American cookery terms

halloweenqueen_2

If you go on www.hillbillyhousewife.com there is a recipe for steak sauce which is very similar to brown sauce, I think the base of most brown sauce is passata and worcestershire sauce. BBQ sauce is 'smoky' brown sauce is 'tangy' or slightly 'fruity'.

HOLsale

wizzkid wrote:

Hello, I've been 'lurking' for a while now. This is a great thread, thanks for the translations from out american speaking posters!

In some recipes it asks for 'instant vanilla pudding'. Can I substitute angel delight? If so, how much do I need? Thanks in advance.

well, angel delight, when made up is MUCH lighter than instant pudding

from what i have been able to tell, pudding is more like blancmange or custard here... however you might try it if it's something like baking etc where the consistency isn't quite the same custard powder and some vanilla extract might be an option as well

HOLsale

julybride wrote:

I love the corn bread when i go to America and I have noticed someone on here mention Polenta is it the same as 'Corn meal'?

Thank you

polenta is basically a finer grind of corn meal and it's what i use as a substitute, sometimes i can find coarse ground polenta which is pretty much spot on

HOLsale

AussieLass wrote:

I know this is more of an american conversion thread but could someone describe what *brown sauce* is most like. We have tomato sauce & bbq sauce but I have a recipe that has brown sauce in it. It's a UK recipe. What would you substiute it for?

A1 sauce in the states is nearly identical to brown sauce and it's expensive too! imagine my delight that it's typical fare here in the UK! :T

Heinz 57 is a different variation and the closest thing here is HP Fruity though they aren't quite the same, good enough for me though

i take it from your name that you're in Australia? if they don't have those there then you might want to mix the ketchup and bbq sauce with a bit of mustard powder and this *might* give you an approximation of brown sauce

i make my own bbq sauce by mixing ketchup, brown sauce, mustard powder and golden syrup so i'm thinking of this as sort of a reversal of sorts of that

AussieLass

HOLsale wrote:

i make my own bbq sauce by mixing ketchup, brown sauce, mustard powder and golden syrup so i'm thinking of this as sort of a reversal of sorts of that

Yes I am a aussie living in Oz. No I haven't tasted brown sauce before. This is the recipe Holsale posted that I would like to try. Obviously the ketchup is tomato sauce. Maybe it was usa recipe to start with. So if I sustitute the brown sauce for steak sauce, while not exactly the same it will be the closest here right. We do have it here, although I've never bought it. Might not bother as it is very exp & it would work out loads cheaper just to stick with the commercial bbq sauce which is quite nice anyway. Thanks a lot everybody and I will keep an eye out for specials in the Steak Sauce dept from now on.

Queenie

HOLsale wrote:

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Originally Posted by Sedona
Hiya RacyRed -- I was able to find pinto beans at Tesco. It took some hunting, but they were in the organic food section. If memory serves me right, it's about 75p or so for a 400g tin.

Hope that this helps!

i believe they are selling them dried now too. they have this endcap in some stores full of plain clear bags with black writing, think it's like generic wholefoods or something

anyway they sell bulghar wheat and various pulses that way so you might find pinto beans too.

I get pinto beans at Sainsbury's.

HOLsale wrote:

.... course i didn't like kool-aid either but mostly because people put too much sugar in it it's actually nice made with apple juice instead of water and half the sugar, gives cheap apple juice nice flavour varities cheaply wouldn't mind seeing it here

There are no plans to sell Kool-Aid over here. Not sure of the reasons, only that that was the outcome when the company was contacted 4yrs ago.

halloweenqueen_2

Its the mountain dew we love!

casper6116

I have some recipes from an american cookbook that require 'tomato sauce', usually says an 8 oz can of tomato sauce, in recipes for dishes like chicken cacciatore. Any ideas what this is?

AussieLass

I think they mean tomato puree. I could be wrong though. :rolleyes:

chickadee

Could it be passata? I think tomato puree would be too strong.