Sunday, January 16, 2005

Scrapple - Culinary Sleuth

My, um, friend Wendy is having a party for tomorrow's Eagle's game. She'll be making Scrapple.

I'll try anything once.

(See, here's where we encourage comments.)

Culinary Sleuth: "It's dictionary defined as 'cornmeal mush made with the meat and broth of pork, seasoned with onions, spices and herbs and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying.' The word, scrapple originates from 'scrap' or 'scrappy' meaning made up of odds and ends for that's exactly what it is - boiled, ground leftover pig scraps with cornmeal and spices thrown in. Scrapple lovers think of it as food for the gods. Anti-scrapplers consider it a culinary abomination.
Scrapple is the unique creation of the Pennsylvania Dutch, and therefore only quasi-American as the immigrants combined their German heritage with New World ingredients. The term 'Pennsylvania Dutch' is a corrupted form of Pennsylvania Deutsche, mostly transplanted Rhineland farmers who worked hard and ate heartily. They are frugal people and many of their dishes make imaginative use of every part of the butchered hog's anatomy. Scrapple is one of them."

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