And lemon curd just uses whole eggs to thicken? I've never made curd. Have posted a recipe.
Yes Lemon Curd uses eggs as the thickener. TNT Recipe: http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f40/lemon-curd-a-la-pf-74950.html
And lemon curd just uses whole eggs to thicken? I've never made curd. Have posted a recipe.
Yes Lemon Curd uses eggs as the thickener. TNT Recipe: http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f40/lemon-curd-a-la-pf-74950.html
Yes Lemon Curd uses eggs as the thickener. TNT Recipe: http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f40/lemon-curd-a-la-pf-74950.html
I was a bit appalled about the cornstarch at first. Then I remembered that Delia Smith recommended a teaspoon of corn starch/cornflour when making the custard for ice cream. It stabilises the mixture so it doesn't scramble if it gets a bit too hot. I expect it would work in lemon curd/cheese.Lemon Meringue Pie is made with flour, cornstarch and egg yolks, no zest.
Lemon Curd uses eggs and zest.
At this point I sure wish I had that book on food chemistry that explains just why professional and/or traditional cooks do things the way they do. There is apparently a good reason for adding certain ingredients into the mix, in a specific way. I don't recall the name of the book but I saw it on Amazon. Someone here might have mentioned it but I forgot.
Here is an example I read in a traditionally oriented health book: the author states that kale doesn't do much for you if only lightly steamed, as is the fad in recent years.
She explained that the old way, where you cook the kale in lots of water, then drain off the darkened water after cooking, then sauteeing the greens, makes the beneficial minerals much more available to our bodies. And that the dark water you get rid of contains non-digestible, unhealthful elements.
So, there ya go! From addition of corn starch in lemon tart or is it pie, to how to cook kale.
@GotGarlic. You are correct about the fiber in the greens. When softened, they are a healthful component of food to eat.
I wasn't talking about fiber, though, but about certain chemical elements in greens generally that are perhaps not the best thing for us. If consumed in the context of the other ingredients, as in the south's tradition, this would be a good dish. Probably the vinegar does the trick, somehow modifying any negative components of greens.
Anlother traditional practice is the consumption of spinach and other leaves of the same family with dairy products, as the antinutrients in these species apparently are calcium antagonists. Same is true of nightshade products. Tomatoes are notorious for this.
Did you mean that nightshades are indigenous to Central and South America and also that the populations there consumed them? From what I read, they did not do so, but I will stand corrected.
In the wild tomatoes were small and bitter - it was Europeans who bred tomatoes for ages til they became soft and juicy and tasty. About other members of the nightshade family, I don't know for sure. This may be true of potatoes; as to eggplant, I know nothing about it except for knowing that some people with arthritis are advised to avoid all nightshades.
The indigenous peoples rightly knew they were poisonous. Europeans tamed them somewhat, but they apparently still drain calcium. From what I hear. I am not a scientists.
I am huge fan of lemon pie
In particular, the idea that Europeans fixed supposed problems with Central and South American foods is quite condescending and close to racist. This is not an uncommon attitude among conquerors. [quote/]
belladonna is in the tomato family, and yes for years tomatoes were considered poisonous.
I get where you are going here, Potatoes and tomatoes, and I am tempted to sing, I say potato, and you say potato......
Am a fond of this:
Banana argument - RationalWiki
Got Garlic, Yeah, if the dialogue is 'fixing problems' true but did Europeans change south, and north American foods? Darn straight. Irish potato famine? One of the best examples of mono culture.
In particular, the idea that Europeans fixed supposed problems with Central and South American foods is quite condescending and close to racist. This is not an uncommon attitude among conquerors. [quote/]
belladonna is in the tomato family, and yes for years tomatoes were considered poisonous.
I get where you are going here, Potatoes and tomatoes, and I am tempted to sing, I say potato, and you say potato......
Am a fond of this:
Banana argument - RationalWiki
Got Garlic, Yeah, if the dialogue is 'fixing problems' true but did Europeans change south, and north American foods? Darn straight. Irish potato famine? One of the best examples of mono culture.
I didn't say Europeans didn't change them. I said they did not make them not poisonous. They weren't poisonous to begin with, and they were eaten by indigenous Americans for centuries if not millennia. I have never heard of belladonna as an ingredient in food. Have you?
Monoculture is not remotely the same as plant breeding.
I didn't say Europeans didn't change them. I said they did not make them not poisonous. They weren't poisonous to begin with, and they were eaten by indigenous Americans for centuries if not millennia. I have never heard of belladonna as an ingredient in food. Have you?
Monoculture is not remotely the same as plant breeding.
Well, Europeans decided they weren't poisonous, and I only use belladonna as a food ingredient with people I don't like.
Did you mean that nightshades are indigenous to Central and South America and also that the populations there consumed them? From what I read, they did not do so, but I will stand corrected. In the wild tomatoes were small and bitter - it was Europeans who bred tomatoes for ages til they became soft and juicy and tasty...
The indigenous peoples rightly knew they were poisonous. Europeans tamed them somewhat...
I'd disagree with you on the idea of mono-culture separate from plant breeding.
Perhaps we can disagree in particular or in a different thread? It would be an idea I am interested in.
You can start a new thread if you want but the bottom line is this: monoculture is an agricultural method - growing crops to feed people - and plant breeding is the practice of developing new varieties of plants using a knowledge of genetics. I didn't say they are separate - I said they are not the same.