One of the things that I miss most about living in the US rather than the UK is food and drink. Not that anything is necessarily better over there: but there are options that cannot be found in this country, or are hard to find.
For example, we've recently managed to find places to buy crumpets (at much less than four times the price we'd pay in the UK), and I've persuaded a brewer friend that making British style bitter is a fun thing to do (and he's produced some wonderful beer for me).
Pork pies, though, are unknown here. So this afternoon, I embarked on a journey of at least two steps. I made hot water pastry, I filled tins with pastry and pork, and once they were cooked, I poured pork stock into the pies to gel into aspic.
No, it wasn't a success. I was worried about the pastry, but it turned out to actually be really good.
But the filling wasn't the nice, jelly-wrapped gentle pork goodness I'd hoped for.
But at least I'm batting .333 (to put it in a US perspective). All I need to do is fix the rest:-)
Yours, in failing, inspired to fix the issues,
N
For example, we've recently managed to find places to buy crumpets (at much less than four times the price we'd pay in the UK), and I've persuaded a brewer friend that making British style bitter is a fun thing to do (and he's produced some wonderful beer for me).
Pork pies, though, are unknown here. So this afternoon, I embarked on a journey of at least two steps. I made hot water pastry, I filled tins with pastry and pork, and once they were cooked, I poured pork stock into the pies to gel into aspic.
No, it wasn't a success. I was worried about the pastry, but it turned out to actually be really good.
But the filling wasn't the nice, jelly-wrapped gentle pork goodness I'd hoped for.
But at least I'm batting .333 (to put it in a US perspective). All I need to do is fix the rest:-)
Yours, in failing, inspired to fix the issues,
N
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