Lets talk turkey (food discussion)

[Thor]

Angry cooking though? That's where it's at.

Lol that is true. I did some "angry cooking" yesterday and food turned great! Wtf is this sorcery.

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same goes for everything, sex for example, angry sex is the best, my favorite time of year is when the Flyers get eliminated from the Stanley cup playoffs. the sex is GREAT that week

[Thor]

Angry sex, yes. Angry driving on other hand, not good.

[Flame]

Let's stick on food PLEASE! D:

[TotalyMeow]

As promised, a recipe from my new recipe book: Lobscouse & Spotted Dog (Which it's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels), by Grossman and Thomas.

There are some very complicated recipes in the book, such as the Sea Pie, which is a raised pie (a pie with a crust so thick, it is free-standing. You don't put it in a pie dish but you mold the sides up like a bowl made in a grade-school pottery class). There are some super simple ones too like the Kedgeree which is basically cooked rice mixed with some cooked fish and heated, salt, pepper, and crack a couple eggs in it. Stir till cooked and done. That's it and it's delicious.

I'm going to put down the Ratafia Biscuit recipe today. I'm contemplating also the Mincemeat Pie recipe, a much more complex recipe in three parts which requires some more hard-to-find ingredients and the bravery to leave meat aging in a cupboard for a month. Not for the hypochondriacs. All four recipes I've mentioned have Salem equivalents waiting for the next time we add food.

Ratafia Biscuits

3 Ounces Sweet Almonds, blanched and peeled, and 1 Ounce bitter almonds, peeled; OR 4 ounces sweet almonds, blanched and peeled, and 3/4 teaspoon pure almond extract.
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 egg whites
8 drops rose water (1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract is an acceptable substitute)

Ice water and spoon
Brown paper

Preheat oven 325 F.
Line a cookie sheet with brown paper.
Pound or grind the almonds into a flour. I put them in a ziplock back and used the flat side of a meat tenderizer.
Mix in sugar and gradually add the other ingredients, should form a thick paste.
Dip a spoon in ice water and drop on the brown paper. They will spread out dramatically when baking, cookies made from a small spoonful of the paste ended up 3 inches in diameter and had to be broken apart after cooling because they melded. If that happens to you, I recommend a metal spatula or knife to separate them after they set, but while they are still warm as they get increasingly brittle as they cool.
Bake 20-22 minutes until puffy and browned. Keep an eye on these things, I took mine out a minute early and was glad I did.
Wring out a towel in cold water and lay it flat on the counter. Lift the paper with cookies out of the cookie sheet and place on the towel to set. After a few minutes, the cookies will easily peel off the paper. Now is the time to break them apart if needed. Place on a rack to cool.

[saltmummy]

Sounds nice. I actually have three bottles of rose water from one of the food banks shipments of bread for my chickens and turkeys. Sometimes they throw boxes of cans and other things our way when they can't get rid of them. Some truly ancient cans in those boxes of stuff sometimes. Lots of flour too, I'm thinking of doing bagels.

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i cant help but think they would taste like marzipan, which is one of my favorite substances on earth... tied with weed of course

[kitty629]

what are sweet almonds?

[saltmummy]

what are sweet almonds?

Almonds that are sweet.
If you are serious though,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond
These are almonds.

[TotalyMeow]

what are sweet almonds?

I really recommend just going the 'sweet almonds and extract' route as bitter almonds are actually kind of poisonous and not usually sold in stores. If you buy the standard pre-blanched / peeled ones, they'll be sweet variety.