Not To Be Trifled With

[eustacetilley]

davester wrote:
[quote=Spock]
Fruit Cake, Triffle ... What next, Mince Pies and Xmas Pudding with brandy butter ... I sense a trend, a very good trend.

Mmmmm!!! That all takes me back to my youth, when such things all appeared with regularity around the holidays.

Eustace seems to be a fount of good traditional recipes. I'm waiting for the mince pie and christmas pudding ones. I'd like to hear his take on sausage rolls and yorkshire pudding too, though I don't really need that since my yorkshire mum already taught me how to do those.
I'm working on it. The sausage rolls are a bit of a problem, as my Mom made her own sausage, and it makes a _huge_ difference. My sister recently found a decent butcher in Alameda who isn't bad with sausage.
We never got into Yorkshire pudding; we usually had Goose for Christmas, and roast Beef for New Year's. By then, Mom was pooped. Roast Beef, roast potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower in Hollandaise sauce; just the basics.
Note- we did observe Boxing Day. Mom stayed off her feet; we kids handled the food. Sweet Irish pancakes and boxty, various easy baking things, and a cold-cut dinner.
The groan heard from my Mother upon entering the kitchen on the morning of the 27th could be heard throughout the neighborhood.

Thanks, davester;

Eustace