On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:44:33 -0600, George Leppla
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>--Bryan wrote:
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>> You like eating marrow?
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>> --Bryan
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>I do, although I haven't had any for years. When I was a kid, my folks
>would get cut bones from the butcher, roast them, scoop out the marrow
>and make a kind of dumpling that they put in soup. Google "marrow ball
>soup" and you'll find lots of recipes.
>
>Roasted marrow was quite the rage a few years ago
>http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/4LV-7...r8Eu1iGekEvDSQ
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>http://images.teamsugar.com/files/up...82.preview.JPG
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>but you don't hear much about it these days.
>
>George L

I haven't indulged in years, not the healthiest of viands, but growing
up marrow was considered a supreme delicacy... we didn't do anything
fancy, typically slathered on slabs of real Russian black bread sliced
from six pound round loaves, bottom crust thicker n' tougher than the
neoprene soles on work boots... typically accompanying a dinner of
boiled beef with potatoes and lots of freshly prepared horseradish,
washed down with slivovitz... kids got seltza with a glug of concord
grape wine for color... dessert was usually honey cake, sponge cake,
or bobka. After dinner the cribbage board came out and we shared a
big hunk of Joyva halvah. Naturally this was the good old days, pre
PC... actually pre TV... only times I remember a supper meal without
all five of us at table was when someone was sick... times were tough,
we were poor, never to bed hungry, no one on drugs, welfare, or in
prison. Nowadays folks eat separately and apart... fast food...
drugs, welfare, and prison are normal. It's been like twenty years
since I encountered a kid who knows their mother and father better
than their day care matron, or has heard of marrow.