Tea? (Part 2)

[rbreid]

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A bandicoot!

How long before someone posts a recipe

 

[classic33]

Interesting, but why a church, and where does the word cockney come from? There must be a gooddecent story in there somewhere... where can I find it? Or what keywords would I use to google it?

Origin
Bow Bells are the bells of the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London. To be 'born within the sound of Bow Bells' is the traditional definition of a Cockney. These days anyone with a London accent is likely to be called a Cockney. To some ears this extends to anyone who comes from the South East of England.
The church occupies a central position in the City of London and the area that the bells can be heard in has become synonymous with 'within the city boundary'.
Richard Wittington became Mayor of London in 1392. The legend has it that he was called back to London by Bow Bells when about to leave to seek his fortune. The bells are certainly ancient - there are written records of them being rung each evening at 9pm which date back to 1469. The first citation that links Bow Bells and Cockneys is Samuel Rowland's The letting of humours blood in the head-vaine, 1600:
"I scorne ... To let a Bowe-bell Cockney put me downe."

 

[Puddles]

How long before someone posts a recipe

Title: Possum or Bandicoot Soup
Categories: Soups, Oz
Yield: 1 servings

1 ea Small possum or bandicoot*
2 l Water
1 t Salt
1 ea Tin corn*
Any other vegies desired
1 pn Celery leaves
1 pn Parsley
Flour or gravox* to thicken
Fried bread,1 slice per serv

Skin and clean possum or bandicoot, then quarter the animal. (Video
tape this please. I have no idea how to do it. Also “first you have
to catch a possum or bandicoot”, but then that’s another story.)
Place it in a large pot or camp oven along with water and salt. Cover
and simmer gently for 3 or 4 hours. (Tough little devils apparently.)
Add vegetables and simmer for another 1 1/2 hours (Still tough. Even
the vegies are resisting being associated with this.) Strain soup
through a large holed colander when meat has left bone and remove
bones, especially small ones. Return soup to the pot and add parsley
and celery leaves. Thicken with a little flour or gravox. Cut fried
bread into 1 inch squares and serve soup over toast,boiling hot.

*For those of you that haven't met a bandicoot, it is something
between a possum and a raccoon, sort of, I think, maybe.

*Tin of corn? Well a can I guess, 16 oz.

*Now, when you boil this meat for 5 1/2 hours, strain it and throw it
away, it does make me wonder why you started in the first place.

*Gravox is a meat concentrate seasoning I think. The dish must be
need some flavor.

*Fry the bread any way you want to.

*All things considered, a brick or stone would be a reasonable
alternative if you don't happen to have a possum or bandicoot
available.

Gerry Nolan

“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you even
tried.”
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Posted to the mm-recipes mailing list by
GNolan554@aol.com

This is both a test and a recipe. I haven't tried to upload a file to
the MM list before.

Many years back I spent a month wandering around Australia and while
in Coober Pedy I found this book called:

Bush Cooking by Max Bryant Published by the Kangaroo Press
ISBN 0 86417 230 3

Please don't get the impression that this is what my good friends in
Australia eat normally or would even consider eating.

What it is, if I get it typed in, is a collection of recipes from the
harsh outback where you had to make do with what you had. Some of
them are even taken from the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia.

These recipes are for the most part unique, unusual, and as far as I
know factual.

In this particular recipe, I couldn't help from adding some comments,
but then I only used it for a test. Hope you enjoy it even if you
never have unexpected guests and all that is available is a possum or
bandicoot that you don't know what to do with.

http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/asia/australian/possum-bandicoot-soup1.html

 

[classic33]

How long before someone posts a recipe

Title: Possum or Bandicoot Soup
Categories: Soups, Oz
Yield: 1 servings

1 ea Small possum or bandicoot*
2 l Water
1 t Salt
1 ea Tin corn*
Any other vegies desired
1 pn Celery leaves
1 pn Parsley
Flour or gravox* to thicken
Fried bread,1 slice per serv

Skin and clean possum or bandicoot, then quarter the animal. (Videotape this please. I have no idea how to do it. Also “first you have to catch a possum or bandicoot”, but then that’s another story.)
Place it in a large pot or camp oven along with water and salt. Cover and simmer gently for 3 or 4 hours. (Tough little devils apparently.)
Add vegetables and simmer for another 1 1/2 hours (Still tough. Even the vegies are resisting being associated with this.) Strain soup through a large holed colander when meat has left bone and remove bones, especially small ones. Return soup to the pot and add parsley and celery leaves. Thicken with a little flour or gravox. Cut fried bread into 1 inch squares and serve soup over toast,boiling hot.

*For those of you that haven't met a bandicoot, it is something between a possum and a raccoon, sort of, I think, maybe.
*Tin of corn? Well a can I guess, 16 oz.
*Now, when you boil this meat for 5 1/2 hours, strain it and throw it away, it does make me wonder why you started in the first
place.
*Gravox is a meat concentrate seasoning I think. The dish must be need some flavor.
*Fry the bread any way you want to.
*All things considered, a brick or stone would be a reasonable alternative if you don't happen to have a possum or bandicoot
available.
Gerry Nolan
“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you even tried.”

 

[classic33]

Beaten to it by @Puddles

 

[ColinJ]

And what is a lully?
and a brummie?

I don't know what a lully is - not heard that one!

A Brummie is someone from Birmingham. That is Birmingham, England, not Birmingham, Alabama!

 

[classic33]

1.Lully 'Lovely' but said in a childish/cute manner.
&
2.lully a word that describes something warm, fuzzy and cute that makes you happy when you touch them or see them or think
about them. It can also describe the action of doing something that makes you happy in the aforementioned ways...

 

[somewhere in america]

Bandicoots are a group of about 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia. They are endemic to Australia.

Oh wow I was way off... all these years I thought it was some type of chicken

 

[classic33]

@Hill Wimp to put the kettle on int morning!!

My sympathies
I am getting up at 04:10 tomorrow, well at least my alarm clock is set for that time.

 

[somewhere in america]

1.Lully 'Lovely' but said in a childish/cute manner.
&
2.lully a word that describes something warm, fuzzy and cute that makes you happy when you touch them or see them or think
about them. It can also describe the action of doing something that makes you happy in the aforementioned ways...

Ookaaaaaay, well that just dropped me into a gutter

 

[potsy]

@Hill Wimp to put the kettle on int morning!!

If she times it right Colin could make her a tea just before he goes to bed

That's me for tonight, supposed to be up early for a but I'm not sure I'm that keen, see how I feel in a few hours

 

[ColinJ]

If she times it right Colin could make her a tea just before he goes to bed

I don't make tea before 09:00 or after 23:00!

 

[avalon]

Just got back from my morning. If I had known Puddles was going to post a Possum recipe I could have picked up some roadkill.

 

[Puddles]

Night all!

 

[classic33]

Night all!

Sithi

Just got back from my morning. If I had known Puddles was going to post a Possum recipe I could have picked up some roadkill.

Now you know what to look for on your next ride. Then you can tell us what it tastes like!!