Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] (Heather

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Re: [fast5] (Heather - food gifts (GFCF baking mix)

A lot of them are online too. Google books has books that have
been out of print for years. I happen to have a collection because
my Dad liked to get the old books the library threw out, and
some of those are amazing. Like a hundred ways to cook dumplings.

Hm. Just for the heck of it I went to

books.google.com

Selected "full view only" (which only gives you the books
that are out of print, generally)

and searched for "dumpling book". My book isn't there, but
there are a bunch of them from pre-WW2 and even the late
1800's with some great dumpling recipes.

And yeah, if you haven't had dumplings lately you are missing
something. You make a good hot chicken broth, get it
boiling, and drop in those dumplings ... they rise up and bubble
and your family gets amazingly happy. All the recipes say
"flour", but just use whatever powdery substance you like.

Anyway, here is a typical example:

http://books.google.com/books?id=-IkTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29&dq=the+dumpling+book&lr=&as_brr=1&ei=VEGQStBTk-iVBOjDhLcH#v=onepage&q=&f=false

When you are searching Google books, it is useful to know how
to do a "screen print". There are cheap and free tools to
help with this, but at any Windows computer, you can just hit the
"print screen" button. Then open up Paint, and press Ctrl+V (paste).
Now you have a picture of whatever was on the screen (your
recipe) which you can crop and print. Or save it in a "recipe book"
(which is what I do using another great tool: Help and Manual. It's
a little pricey but I use it for work and it's worth every penny).

Egg noodles are another long-forgotten delicacy. Basically you
mix some flour and a little salt with some egg yolks, until
you get something the consistency of a thick dough. Then
roll it out, slice it, and drop it in boiling water. But they
make most pasta look rather pathetic, and in families
that make them, they are regarded as a special treat that
Aunt Marion or whoever makes at get-togethers. I suspect
giving someone some frozen egg-noodles ready-to-go would
be a special gift.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:50 AM, <havens@iowatelecom.net> wrote:
> You got me thinking about older recipes-----I have cookbook that the State
> Jersey (cow) organization put out in 1989, but the first half is a reprint
> of the 1960 Jersey Assn cookbook.
>
> I am going to go back and look at that older version and see what recipes
> I could glean that look promising.....and not so heavy on flour.
>
> Thanks for the brain-bump.
>
> iakaren
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>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Karen<laurvick@charter.net> wrote:
>>> Awesome! Thanks for sharing! And I know that Joy of Cooking book is
>>> quite
>>> old, isn't it? Amazing that you can find GF recipes in it!
>>
>> It doesn't actually have "GF" recipes in it, and yes, it's quite old.
>> Actually I'm not sure they even knew what caused celiac when
>> it was published, and for many years after it was considered a
>> baby disease that people grew out of.
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>> Thing is, in the old days, flour didn't have so much gluten in it.
>> In George Washington's day, "flour" (spelled "flower", really!)
>> didn't necessarily even mean flour from wheat. So the recipes rely
>> on eggs and other ingredients to make them fluffy.
>>
>> And, in older days, meals weren't all about starch. In our
>> environment now, most of the food in the market revolves around
>> the government-subsidized crops: corn, soy, sugar, wheat.
>> But in years past, food revolved around what you could easily
>> grow in your yard: collards, cabbage, beans, potatoes,
>> grapes, apples, squash, cows, chickens, pigs. Wheat flour was
>> expensive and hard to keep (they hadn't invented Tupperware
>> yet, and it got moldy and got bugs and went rancid).
>>
>> So when you look at what, say, George Washington had at
>> a party ... you can do that, they published menus for parties
>> in the paper gossip columns ... you see that they had like
>> 7 different kinds of meats, a mess of different vegetables,
>> dried fruits and nuts, a ridiculous amount of alcohol, and
>> then here and there some bread and pastry. Poor people
>> would have cider, cabbage, pork fat, and oat gruel.
>>
>> Ditto for the recipes. There certainly are desserts, but you
>> don't get the impression this was a daily thing, and most of
>> the meals revolve around vegetables and meat. Actually it
>> reminds me a little of Asian cooking: your average Chinese
>> dinner has vegetables cooked in a huge variety of ways.
>>
>> Sometime after the harvesting combine got invented and
>> even more after food subsidies got invented, our food mix
>> changed, until today "vegetables" are sort of an ignored
>> side-dish except at Thanksgiving, meat is a condiment,
>> and the main meal consists of a mess of starches and
>> sugars and canola and soy.
>>
>> So you can pick out most of the recipes in those old cookbooks
>> and 1) they don't rely on wheat 2) they are basically healthier
>> 3) they are really, really yummy!
>>
>> The "flour" recipes tend to be very heavy on eggs and
>> work with GF flour. I use coconut milk and coconut oil though,
>> instead of cream and butter.
>>
>> The one thing I can't do is make a nice kneaded bread dough.
>> However, I can do that by using Chebe mix, when I feel the
>> need to make something really bready, like calzones.
>> Adding a little Chebe to pie dough makes it more workable too.
>>
>> </ END RANT >
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