PH Cooking Competition No13 (unlucky for some!)... Rationing
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Victory Pie
A dish of my own invention which uses no directly rationed ingredients at all. It comprises layers of potato, leeks and mushrooms in a game stock, with a mashed parsnip and crunchy nut topping.
Ingredients
I’ve used goose fat for modern convenience, however I’d imagine that every wartime household would have had a ‘dripping pan’ of fat saved from roasts to be spread on bread or used in cooking.
The game stock comes from a pheasant the dog caught. The beast itself was long since eaten, however I’d frozen the carcass. Equally I could just as easily have used the water from reconstituting dried mushrooms, or vegetable stock:
Prep
Plated
Surprisingly delicious. The earthiness of the mushrooms works well with the potatoes, and the nuts work well to enrich the ‘crust’.
A dish of my own invention which uses no directly rationed ingredients at all. It comprises layers of potato, leeks and mushrooms in a game stock, with a mashed parsnip and crunchy nut topping.
Ingredients
I’ve used goose fat for modern convenience, however I’d imagine that every wartime household would have had a ‘dripping pan’ of fat saved from roasts to be spread on bread or used in cooking.
The game stock comes from a pheasant the dog caught. The beast itself was long since eaten, however I’d frozen the carcass. Equally I could just as easily have used the water from reconstituting dried mushrooms, or vegetable stock:
Prep
Plated
Surprisingly delicious. The earthiness of the mushrooms works well with the potatoes, and the nuts work well to enrich the ‘crust’.
Edited by Mobile Chicane on Monday 12th September 20:47
Well here goes! probably letting myself down somewhat with the turd iphone pictures but I forgot to bring my grown ups camera home. 
My dish is based on the old corned beef hash as a main rather than breakfast.
Ingredients
Pan roasted cod in a brown sauce reduction, braised savoy cabbage with runner beans and corned beef hash with a poached egg.
Seasoned Cod was pan fryed skin side down, then into the oven, finished off on the hob in butter. Brown sauce was a reduction of chicken stock, S & P, sugar and HP brown sauce.
The Goo Shot!
The fish was wonderfully flakey and took on a sweet almost smokey flavor of the brown sauce. And corned beef hash is about the best mash ive ever tryed! On a hole tastied really good, if I where to do it again, I would try the hash with diced potato and not mash.
My dish is based on the old corned beef hash as a main rather than breakfast.
Ingredients
Pan roasted cod in a brown sauce reduction, braised savoy cabbage with runner beans and corned beef hash with a poached egg.
Seasoned Cod was pan fryed skin side down, then into the oven, finished off on the hob in butter. Brown sauce was a reduction of chicken stock, S & P, sugar and HP brown sauce.
The Goo Shot!
The fish was wonderfully flakey and took on a sweet almost smokey flavor of the brown sauce. And corned beef hash is about the best mash ive ever tryed! On a hole tastied really good, if I where to do it again, I would try the hash with diced potato and not mash.
Nan's Corned Beef Hash/Pie & Rice Pudding
Ingredients by ali_kat_xx, on Flickr
Lightly fry the onions, add the chopped corned beef, sweetcorn, tomatoes 2 teaspoons of Marmite, a good swig of L&P, layer with sliced potatoes, top with a small sprinkling of cheese.
Mix the powdered milk & rice, slowly cook till the rice has absorbed the milk (bit like Rissotto) add the condensed milk & pour into serving dish. Spronkle the sugar & nutmeg over the top to form a crust.
Bake for @ hour
Prepared ready to go in the Oven by ali_kat_xx, on Flickr
On the Plates by ali_kat_xx, on Flickr
Looked okay, tasted vile
But then I don't like Corned Beef, sweetcorn or Rice Pudding 
Pepi enjoyed the Corned Beef by ali_kat_xx, on Flickr
Ingredients by ali_kat_xx, on Flickr
Lightly fry the onions, add the chopped corned beef, sweetcorn, tomatoes 2 teaspoons of Marmite, a good swig of L&P, layer with sliced potatoes, top with a small sprinkling of cheese.
Mix the powdered milk & rice, slowly cook till the rice has absorbed the milk (bit like Rissotto) add the condensed milk & pour into serving dish. Spronkle the sugar & nutmeg over the top to form a crust.
Bake for @ hour
Prepared ready to go in the Oven by ali_kat_xx, on Flickr
On the Plates by ali_kat_xx, on Flickr
Looked okay, tasted vile
But then I don't like Corned Beef, sweetcorn or Rice Pudding Pepi enjoyed the Corned Beef
by ali_kat_xx, on FlickrEdited by ali_kat on Wednesday 14th September 16:59
ali_kat said:
Nan's Corned Beef Hash/Pie & Rice Pudding
Looked okay, tasted vile But then I don't like Corned Beef, sweetcorn or Rice Pudding
So why use them? I never make things with ingredients I don’t like. Looked okay, tasted vile
But then I don't like Corned Beef, sweetcorn or Rice Pudding Ok I sometimes make things I don’t like with ingredients I do like but that’s a different matter
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