Thes – Old English for "this", neuter of thes, of West Germanic origin: Mediolanum – old name for Milan: Lif – Old English for "life", of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib 'body'
OK. This recipe has failed me only once. Prior to using this recipe I used to hit good Yorkshires about 50% of the time – after using it I hit 100%. The only reason it failed once was that it was my old cooker in the new flat which did not have settings for the oven (other than High, Low and Off). This recipe makes about 12 – 15 small cake-sized puddings.
Ingredients:
2 Eggs……………………….2 uova
3 oz Plain Flour………………85 g farina (tipo 00)
1/4 pint of Milk………………0.14 l latte
Salt and Pepper……………….sale e peppe
Some oil/lard…………………olio/strucco
Method:
Sieve flour into a bowl and add the salt and pepper (a bit of each to taste). Break two eggs into the flour and mix well. It is better using a mixer (like a Kenwood Chef). Now add the milk, drizzling it in very slowly and making sure it mixes well to give a batter without any lumps. Put into the fridge for at least 20 minutes. (I have made it the day before and left it in the fridge until needed – but it needs a good whisk if you do that as it does separate).
Use a patty tin (like the cake tin to make small cakes – preferably with rounded bottoms to the individual cake parts). Brush a little oil or melted lard over the tin and place in oven (the oven should be the hottest you can get – max, max, max!). At this point anyway, you can take the meat out to rest – so it’s all perfect timing.
Once the oil/lard is hot (and smoking slightly is good – no, not you, the oil/lard!), take out of the oven and pour some of the batter in each one. Put back into the oven for about 15 minutes until well risen and brown. Try not to open the oven door too much or too early but they shouldn’t really deflate anyway. Serve immediately with the meat and good gravy. They are to-die-for!
Save any left over (if there are any) and you can have them with a spoonful of sugar when they are cold!
Well, I’ve now been and it was lovely but, as I’m not from the USA (I guess), it was, more or less, like going to dinner at someone’s house.
I’m talking of Thanksgiving.
I’m talking turkey, mashed potatoes, and a rather glorious stuffing.
To be honest, I thought it was going to be an all-American affair (except for me) but it took on quite an International flavour. 3 Americans, 1 Canadian, 1 Australian, 1 Italian and me. The turkey (which I’ve never been mad keen on) was rather good and well cooked. The stuffing was fantastic. The wine and conversation flowed and we even had a rather difficult conversation with N & S all the way from San Francisco – the ‘difficult’ part being the connection which, unfortunately kept dying.
I got home at about 3.30 a.m. I then spoke to Ag on the telephone. She was in need of someone to talk to. It meant I got to bed about 5.30. I was, unsurprisingly, tired on Saturday. My headache was still here (but that could have been just ‘cos I’m tired).
F phoned me during the day on Saturday. He said that things were going rather well and he was going to be coming home that night so that we can go to a concert. He had booked it before he knew that he would be away and there had always been some doubt about whether he would be there.
He got home in the late afternoon and then we met up and went for a pizza at Liù (see link at side) – except Liù was full so we went to Time Out 2 instead. Then strolled down to Il’s flat and took a taxi with her to see Chiara Civello at Blue Note.
She was fabulous although I was so tired and we went to the second concert of that evening – it started at 11.30! He knows her because his ex, M, from Rome, knows her. After the concert we went backstage and I was introduced to her as ‘my new boyfriend’. I had been similarly introduced to someone who sat with us and was a friend from some time ago. She works for Moschino or somewhere like that. It was then added that I was a ‘real man compared to S’ – which always makes me smile – although I never, ever make any comment, of course.
Anyway, there are a couple of Chiara’s tracks at the bottom. I hope you enjoy them. She was lovely, always smiling and the music is really good.
Yesterday, as F is away, I had promised A that I would do Sunday lunch for him and Fr – you know, the Roast Beef type of Sunday lunch, which F would not enjoy so much.
A had baked some bread which we had with something that was like a light pâté that F had brought back from Germany. There was goose-liver and reindeer – they were delicious and not at all heavy as pâté can be sometimes.
Then we had the roast beef and, with my new cooker, the perfect Yorkshire puddings – YAY! I will do a post with the recipe since it has never, except once, let me down. The only reason it didn’t work before was my old oven, I was sure – and this proved correct when, this time, they were well risen and light – just as they should be. Also, when I had been in France last year, I had bought some red horseradish sauce – and it was quite hot, which I liked.
After that we had Apple and Blackberry Crumble with whipped cream. This was all followed by cheese (including Stilton) and some rather fine port, bought for me by a colleague when he went to Portugal. The problem was that then I just couldn’t stop drinking it. I had to ‘force’ myself to stop, even after A & Fr left.
Anyway, they enjoyed it – as did I.
I spent the rest of the evening washing up :-).
F is back on Wednesday as that is the day that the new shop will open. I will be very happy when he is back, as will Dino. And Rufus who is a LOT better. Thanks for all your kind wishes.
Anyway, enjoy Chiara – these are some of my favourite songs of hers.
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