Patty toppers
29 December 2019 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeFrom my wartime cookbook: patty toppers with leek sauce. Left-over cold meat is cut up small (or preferably minced, but I didn't bother) and mixed with a little chopped onion and a couple of boiled potatoes mashed dry with a knob of butter. Then the resulting potato cakes are fried -- about half an hour each side both times I tried it. Potato pan scones are always notoriously slow as well :-(
Leek sauce is simply half a leek cut up as fine as possible and simmered with seasoning and a pinch of dried herbs in a little 'household' milk, then thickened with flour -- surprisingly successful. And making up the powdered milk as directed, one tablespoon sprinkled on top of a quarter of a pint of water and whisked in with a fork, was entirely successful! All that time I've wasted in whisking out lumps while trying to make it up like custard powder... mind you, it still smells (and probably tastes) like powdered skimmed milk, but for cooking purposes that doesn't matter.
Apparently the mysterious 'crossjack yard' is the yard that holds an auxiliary square sail on a mast that normally sets a gaff mizzen; with a following wind it thus becomes possible to set square sails on all masts and take the most advantage of it.
Leek sauce is simply half a leek cut up as fine as possible and simmered with seasoning and a pinch of dried herbs in a little 'household' milk, then thickened with flour -- surprisingly successful. And making up the powdered milk as directed, one tablespoon sprinkled on top of a quarter of a pint of water and whisked in with a fork, was entirely successful! All that time I've wasted in whisking out lumps while trying to make it up like custard powder... mind you, it still smells (and probably tastes) like powdered skimmed milk, but for cooking purposes that doesn't matter.
Apparently the mysterious 'crossjack yard' is the yard that holds an auxiliary square sail on a mast that normally sets a gaff mizzen; with a following wind it thus becomes possible to set square sails on all masts and take the most advantage of it.