Gordon Ramsay - Beef Wellington

Interesting that he doesn’t use liver pate - ah leaving out might be a good decision :p

  1795 - South Carolina is the first place in the United States where tea was grown and is the only state to ever have produced tea commercially. Most historians agree that the first tea plant arrived in this country in the late 1700s when French explorer and botanist,  Andre Michaux (1746-1802), imported it as well as other beautiful and showy varieties of camellias, gardenias and azaleas to suit the aesthetic and acquisitive desires of wealthy Charleston planters. He planted tea near Charleston at Middleton Barony, now known as Middleton Place Gardens.

Source.

ICED TEA.
After scalding the teapot, put into it one quart of boiling water and two teaspoonfuls green tea. If wanted for supper, do this at breakfast. At dinner time, strain, without stirring, through a tea-strainer into a pitcher. Let it stand till tea time and then pour into decanters, leaving the sediment in the bottom of the pitcher. Fill the goblets with ice, put two teaspoonfuls granulated sugar in each, and pour the tea over the ice and sugar. A squeeze of lemon will make this delicious and healthful, as it will correct the astringent tendency.—Mrs. S. T.

Source: Tyree, Marion Cabell. HOUSEKEEPING IN OLD VIRGINIA. 1877 copyright. Published 1878 or 9 (wiki says 1879).

I’m searching for a good or original recipe that calls for truffles (white or black). Truffles are uniquely European.

Truffles are very very expensive…

Therefore, I have no recipes that call for them…

God bless,
Laurel

I’m gonna try to grow some actually. If ordered by January, the trees they grow on will arrive by next January. The soil needs to be well prepared first though, and they take 3-5 years to begin producing, if the trees do produce (the truffle mushroom doesn’t necessarily thrive on each tree / environment).

Wow. Can you order them at Truffles R Us?

*joking*

Actually I am curious as to whether there is a company that sells the growing items…

I have no idea what they taste like, but they are supposed to be good…

God bless,
Laurel

They’ve been described as “smelling like road kill… in a good way”. I’m enthusiastic about truffles because they’re distinctly European. Too many spices come from India, while this mushroom is distinctly ours.

My parents recently tried a dish made with black truffles, and they claim it was good, though… they’re the type who’ll enjoy any type of food.

Artificial truffle oil is made with many of the scent components of truffle oil - I think it comes mixed in olive oil. It should give some idea of the truffle experience. Some people love them, while others… don’t. Road kill isn’t for everyone.

White truffles might be better than black, but black must be easier to grow or at least easier to grow in this area. There is an Oregon white truffle, but it’s without flavor or, I presume, odor (no reason to grow it then). And there are many other varieties of truffles, but they must not be as good as the two famous European varieties.

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Truffles R Us has them for:

      1-5     $30 + $20 shipping per tree
    6-20   $25 + shipping
    21-999   $22 + shipping

The mushrooms grow on the roots of the tree. A pig or trained dog is needed to locate them. I’ll probably borrow a pig when needed, though I won’t have to worry about that for several years at least.

Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony (Paperback)
by Madeleine Pelner Cosman

looks interesting. Written by a lady who was an American legionnaire.

Frank - 26 October 2008 01:33 PM

Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony (Paperback)
by Madeleine Pelner Cosman

looks interesting. Written by a lady who was an American legionnaire.

...and was mentioned in that SPLC article Faust referenced before…

Pretty funny how all the links tie together in our brains…

Laurel

The SPLC is a good place to advertise right wing material. As soon as I read her being demonised there, I had to search for her cookbook.

Frank,

Madeleine Pelner Cosman’s book does sound interesting. I have a facsimile of Housekeeping in Old Virgina.  I did not know you could grow your own truffles; I had always heard you could not cultivate truffles. But I have no idea what they taste like.

This site might be worth looking at too.

Wikibooks:Cookbook:Table of Contents

Faust,

truffle cultivation has been solved. Hopefully the secret to growing them without trees will be discovered one day, thus dropping their price very low.

Tobacco to Truffles: Revolutionizing the Southeast’s Farm Economy

Susan Rice, founder of Black Diamond French Truffles Inc. (BDFT), is the newest of only a few truffle cultivators in the United States. The company is staking nearly $25 million on her vision to reinvent North Carolina as the Napa Valley equivalent of truffle cultivation. “Napa is to wine, as North Carolina can be to truffles,” said Rice. “We are growing a rare gem in these fields. This crop could replace tobacco and single-handedly revitalize our farming industry.”

Isabella Mary Beeton (née Mayson; 12 March 1836 – 6 February 1865), universally known as Mrs Beeton, was the principal author of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management and is the most famous cookery writer in British history.

Online edition of Household Management
Works by Mrs Beeton at Project Gutenberg

An even better source of trees and information on truffles, from Tasmania.

This website is run by a relatively famous truffle plantation, “the home of Australia’s first black truffles”; and as is typical of Christian and post-Christian Europeans, it appears honest and legitimately interested in furthering truffle research. Pagans can say what they will about our religion (atheists don’t like “blind faith”), but is any group as trustworthy as Christian Europeans?

Smoking-meat.com

Dry-Curing Virginia Style Ham

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