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McLay455

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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Location: West of Scotland

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 1:06 pm Post subject: My own chestnut stuffing
Here is my recipe for chestnut stuffing or forcemeat 1lb Chestnuts 1lb pork sausage meat 2 slices wholemeal bread 2-3 shallots 1 tsp mixed herbs zest and juice of 2 large oranges Cook and shell chestnuts -- put everything in a processor and mix well. I cook this in a pyrex bowl instead of in the cavity of a bird, and we slice it and serve on the plate. I seal the top of the bowl with foil.

jema
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 1:48 pm Post subject:
Sounds good, but I have always wondered? just what is Pork Sausage meat ? jema

McLay455

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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 1:56 pm Post subject:
My butcher sells it at Christmas and the New Year. I think it is just belly pork minced -- it is fairly fat . I will ask him next time I see him.

alison
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 04 3:41 pm Post subject:
It is the same as the fillings of sausages. Usually about 70% meat, belly fat, rusk and herbs.

McLay455

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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 04 6:40 am Post subject:
Thanks I always use it to make forcemeat/stuffing. My adult children prefer it to the actual bird. I never stuff birds with it (except in the breast cavity) I put an onion or an orange in the body cavity,and use it to make the gravy withother things.

jema
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 04 7:15 am Post subject:

McLay455 wrote:

Thanks
I always use it to make forcemeat/stuffing. My adult children prefer it to the actual bird.
I never stuff birds with it (except in the breast cavity)
I put an onion or an orange in the body cavity,and use it to make the gravy withother things.

Despite the Delias, I think common sense says to the stuffing separately. Things need different cooking times, combine at your peril.

jema

McLay455

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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 04 7:21 am Post subject:
I couldn't agree more Jema Food hygene is very important to me, since I use a lot of wild game. I always soak my cleaned game in a strong saline solution before I freeze them , and I always thaw everything at low temperature thoroughly before cooking.

jema
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 04 7:34 am Post subject:

McLay455 wrote:

I couldn't agree more Jema

Food hygene is very important to me, since I use a lot of wild game.
I always soak my cleaned game in a strong saline solution before I freeze them , and I always thaw everything at low temperature thoroughly before cooking.

I have a love/hate relationship with food hygene

I like cooking in a clean/tidy kitchen that is the way I work, and as far as I am aware we have never ever given anyone including ourselves a dodgy tummy though bad hygene or under cooking etc.

But I do tend to think we are fed a bit of a line these days about how important all the hygene stuff and sell by dates are. You get the impression, that one bacteria left lurking in your kitchen will wipe out your family, let alone using anything beyond sell by.

jema

alison
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 04 2:15 pm Post subject:
I do agree with a clean kitchen, and cleaning as you go, but I don't hold much with sell by dates. Often they are by licence, and the food can quite happily last longer.

Guest

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 04 4:29 pm Post subject:

I agree -- sell by dates are the pits -- especially on dried goods and cereals,pulses etc.,
My son and his partner were buying supermarket meat, however, and had to keep throwing half of it away, since when they used half and refrigerated the rest, it was off in a couple of days.
We figured it must be releasing the inert gas from the pack that made it go off so soon.
He buys from a local butcher now.

Sarah D

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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 04 8:05 pm Post subject:
Mostly nowadays I seem to see "use by dates" rather than "sell by dates".

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