A Bolar Roast

(Pat Evans) said:

For years I lived in New Jersey, shopped at the Ft Dix commissary, and
bought a beef roast labeled "bolar roast". Eventually I eliminated beef
meals due to my husbands health. We moved to the south --first Florida,
later So. Carolina and in both states I can not find a "bolar roast" I
have asked the butchers in the grocery stores what cut of beef is called
BR, none of them have heard of it. BTW I live alone now. I can cook
what I want to eat. Anyone heard of this roast? Pat

Bolar roast is just bone-in chuck roast.

--Bryan

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bolar roast

practicallyedible.comencyclopaedia!Open ↗
openframeset&frame=Right&Src=/edible.nsf/list/Bolar+Roast!
opendocument&keyword=Bolar+Roastf

or http://tinyurl.com/yq9czo

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The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore

Pat Evans said:

For years I lived in New Jersey, shopped at the Ft Dix commissary, and
bought a beef roast labeled "bolar roast" .... Anyone heard of this
roast?

Yep. I've heard of it.

(Or I could have given the JoeSpareCloset answer)

-sw

hahabogus said:

(Pat Evans) said:

bolar roast

practicallyedible.comencyclopaedia!Open ↗
openframeset&frame=Right&Src=/edible.nsf/list/Bolar+Roast!
opendocument&keyword=Bolar+Roastf

or http://tinyurl.com/yq9czo

The actual link is already short enough:

<http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/list/Bolar+Roast>

BTW, the encyclopaedia looks interesting and I've been looking at its
entries for the past several weeks, whenever I had a few minutes to
spare. It looks better than many such sources, but is, of course,
imperfect. If it is not too imperfect, the link to it may well belong
in the FAQ. So far, I have discovered such entries as "borscht", which
claims that a St. Petersburg version includes herring. The claim is
ridiculous. The encyclopaedia also seems to ignore most everything
Korean, even kimchi. On the other hand, it does not claim that kimchi
belongs in borscht.

Victor

(Victor Sack) said:

hahabogus said:

[email hidden] (Pat Evans) wrote:

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bolar roast

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practicallyedible.comencyclopaedia!Open ↗
openframeset&frame=Right&Src=/edible.nsf/list/Bolar+Roast!
opendocument&keyword=Bolar+Roastf

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orhttp://tinyurl.com/yq9czo

The actual link is already short enough:

<http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/list/Bolar+Roast>

BTW, the encyclopaedia looks interesting and I've been looking at its
entries for the past several weeks, whenever I had a few minutes to
spare. It looks better than many such sources, but is, of course,
imperfect. If it is not too imperfect, the link to it may well belong
in the FAQ. So far, I have discovered such entries as "borscht", which
claims that a St. Petersburg version includes herring. The claim is
ridiculous. The encyclopaedia also seems to ignore most everything
Korean, even kimchi. On the other hand, it does not claim that kimchi
belongs in borscht.

Victor

hmmm. Just tripped across this and checked out the herring thing. The
Boston Globe at least agrees with them:

http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6012-9.cfm

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(VictorSack) said:

hahabogus said:

[email hidden] (Pat Evans) wrote:

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> bolar roast

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practicallyedible.comencyclopaedia!Open ↗
openframeset&frame=Right&Src=/edible.nsf/list/Bolar+Roast!
opendocument&keyword=Bolar+Roastf

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orhttp://tinyurl.com/yq9czo

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The actual link is already short enough:

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<http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/list/Bolar+Roast>

Quoted message said:

BTW, the encyclopaedia looks interesting and I've been looking at its
entries for the past several weeks, whenever I had a few minutes to
spare. It looks better than many such sources, but is, of course,
imperfect. If it is not too imperfect, the link to it may well belong
in the FAQ. So far, I have discovered such entries as "borscht", which
claims that a St. Petersburg version includes herring. The claim is
ridiculous. The encyclopaedia also seems to ignore most everything
Korean, even kimchi. On the other hand, it does not claim that kimchi
belongs in borscht.

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Victor

p.s. went there and looked http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/pages/kimchi

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(Victor Sack) said:

So far, I have discovered such entries as "borscht", which
claims that a St. Petersburg version includes herring. The claim is
ridiculous. The encyclopaedia also seems to ignore most everything
Korean, even kimchi. On the other hand, it does not claim that kimchi
belongs in borscht.

hmmm. Just tripped across this and checked out the herring thing. The
Boston Globe at least agrees with them:

http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6012-9.cfm

The Boston Globe, or rather the author of the article, is ignorant,
stupid, or both - and, believe me, I do not use these words
indiscriminately or lightly. One does not research St. Petersburg food
in Boston suburbs, one goes to the source. For some reason he also
decided to quote the perfectly innocent Chekhov, attributing to him his
own idiotic assumption that "a Ukrainian borscht is the most popular
variety in Odessa". First, Odessa is in the Ukraine; second, there are
many regional borscht variations in the Ukraine; third, Odessa-style
borscht is made with poultry, not with ham and sausages; fourth, the
sausages in question are "sosiski", i.e. similar to
frankfurters/wieners, not to whatever he imagines to be "kielbasa".

I happen to have first-hand knowledge of what people do or do not eat in
St. Petersburg. They do not put herring in their borscht. In fact,
there is in no particular St. Petersburg version of borscht at all. I
also have plenty of original Russian sources (i.e. cookbooks and such)
from 1861 to the present and none of them mention any such ridiculous
custom ever existing in St. Petersburg.

Borscht versions with fish do exist, most of them using saltwater fish,
which already indicates their relatively recent origin (traditional
Russian cuisine used mostly freshwater fish), and nearly all of such
recipes are idiosyncratic rather than regional, traditional, or
otherwise established. None of them have anything to do with St.
Petersburg. If you read Russian, you will find numerous borscht
variations here:

<http://www.gotovim.ru/recepts/soups/borch/>.

Victor

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(VictorSack) said:

The encyclopaedia also seems to ignore most everything
Korean, even kimchi.

p.s. went there and looked
http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/pages/kimchi

Hmm, yes, indeed. Thanks. Strange, actually... I distinctly remember
looking through all the "k" entries, searching for kimchi. The entry
might have been added afterwards.

Victor