The Dish on the Bushes

"aem" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The New York Times Sunday Magazine today has a question and answer page
with the longtime personal chef of George (the elder) and Barbara Bush.
It's quite funny.

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" You probably didn't know this, but the White House mess is manned by

U.S. Navy

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cooks."

I don't think we can blame the White house "mess (es)" on the Navy. I mean
ahead of them must surely go Dubya, Cheney, "Scooter" Libby, Karl Rove,
Wolfowitz etc. etc. etc. ;-).

Kate

aem said:

The New York Times Sunday Magazine today has a question and answer page
with the longtime personal chef of George (the elder) and Barbara Bush.
It's quite funny. One gets the impression the interviewer knew it was
going to be funny and the cook, Ariel De Guzman, maybe didn't. There
is this exchange, too, which might be of interest to some in this
group:

Q. You can't possibly see yourself as a serious cook.
A. No, ma'am, not at all. I wouldn't know what fresh (sic) saffron
looks like. I'm not into research.

Too funny!

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Q. In that case, how did you end up as the White House cook for four
years ...?
A. I was supposed to be a high-school teacher, but I was a cook in the
U.S.Navy because that was the only job I could get. You probably
didn't know this, but the White House mess is manned by U.S. Navy
cooks.

Oh someone else here was a army or navy or some such cook wasn't he?
You don't suppose???? Just a little idle thinking.

Kate B said:

"aem" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

The New York Times Sunday Magazine today has a question and answer
page with the longtime personal chef of George (the elder) and
Barbara Bush. It's quite funny.

<snip>

Quoted message said:

" You probably didn't know this, but the White House mess is manned
by U.S. Navy cooks."

I don't think we can blame the White house "mess (es)" on the Navy.
I mean ahead of them must surely go Dubya, Cheney, "Scooter" Libby,
Karl Rove, Wolfowitz etc. etc. etc. ;-).

Kate

Read 'Back Stairs at the Whitehouse' some time. The early cooks were black
but directed by the first ladies. Men didn't trouble their hands with such
nonsense. The White House Cookbook is a good one (1887 edition).

Of course we're talking way before the former Bush administration. And I do
wish everyone would stop beating around the Bushes.

Plain Economical Soup

"Take a cold roast beef bone, pieces of beef steak, the rack of a cold
turkey or chicken. Put them into a pot with three or four quarts of water,
two carrots, three turnips, one onion, a few cloves, pepper and salt. Boil
the whole gently four hours then strain it through a collander, mashing the
vegetables so they will pass through. Skim off the fat and treturn the soup
to the pot. Mix one tablespoonful of flour with two of water; it into into
the soup and boil the whole for 10 minutes. Serve this soup with sippets of
toast.

Sippets are bits of dry toast cut into a triangular form. A seasonable dish
about the holidays."

Jill

G'day Jill,

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Kate B wrote:

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Plain Economical Soup

"Take a cold roast beef bone, pieces of beef steak, the rack of a cold
turkey or chicken. Put them into a pot with three or four quarts of water,
two carrots, three turnips, one onion, a few cloves, pepper and salt. Boil
the whole gently four hours then strain it through a collander, mashing the
vegetables so they will pass through. Skim off the fat and treturn the soup
to the pot. Mix one tablespoonful of flour with two of water; it into into
the soup and boil the whole for 10 minutes. Serve this soup with sippets of
toast.

Sippets are bits of dry toast cut into a triangular form. A seasonable dish
about the holidays."

Certainly sounds "economical". :-)

But my question is: Are sippets *always* bits of dry toast... ?

I'm sure my mother's generation here in the deep north of Oz used the
term for bits of bread that were *deep fried* to a crisp golden brown.
(Always make them that way myself -- to go with pea & ham soup. :-)

Cheers, Phred.

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Phred said:

G'day Jill,

In article said:

Kate B wrote:

[Snipped regional political comment.]

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Sippets are bits of dry toast cut into a triangular form. A
seasonable dish about the holidays."

But my question is: Are sippets *always* bits of dry toast... ?

Beats me... I was just quoting the recipe verbatim!

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I'm sure my mother's generation here in the deep north of Oz used the
term for bits of bread that were *deep fried* to a crisp golden brown.
(Always make them that way myself -- to go with pea & ham soup. :-)

Cheers, Phred.

Sounds interesting... and this is the time of year for pea soup!

Jill