tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900113077178420191.post8900482247414053871..comments2024-03-28T17:10:23.080-07:00Comments on Little Grey Bungalow: Food for The TravelerShayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16527241089629026268noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900113077178420191.post-55097919919832385902013-01-10T16:06:57.348-08:002013-01-10T16:06:57.348-08:00Definitely a revolt against the heavy cuisine and ...Definitely a revolt against the heavy cuisine and of the times, aiming for purity and nutrition. <br />What that menu really illustrates is the limited selections or grains and produce availabale when that was written. Just look at the components and it's quite healthy. <br />But use some imagination, especially with the wider choices and more efficient stoves available now and one could eat well ...<br /><br />Beech-nut bacon was regular bacon very thinly sliced & vacuum packed.<br /><br />I suspect the "cold grated cheese" just means a simple nutritious grated cheese as opposed to a heavy cheese sauce. <br /><br />For example, "Cereal salad" Tabouleh, wheat berries, brown rice, quinoa, barley. I can think of plenty of tasty things to make. <br /><br />Boiled fish - poached, steamed, grilled. baked, broiled. Anyway, I'm no nutrition nazi - sautee in butter and olive oil with garlic!<br /><br />Legume soup - there are a hundred delicious soup recipes for beans, lentils, etc. And a small ham hock will flavor a lot of soup. Roast veggies before adding to soup to intensify the flavor of the veggies.<br /><br />Lettuce: there are a hundred lovely salad greens these days. <br /><br />mashed carrots - there are many root vegetables that can used here. Bake instead of steaming or boiling for more instense flavor. Again, no reason why it couldn't be sauteed or fried with a dab of butter or bacon fat and finished off with a touch of brown susgar.<br /><br />Raw carrots and other raw vegetables- mix yogurt and mayo together, season with curry powder and some garlic for a dip, want to keep it light? Use mostly yogurt, but some mayo makes it nicer. <br />Home made mayonaise tastes so good, you will use a lot less of it.<br /><br />As for what kids will eat, I loved savory food, anchivies and lots of garlic when I was a kid. I thought mashed veggies was for babies. I liked it in identifiable pieces. A lot of kids who are picky eaters do it for attention. Most of the kids I know couldn't get away with that junk and they eat like adults, with the usual kid fondness for purple candy and sugar treats when they can get it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900113077178420191.post-57153774950972780772012-11-05T16:37:54.217-08:002012-11-05T16:37:54.217-08:00GDad. Sounds ghastly, especially without milk or ...GDad. Sounds ghastly, especially without milk or something else to wash it down.<br /><br />Anon. Yeah, I've seen those menus as well. No wonder so many Edwardians had gout.Shayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16527241089629026268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900113077178420191.post-28757791235555798542012-11-05T05:51:24.589-08:002012-11-05T05:51:24.589-08:00According to a book on Google Books, "RYLAX F...According to a book on Google Books, "RYLAX FLAKES is a cereal food made from western grown Rye, slected, screend, scoured, given a steam bath, then rolled thing as a wafer."<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SS4gAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA320-IA8&lpg=PA320-IA8&dq=rylax+food&source=bl&ots=VntmDxme98&sig=Ma-kIr4nPrt9eoLhzhAgB0msBaQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lsOXUNjiMoSi9QSN1YD4Dg&ved=0CCEQ6AEwATgK" rel="nofollow">This link</a> (I hope it works)Not Importanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307127026012212518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900113077178420191.post-7013419890568034972012-11-05T05:11:03.155-08:002012-11-05T05:11:03.155-08:00I think I would rather have gone hungry than eat b...I think I would rather have gone hungry than eat boiled fish. If there was a dog around, it would have been well fed.FUZZARELLYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12340378858926874634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900113077178420191.post-58962137245215358612012-11-05T00:21:25.967-08:002012-11-05T00:21:25.967-08:00A potato salad with bacon and egg on a bed of lett...A potato salad with bacon and egg on a bed of lettuce would have been OK, but deadly by themselves. I think this was probably an overreaction to the Victorians' excesses. I have a recipe book that my grandfather got from a cook on board a ship he worked on. It has more recipes for oysters than I've ever seen, and recipes that go: take a pound of butter and fry a dozen eggs in it until yolks are set. Serve with a mixture of kidney, sausage and bacon fried in butter and bacon fat.<br />Before antibiotics, mothers used to purge everyone. Perhaps rylax was kinder than sulphur and molasses?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900113077178420191.post-48101161269401630472012-11-04T15:07:10.973-08:002012-11-04T15:07:10.973-08:00Joyce, there's a certain brutality about these...Joyce, there's a certain brutality about these menus that disturbs me.Shayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16527241089629026268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900113077178420191.post-43579999792183092042012-11-04T14:47:53.853-08:002012-11-04T14:47:53.853-08:00Cereal salad with carrots and fish? And what's...Cereal salad with carrots and fish? And what's with all the cold grated cheese?Joycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719843474295765790noreply@blogger.com