"Hedgehog" stew - any ideas?

MrsB2100

Not real hedgehogs, I hasten to add!!!

No, many, many years ago, when I was a little girl at primary school we used to have "Hedgehog" stew for school dinners. (Yep, real, homecooked school dinners too!) From memory, they were meatballs with rice in them - hence the "Hedgehog" as they were spiky!

Try as I might, I just cannot replicate them! I've tried adding cooked rice with minced beef and formed them into meatballs, but they just seemed to come out grainy and frankly, not nice!

Does anyone have any ideas how I can try and make this? I'm guessing that I should add sausagemeat to minced beef, but I dont want to make an expensive mistake. Also, I want ideally to cook this in the slow cooker.

Any ideas you've got would be gratefully received!!!! :beer: Thank you!

MrsB2100

Actually, ignore me - just found a recepie for Porcupine meatballs ... pretty much the same thing!

I found it here, if anyone is interested:

http://southernfood.about.com/od/crockpotmeatballs/r/bl59c10.htm

Thanks anyway!

reallylost

Thank you sooo much for this.
I too remember this dish at school, but whenever I have mentioned it to anyone they just look at me like I just came out of a space ship.

Mythi

Hedgehog Meatballs: http://www.bestmagazine.co.uk/blog/Hedgehog-meatballs.aspx

MrsB2100

Thank you Mythi! They look nice!!! I will definitley give them a go! And I am so pleased that I wasnt the only person who ever had hedgehog stew! And thank you too, sampainter! I'm not going bonkers after all! (Not yet, anyway!)

hermum

MrsB2100 wrote: »

Not real hedgehogs, I hasten to add!!!

No, many, many years ago, when I was a little girl at primary school we used to have "Hedgehog" stew for school dinners. (Yep, real, homecooked school dinners too!) From memory, they were meatballs with rice in them - hence the "Hedgehog" as they were spiky!

Try as I might, I just cannot replicate them! I've tried adding cooked rice with minced beef and formed them into meatballs, but they just seemed to come out grainy and frankly, not nice!

Does anyone have any ideas how I can try and make this? I'm guessing that I should add sausagemeat to minced beef, but I dont want to make an expensive mistake. Also, I want ideally to cook this in the slow cooker.


Any ideas you've got would be gratefully received!!!! :beer: Thank you!

I'd forgotten all about them, I used to love them, will give tham a go. I will though forego the lumpy mash that our school served up with everything. Having said that though I suppose at least it meant it was actually potato.
Thanks for the reminder.