled both ways - sometimes
as pickle and sometimes as relish:
"Pataks Brinjal (eggplant) Pickle
Pickle made from ground eggplant and spiced with garlic, ginger
and spices. Enjoyed with rice and pappadums. Also known as Pataks
Brinjal (eggplant) Relish (sweet & spicy) Medium."
Picture of the jar here:
I shop Indian
Recipe for Brinjal Eggplant Pickle below. This recipe is for the hot.
You may have to adjust the amounts of the hot red chili powder lower
and the sugar higher to get the taste of the medium sweet & spicy
relish.
Phaed
Brinjal Eggplant Pickle
1 1/2 kg eggplants (brinjal)
4 ounces ginger (5 inch)
6 ounces garlic cloves (3 North American large pods or 6 small pods)
5 ounces hot red chili powder
1 tablespoon turmeric powder
2 tablespoons black mustard seeds, powdered
1 1/2 tablespoons fenugreek seeds, roasted and powdered
2 tablespoons cumin seeds, roasted and powdered
3/4 cup salt
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups prepared mustard oil(Indian grocory store) or vegetable oil
1 1/2 tablespoons tamarind pulp or tamarind paste
curry leaves, from indian grocory store (optional)
1 1/4 cups vinegar
Julianne or dice small brinjal-eggplant.
Layer brinjal with salt alternately. Let stand 4-5 hours till water
seperates from vegetable.
Squeeze in handfuls brinjal till water is removed. Keep in seperate
bowl.
Grind ginger and garlic in some of the vinager to paste.
Heat oil till smoke starts rising. Fry brinjals two hand fulls at
a time. Drain with slotted spoon and set aside. Wait for water to
evaporate from oil, till the bubbles stop before frying another lot
of brinjal.
Add and fry garlic and ginger paste for 5 minutes.
Add dry spices, fry 2 minutes.
Add vinager and tamrind, mix well for 1 minute.
Add curry leaves and sugar, mix well.
Add brinjal mix well and cook 1-2 minutes.
Cool and bottle.
72 servings 6 cups
6 hours 30 minutes prep
On 11 Dec 2005 at 11:45, Jodi wrote:
> I lived in Singapore for awhile and would often go to food courts with
> many different ethnic food hawkers. A really tasty dish from one of
> the Indian hawkers was Murtabak, which is a bread, kind of like roti
> prata, with a ground meat filling (beef? I'm thinking, may have been
> mutton), with grilled onions, curry and other spices. The meat was
> enfolded inside the bread and then dipped into a curry sauce. I
> searched your archives and came across the Indonesian "Martabak" but
> that was a sweet bread -- I'm looking for a savory version along with
> the curry sauce recipe. Any help you can give me would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Jodi
>
Hi Jodi,
See below for two recipes.
Phaed
Murtabak Recipe
Murtabak is a wrapped roti canai filled with minced meat curry with eggs and onion.
Ingredients :
300 g Minced meat (mutton/beef/chicken)
2 Large onions, diced 1/2 cm
1 stalk Celery, finely chopped
4 Green chilies, seeded and sliced
1 tablespoon Meat curry powder
1 teaspoon Chili powder
1/2 teaspoon Turmeric
1 teaspoon Garam masala
1/4 teaspoon Pepper, freshly ground
2 cloves Garlic, chopped
1 cm Ginger
1/2 cup Water
3 tablespoons Ghee
4 Eggs, beaten
Salt to taste
Method :
Mix meat curry powder, chili powder, turmeric, garam masala and
pepper with a little water to form a paste.
Heat 2 tablespoons ghee in a frying pan.
Fry the garlic and ginger till fragrant.
Add blended spices above and fry for 3 minutes.
Add meat and salt.
Keep frying, add water, cover the pan.
When the meat is cooked, add onion and green chilies slices.
Reduce heat and simmer until the mixture dries.
Allow it to cool.
Season the beaten eggs with salt and pepper.
Add meat and chopped celery.
Mix well. Divide into 6 portions depending on the size of murtabak.
Punch our dough.
Divide dough into 6 parts. Flatten each ball thinly.
Transfer it with a rolling pin to a hot greased griddle.
Put a portion of the fillings in the middle of the flattened dough.
Fold the sides and enclose the fillings by wrapping completely.
Spread a little ghee and continue cooking.
Turn it over and cook the other side.
Keep frying and turning until both sides are crispy and golden in color.
For dough: See Roti Canai recipe below
To serve:
Cut the murtabak into bite size and serve hot with curry, pickled
onions or plain.
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Roti Canai Recipe
Ingredients :
600 g Plain wheat flour
1 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Warm water or milk
1/2 cup Ghee or margarine
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Sugar
Method :
Sift the flour and salt together.
Knead flour, egg, sugar and ghee with water/milk (a little at a time)
good enough to make a moderately soft dough or easy to handle.
Leave for 2-3 hours or overnight.
Divide dough into 8 equal parts.
Shape it into balls.
Flatten each ball with a rolling pin and fold in 1/2 teaspoon ghee.
Roll up dough and twist it into a coil. Pressing one open end onto
the top.
Roll it again as thin as possible into a round shape.
Beginning at one of the open ends, roll up dough tightly and coil
it again as before.
Roll out dough slowly onto lightly floured surface (to ensure air is
not forced out).
Heat a pan.
Bake individually over a moderate heat.
Turn it over and spread a little ghee on it until both sides are
golden brown.
To serve:
Serve roti canai with curry dhal or pickled onion. It can also be
eaten with sugar.
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Murtabak
Singapore murtabak is spicy ground meat encased in roti (bread) and
browned on a griddle until crisp.
Ingredients:
Roti
3= cups flour, plus more for rolling
1 teaspoon salt
= cup plus 5 tablespoons melted ghee or margarine
1< cups warm milk
3 to 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
Rempah
4 1-inch chunks fresh ginger, peeled and sliced
10 shallots (walnut size) or 2 large onions, peeled and sliced
6 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup Red Chile Paste
2= tablespoons fresh or frozen curry leaves
2= tablespoons Indian-style curry powder
1 medium onion, chopped
1 pound ground beef
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2 stalks Chinese celery or regular celery, chopped (about 1/3 cup)
2 eggs
Ghee or vegetable oil for frying
Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Add 5 tablespoons of ghee
and stir until the mixture looks crumbly. Slowly pour in the milk and
mix with your hands. The dough will feel soft, spongy, and almost too
sticky. Knead the dough without adding extra flour until it pulls away
from the bowl and forms a smooth ball. Continue kneading until the
dough feels just slightly sticky, about 10 minutes. Cut the dough into
8 pieces. Roll each piece into a ball, flatten it slightly, and rub
it with ghee. Place the flattened balls on a tray. Cover the tray with
a damp cloth and let the dough rest for at least 5 hours. (If you make
the dough the night before, cover the tray with plastic wrap and
refrigerate overnight.) Lightly oil a rolling pin and work surface with
ghee. Roll out one ball, stretching the dough into a paper-thin circle,
about 9 inches in diameter.
Lightly brush the dough with ghee and lightly sprinkle it with flour.
Starting at the bottom edge, roll up the circle jelly-roll style until
you have a long rope. Gently pull the ends to stretch it an inch longer.
Take one end and roll it clockwise into a coil until it reaches the
center of the rope. Roll the opposite end clockwise until the two coils
meet in the middle. Fold one coil over on top of the other. Press the
two coils gently together into one thick round. Wrap it with plastic
wrap and set it aside for 1 hour. Repeat with the remaining balls.
To prepare the rempah, grind the ginger, shallots, and garlic to a
smooth paste in a blender or food processor. Add a tablespoon or more
of water if needed to facilitate the blending. Heat the oil in a wok
or saucepan. When hot, carefully add the Red Chile Paste and curry
leaves; fry over medium heat for 2 minutes, stirring frequently, until
the rempah is fragrant and has a deep mahogany-red colour and
porridge-like consistency, about 8 minutes. It is ready when reddish
oil seeps out. Mix in the curry powder and onion. Lightly saute until
the onion is limp. Raise the heat and add the beef, salt, and sugar.
Stir-fry, breaking up the lumps, until the meat is cooked but tender,
about 5 minutes; do not brown. Add the celery and stir-fry for a few
seconds. The mixture should be crumbly. Transfer it to a bowl and set
aside to cool. When cool, beat in the eggs. Place one bread round on
a flat surface. With your fingertips spread it into an 8-inch circle.
Put 3 heaping tablespoons of the meat mixture in the centre of the
circle, leaving 2 inches of dough all around. Fold two opposite sides
of dough into the centre, overlapping them by inch. Fold over the
remaining two sides to enclose the package. Press down gently to form
a square. Lightly oil a griddle or frying pan. Put a murtabak fold
side down on the griddle and fry over low heat until golden brown,
about 5 minutes on each side. Repeat with the remaining dough and
filling. Serve hot.
Note: Murtabak may be refrigerated; reheat in a 425 deg F oven for
10 minutes or microwave at high power for 1 minute. They can also
be frozen; thaw for 1 hour before reheating.
Source:
rec.food.cooking, rec.food.recipes
On 13 Dec 2005 at 9:24, Krishna wrote:
> Dear Phaedrus,
>
> Thanks again! I was really happy to get this eggplant pickle recipe.
> We have been talking about it for a few years now. One point I wanted
> to make in it was that I am 100% sure that the recipe indicates to
> use mustard oil, not prepared mustard. This oil has a very pungent
> taste, and can be purchased in Indian grocery stores, but because of
> it's strong taste (and heating qualies which can make someone unused
> to it to contract diarhorrea) most western cooks would probably use
> regular vegetable oil. Just thought that you'd like to know...
>
> Yesterday we ate a feast at a Bengali temple in a village called Radha
> Kunda. Bengali cooking is really wonderful. A major cooking technique
> is that they grind the spices into a wet paste on a special stone,
> and then fry them along with the vegetables. One of the vegetable
> preperations that was served yesterday was called Shukta. It is a wet
> vegetable preparation which is bitter in taste. It may acquire it's
> bitter taste from karela (bitter mellon), but I am not sure if it
> always has karela in it. It is extremely good, although may be an
> aquired taste due to it's slightly bitter nature. If you could find a
> few different Shukta recipes that would be super!
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Krishna
>
Hi Krishna,
Below are two quite different recipes.
Phaed
Shukta ( Vegetable With Lentil):
Ingredients:
Gourd (Bangla name lau): 1 lb
Sugar: 1 tsp
Lentil (Mug Dal): 1/2 cup
Cooking oil: 2 tbsp
Shelled peas: 1 cup
Mustard seed: 1/2 tsp
Ginger paste: 1/2 tsp
Chopped coriander leaves: 2 tsp
Turmeric powder: 1/2 tsp
Salt: to test
Peel lau and cut into small cubes. In a frying pan roast Mug dal
slightly. In a saucepan add lau, Mug dal, ginger, turmeric, salt
and 2 cups of water. Cover and cook.
When lau is almost cooked add peas. Cook for 4-5 minutes. Add sugar
and coriander leaves. Bring to boil.
In a frying pan, add mustard seeds to hot oil and stir quickly.
Remove from heat. Pour cooked vegetables in the oil and bring to a
boil.
Serve hot. Usually with plain rice.
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Garden Vegetable Stew with Almond Pesto and Fried Dumplings
"Badaam Shukta"
"Bengalis love this dish as much as Italians love minestrone.
Although it is a traditional dish, there are numerous ways to
prepare it. The best shuktas are filled with fresh seasonal
vegetables. You can serve them almost crisp, as a garnish, or
allow them to soak and soften for 5 minutes before serving.
The final touch is a spoonful of smooth fresh herb pesto.
You could use toasted cashews or walnuts instead of almonds
in the pesto and, to save calories, cottage cheese in place
of cream. Serve with a dal, rice and fresh cheese dish for
complementary nutrition."
Preparation and blanching time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves: 6 to 8
Dumplings:
1/2 cup sifted chickpea flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp cayenne powder or paprika
1 tsp dry roasted coarsly crushed cumin seeds
1/2 tsp melted butter or oil
about 1/3 cup water
ghee or vegetable oil for shallow frying
Combine the flour, salt, baking powder, spices in a mixing bowl.
Add the butter/oil and stir to blend, then add the water - enough
to make a light, cake-like batter. Heat the ghee or oil in a pan,
and when hot but not smoking add the batter 1 tbsp at a time.
Do 8 to 10 dumplings in the pan at a time; these should puff up.
Turn as they cook to a crisp, golden brown. Drain after cooking,
and keep warm in a warm oven (about 200, 250 degrees)
Pesto:
1/3 cup each trimmed fresh coriander and sweet basil, washed and
patted dry (I used all basil, as I'm the only one who likes the
fresh coriander)
1/3 cup toasted sliced almonds
3 tbsp olive oil
1/8 tsp each freshly ground pepper and salt
1/2 cup heavy cream or low-fat cottage cheese
Combine all the ingredients in a food processor or blender and
puree until smooth. Cover and set aside - refrigerate if you're
making this well in advance.
Stew:
2 small green bitter melons, each about 2 ounces, or 20 dried
bitter melon slices, 1/4 inches thick
(Note: I used 1 small bitter melon and 1 zucchini, as I didn't
want to overwhelm my family with too unusual a flavor. It worked
very nicely.)
3 tbsp ghee or unsalted butter
1/2 cassia or bay leaf
2 medium tomatoes, peeled and diced
2 medium waxy potatoes, 3/4 inch dice
3 1/2 cups vegetable stock or water (we're not vegetarians, I
used chicken stock)
1/2 small head cauliflower, broken into flowerets
2 small zucchini
1/2 cup fresh peas or black-eyed peas
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tbsp ground coriander
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black mustard seed
1/4 tsp fennel seed
1/4 tsp fenugreek seed
1/8 tsp garam masala
2 tbsp fresh-chopped coriander or parsley
Blanch the fresh slices of bitter melon in salted boiling water.
Boil for 4 minutes, then strain. Shake off water and pat the slices
dry. Heat the ghee/butter to hot but not smoking, fry the slices of
melon until reddish-brown. Remove the browned ones to drain, set aside.
If you are using the dried slices, drop them in the pan and toss with a
spoon, frying until crisp. They will brown very quickly, in about 30
seconds. Remove to drain.
Add the cassia/bay leaf and tomatoes to the remaining hot oil and fry
for about 3 minutes. Add potatoes and stock/water, bring to a boil.
Cover, reduce the heat to a simmer, cook for 15 minutes.
Add the cauliflower and zucchini, simmer for 10 more minutes. Add the
peas, turmeric, ground coriander and salt. Simmer for another 10
minutes or until the vegetables are tender. Remove the pan from the
heat, add the fried bitter melon and set aside, covered.
Combine the remaining dry spices and add to a hot, dry skillet. dry
roast the spices slowly over low heat until the fenugreek seeds turn a
golden-brown. Grind to a coarse powder in a coffee mill or
mortar/pestle.
Before serving, stir in the spices and fresh chopped coriander/parsley.
Spoon into bowls, add a few dumplings and a generous spoonful of the
pesto.
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