Pennsylvania · Breakfast
Scrapple
- Advanced
- 4 h
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
Leads with richness that coats and comforts, an earthy, grounding base, fading in warm spice.
Ingredients
- 1kg pork shoulder and 500g pork liver
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 onion, halved
- 2L water
- 250g cornmeal
- 100g buckwheat flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp sage
- 1/2 tsp thyme
- Pinch of cayenne and nutmeg
- Butter for frying
The skills inside
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Method
- Simmer the pork and liver with the onion and bay 2 hours until falling apart. Strain, keeping 1.5L of the broth, and chop or grind the meat fine. 120 min
- Bring the broth back to a simmer and rain in the cornmeal and buckwheat, whisking hard to avoid lumps.
- Cook 30 min, stirring often, until very thick. Stir in the meat and all the seasonings: taste and season boldly. 30 min
- Pour into loaf pans, cool, and chill overnight until solid.
- Slice 1cm thick and fry in butter over medium heat 5-6 min a side without moving it, until a deep crust forms. 6 min
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
Sautéing & the shallow fry 80 recipes
- Everything sits in a single layer with visible space between the pieces: nothing stacked, nothing touching, or the pan is too small for the quantity.
- The pieces move freely and keep moving, sliding across the pan rather than sticking and tearing when the pan is worked.
- Light even browning arrived at quickly: colour on most faces, not the deep crust of a sear and not grey.
- A thin film of fat with the food glossed by it: no pool left in the pan at the end, and nothing greasy on the fingers or the plate.
- Cooked through but still firm, having spent only a few minutes in the pan: anything that has gone soft has been in there too long.
Where it goes wrong Too much went in at once, the pan cooled, and the food released its water: what was meant to brown in three minutes stews for ten and comes out grey, slack and wet.
At the Table
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- Mimosa (weekends only)
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- Cava, straight
- From the Taps
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- Fresh orange juice & café au lait
Morning food wants brightness and bubbles, or honest coffee: nothing that argues before noon.
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