Preparedness for when

Mrs_T_M

With the talk of what was rationed and when, I just thought I'd throw this blog out there:

http://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com/

The writer is using it to lose weight, but it's very interesting to read and see the recipes that she's found and come up with.

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Morning SORRYIMOVED a suet pudding is actually a very large dumpling steamed in a basin or sometimes made into a long roll and steamed so it can be sliced. It is made with flour,water, raising agent,suet (which is a white fat produced by cattle), and we can buy it here ready processed into small white pellets ready to use, we can also get a vegetable suet as well. A suet pudding can be plain, savoury or sweet. It can be a solid pudding with spices and dried fruit in it or the suet pastry can be rolled thin and used to line the basin and then either a fruit, vegetable or meat filling put inside and a suet pastry crust put on top. It is very versatile and the rolled pastry can be used as a piecrust and baked in the oven too. There are many,many recipes online and many very old dessert recipes that are suet puddings. I think the most well known of all the suet recipes are Steak and Kidney Pudding and our traditional Christmas Pudding. Can you get a suet in the states? if you can I'll happily post some recipes for you to try, Lyn xxx.

ginnyknit

Ginny, I apologise for making light of an obviously rotten situation, but I've got a perfect picture in my head of you in your post-op bed, on the roof rack moving house!!!!

Its ok, it was many years ago and it is the kind of thing I would think of

westcoastscot

Nuatha the only other thing that has changed - thinking about it - is my ability to knead effectively, possibly, as I have arthritis in my wrists/hands. It's one of the reasons I changed to making bread on my days off. Perhaps I shall have to use my dough hook on the kenwood and then finish it off by hand; I've only had my kenwood a year or so and only use it when I have to - I bake by feel, and can't tell the same way when my cake mix feels "right" the same as I can with a wooden spoon, iykwim.

THIRZAH

Sussex pond pudding is my DDs favourite-not sure if it's very OS or very healthy with all that butter but we only have it occasionally.

My Grandmother sometimes used to serve a boiled batter pudding containing fresh fruit before the main course and my Mother can remember having yorkshire pudding with gravy as a starter.If there was any left they'd have it with condensed milk as a pudding.

I can remember my Mother saying that rationing finally finished just before her wedding in July 1954. Judging from what I've read things were harder foodwise after the war.

DH has just read "Snow" and it has made him really think-I may be able to get him more on board with the prepping now.

jk0

Be careful ladies, particularly those of you with dodgy hands anyway. Did you read about Paul Hollywood last week?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2512067/Paul-Hollywood-Kneading-dough-ruined-hands.html

He is only 47, and reading that made me thankful for my bread machine.

pineapple

Excellent description of suet puddings MrsL. I love em - suet dumplings as well - though you can also make dumplings with your own fat/flour mix.
I get the feeling suet is not as popular as it was, say 20 years ago. Maybe on account of it's heart stopping qualities. But a little of what you fancy and all that...

Ellidee

De-lurking to post this

http://timetocookonline.com/2011/07/01/no-knead-bread-the-grant-loaf/

westcoastscot

jk0 that's interesting, thankyou. I have arthritis so my hands/wrists are less than great.

Ellidee, have heard about loaves like this but never tried it - will give it a go, thanks.

Butterfly_Brain

So Paul Hollywood has carpal tunnel syndrome, so do many others, I larfed my socks off at the typical Daily Fail headline