In my career that spans more than 26 years, I've seen my fair share of the gratins. Sake, I'll bet on the line some think well, I was a cinglé. The problem with food service is that it is not very selective about who gets it. I can usually identify a grenade kitchen in the first five minutes. These people have much to say, but are not really say anything. They believe that obtain a culinary degree is something which can be found in a Happy meal. These updated people play lots of smoke and mirrors and tactics "look over there." Surprises-two shoes that follow the Chief Executive, clinging to each request as the Chief. I just want to vomit.
Anyway, these people reminds me of cinglé. I hate cinglé. There is nothing on cinglé appetizing. There a little strange fruit that seem embaumés for me. I would still be grimacing, whether a leader has asked me to cut them, they are almost impossible to cut, run it more, smash, eating, cooking, etc., etc. Whose idea was that? Not to mention, after it is cooked, it is then soaked brandy as some Executive leaders that I worked. Alcohol why?, why not whipping cream or chocolate? I will never understand desserts like that one. But this isn't a rant about how much I hate cinglé. This is a rant about Figgy Pudding. Firstly, the word pudding sounds just poorly, you think and bread pudding Gets a category all its own. When I think of bread, it is not in the pudding arena. I am not wet bread, or bread which has been deliberately wet at any given time. And then combined with the word pudding, OH boy, all bets are off. Living in New England, it seems that everyone is just itching soak the bread in the cream.
Figgy pudding?, A tremor invent this and that is it? First of all it is a pudding it is steamed, it is replete with figs and nuts, if this is not bad enough, it is made of tallow. Remember no tallow was hard layer of fat covering the kidney of cattle and tallow is something that you are for the birds. ICK! How to get that serves? Essentially, it is a large black blob, due to the dark sugar and blackstrap molasses and cooked for long periods of time, not less boiled in a pudding cloth. What needs to happen, is that the need to go over my eyes that I attempt to eat this pudding fabric. It must be covered in whipped cream, M & M, bar Snicker or fifty dollars bills, anything to make it more attractive and a value of my time. Only the idea behind, how he has been a little turn my stomach.
Figgy pudding was not the mother of Tiny Tim on the eve of Christmas, as the family sitting by the fire hot brain child. Although it congers up feeling happy, familiar, wrapped in in the pudding. Really, it was created to preserve meat. In Victorian England, fodder was in short supply at the beginning of autumn and not wanting to lose their investments as well as follow-up were very creative use meat means slaughtered cattle. Do you think, my stomach hurts. Although Britain was unable to do anything without the Church marking, pudding was baptized so to speak, and became associated with "stir-up Sunday", where all members of the family gave stir pudding and a desire that. OH, boy! No Christmas figgy pudding is a pudding without various talismans cooked for wealth, little chance, savings and remember suffocation. Paste a few Holly, he light the fire and now we have a party!
Even though I dislike all puddings of any kind, due to the factor of eggs. I am going to share a great pudding recipe. The beauty about this pudding is that you can change your tastes. This pudding because it is close to Christmas will be chocolate with a hint of figgy pudding.
4 cups milk
1 bag of semi-sweet chocolate or if you like chocolate milk go: it
1 cup sugar
pinch of salt
cornstarch 1/2 cup
c 2 vanilla
butter 2 c
6 egg yolks
5 extra fancy dried figs diced Calimyrna
In a bowl, combine 1 cup milk, starch of corn, salt, vanilla and eggs yellow and set aside. In a saucepan, heat a Scalds 3 cups of milk, chocolate, sugar and butter. Ladle some hot chocolate, milk mixture of yellow egg until he tempered (same temperature), replace this mixture in the saucepan and cook until thickened, but do not boil. Pour into a clean Bowl and cover the surface with a piece of plastic wrap.(this prevents skin on the pudding) (BERK) Serve with figs, diced and whipped cream.
"Christmas gift suggestions: for your enemy forgiveness." To an opponent, tolerance. A friend, your heart. A customer service. In all, charity. Every child a good example. "For you, respect."-Oren Arnold?
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