cornmeal mush and scrapple

lowercasebill

moving the cornmeal mush line south :laugh:



hot Pa german bacon dressing

eenie meenie

Two out of three ain't bad! :woohoo:

Carolina Q

Ok, I give up. What is Scrapple? Saw a TV show once where the guy visited the Scrapple factory. He must have asked, "what exactly IS Scrapple?", a dozen times. Never got a straight answer. Mystery Meat? Spam? Dog food? Kitty litter with a binder? What?

cookn biker

bill, that looks nothing like the cm mush that I learned to make. It was, well, mush...loose.
I had to look up scrapple..hahaha
Bet it tasted great!!

lowercasebill

oh no! not the scrapple

Zippylip

bill you're killing me man, I haven't had scrapple in a couple months (usually do it during colder weather, big breakfasts), & you've cooked that all to a fare-thee-well. Now I know what's on tap for Sunday

Da Kine Green BBQ

I first heard of Scrapple (not Scrabble the bored game) when I visited a friend's house in rural PA, USA. I think somewhere near the Poconos mountains. They had a large farm, lots of grass - and - bugs.

Anyway - scrapple is a PA Dutch dish made of scraps of meat and other stuff, and baked in a bread pan. It is sometimes served with maple syrup on it. It is an **acquired** taste.

I suppose it might be very remotely close to Spam - but not really.

eenie meenie

Of course not. It was the green vegetable.

Carolina Q

It's the "other stuff" that worries me. :blink:

lowercasebill

scrapple is corn meal left over pork scraps lard and spices.
they left out the lard in the ingredient list which changes from time to time.. last bunch was pork snouts and pork skins.. the wiki article is culled from a prodecer website and says only the finest cuts of pork are used,, but go to the store and read the label.. another source says it is what is left over from making balogna ,, only the best blah blah
dad was a depression era child wwII vet.,,,
"they scrape up what is left on the floor , rinse the sawdust off put it in lye water to kill the germs....etc
when i was a boy you would find pices of sawdust in it"
some put ketchup some maple syrup and other apple butter on it .. good stuff

lowercasebill

oh good i feel better now

lowercasebill

it is one of those things you ahve to eat with out thinking too much

lowercasebill

mush is basically polenta which is basically grits cooled in a loaf pan sliced and fried

mkc

Oh man, me, too! Scrapple is a cool weather breakfast favorite for us, which is only a short season here in Texas. Just another couple of months, though....

lowercasebill

scrapple eggs cornmeal mush and a cider donut dipped in apple butter with your coffee..
lowerecasebill
moving the scrapple line south

Carolina Q

hahaha. Mystery "meat" indeed! I like the part about the lye to kill gems. Sawdust sounds appetizing too! No wonder the factory guy couldn't answer the question!

Little Steven

bill,

I rarely use the term yummy but that has to be the term for that!

Steve

Ripnem

I had my share of Scrapple when I lived out there, but at that point in the night I'll bet I didn't know my own name. :P

lowercasebill

corn and pork and bacon all in the same meal it was yummy .. in an effort to eat healthy i bought organic romaine to put the bacon dressing on :laugh:

lowercasebill

i however am fully capable of enjoying scrapple sober :laugh: i suspect some might see that as a flaw

Gator Bait

 
Looks great bill! When I was young we would stay at a B&B near Woodstock, VT. while we went skiing over the holidays. Breakfast often included scrapple. Back then I liked anything I could drown in maple syrup. :laugh:

Blair


 

lowercasebill

maple syrup or apple butter on the scrapple and the cornmeal mush for some.. i prefer kethcup on the scrapple and salt pepper and butter on the corn but i keep all the necessaries in stock .

jball

Loved scrapple as a kid. Mom used to fry it up good and crisp and serve it with either maple syrup or chili sauce, depending on whether we had pancakes or eggs with it.

Frank from Houma

nice work lcb - move that line south

Three letter acronym for scrapple

EBO - Everything but the Oink

A relative of Black Pudding, Red Boudain, Vienna Sausage, Potted meat, and second cousin to spam and bologna

Woodbutcher

Looks great bill! For some reason I had a little chest pain after looking at the photo's. :woohoo:

lowercasebill

yea .. skinless chicken breast yakitori, rice and steamed veggies tonight.. see if i can get the blood to flow aqain.

vidalia1

I saw scrapple being made from scratch at the Ntl Apple Festival in PA a few years back. The men poured a bunch of buckets of "ingredients". They cooked it in a huge vat over an open flame. They were going to cook & stir it for 8 hours then bake the remaining product and sell it. There were people standing in line to buy it. Needless to say we were not in the line....ummmmm grosssssss :S :pinch:

kmellecker

What I would do for some fresh homemade Scrapple! We used to raise a few hogs each year when we lived on a small farm in Virgina and Scrapple making day was a big social event. Without going into the whole process of making Scrapple, we used only the most tender of meats and an array of tasty spices. Kim, you should have stayed in line...

lowercasebill

i did not develope a taste for it till my teens.mainly cause mom put syrup or sugar on just about everything.. once i could control the condiments i was hooked .

lowercasebill

i want to try boudain and i got spam in the cupboard..
but i have to sneak that ,, my sons have drawn the line at spam and give me a real ration when i want to cook with it.
rebecca told me about a cincinatti treat called goetta esentially scrapple but with pinhead [steal cut] oats instead of cornmeal i am anxious to get my hands on that ...
mom would put spam in mac and cheese
think i will hit up Illgs [german sausage maker] this weekend

lowercasebill

the local apple buttter frolic as the same but they ladle it out of the caldron into a cup and plop a huge spoon full of apple butter on top and give you a spoon. wonderful smells and tastes on a crisp fall afternoon