• Today in History - 1000

    From Dave Drum@1:2320/105 to All on Sunday, October 09, 2022 05:13:00
    09 October 1000 - A EUROPEAN VISITS NORTH AMERICA FOR THE FIRST TIME:
    Son of Erik the Red, young Leif Erikson has exploration in his blood,
    and according to tradition he and his crew are now the first Europeans
    to set foot on North American soil, landing at what they will dub
    'Vinland.' Scholars later peg the place as L'Anse aux Meadows in
    Newfoundland, Canada.

    MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

    Title: Swedish Meatballs w/Two Sauces
    Categories: Beef, Pork, Breads, Herbs, Dairy
    Yield: 9 Servings

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    2 tb Butter
    1 lg Onion; peeled, grated
    2/3 c Whole milk
    5 sl Bread; crusts off, cut in
    - pieces
    2 lg Eggs
    1 lb Ground pork
    1 1/2 lb Ground beef
    2 ts Kosher salt
    1 ts Fresh ground nutmeg
    1 ts Ground cardamom
    2 ts Black pepper

    MMMMM-------------------------SAUCE ONE------------------------------
    6 tb Butter
    1/3 c Flour
    1 qt Beef stock
    3/4 c Dairy sour cream
    Salt
    4 tb Lingonberry, red currant,
    - raspberry or cranberry
    - jelly; or more

    MMMMM-------------------------SAUCE TWO------------------------------
    12 oz Welch's grape jelly
    12 oz Bottle Heinz Chilli sauce
    3 oz Worcestershire sauce
    1/4 ts Black pepper

    MEATBALLS: Melt the butter in a saut|- pan on medium-high heat. Stir
    in the grated onion and cook until translucent and softened, 3-4
    minutes. Set aside to cool.

    Place the pieces of bread in a large bowl and mix with the milk. Let
    sit for 15 to 20 minutes for the bread to absorb all of the milk.
    Once the bread has soaked up the milk put the bread in a food
    processor and pulse until it has been completely broken up. Return
    the pulverized milk soaked bread to the bowl.

    Stir the cooled onions into the milk bread mixture. Add the eggs,
    ground pork and beef, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and cardamom. Use your
    (clean) hands to mix everything together until well combined.

    Use your hands to form the meatballs about 1" diameter and place
    them on a plate or sheet pan. This recipe should make between 40 and
    50 meatballs.

    Heat 6 Tbsp of butter in a large saut|- pan on medium heat. When the
    butter is melted and foamy, start adding some meatballs to the pan.
    Working in batches as to not crowd the pan, slowly brown the
    meatballs on all sides. Handle the meatballs gently so they do not
    break apart as you turn them.

    Once the meatballs have browned on all sides, remove them from the
    pan and set aside. You do not need to cook the meatballs all the way
    through at this point, you only need to brown them. You'll finish
    cooking the meatballs in the sauce later.

    Once you have removed the meatballs from the pan, keep the remaining
    butter in the pan. You'll use this butter to make the sauce.

    If the butter in the pan has become burnt through the browning of
    the meatballs, remove and discard it, and add 6 Tbsp of fresh butter
    to the pan. Otherwise use the existing pan butter, you should have 6
    Tbsp total of butter in the pan. If not add more.

    SAUCE ONE: First make the roux. Heat the butter in the pan on medium
    heat. Slowly whisk in the flour. Stir until smooth. Continue to
    stir, allowing the flour mixture to cook, several minutes, until the
    roux is the color of coffee-with-cream.

    When the roux has cooked to a lovely shade of light brown, slowly
    add the stock to the roux, stirring as you add the stock. The stock
    will sputter at first and the roux may seize up, but keep adding the
    stock slowly and keep stirring. Eventually the sauce will loosen and
    become silky.

    SAUCE TWO: Add chilli sauce, grape jelly, Worcestershire sauce, &
    pepper to sauce pan. Whisk mixture until smooth.

    Return the meatballs to the pan with the sauce and lower the heat to
    low. Cover the pot and cook on low heat for 10 minutes. You may need
    to work in batches.

    Transfer the meatballs to a serving dish to serve. If using sauce
    one stir in the sour cream. Either stir the jelly into the sauce or
    serve it on the side.

    Recipe from: http://www.simplyrecipes.com

    Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen

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  • From JIM WELLER@1:135/392 to DAVE DRUM on Sunday, October 09, 2022 22:06:00
    Quoting Dave Drum to All <=-

    Son of Erik the Red, young Leif Erikson .. first Europeans

    'Vinland.' L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada.

    I've been to L'Anse aux Meadows. I had hoped to get a job at the
    site but there were hundreds of grad students majoring in archeology
    happy to work there for free. They wouldn't let me past the gate,
    not even to look. It's a stark place, green but treeless. Vinland
    was further south, most likely present day Massachusetts.

    Title: Swedish Meatballs

    Erik (he discovered Greenland) was from Norway and was exiled to
    Iceland. Leif was from Iceland.

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    Title: Icelandic Fish Patties Islandska Fiskbiffar
    Categories: Scandinavia, Fish
    Yield: 4 Servings

    400 g Fillets of cod or haddock
    1 dl Wheat flour
    5 1/2 dl Milk
    1 lg Egg
    1 Red onion, finely chopped
    2 ts Green chili, finely chopped
    1 ts Salt
    3/16 ts Black pepper
    Butter for frying
    Honey onion:
    2 Middle-sized onions. sliced
    2 Middle-sized leeks, sliced
    Some butter for frying
    1 ts Honey
    To serve:
    Mashed potatoes flavored
    With
    Chopped parsley
    Lemon carrots

    Finely chop the fish in a food processor or mixer or by hand. Add
    the flour alternating with milk. Stir down eggs, red onion, green
    chili, and spices in the ground fish and leave in a cold place for
    a while.

    Slowly fry the onions soft in some butter. Add honey towards the
    end and increase the heat so that it takes a nice color. Dilute
    with some water and set aside.

    Lightly brown some butter and drop the fish straight into the
    frying pan, using a tablespoon. Flatten and brown them slowly in
    the pan, about 5 minutes on each side. Serve with the fried onion,
    lemon carrots, and mashed potatoes.

    Lemon carrots: Peel carrots and continue "cutting" them with the
    potato peeler, so you get long carrot bands. Melt some butter, add
    a few tablespoons lemon juice and a pinch of sugar. Saute the
    carrot bands in the butter until they're soft and sprinkle with
    some salt.

    Bella Brattkull

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    Cheers

    Jim


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