welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to sunday morning
in the old cookbook show today we're
going to do a recipe out of this little
cookbook from 1943 called
recipes for today and you can tell by
the cover it's a very patriotic
wartime cookbook
quite a bit of the beginning
of the cookbook is is is totally geared
towards
wartime cooking making do with what you
have making substitutions and supporting
the war effort
by doing with less than you normally
would
and today we're going to do a recipe
that i think is going to be kind of
interesting it is a mock
sausage patty
so
this is a recipe that i um i initially
thought i would do
and then i walked away from for a long
time because i couldn't find
one of the main ingredients and those
are grape nuts now
i'm normally the kind of person who says
if i can't get an ingredient at the four
or five grocery stores that i normally
go to
or
in that area that i normally travel in a
week make it very easy for myself to
stop by and get something i walk right
past it
but this little cookbook had four or
five recipes that used grape nuts and i
was amazed that i couldn't find them
so i ended up getting this box of grape
nuts from the uk
they are
actually made in minnesota um but they
seem to be only available in the uk so
in order to get the most out of that
ridiculously expensive box of grape nuts
we'll be doing four or five recipes over
the next little while that use grape
nuts now
in this pot
are lentils
the main ingredient in this is actually
the lentils and the recipe told me to
soak a cup of lentils overnight
and then to cook them until they're soft
at which point i'm supposed to force
them through
a sieve but first i need to drain them
because i need to make up to a quarter
cup of liquid and if i need to add
anything to this i'm going to put in
some milk
and i don't think
let me get a measuring cup
i don't think i'm going to have to
add any liquid
so
of course this is 2021
and we have blenders stick blenders food
processors
that sort of thing
i would stick this in a food processor
or use a stick blender and blend it
because
this is going to take an awfully long
time to force it through a sieve
although i might have chosen
a sieve that's too fine
to force it through
let me see how far i get before i run
out of patience and just grab the stick
blender
okay i actually
made it all the way through so
scrape off what's left on the bottom of
the sieve
okay
put that away now
i ended up with a third of a cup of
liquid so i'm gonna
just dribble out a little
bit that leaves me with a quarter cup it
says to add milk to bring it up to a
quarter cup i guess it depends on how
long you boiled the lentils for
if you need to add a little bit of milk
this is not a vegan recipe but it could
very easily be made into a vegan recipe
if uh if you don't add the milk or the
eggs that i'm going to add there's
substitutes out there for those two
items that would work in this really
really well i think so
it says to put these in in order i put
the liquid back in
a cup of grape nuts
and in they go
next in minced onion
and so that's a really really finely
minced
calls for salt of course it's a sausage
sausage would have salt and it calls for
sage and a range of amount of sage
this lends me to believe that it is a
breakfast sausage or a breakfast sausage
substitute
i would um i would add a bunch of other
spices that i really like in
breakfast sausages if i was making this
not according to the recipe
or just go ahead and
use poultry seasoning poultry seasoning
has all of the flavors that i imagine
you would want to have in this
next up a couple of
eggs i'm supposed to beat those before i
put them in
i gotta tell you just the addition of
that sage
and the onion
already makes this smell like
some really good sausage
now i'm supposed to mix this thoroughly
up
a tablespoon of melted fat okay
supposed to put in a tablespoon of
melted fat
because these are supposed to be sausage
patties and i'm not vegan or vegetarian
i'm going to use bacon drinks because i
have bacon drippings
and i'm going to put that in
of course
use any fat that you like or that suits
your dietary needs
so i'm going to mix this thoroughly and
then it says to let it stand for half an
hour before we turn it into patties
okay this mixture has really stiffened
up in the half hour that it's been here
it's still up in my mind maybe a little
bit wet
but it's pretty stiff now it says to
make them into patties a half inch thick
and then
dip them in flour
and i'm going to set these aside on this
tray
until i am ready to fry them
now i've just made up four patties to
start with let's see how they go
it says to fry them in bacon fat or
bacon drippings or another fat now i
have bacon drippings so that's what i'm
going to use
i've got a stainless steel pan here
on sort of medium high heat
and
put in
a good dollop
of bacon drippings
okay that's good and hot
and let's put the patties in
and let's
flip them over and see what they look
like
hey jules hey glenn hey friends
sausage get a fork okay let's see how
this
goes
i mean they
they look like sausage patties
they are the correct brown color
and are they your favorite uh breakfast
sausage flavors
yes uh
yes for the most part i i
i only put in the sage because that's
what it asked for but you could easily
dress it up with all of the other
flavors
pam
it's a dry sausage yeah
the flavor is really good though
i think
what would you do
what would you do they're not as juicy
no i put more onion in maybe yeah
um they are a little flaky like when you
pick them up like they're a little they
are make they are a make do yeah sausage
but if you were
vegan or vegetarian
and you could swap out the egg and i
didn't use the milk that was in the
recipe because i didn't need the extra
liquid
swap out the egg and obviously don't fry
it in bacon fat
obviously don't drive in bacon fat
i would say that this is
from a flavor standpoint and a
nutritional standpoint
i mean the grape nuts bring a lot of
nutrition some of the lentils for that
matter i guess yeah like a thinner
version with an egg on a on a
on toast kind of thing or some tomato
i think it's worth experimenting with
yeah i'm going to enjoy that with an egg
tonight
definitely going to enjoy that with an
egg i'm surprised i didn't think they
would be this good
but
there you have it the biggest challenge
is the texture getting hold of some
grape nuts oh grape nuts that's true yes
the grape nuts are the hardest part of
this of this whole thing
but i'm sure that there's other cereals
that you could put in that would work
any of those brand cereals would work i
think
i don't know grapefruits has a very
unique flavor in comparison i don't know
give it a try what do we know i'd give
it a try anyway um
strangely
good
thanks for stopping by see you again
soon
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