Scrapple
SCRAPPLE
This is a great breakfast slow food--not too slow!
June 12, 2009
COOKING THE OLD FASHIONED WAY
Comfort food is defined simply as food that gives us that warm inner feeling of being nutured by "mother" or a surrogate! My mom would be the first to agree that she was not such a great cook. But I know what my comfort foods are. They are what I call "old fashioned"--they can be made "from scratch" (as close to "scratch" as we can come but of course not nearly as "from scratch" as some of the originals) and at home. After all, some of those pioneers ground their own flour for example and pulled water from the stream.
Here are few really old foods I love.
SCRAPPLE
My gramma pan fried this and served it with fried eggs and toast on Sunday's. My brothers and sister didn't like it. I think it DOES require a bit of a special pallet--you usually like pork, sage and pepper if you like scrapple.
This is a food eaten by the pioneers of the U. S. Women would make a porridge of cornmeal mixed in with leftover pork parts, broth, and seasonings. Some people added lard.It was packed as a loaf that was then sliced and pieces pan fried--a quick way to get a fast meal of starch, fat, and protein.
My dad (born at the turn of the 20th century) and gramma (born in the late 1800s) loved to cook this. Today's versions to me seem to have more cornmeal and fewer meat parts.
Scrapple cooking:
You usually open the pack. Let it defrost if needed.
Cut a slice or two for a quick breakfast.
Pan fry, letting each side get golden brown.
In the Twin Cities I have found scrapple at Byerly's in Edina and Lund's in Uptown. Be sure to call any store before going many stores do not carry this food choice any more. But I guess there is still a dedicated following; thus it IS still available and manufactured and nationally distributed.
There are also recipes for this food on the web.
You'll note that some vegetarian versions are available.
VRAPPLE
The product Vrapple is a vegetarian version of scrapple. Haven't tried it, but I like the ingenuity of its producer!
http://www.sarahsavories.com/Vrapple_Info.html