Sadly, I think that may well be true and to make matters even worse I think we may well have been responsible for the permanent departure from this board of one or two poor unsuspecting people who have obviously failed to understand that the whole thing is nothing more than a " windup. "
buzzy110,
Dec 29, 4:56am
Oh please uli. Voyeurisim is ... This is the same person who was lecturing me today, about how healthy soft scoop icecream is and how unhealthy coconut cream is!
buzzy110,
Dec 29, 5:01am
I have a silver spoon. I can make indy's recipe. Yaa. I've arrived. Watch me do my swank folks.
uli,
Dec 29, 6:39am
Yep that's him ... I thought you'd enjoy him ;)
nala2,
Dec 29, 8:24pm
In the same area of culinary adaption was the fantastic "chippie dip" of the 80, s consisting of Nestles Reduced Cream and Maggi Onion Soup powder. Every party I went to had this as the coffee table highlight, we did also as it was expected of us. One of the 2 items were not available in Australia so visitors were often pleaded with to "bring some over" as they were suffering withdrawal symptoms.
kirinesha,
Dec 29, 8:25pm
I made this a few months ago when we had a retro dinner party. My (English) husband had never come across it and loved it!
buzzy110,
Dec 29, 8:44pm
Oh I'm sure one of the popular girls, who are away at present, can come up with a favourite recipe combining both these tinned delights. Recently I was presented with a baked spinach dish consisting of an entire can of reduced cream and two whole boxes of frozen spinach. I'm not entirely sure but I think an egg had been thrown in to hold it all together.
I actually had to stop my hostess from making the dish up whilst the spinach was still frozen. Blerk.
marywea,
Dec 29, 8:55pm
The use of the silver fork is causing very faint bells to ring. I recall that we had to use a silver spoon to stir the jelly. I think going way back the early cutlery may have been aluminium, certainly there wasn't stainless steel or plastic, was there only aluminium or silver? I still love that onion dip AND the "pizza" described! !
kirinesha,
Dec 29, 9:01pm
Marywea, I got such a shock when I saw "pizza" done that way! I guess expediency is the mother of invention at times though. (I couldn't actually bring myself to eat it, even looking at tinned spaghetti makes me feel ill! )
davidt4,
Dec 29, 9:13pm
If you can get hold of a copy of Elizabeth David's English Bread and Yeast Cookery there is a marvellously entertaining chapter on the evolution of the "pizza pie" in England. It makes our humble scone dough efforts with tinned spaghetti and pineapple seem fairly harmless. And she was a great writer, crushingly witty and makes the rude girls of this thread look like the pussycats we really are.
indy95,
Dec 29, 9:37pm
I am a real fan of Elizabeth David and like you, david, I really enjoy her writing. If you have not already done so I suggest you read her authorised biography " Writing at the Kitchen Table " by Artemis Cooper. It is a very entertaining read and gives a fascinating insight into a clever woman who led an extremely colourful life. You are absolutely right about her crushing wit as she very obviously did not suffer fools at all and would have made mincemeat, so to speak, of us all.
uli,
Dec 30, 12:15am
To me they look like worms - when I first came to NZ I actually was served a "pizza" like that in pizza hut Taupo - it has what I later discovered was a scone dough (we don't do scones in Europe except on that Isle, so I had no idea what it could have been at the time) topped with spaghetti out of a tin (the texture was terrible), some ham and some pineapple and then covered in so much cheese that you couldn't see anything else once it was baked and delivered. We took 1 bite and then asked the waiter what on earth that concoction was - the waiter was very astonished ... we left and bought some food... .
terraalba,
Dec 30, 1:34am
Russian Fudge Where would I be without condensed milk? Probably a few less kilos!
nala2,
Dec 30, 6:20am
I do not do a lot of baking but decided to cook "Chocolate Caramel Squares" with of course caramalised condensed milk. Did the wrong thing by not looking at the recipe closely and jumped right in. WOW I am not a health food freak and have used lard, duck fat etc when "needed" but half way through the cooking and becoming aware of the sugar content I did not know how I was going to eat it when finished. Everybody loved it but could not understand why I was cutting such "tiny" squares and thought I was being mean.
elliehen,
Dec 30, 10:47am
I'm with toadfish... why not keep the childish jokes to your private Facebook pages where your friends might share your sense of humour? Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
kirinesha,
Dec 30, 5:45pm
Note to self:
~Do not display sense of humour in Recipes in case it offends others. ~Do not have opinions about food, food derivatives and its preparation in case it offends others. ~Do not ever feel passionate enough about food to express myself openly in case it offends others. ~Do not deviate from offering suggestions which do not include CM, instant or near instant packet, canned and jar sauces and soups etc, in case it offends others. ~Do not do anything which deviates from sheeplike behaviour or marks me out as an individual with the right to voice individual likes and dislikes in case it offends other people.
bedazzledjewels,
Dec 30, 6:24pm
Applause - well said Kirinesha.
indy95,
Dec 30, 8:13pm
I second that.
I have a confession to make... . . I love reduced cream and onion soup dip !
bedazzledjewels,
Dec 30, 8:18pm
Indy - that's a 'classic'! I used to make a wicked rum'n'raisin sauce for icecream using reduced cream. Ah, the memories!
I noticed someone mentioned way back that CM was a cure for diarrhoea - my Mum uses it for that, but confusingly also for constipation! ! ! I never quite figured that one out!
buzzy110,
Dec 30, 8:25pm
Claps for kirinesha from this quarter too. The popular girls are drifting back in and spoiling our fun. Go away and play in your own corner.
And Indy, reduced cream and onion soup dip is infinitely better than one made from plaster-of-paris tofu.
But hush, we mustn't mention that tofu is made with plaster-of-paris because it might offend one of the popular girls? I bet we could make a tofu and condensed milk dessert to go with the tofu and soya sauce main suggested as a festive Christmas treat. Yummo.
bedazzledjewels,
Dec 30, 8:27pm
You'd have to add some 'plastic' candied cherries too Buzzy!
indy95,
Dec 30, 8:28pm
Bedazzled, I know a number of older people use CM as a diarrhoea remedy, but for constipation also ? Confusing as you say.
indy95,
Dec 30, 8:37pm
Buzzy110, I await the posting of that culinary masterpiece in a fever of anticipation, but after that I'm afraid you really must curb your enthusiasm otherwise I fear we are all go to be sent to the Recipes naughty corner possibly for rather a long time. That would certainly teach us all a much needed lesson about participating in a wind up thread !
uli,
Dec 30, 8:42pm
Nah not confusing at all - its all in the amounts :) If you just eat one can of it then it stops the "runs" - if you eat 3 cans of it in one setting it loosens up any constipation LOL ;)
buzzy110,
Dec 30, 8:48pm
And don't forget that if you eat three cans, plus an entire tin of Mr Cheese in one setting you can quickly clear out your stomach contents through your mouth and not have to worry about constipation or diarrhea at all.
But hush folks. I have been told that talk of belching is offensive so these other bodily functions must be sending the popular girls into paroxysms of pure distress and shock.
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