American cookery terms

kittiwoz

mpcus wrote:

When american receipes refer to cups, i.e. cup of flour, cup of brocolli or cup of liquid, what are these equivilent to in ozs.or grams.

As Thrift Lady says it's a volumetric measurements equivalent to 8fl. oz. But a reasonable weight aproximation is 8oz/225g for sugar, butter, eggs, oil, milk or water and 4oz/110g for flour or breadcrumbs (and I would think probably icing sugar too).

jennybegoode

HOLsale wrote:

a dutch oven is a large heavy cooking pot, usually made of cast iron, used for stewing and braising on the hob or in the oven.

what a relief! I was afraid it meant a bain marie!

thriftlady_2

HOLsale wrote:

also, american cucumbers don't come wrapped in condoms :eek: sorry, couldn't resist, that's what they always seem like to me, i have no clue why they need to be wrapped in plastic! i don't think the skin is any thinner than american cucumbers which i have NEVER seen wrapped in plastic ever! (well, not in store for sale!)

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: and I've just unrolled one-on a cucumber that is!!! OMG I won't be able to unwrap a cucumber now without remembering the days before OH had his little operation-sorry was that too much information??

Seriously, thanks for such a comprehensive answer Holsale and I'm glad to know I'm not giving out duff information. :T

Btw is Polony the same as Bologna?

halloweenqueen_2

Spendless wrote:

We had grits in Florida last year. It tasted like a hot bowl of grease yuck didn't like.

HOLsale- DH likes rice-a-roni and we stock up when we visit relatives in Canada. I've never found it on sale here, any ideas how to create my own

go to www.hillbillyhousewife.com
there are a lot of recipes on there and rice a roni is one of them, what I really like is you can make up several batches in one go, I got some ziplock bags from £land and made up quite a few of the rice recipes, the yellow rice is good. It came in quite handy as a couple of times we would have only had time to grab a takeaway i got my little bag of rice out and some lamb chops and had a good meal very quickly!
I did add my own little touches to the ingredients, I had some italian herbs instead of just parsley so i used them and I also veried the 'flavours' of the stock cubes, so i got lamb rice a roni to go with the chops!

halloweenqueen_2

PS I loved them grits in florida!!
My god thriftlady - no wonder you married him if the cucumber puts you in mind of hubby!!!!!!

mummysaver

Hi HOLsale, can you tell me what biscuits are, I was reading a book and they went to McDonalds and had fries, burgers and biscuits - what are they?

halloweenqueen_2

They are lovely! Like little savoury scones that you have with a KFC or chicken and biscuits! You can get a recipe for the KFC one on www.topsecret.com but i didn't really like them and they seemed a lot of faffing about, several US sites have them. Over to HOLsale for the proper translation!!!!!

halloweenqueen_2

actually its www.topsecretrecipes.com = sorry

thriftlady_2

halloweenqueen wrote:

PS I loved them grits in florida!!
My god thriftlady - no wonder you married him if the cucumber puts you in mind of hubby!!!!!!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Spendless

HOLsale wrote:

bread and butter pickles are quite nice

I like them too. It's another thing we fetch back.I've seen something that looks similar but never bought them in the deli section of Ikea.

Another favourite of mine is catalina dressing. Again I've never seen it here, so I fetch it back and it's ok if it stops in my fridge a long time cos canadians don't date stamp a lot of their goods yet :whistle: