Fao Of Margo Tester

[retrocop]

Hi Margo,
Like old times. My recipe is slightly plagiarised from the dear food economist who died only a few years ago. Her name was Margaruite Pattern and she worked for the Ministry of Food during the last war. Her job was to advise housewives how to cook good meals for their families with the war time rations available. Her recent cookbook was entitled 'We'll Eat Again' but some wags named it 'Whale Meat Again' . I am cooking for three adults tonight so I have diced about 3lbs of pots into oxo cube size. Likewise I have diced two tins of corned beef and finely chopped two medium onions.
Method: Boil the diced pots until slightly soft. Drain and replace in pot on hob to steam dry them with a tea towel on top.
Fry the pots in a large frying pan or wok with Veg oil until lightly browned and crisping up a bit.
Place the diced corned beef in with the pots,carefully stir and leave for several minutes.
Add the onions and let them soften.
I use a potato masher to compress the food like a large potato pancake in the pan.
Make a few hollows in the mix and fill with eggs. Put a lid on the wok and heat till the eggs are set. I am cooking it as I type and hope to give you a photo of the finished product. Just draining the pots. enjoy.
xxxx

[pastafreak]

Retro...that looks very much like the way I learned to make it from my mum. It was one of my favourite meals when I was a child in the 50s. Still is. As I'm not the biggest fan of poached/fried eggs...sometimes I'll scramble them in.
Enjoy your hash.

[retrocop]

Thanks Pasta. Your mum was probably subject to war time rationing as well unless she lived in the states and recognised the recipe. I don't need to add that you season to taste as you cook and I enjoy it with a good dollop of Lea & Perrins or Brown sauce. Bon appetite all.

[retrocop]

I always laugh when I cook this as it was a staple with the U.S. armed forces during the 2nd W.W.. Particularly on USN warships the swabbies referred to it as '*** on a shingle ' as it was served on toast resembling a roof shingle.

[pastafreak]

I don't think there was much rationing either during or after the war in the States. But my mother was a frugal cook and knew how to stretch things.
I just had a quick Google...as one does...and by the 1860s in America, restaurants serving cheap food were known as hash houses. American hash originated in the North.

[calmck]

Still my most used cook books

[SecretMod]

If the swear-filter stars it out the only senseless thing happening is you typing it out again.

[Barsel]

What's the dish called?

[Barsel]

Forgot to add, Margaruite Pattern was my first cookbook in 1968.
I don't ever remember buying a cookbook so perhaps someone gave it to me.

[pastafreak]

I'm sure retro wasn't actually swearing...was he calling anyone names? Swearing in anger? I doubt it. We are adults... for the most part...I'm sure worse is heard nightly in the BBC or c4.

This is another step towards chasing us all away.

[retrocop]

//What's the dish called?//
Some Richard head won't allow me to tell you the US name. Corned Beef hash is what is known as in blighty. Try googling it I've had it with this site

[wolf63]

retro - I don't think that I have ever agreed with you on anything but I do agree that the moderation is getting petty.

[Barsel]

Thanks Retro, as usual, I don't know what has gone on, but I do wish all this falling out on here would stop.
I'm fed up with seeing answer removed and then not knowing if the whole thread will be removed.

[pastafreak]

Barsel...retro used a salty description...what American navy men rudely called corned beef hash in the ww2.
But since we are all children it's been removed because he repeated it after the swear filter did it's thing.

[Barsel]

Ok, I've looked it up and to be honest, if the word had been left in, I wouldn't fancy making it.
I can't comment on whether the word should be starred out though.
I'll stick to calling it corned beef hash which I've heard of but didn't know it had eggs in it.

[pastafreak]

It doesn't need eggs...but I know that's how my mum made it. You can do just the corned beef, potatoes and onions.

[retrocop]

//retro - I don't think that I have ever agreed with you on anything but I do agree that the moderation is getting petty.//
I was merely helping an old time friend on this site with a recipe that's all. I keep my promises. I can't help what the recipe is described by others but I mentioned it as a source of personal amusement and it can be found quite easily on Google. This site is dying at the hands of morons.

[ferlew]

https://warontherocks.com/2015/06/foods-of-war-***-on-a-shingle/

wonder if this will pass muster?