Indian Food 101

Urbane Guerrilla · 11-30-2009, 11:50 PM

By chance, we recently picked up a copy of Curries and Bugles: A Memoir and a Cookbook of the British Raj by Jennifer Brennan. There's some rare old stuff in there. A recipe for homebuilding your own ketchup starting with 10 pounds of tomatoes. Recipes each with their own individual curry mix. How to make your own papadams. Rendering only moderately youthful mutton more edible by parboiling before roasting. The intelligent use of ghee. Of garam masala too. A scattering of quaint little old advertisements -- anybody know what Hayward's Military Pickle was like, or could offer authoritative opinion on what made it and Hayward's Military Sauce so military? Hayward's apparently no longer make Military Pickle, though small-batch makers may apparently be found through the Net.

(I've been imagining these beret-sporting, DPM-uniformed Armoured guys eating Military Pickle with lunch on Salisbury Plain -- and enjoying an immense raise of morale thereby.)

Random thought: chileheaded Indians might really like a plate of nice zippy Buffalo wings. Properly, it needs the capitalization, having been devised in that upstate New York city.

11-30-2009, 11:50 PM	#13
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	By chance, we recently picked up a copy of Curries and Bugles: A Memoir and a Cookbook of the British Raj by Jennifer Brennan. There's some rare old stuff in there. A recipe for homebuilding your own ketchup starting with 10 pounds of tomatoes. Recipes each with their own individual curry mix. How to make your own papadams. Rendering only moderately youthful mutton more edible by parboiling before roasting. The intelligent use of ghee. Of garam masala too. A scattering of quaint little old advertisements -- anybody know what Hayward's Military Pickle was like, or could offer authoritative opinion on what made it and Hayward's Military Sauce so military? Hayward's apparently no longer make Military Pickle, though small-batch makers may apparently be found through the Net. (I've been imagining these beret-sporting, DPM-uniformed Armoured guys eating Military Pickle with lunch on Salisbury Plain -- and enjoying an immense raise of morale thereby.) Random thought: chileheaded Indians might really like a plate of nice zippy Buffalo wings. Properly, it needs the capitalization, having been devised in that upstate New York city. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 12-01-2009 at 12:03 AM.

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