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Essentially Vitamins are Important

January 18th 2010 03:04

citrus fruit is a good source of Vitamin C to stop scurvy

Did you know that vitamins were first called 'accessory food factors' and were considered to be essential to health. That's once they were discovered.

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who did a lot of studies in carbohydrate metabolism and muscular activity and it was he who concluded that vitamins and essential amino acids were an important part of a healthy diet.

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins discovered the need for 'accessory food factors'

His discoveries that a lack of vitamins in the diet can cause scurvy and rickets were headlines worldwide in 1906 according to the Information Please website.

In 1929 he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his work.

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Leftover Time Again!

December 28th 2009 23:49

My version of Mrs Maclurcan's chicken and ham pie..I did mine with turkey.

The festivities are over and the fridge is still full. Mainly of ham, chicken and turkey. Time to use them up in an economical and tasty way.

Under the chapter 'Chicken and Fowl Recipes', Mrs Maclurcan once again comes to the rescue in her ancient cookery book. While she uses chicken I substituted the meat for turkey.

Chicken/Turkey and Ham Pie
Ingredients
1 chicken/turkey or remains of cold one.
4 oz ham (120g)
Parsley
stock
pepper and salt
2 hard boiled eggs.
2 sheets of puff pastry (my addition)
Milk for glazing

Method

1.Cut up chicken/turkey and ham into small pieces and add to a saucepan with a little stock or water (I'd suggest a cup).
2. Add a bunch of parsley (you may want to chop finely) and pepper and salt.
3. Allow it to come to the boil until the chicken/turkey is tender.
4. Turn out into a pie dish greased and lined with one sheet of puff pastry.
5. Cut up the eggs and lay on top of the filling.
6. Cover with the second puff pastry crust.
7. Brush the top with the milk.
8. Put in an oven for 20 minutes at 200 deg celsius.

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Holy Guacamole!

December 20th 2009 11:11

My attempt at guacamole. I think the camera lens was a little smudged!!

One of the things I love about researching vintage food is the connection that it affords us whenever I make a recipe that has stood the test of time, or even been handed down through a family or found in a recipe book. Someone from the past made this recipe too, even with all its variations.

Guacamole is one of those that has stood the test of time. Imagine, when you whip up those avocados, so did some ancient Aztec. When you add the chile and onion, you are doing the same as some ancient Mexican. When you taste the coriander in the dip, it's probably the same flavour a South American from a couple of hundred years ago tasted as well.

Guacamole literally means avocado sauce from a language called Nahuatl, from Central Mexico. The locals would mash up the plentiful avocados in a mortar and pestle, called a molcajete. Invented around 500BC by the Aztecs it eventually migrated to Spain after the Conquistadors 'discovered' South America.

Many variations have developed over the years and below is my version:

Ingredients

2 ripe avocados peeled and chopped
Juice of one lemon
2 tablespoons freshly chopped coriander leaves
1/2 teaspoon finely chopped fresh chilli
Salt
3 spring onions, finely chopped

Method
Toss avocado in lemon juice. Add coriander, chilli, salt and spring onions. Server as soon as possible. I serve with fresh crusty bread in chunks.

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Potato Salad Roll

November 16th 2009 10:42

Potato Salad Roll

It's a sign of the times when I put an eighties recipe on my vintage food blog. There is now nearly a 30 year gap since flouro t-shirts, WHAM and some pretty rad food was popular. I found this one in my grandmother's 'Eating in the 80s' cookbook and I gotta say I picked the perfect day for it. With temperatures around the mid-30s it was easy to pre-prepare and I didn't have to slave over a hot stove, just serve it up.

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Crossing the Food Divide

October 7th 2009 03:52

Meryl Streep as Julia Child

The recent release of the movie 'Julie & Julia' is proof that food can be a connecting device through the ages regardless of time and location.

Meryl Streep plays the part of Julia Child, an American woman who finds herself in Paris due to her husband's work commitments. Trying to find a purpose she attends an all male French cooking class and thus begins a legend

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Food for Gathering

September 12th 2009 05:54

Sharing a meal with friends is one of the greatest past-times

Since ancient times one of the most enjoyable past-times is in the ritual of 'breaking bread' or as we know it better, dining with good friends and family.

Even work meetings are much nicer over breakfast, coffee, lunch or dinner. So, why is eating with others such an important part of our social past-time

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Cooking with the Basics

August 25th 2009 06:04

The basic elements in our "kitchen"

In days gone by the basic cooking utensils would have been fire and perhaps a bowl shaped from local tree bark, then later on pottery with crudely shaped spoons and ladles.

As time moved on pots, saucepans, ovens and other types of cookers were invented and became the new basics for the kitchen

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History of the Pancake

August 6th 2009 11:24

apple and cinnamon pancakes

It seems that the humble pancake has been around since Roman times. It seemed to be a simple flat bread made of flour, milk, eggs and spices, not unlike the recipe of today. Some were eaten with honey or fruits and others with more savoury ingredients.

While this was very similar to today's pancakes, the modern form originated in medieval Europe

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Biblical Food Part 2

July 12th 2009 09:07

All manner of living food

Ok folks, it seems quite a dangerous feat these days to talk about anything in relation to Christianity on Orble for fear of being parodied, struck out, checkmated or bullied into leaving. However, I am going to walk on the wildside with Vintage Foodie and continue in my series with Biblical Food.

As yet I haven't had a chance to make a dish from biblical ingredients, as not only is my work growing exponentially but we are also moving house (gotta be out by July 31). However, I have found this great website that has some great discussions and analyses of food references throughout the bible

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Bush Tucker for kids

July 6th 2009 05:34

eating bush tucker

Another culture and some more vintage food, this time in the form of a book for kids. This report was a media release from Richmond Landcare Inc.

A new guide to teach primary school children not only about bush foods in their local areas, but also how to grow and eat them, was launched at Goonellabah Primary School on the Far North Coast

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