Apple Postcard, from "Still Life with Apples and a Pomegranate" by Jean Desire Gustave Courbet. Card printed by Nouvelle Images, in Lombreuil France.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Apple Postcard
Apple Postcard, from "Still Life with Apples and a Pomegranate" by Jean Desire Gustave Courbet. Card printed by Nouvelle Images, in Lombreuil France.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Æbleflæsk
what? 
Yes, Æbleflæsk is usually served during fall and winter. There are lots of local variations in the way of how to prepare this dish just right. Dark beer is the right beverage to accompany it.
Æbleflæsk is the traditional Danish meal of Boiled apples with bacon
Peel the apples, remove the core and cut them into clices. Cut the bacon in fairly thick pieces. Put the apple pieces in a cooking pot together with a little bit of water (prevents the apples from burning). The apples are cooked until they reach a porridge consistency Add a couple of spoonfuls of the liquid bacon fat, and depending on the sweetness of the apples add sugar. While cooking the apples fry the bacon in a pan or in the oven. The bacon is fried until it reach the state crispiness you prefere. Serve the apples and bacon with a strong rye bread. more here:
http://www.pcl-eu.de/project/index.php
Similar is the more German dish Aepfelradln (beer paste baked apple rings).
Yes, Æbleflæsk is usually served during fall and winter. There are lots of local variations in the way of how to prepare this dish just right. Dark beer is the right beverage to accompany it.
Æbleflæsk is the traditional Danish meal of Boiled apples with bacon
Peel the apples, remove the core and cut them into clices. Cut the bacon in fairly thick pieces. Put the apple pieces in a cooking pot together with a little bit of water (prevents the apples from burning). The apples are cooked until they reach a porridge consistency Add a couple of spoonfuls of the liquid bacon fat, and depending on the sweetness of the apples add sugar. While cooking the apples fry the bacon in a pan or in the oven. The bacon is fried until it reach the state crispiness you prefere. Serve the apples and bacon with a strong rye bread. more here:
http://www.pcl-eu.de/project/index.php
Similar is the more German dish Aepfelradln (beer paste baked apple rings).
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Apple Dye
Yes those disgusting heathens at the FDA approve of dying apples. Ick. But they also identified ketchup as a vegetable in 1982 so that's about as far as you can trust those vested morons.
So there are 2 parts to this.
1. Dyes they put in apples
2. dyes you can make FROM apples.
1. oh how depressing...
While its really difficult to dye a whole apple because of the varying permizbility of the fruit, dried apples in instand oatmeal and the like are frequently dyed for color consistency.
2. What fun.
Many fruits, vegetables and flowers make great natural dyes for foods as well as fabrics. With the holidays upon us, let's take a look at the typical American holiday dinner and find as many items as possible to make dyes. Save the peels from some yellow apples. They can be made into a golden yellow dye, or greenish-yellow if they were green apples.
So there are 2 parts to this.
1. Dyes they put in apples
2. dyes you can make FROM apples.
1. oh how depressing...
While its really difficult to dye a whole apple because of the varying permizbility of the fruit, dried apples in instand oatmeal and the like are frequently dyed for color consistency.
2. What fun.
Many fruits, vegetables and flowers make great natural dyes for foods as well as fabrics. With the holidays upon us, let's take a look at the typical American holiday dinner and find as many items as possible to make dyes. Save the peels from some yellow apples. They can be made into a golden yellow dye, or greenish-yellow if they were green apples.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Lenticel Breakdown of Apples
This is far too technical to even summarize.
http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/aniline-blue.pdf
http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/aniline-blue.pdf
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
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