Sport 39: 2011
Advice from the hospital kitchen
Advice from the hospital kitchen
Alma said: In Canada I never heard of mutton on the market.
Never saw it anywhere.
Geoffrey says mutton should be properly handled.
I wonder how any people fry chops
and have them tender as chicken.
Sheela said: Indian sweets are plumped with sugar, condensed milk,
clarified butter. Not for the faint at heart,
or folks with cholesterol.
Prepare your ghee by simmering unsalted butter,
boiling away any water and spoon it off for cooking.
Gracie said: When you’re preparing school gala cream puffs
to impress the PTA,
a hot oven is the trick. Choux pastry rises
because of steam. Without it, your puffs will be
flat and soggy.
Barb said: I’d heard there was a law from 1789 that says
you won’t be arrested
if you steal less than 10 francs worth of food.
That’s three baguettes! No need to go hungry
when you’re down and out in Paris.
Evie said: We had a hangi once, collected rocks from
beach retaining walls.
Dad coated the turkey in mud
to bake. The crack of exploding
sedimentary stones blew up
all the dinner.
Lou said: Never double-dare your eight-year-old sister
to order the lobster thermidor.
She won’t eat it,
its eyes are looking at her.
page 309
Maureen said: My brother learnt to cook in the army,
came home on leave,
cooked a banana cake, following the recipe.
It wasn’t cooked in the forty-five minutes promised
so he turned the dough out,
started again.
Gwen said: When rain eased on a low tide
we would carry billy cans, kindling
and a buttered white loaf
to the water’s edge, collecting pipi
and make smoky sandwiches
in our yellow rubber raincoats.
Lil said: Come for tea! Jim would love
the company. Tonight
I collected some puha on my walk
and there’ll be missionary soup
on the boil before you know it.
Any time you’re hungry.