Biscuit books set12/31/2023 Right now I really want a packet of chocolate digestives, squashed fly or Bourbon creams to dunk in my tea (sorrel tea, gone off PG Tips) but you can't get them over here. There are some good recipes that if I actually baked or even if I had some flour, white sugar and butter in the house I might give a go, but I haven't got any of those things nor even an oven. By the late nineteenth century they had been redefined as an American heritage food. But during the Civil War many white Americans were forced to turn to peanuts to overcome food shortages. In the North they were seen as a vulgar snack of the poor. Slaves had grown them in their garden plots to supplement their rations of cornmeal and salt fish. In early nineteenth-century America, white southerners spurned peanuts as ‘slave food’. One of my late brothers in law who died in 2009 in his 90s, his grandpa and grandma would have been slaves. Perhaps I think too much of slaves being as my family here is black and were all brought here as slaves. What the author has to say about peanuts is slightly horrifying but given peanuts deliciousness, inevitable that all should enjoy them and then forget their origins and with a bit of newspeak redefine them so no one would have to actually think of slaves. And how the British did not rule by suppression, the military and taxes, but doing their best to be seen as decent men always displaying British values even though they were somewhat suppresive, lol. Right now I'm reading about the habit of tea-drinking and little pastries became a thing for Indians. But who grew it, who cut it, who refined it? Only slaves whose labour was free so that it could be nice and cheap back 'home'.īritish Colonialism is mentioned. The planters are the good guys sending over this nice stuff. It was no longer necessary to master the mysterious art of clarifying and refining sugar, as the refineries dotting the banks of the Thames did the work of transforming the brown muscovado shipped by the planters into sparkling white crystals. With the influx of West Indian sugar into England, the sweet stuff had lost its magical aura. It also doesn't mention slavery in connection with sugar becoming so cheap that even labourers could pile it into their tea. It is a history book that concentrates a lot on ship's biscuit and all the voyages and explorations that couldn't have taken place without it. Since publicity in the media and on the back cover of a book is all good to someone who makes their money based on their popularity, her PR team agrees. Reading notes "Fascinating," says Prue Leith, but as I've learned blurbs are written by the PR team and then passed to Prue Leith's team to see if she would 'say it'. There were some interesting recipes here and there, some historical, but there wasn't enough about delicious biscuits, or cookies as Americans call them derived from the Dutch 'koekje' pron. It was quite an interesting book, mostly history. This made the cook a small profit and is the origin of the term ‘slush fund’. Instead, they would save it and sell it once they went ashore to tallow makers, who would gather on the docks when ships came in. The cook was not supposed to give it to the sailors to add to their duffs or puddings because it was considered unwholesome and even to cause scurvy. Fowl Play: Slush was the fat that rose to the top of a vat of boiled salt beef. You know the phrase, 'slush fund'? Here is its origin (closely tied to ship's biscuit which made dog biscuits seem soft by comparison, and yes I did try one once, it was bland). it was a way of preserving food, and quite a high calorie one as it was a stiff mixture of flour, water and salt baked in a hot oven and then allowed to dry out completely until it was so hard it could reputedly stop a bullet! They were eaten dipped in soup or stew, which would soften them and provide the carbohydrate part of a meal long after the vegetables had gone rotten. Review If this book had been entitled, 'How the discovery of the New World, the Indies, and just about Everywhere Else was dependent on Ship's Biscuit plus other miscellanea,' it would have been more accurate.
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