How do you like your eggs?

[phil@thesidehill]

You PA fellers may have to fill the rest of us in what scrapple is. I know only because of the Food Network :)

I guess it is a PA thing....

More info here....http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

Quick and dirty of it is that it's is the scraps of butchering a pig (often from the head) boiled with cornmeal and or wheat until it forms a mush which is formed to a loaf and sets up as semi solid which can be sliced and then fried. It's pretty amazing.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Still here - I was waiting on Phil to see what he thought of the mustard-on-scrapple idea. Scrapple is the head meat off the hog cooked down with minced liver. It's all minced together with the broth from the cooking process and then flour and buckwheat flour are added into the " soup " to thicken it. Folks differ on the proportions of how much flour or buckwheat flour to use. When it's all cooked to the right consistency, it gets poured into meat-loaf sized pans and cooled if a refrigerated cooler to harden / set up. Once it's cooled, you can slice it to whatever thickness you like and brown it like you would cook a pancake - only about 6 to 7 minutes per side until it gets a little crust on it. It's GOOD !!!

Phil's right - cornmeal can be used too.

 

[scott44]

You PA fellers may have to fill the rest of us in what scrapple is. I know only because of the Food Network :)

Glad you asked, had no clue what scrapple was

 

[phil@thesidehill]

I didn't read all of the scrapple responses...but what is the thinking on grape jelly on scrapple? It's only in my imagination...but I can kind of picture the combo being tasty on a biscuit:)

Some people like sweet on the scrapple...grape jelly on scrapple is certainly a thing. Me...I like maple syrup on it. But I also like an over easy egg, crispy bacon, scrapple breakfast sand which.....scrapple has to be fried to have a good crispy exterior and a soft middle.

 

[tooln]

Why ruin a good Beer? Isch!;)

Never said you had to use good beer. Breakfast of champions. ;)

 

[BuckSutherland]

Ketchup on eggs? No. Hot sauce...that's what you need

^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Cook em till you can flip them without falling apart and then cover them with Tabasco eat with some toast and a fresh beer and then go cleanse your guts for the day and get to work.

 

[wiscwhip]

I guess it is a PA thing....

More info here....http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

Quick and dirty of it is that it's is the scraps of butchering a pig (often from the head) boiled with cornmeal and or wheat until it forms a mush which is formed to a loaf and sets up as semi solid which can be sliced and then fried. It's pretty amazing.

So it's kinda like head cheese only the binder is cornmeal and not gelatin?

 

[phil@thesidehill]

So it's kinda like head cheese only the binder is cornmeal and not gelatin?

Correct...except a much finer mincing on the "meat". Also includes liver as well. So kinda like pig head cheese meets liverwurst. There are also spices thrown in the mix too.

 

[Buckly]

I guess it is a PA thing....

More info here....http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

Quick and dirty of it is that it's is the scraps of butchering a pig (often from the head) boiled with cornmeal and or wheat until it forms a mush which is formed to a loaf and sets up as semi solid which can be sliced and then fried. It's pretty amazing.

Not for me I guess. Once I hit the words mush, loaf and semi solid I'm out. How many pig heads does it take to make a scrapple anyway or can you buy this mush, semi solid somewhere?

 

[jwill1776]

Buffalo pickled eggs

Yes Please! Going to make some of these.

 

[phil@thesidehill]

Not for me I guess. Once I hit the words mush, loaf and semi solid I'm out. How many pig heads does it take to make a scrapple anyway or can you buy this mush, semi solid somewhere?

It's readily available in loaves by the pound in the supermarket. You don't know what you are missing!

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I had to come back here after last night !!
Whip - It doesn't LOOK like head cheese at all. Head cheese looks like a murder happened in the meat case to me. I won't eat head cheese or souse. But scrapple is GGOOOOODDD !! Phil's right ... it looks more like liverwurst - but grainier. More body. Down here where I live in Pa. the locals make turkey scrapple. OMG is it good !! When you brown it, the house smells like Thanksgiving dinner's cooking !!! Not as fatty or greasy as regular scrapple. Now I'm gettin' hungry !!

 

[dipper]

Gotta be farm fresh eggs, with some fresh polish kielbasa, grain bread and plum jelly

 

[Tree Spud]

Huevos Rancheros ... this is L-I-V-I-N ...

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Whole wheat or buckwheat pancakes, home fried potatoes w/ onions and diced green peppers, a couple patties of fresh loose sausage, a couple strips of thick sliced bacon ( country-style, real smoked ), real maple syrup ( oh yeah ), scrambled eggs and a tall glass of O.J. or cranberry juice. Then work it off cutting a pile of firewood !!:)

 

[West Branch]

Ended up doing 3 egg omelettes this morning. Sausage, green peppers, red onions, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and cheese. Hash browns on the side, I did use some ketchup on those.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Diced up tomatoes are a great addition ! Good stuff there, WB !!

 

[foggy]

Eggs over easy are in the pan as I write. Seeya!

 

[sandbur]

I guess it is a PA thing....

More info here....http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

Quick and dirty of it is that it's is the scraps of butchering a pig (often from the head) boiled with cornmeal and or wheat until it forms a mush which is formed to a loaf and sets up as semi solid which can be sliced and then fried. It's pretty amazing.[/QUOTld
My Mom was from Kentucky and she made Getta. I'm not sure of the spelling, but it was ground pork with oatmeal in it. It was in a pan or loaf and then she would slice and fry it.

A little bit would be OK, but I would just as well eat the pork as pork sausage and have the oatmeal separate.

She would recommend covering it with syrup or something to make it more edible but I figured it was a total waste of time.

Now give me potato pancakes and you've got something. They need to be made with raw potatoes and raw onions grated together. Then add real butter and forget the syrup.

Save the maple syrup for over vanilla ice cream.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I'm with ya on the potato pancakes, Bur. Lots of Polish, German, and Lithuanian folks in Pa. and they make great potato cakes. I think they add an egg and some flour to bind them together. I put a little butter and salt & pepper on mine. Maple syrup is good on anything !! ( like ice cream ). I use some in my home-made granola that I make from scratch.

I like how theses food threads roll. You read them for a bit, and then you gotta go get something to eat because now you're hungry !!