OT Recipe Definitions

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:51:41 GMT, !! snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net!! (Kira Dirlik) spewed forth :

zucchini, or other soft-skinned summer squash as a substitute

Superfine sugar, granular, not powdered confectioners sugar. Sometimes sold as "bar sugar" in the US because it dissolves easily.

Brown sugar. Usually the "light" version, use whatever you have on hand if color of the finished product isn't of concern.

Tomato puree. May or may not be seasoned

Some sort of sourish soft cheese (I had to look this one up). American creamed cheese might be a substitute, from the description.

That's a quasar. A physics quark is a constituent part of an electron. I think.

Gelatin? Unflavored, I'm assume, if I'm correct

Yes.

The only "yarrow" I know is an herbal remedy.

Haricort verts are just snooty beans originally grown in France. They're of small diameter and fairly long. Use young green beans of any sort you can acquire.

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I got a couple of them too, Health Cooking and Mediterranean Cooking. And they were $3 in my store.

Cucumbers

Regular table sugar

Cane sugar.

I think so.

An herb

Green beans/string beans

Hope that helps.

sue

Looks like Wooly answered all your questions. I did want to point out that you can get Quark in the U.S. I see it most often from a company called the Vermont Butter & Cheese Company and it is available at most supermarkets. I'm not sure if that is the case outside of New England but you should at least be able to find it at a Bread and Circus or specialty food or cheese shop. Here is some info from that company on what you can use it for:

You can also make it yourself. Scroll down this page until you get to Quark: by the way, is one of my favorite websites for finding food substitutions!

HTH!

LauraJ

Texture-wise I think cream cheese should be OK. But quark is quite sour so maybe adding some similarly-textured plain yogurt would help the flavour.

Eimear

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:07:32 GMT, "emerald" spewed forth :

Ah, the Galloping Gourmet (RIP Graham Kerr) introduced me to yogurt cheese many many years ago: dump a pint of plain yogurt into a brown paper coffee filter or cheese cloth which in turn is already in a funnel. Put the funnel into a container that'll hold it upright without the whole thing falling over, and put it in the fridge. Allow this to drain for as long as it takes the yogurt to achieve a consistency you like.

I have a whole gallon of yogurt in the fridge right now (don't ask), so I think I'll make some!

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do remember that an English pint is not the same size as an American pint (20 fl oz against 16 fl oz).

zucchini (which they are also called in Oz)

very fine granulated sugar

raw cane sugar

pureed (creamed) tomatoes

vegetarian cheese type stuff

I suspect this is a specific brand of unflavoured vegetarian gelatin substitute.

basically - its a thickening agent.

a common perennial herb with pungent smell and astringent taste.

a type of green bean - usually just the bean and not the pod is used if its asking for haricot beans rather than French beans.

RIP? Is he dead? I used to watch him with my Mom when I was a kid.

Gemini

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:51:52 -0400, "MRH" spewed forth :

Well, I have quite clear recollections of seeing on the news a couple of years ago that he had passed away.

otherwise, as there's a current schedule and even a new book.To paraphrase my distant cousin: "Rumors of his death have beengreatly exaggerated!" Apologies! [of course, now I'm wondering who DID die...]

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Are you thinking of Julia Childs, perhaps?

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On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:24:41 GMT, "Carey N." spewed forth :

No, I'm pretty sure I heard that Mr. Kerr had left this world but I was quite obviously incorrect in my recollection. Of course I'll slowly go nuts trying to remember who actually did die...

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Thank you for the URL to his site... interesting recipes, but I wouldn't expect anything less. ;o)

Gemini

zucchini

superfine sugar

raw sugar

???

I think it's some kind of yoghurt derivative

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I would guess so. The other possibility would be fine corn meal. If there's more than a tsp or so in the recipe, it must be corn meal. Except that some cake recipes substitute a cup or so of cornstarch for flour.

A flower, to my knowledge. Maybe it's used as an herb.

Extrafine green beans.

X-No-Archive: yes "Wooly" wrote

LOL! Oh no! Please don't do that!! I think you may mean Jeff Smith, the *Frugal* Gourmet, who died last year and who was also on PBS for years.

understanding about going nuts till you figure it out!

Maybe it was a Seannce program ? mirjam

Actually, that should read "Julia Child" (who did actually pass away in August of 2004).

-- Carey

Thanks for all the definitions! I just realized I meant to write marrow, not yarrow. I know yarrow is used in herbal spells! ha ha And I know the flower, yellow and kind of flat. Pretty.

And the marrow is not bone marrow, but some kind of vegetable.

The next time I'm in my specialty market, which has a terrific cheese section, I'll ask about Quark. Now I am very curious to try it. Kira

A marrow is a cuke.

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:14:49 GMT, !! snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net!! (Kira Dirlik) spewed forth :

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A very large cucumber type vegetable, for which, in my opinion, the only use is to be baked and stuffed with a tasty minced beef/lamb/whatever other meat you fancy filling with a tasty cheesy sauce over the top. Marrow on its own taste of nothing much other than the water you boiled it in. But that's just my opinion. Love Christine