"George Shirley" > wrote in message
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> On 4/12/2011 4:30 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
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>> "George Shirley" > wrote in message
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>>> On 4/12/2011 3:54 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> "Doug Freyburger" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>> "Doug Freyburger" > wrote:
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>>>>>>> On fries/chips at least. As a an optional flavoring at the table for
>>>>>>> soups or stews. In pickling I've only seen distilled vinegar in
>>>>>>> recipes. The strong flavor of malt vinegar isn't promising for
>>>>>>> pickling, no matter the strength.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK. We use malt on our chips/fries but I am sure it is 5%. I pickle
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> that 5% vinegar but mostly for pickled eggs. I suppose because we are
>>>>>> so
>>>>>> used to malt vinegar, we can tolerate it more than most.
>>>>>
>>>>> My heritage is 1/8th your side of the channel 7/8ths the other side of
>>>>> the channel. I grew up using cider vinegar on fries not malt vinegar
>>>>> on
>>>>> chips. Same pattern, different detail. But distilled vinegar for
>>>>> marinates and pickling.
>>>>
>>>> <g> It took me a minute to work that one out.. but it is late here)
>>>>
>>>> In every fish (fried fish and chips) shop here they will offer you malt
>>>> vinegar and it is what I grew up with for sprinkling on chips/fries)
>>>>
>>>> Heck whatever we are used to is right of us eh?
>>>
>>> I got into a contest with an elderly (older than me by at least five
>>> years
>>> and that is elderly) just the other day. She insisted it was okay to
>>> just
>>> slop jellies and jams into a jar, put the lid on the mayo jar and invert
>>> it. Asked her when was the last time she had eaten jelly or jam that
>>> way,
>>> she said probably fifty years as she preferred Smucker's jams to
>>> homemade.
>>> Since she is never going to preserve any food anyway I terminated the
>>> conversation. Did tell her husband, a good friend, that if any of his
>>> descendants decided to start making home preserved food to have them
>>> contact me and not his wife. He just grinned and said he would.
>>>
>>> What suits your own taste is fine as far as I'm concerned until, you
>>> start
>>> pronouncing that unsafe methods of food preserving are just okey dokey
>>> with you and you preach that sermon to people who don't know better.
>>> Luckily we've got folks in at least three countries that don't do that
>>> on
>>> this newsgroup.
>>>
>>> I don't know if someone on high was just looking after us as kids or
>>> if we
>>> were a tougher generation but we ate some preserved foods sixty years
>>> ago
>>> that I wouldn't touch nowadays and thought nothing of it. The state of
>>> the
>>> art of food preserving has advanced significantly just in my lifetime
>>> and
>>> home made food is much safer nowadays in my not so humble opinion.
>>>
>>> I was never vaccinated for any childhood diseases back then, all that
>>> started after my kids were teens and that has been years ago. Two of my
>>> old friends have shingles now from having chicken pox as a kid, poor
>>> things are being driven insane by the stuff, even with modern meds. I
>>> had
>>> chicken pox, two types of measles, mumps, diptheria and everything but
>>> scarlet fever and typhoid and I have friends who had the last two. I had
>>> malaria as a kid and it has only flared up once since I was seven years
>>> old. I've never had a small pox vaccination in my life that took because
>>> my mom had small pox when she was five years old and survived. If
>>> vaccinations and good food preserving methods save my grand and great
>>> grand kids from going through all the disease we elders have gone
>>> through
>>> I am ecstatic.
>>>
>>> George, stepping down off the soapbox
>>
>> Oh blimey, when I said "Heck whatever we are used to is right of us
>> eh?"
>> I was talking about flavour/taste!" I wasn't talking about preserving(
>>
> I know that O, one thing just led to another. Everyone's taste is
> different from another persons. Even around this old house, I like a
> little hot sauce in my gumbo, Miz Anne doesn't. She likes cooked turnips
> and kale and I don't, that's all about taste and flavor.

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