On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:13:31 -0700, U.S. Janet B. >
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>On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:33:45 -0400, wrote:
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>>I am off to the grocery store presently and now I absolutely have to
>>have some oxtail! I don't care if people in NA don't eat it, when we
>>came here 50 years ago they didn't and the butcher would just give you
>>some, same with nice marrow soup bones, now they are an item and
>>expensive
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>I have recipes from my mother that start with 'ask the butcher for a
>nice soup bone.'
>Janet US

Lol, a lot of my grandmothers say 'Tell the butcher' but the one I
liked best was from about 1920 and a recipe for chutney. Daring in
those days it had garlic in it, her note at the end said "I always add
much more garlic, the boys don't care too much for it so they don't
take as much" - a consideration with eight sons.