What's 'Scrapple'?????

Subject: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 12:43 PM

On John Gorka's CD, "The Company You Keep", there's a song called 'People My Age', that has a line...

"Back in Pennsylvania I'd eat scrapple on toast"

What's scrapple??

;-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 12:47 PM

All the leftover parts of the pig ground up and baked or canned. Sort of like head cheese.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 12:50 PM

Scrapple is a Pennsylvania Dutch meat product. It's prepared more or less by boiling miscellaneous pork scraps sort of to a mush, and thickening it with corn meal, then letting it set. There may be some pepper and salt or something in the mix.

You slice off slices, and fry them, sort of crisping them. Scrapple is sometimes eaten just that way, and sometimes served with syrup. It's one of those things that you either love or hate. I love it.

Thinking of how it's made, I think of it as a sort of Pennsylvania Dutch Haggis. Which I also like.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 12:57 PM

Ug... you people really will eat anything eh????

I think I'm gonna change the lyric when I perform the song anyway...

To..

"Back in North Ontario, I'd eat poutin on toast..."

LOL!!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Don Firth
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 12:58 PM

You mean it's kinda like Spam?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 01:12 PM

So scrapple is "sort of like head cheese".

And if I asked what head cheese is, the answer I imagine would be it's "sort of like scrapple"...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 01:16 PM

Yes sir, indeed Kevin! Nasty stuff is head cheese and scrapple.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 01:20 PM

Actually, Scrapple is sort of like--well, it IS fried cornmeal mush, but with a meat content and flavoring.

A lot of the world's best foods are poor-people food in origin, or maybe I should say "needfully thrifty-people food". Scrapple is like haggis in that it's a way to get food value out of what would have been waste from the slaughtering. They're both good if you can get around your own prejudices.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Don Firth
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 02:55 PM

So it's not like Spam, then.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 04:42 PM

Hey Clinton...Man, as long as you been around here and you haven't heard about scrapple??? Here in east Ohio, we call it krepples....

Enter scrapple in the forum and DT search box and you'll be amazed at how much it's been talked about here at the 'Cat!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 04:49 PM

I just tried that and I realize that I must be the main proponent of scrapple in the joint! I just love it!!!!

Check out this website.....Ummmm..Ummmm..Gooooood!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Mark Clark
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 04:52 PM

Scrapple is terrific. I enjoy making it for house guests. I just make corn meal mush and add plenty of Jimmy Dean's pork sausage cooked up in small pieces. I put it in old half galon milk cartons to set up.

As Uncle_DaveO says, you just slice it and fry it in a pan. Best served with pure maple syrup.

In the bad old days, they's keep a big crock of mush ouside the back door during the cold months and add all the hog scraps into the jar. When they wanted scrapple, they'd just carve some out and fry it up.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 04:55 PM

BTW, I fry the stuff in slices about a half inch thick using a lot of oil, but bacon grease is best. It was one of those by-products of butchering hogs and indeed eaten by poor folks, but nowadays they give prizes for the best at state fairs just like they do with jerky or trail baloney.

Nowadays we have it only as a treat becasue the stuff when cooked is cholesterol hell!!!! My kids refer to it as "Pig Lips" because that's one of the things ground up in it........I never mention to most folks that they grind up the assholes too..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 05:36 PM

And Bird's "Scrapple from the APple"?

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 06:10 PM

I don't believe the USDA-inspected stuff has assholes in it. Faces, probably, but no assholes. When I went through a school for food inspection, they made us try unusual (to most folks here) foods. I got lots of leftover camembert because other people thought it tasted like snot. Having never eaten snot, I loved the cheese. The one thing I wouldn't touch was head cheese. They had a particular brand that had big chunks of parts, sliced. It was more of a cross-section type of thing you'd see in a lab. I didn't like the looks of the round puckered things. They were probably just noses.

As to scrapple, I only had it once. We had an office camping trip, and my boss brough some his brother had sent him. Wonderful stuff, fried in an iron skillet over a campfire!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Gareth
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 06:25 PM

Sounds a little like those British Delicacies -

Brawn - Chopped up pigs heads etc in a jelly

Haslet - Chopped up pids scraps in a jelly.

or the infamous British Railways Buffet Pork Pies.

Gareth

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Deckman
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 07:02 PM

You babies don't know anything! Just wait 'till you are served a bowl of Finnish FISH HEAD STEW! And yes, the eyeballs are the much sought after prize. It's really good, by the way! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Gypsy
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 09:46 PM

nawngggg........sounds way too much llke chorizo to me. 'Spaw, you kin have my share. I'll stick with squirrel stew.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 10:43 PM

My French-Canadian grandmother used to make something called Pfannhaus, or something like that. She was married to a German, and probably got it from his family. She died in 1958, and the recipe died with her. As I recall, it was much smoother and milder than scrapple. She'd bake it like a meat loaf, and then my mom would cut off cold slices and fry them and serve them with syrup. As I recall, it was like heaven to eat it - but I haven't had it since I was ten. Anybody know anything about it?
-Joe Offer, former Detroiter-

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: WyoWoman
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 11:19 PM

Wait, WAIT!!! Chorizo is lovely, delicious Mexican sausage, very spicy, but as far as I know, not the repository of all parts piggy. However, menudo has chicharones in it, which is tripe, which is pig intestines, which I could never face regardless of how great my friends said it was. It is greatly touted as a hangover remedy, but the idea of eating anything even close to pig intestines the morning after the night before made me want to hurl.

Scrapple is basically a heart attack on toast. My father would sneak it into the house every now and then and serve it to us as a great delicacy. My mother never went along with the program however, and said we might as well eat a whole stick of butter as a bite of that stuff. I remember liking it a great deal, however -- whether because it was actually that good (we lived in Oklahoma -- was the scrapple likely to be authentic?) or because my Dad thought it was great and my Mom hated it, I don't know.

What's poutin, Clinton?

ww, who had tofu with peanut sauce for dinner, thank you very much ...

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 28 Apr 02 - 11:46 PM

READ THE LABEL WW - piggy or cow!

Lips, Tongue, Glands, and OTHER beef/pork products?

Don't get me wrong - being one myself - I don't mind ass-holes -

its just the "other" parts of the "other" parts I take exception to.... But then again, little wican witches might love .... pieces of other wican witches.

Tell you what....go to the refrig....read the label....and type it here...ya hear?

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: RangerSteve
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:42 AM

Scrapple is nothing like head cheese. Scrapple is good. Head Cheese is evil. My grandmother's old recipe book had the following instructions for head cheese: Take a cows head and remove the brains and eyes. Clean the teeth. Clean out the nostrils. (I, personally, am not brushing a dead cows teeth, nor am I blowing its nose). Boil the head. Scrape off the meat and the gelatinous crud (my words, not the cookbook's). put it in a loaf pan and let it set.

Sounds yummy, huh? It's really foul. I guess it's called head cheese because calling it what it is - cow face- isn't as appealing. There's also something called souse that's similar, but with hot seasonings like cayenne pepper.

Parks brand scrapple has on the list of ingredients: pork snouts, ears and tails, corn meal and spices.

It's all ground up so, mercifully, you can't identify the ingredients. And it's good, if not necesarily good for you.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 07:02 AM

Scrapple: are you sure it isn't a traditional form of alphabet spaghetti?

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 08:11 AM

WyoWoman,

I'll field this one for Clinton. Poutine originated in Quebec and is another heart attack on a plate. French Fries doused with Gravy and Cheese Curds. It's a gooey mess that is about as unhealthy as anything ever invented, but I must admit, I like the stuff.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Pseudolus
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 08:34 AM

I'm with ya Spaw, I LOVE scrapple!!! My dad used to say, "Ya got your hame, bacon, roasts, pork chops, pigs feet, and everything thats left is ground up into scrapple. Hey, it's not good for you but it's no worse than bacon or sausage.

For the scrapple lovers, next chance you get, get a nice big 'ol biscuit, fry up some scrapple, scramble up some eggs, throw it all on the biscuit with a slice of cheese and enjoy one of the best breakfast sandwiches known to man/woman!!!! Of course, if your watchin your weight, skip the cheese....*BG*.....

Great, I just made myself hungry....

Frank

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Pied Piper
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 08:54 AM

This is the funniest thread I've read for ages. I always thought you colonials were a bit odd but now I know it.All the best PP

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 09:02 AM

Scrapple is yummy, and like laws, you don't want to know how it's made. But it doesn't have all the aspic and jelly-like gristly stuff that head cheese, which my Mom likes, has.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: mooman
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 09:08 AM

And there was silly old me thinking all the time that it was the desperate noise/action undertaken simultaneously by several musicians trying to save a valuable and tumbling instrument from total destruction following its being knocked over by "ye feckin' drunken' gobshite" during an Irish session.

When will I ever learn to look in the Forum Search?

mooman

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: SharonA
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 10:14 AM

Don Firth: You're right; scrapple doesn't look or taste at all like Spam.

As for the taste of scrapple: some scrapple is absolutely heavenly, and some is absolutely horrible. It depends a lot on the spices used. There's one local brand here in Pennsylvania called "Hatfield" (the meat-packing plant is in the town of Hatfield, but I don't know if the company is named after the town or after the family for whom the town is named); it's pretty highly flavored, and is my personal favorite. Yum!! I, too, eat it only once in a while, as a treat (and I do mean treat!).

A couple of years ago, I had a co-worker whose parents run a farm upstate. I mentioned that I love scrapple, at which my co-worker recoiled and talked a bit about the scrapple-processing done by her folks. She brought me a sample brick to take home and try... and it was just god-awful, fatty stuff with no flavor whatsoever. No wonder she hates it! I didn't have the heart to tell her that I hated it, too, but I never asked her for her family's scrapple again!

By the way, although some folks simply fry the square that they've sliced off the scrapple brick, others – like my family – scramble it in the pan as it fries. I think it tastes a bit lighter this way; certainly the texture is less dense.

One of the local Philadelphia radio stations held a "Scrapple-Fest" for a couple of years, and put out a CD of songs written by local performers on the subject, called "Scrapple Rocks". Alas, the radio station has changed its format and has fired the scrapple-loving host of the Fest, but scrapple still rocks!

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: gnu
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 11:45 AM

CH... you actually eat PQ Poutine on toast and charge others with "eating anything" ?

I say "PQ" Poutine because around here (Maritime Canada) Poutine is a dish made of mushed potato, formed into a ball, with, maybe/maybe not, pork and/or pork scrucheons in the centre. It is often served with brown sugar, molasses or maple slurpup... or just some salt and pepper.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Pseudolus
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 12:04 PM

SharonA, I too have "scrambled" the scrapple occasionally when I cook it. Usually it's so that I can add some eggs, onions, and maybe mushrooms and have a scrapple omelette! OK, Now I'm REALLY hungry!!!! Maybe we need a favorite scrapple recipes thread....lol

Frank

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: IvanB
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 01:59 PM

Wyowoman, actually tripe is from the stomachs of cattle or other ruminants (probably 99% of the time cattle). Since pigs aren't ruminants, their stomachs don't have the proper texture. That said, menudo is another wonderful dish that's a heart attack waiting to happen. The best usually has a thick layer of cholesterol laden liquid fat which rises to the top of your bowl. I probably get a bowl about once every ten years, and it's heaven!

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:19 PM

Over the years I've tried maybe 15-20 different scrapples. My favorite is a small butcher in Millersburg Ohio who for me at least, has it just right. I buy 3 loaves and divide them, slice them down and freeze them. It does quite well frozen but you need to slice it first. It cooks fine but can be a bit crumbly if you try to slice it after freezing.

There is someone over in PA, Martin by name, that sells a scrapple through Yoder's that is a part beef scrapple. It's different. Obviously a different flavor but it's almost too lean. We ate one loaf but I think I'll pass on any more. I've tried several homemades from real good to real bad but the worst is that awful stuff they are selling in large grocery stores, frozen in a small loaf. I guess they're trying to get the "Scrapple Message" out to the people or something, but it's really bad stuff.

I like dipping mine in my eggs as you do toast. I cut at about a half inch so I can fry it very crispy on the outside and still mooshy in the middle.........................

GOTTA' HAVE SOME TONITE!!!!

........damn thread.........trying to lose weight...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:39 PM

While on holidays [vacation] in the US and Canada last year, we went into a working man's restaurant/bar on the road from Montreal to Vermont, but still in Canada, and I had this Poutine stuff, I liked it but my staff didn't, boy is it filling though. I almost couldn't eat my 4th portion of ice cream, after the tour of Ben & Jerry's later that day.
"Cholesterol; cholesterol"....Giok

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 03:19 PM

Jeez, I guess I've missed it living up here where the moss grows on my north side. Plenty of very toothsome indigenous goodies, but I've eaten grits only twice (in Denver), and I've had catfish only once (love it!!), but I had that here and it was imported. Never scrapple.

Last time I had my cholesterol checked, it was 176, so I guess I have a little room to experiment. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Blues=Life
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:19 PM

Don, Scrapple I don't know about, living here in South Carolina, but grits...that I can talk about. Being a native of the Midwest, grits don't thrill me usually. Think runny, pre-chewed corn. But in the Charleston area, they make a dish called Shrimp and Grits. A mess of fresh caught, cooked shrimp, served over a plate of grits, smothered in brown gravy. Had to had my arm twisted to try it the first time, now I have it every time I cross the state to the coast. Now that's some good eatin'! Blues

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:22 PM

Ug... grits... the single dumbest 'food' ever... why eat something that has no taste of it's own at all???

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: SharonA
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:24 PM

Blues: Shrimp in brown gravy?? Hmmm... I'd have to have my arm twisted, too...

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:25 PM

You could say the same about avocados, which mainly taste of what you put on them.....Giok

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:28 PM

Yeah, I found grits like Cream o' Wheat, only more bland. But Shrimp and Grits as describe gets the old salivary-glands goin'!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:40 PM

Well, it's been 30 years since I ate any critter that walks on 4 legs, but I'm hear to tell ya' that of all the meaty type foods, scrapple is the one I miss tghe most. I know it's 90% cormeal, 5% spices and only 5% cooked down pig parts but I'm still not eatin' no pigs. Period. When they come out with turkey scrapple, I'll eat it.

Funny thing about scrapple though. Down South they say that scappple is yankee food but they eat something called livermush. Now it cooks up just like scrapple, looks and smells like scrapple but according to them folks it ain't scrapple... Hmmmmm?

I say if it looks like scrapple, smells like scapple and quacks like scrapple, it's probably, ahhhh, scrapple.

BTW, if they could figure out how to make scrapple out of apples you'd get apple-scrapple... Nevermind.

Bobert

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:52 PM

Or in Hawaii, it might be pineapple-apple-scrapple. Sorry.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Mark Clark
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:54 PM

Scrapple has indeed been cited as unnecessary in the human diet and perhaps even harmful in large doses over prolonged periods, but I try to remember the wisdom left to us by Redd Fox:

All those people who exercise, eat healthy diets get plenty of sleep and watch their weight are going to feel really stupid when they're lying in hospital dying of nothin'.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:04 PM

All things in moderation—including moderation itself.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: SharonA
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:14 PM

Just for you, Bobert: CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE

Or, if you'd rather order it pre-made than whup it up yourself: Godshall's (Telford, PA) turkey products, including turkey scrapple

Bon appetit!

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: SharonA
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:19 PM

(Please note that, on that "Godshall's" page, there's a picture of a plate heaped with squares of fried-up scrapple, at just about the right level of browned-ness. As Spaw says, it should still be mushy inside the crisped coating!)

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:33 PM

Looks just like what I just et up fer supper!! Now of course I feel guilty, but eatin' krepples beats talkin' about krepples!!! I have no idea why we call them krepples in Ohio........

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 07:22 PM

Here's a little solid substance for a thread short on it.

Great-Grandmother Harbaugh (Pennsylvania Dutch) had this in her White House Cook Book copyright 1888 by R.S. Peile p. 133.

SCRAPPLE

Scrapple is a most palatable dish. Take the head, heart and any lean scraps of pork, and boil until the flesh slips easily from the bones. Remove the fat, gristle and bones, then chop fine. Set the liquor in which the meat was boiled aside until cold, take the cake of fat from the surface and return to the fire. When it boils, put in the chopped meat and season well with pepper and salt. Let it boil again, then thicken with corn-meal as you would in making ordinary corn-meal mush, by letting it slip through the fingers slowly to prevent lumps. Cook an hour, stirring constantly at first, afterwards putting back on the range in a position to boil gently. When done, pour into a long, square pan, not too deep, and mold. In cold weather this can be kept several weeks Cut into slices when cold, and fried brown, as you do mush, is a cheap and delicious breakfast dish.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 07:41 PM

Click here for a scrapple recipe that also calls it "pon haus." I guess that must be the spelling for what my grandmother made.
This recipe gives "Pawnhaas" as an alternate spelling.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 07:42 PM

Well Garg, I think we had plenty of substance myself, including the Casa de Scrapple and several good serving suggestions, but I thank you for your addition to the general BS........a good find and indeed the basic recipe.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: michaelr
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 08:54 PM

Gawd, I'd RATHER eat Spam...

Michael

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 09:04 PM

SharonA: I LOVE YOU! Would yak more but I'm loadin' up the Toyota with a couple of coolers and a thermos of coffee and headin' fir Godshell's in Telford, Pa. If I don't get nailed fir speedin' I should be home fir my first scrapple breakfast in 32 years. Did I mention that I love you. Oh well, gotta git....

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 03:00 AM

Man, you folks are giving this nice Jewish boy a regular HEART ATTACK! Pig's sn---no, I can't even say it. But, hey, 'Spaw, speaking of Jewish food (which scrapple assuredly ain't), I imagine that "krepples" must be the plural form of "krepple" or "kreple". Now, in Yiddish, the plural form of "kreple" would be...Kreplach! Enjoy!

Aloha,
Mark
hmmm..."Scrapple from the Pineapple", by Kale "Manu" Paka?

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Blues=Life
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:50 AM

Sharon, I know that shrimp and brown gravy don't go together, and to toss in grits sounds disgusting. I KNOW this, but it really doesn't matter, because the damn mess tastes FANTASTIC. Sometimes mutually exclusive tastes combine to become great combinations. Come to Charleston sometime and try it. Blues

Subject: Krepples and the Dupsha Dove=Midwest humor!
From: SharonA
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 12:07 PM

Blues: Maybe I just will, someday! Don't be surprised if I close my eyes before taking that first bite, though.

Mark: I kinda thought "krepples" was Ohio/Midwest humor, a pun on the name "scrapple". Say "krepples" several times fast and you'll end up saying "scrapple". For similar humor, see the lyrics to Lou and Peter Berryman's song about the Jerdane Bird and the Dupsha Dove, posted here: THE DUPSHA DOVE

...and, of course, Bobert: Yeah, you mentioned that! *BG* (Oooh, somebody loves me!!) Well, y'know what they say about the way to a man's heart....

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: lamarca
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 12:30 PM

I know I've probably contributed to previous threads on scrapple, but I just want to join in the chorus of Yum!s. I love scrapple with a bit of maple syrup drizzled on it - it's that exquisite combo of savory, sweet and grease. We have an Amish/Mennonite farmers' market that sells the best meats I've seen in a long time, and they sell both regular AND turkey scrapple (my husband and I find the turkey scrapple too scary a concept to even think about - I mean, turkey lips....?)

I lived in East Tennessee for 2 years in grad school, and avoided grits like the plague, due to unfortunate childhood memories of lumpy Cream of Wheat. When we went to Grand Bahama this spring, grits and souse were prominant items on every breakfast menu. I got the courage to try the grits again, and found that I loved them - especially with butter, canned milk, salt and syrup on them. I never could bring myself to try the chicken or pork souse for breakfast, but I had the boil-fish one morning - big chunks of grouper or snapper, onions, potatoes, garlic and hot chiles all boiled together. It tasted great with the grits!

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 12:42 PM

Eating like this, it's no wonder we don't see folkies on prime-time TV...

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Micca
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 12:52 PM

When I stayed with Fortunato and Suzette in Dc after the Getaway last year, The b***ard fed me Grits, they were one of the most disgusting items of purported foodstuff ever to pass my lips!!!! I think I will pass on scrapple as I am on a low cholesterol diet!! thanks for the warning , you guys!

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 05:56 PM

Gee, whiz, Micca, with an attitude like that, don't expect to get any poi when you come to Hawaii. And in fact, don't even expect an invitation...anywhere! Sheesh! (stupid smiley face thing goes here)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 30 Apr 02 - 08:08 PM

Haven't had scrapple in a fwe years at any rate and I love the stuff. By the way, where in Ohio, Spaw? I lived in Aurora for a couple of years when i was younger. Grits I can related to if they are done properly. Cream of wheat is best served in this manner Take the recipe and half the amount of water used, add cream of wheat save the box. cook until a thick gelatinous mass. Use product of your endeavour to repair the holes in the walls and eat the box with whatever flavor you desire. the nutritional content will be the same and it will taste better. But SCrapple man, that is great stuff! Right up there with haggis! Yum, yum! Neil

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: RangerSteve
Date: 01 May 02 - 08:39 AM

I've never been good at frying things, but I discovered a slightly more healthy alternative. Put the scrapple on a greased baking sheet and spray the tops with non-stick cooking spray, then bake at 350degrees until the scrapple is nice and brown. It's not as greasy this way.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: SharonA
Date: 01 May 02 - 09:27 AM

Baked scrapple??? Isn't that sacrilegious or something? ;^)

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: MMario
Date: 01 May 02 - 09:34 AM

Heck no!

As far as "Eating like this, it's no wonder we don't see folkies on prime-time TV... " it's not a very far step from grits to polenta which is very much in favour in high price restauraunts these days - or from scrapple to the various flavoured polentas they charge an arm and a leg for; nor from souse and headcheese to Terrine of Pork in Gelatine, or *shudder* Brains in Aspic. (touted on a show recently as "exquisite")

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 02 May 02 - 11:04 AM

Ahh, we're getting into brains!

Evansville, Indiana has two great gastronomic specialties: Open pit barbecue and brain sandwiches! I had never been much for barbecued ribs until I moved to Indiana and discovered open pit barbecue as it is done in Evansville. Usually the ribs are covered with a lot of excessively gloppy sauce. Not the Evansville way. The restaurant will usually give you a little pot of extra sauce if you want it, mild or hot, but just as they come to the table is fine with me! Or if you're not into ribs you can get what they call "pit slices"--sliced barbecued pork--but that's passing up the fun of eating from the bones with your fingers. You also CAN (but I don't understand why anyone would) get the shredded, sloppy stuff some people call barbecue.

Now brain sandwiches: I understand that they are not for the faint of heart, but they are great stuff! The brains are rolled in egg and breaded, then fried. Wonderful!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 May 02 - 01:58 PM

Dave, I dunno' where you got the ribs, but the Dogtown Tavern serves up a mean Brain Sandwich in Evansville......Where'd you get yours?

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 02 May 02 - 07:27 PM

Spaw:

I haven't been to Evansville for some years now, but the two best places for barbecued ribs were Mac's and Wolf's Barbecue. I preferred Wolf's. Mac's may not still be in business.

I don't really remember where I used to get brain sandwiches. Sorry.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Deckman
Date: 02 May 02 - 07:44 PM

Anybody here want to get back to FISH HEAD STEW? CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 May 02 - 08:45 PM

Hey, 'Spaw, better go easy on those brain sandwiches, or you'll be paying old DaVinci another visit. I can't find the numbers offhand, but we're talking HUGE quantities of nearly pure cholesterol here.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 May 02 - 09:21 PM

Thanks Mark, but I haven't had one in years! As a rep, Evansville was at the far end of my territory and I used to have one now and again when I was there. Cholesterol though was never the problem. When I went in for the bypass in '97, I was at 144! Unfortunately my earlier years probably caused a lot more damage!

Now I tell ya' though, I thought of you today when I was perusing a jar of KimChi at the grocery store. Now that stuff may be zilch on cholesterol, but the fumes will kill you!

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: kendall
Date: 02 May 02 - 09:47 PM

Jeri, when I read your post, it was the first time in ages that I laughed 'til the tears came! Folks, it just goes to prove, you cant please everyone. Hell, I know folks who dont like lobster!

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Bobert
Date: 02 May 02 - 11:00 PM

A second thanks to SharonA and her turning me on the "Godshall's". I have just ordered ten pounds of "turkey scrapple" (sans the pig) and now know from werest the company got it's name: God shall's will prvide the bobert with SCRAPPLE! YUMMY SCRAPPLE. Thank you, God...folk.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Ely
Date: 02 May 02 - 11:05 PM

When we lived in Denver, some friends of ours from our Quaker meeting (who were from New Jersey--it must be that scrapple and Quakers converged in the Pennsylvania vicinity) would bring it to Christmas Eve breakfast every year. People came very close to doing some remarkably un-Quakerly things to get to it before the supply ran out.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Den at work
Date: 03 May 02 - 01:14 PM

And here was me thinking it was a word game for dyslexics. Its a bad day when you don't learn something new. Den

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 May 02 - 02:11 PM

It's no wonder the line is from a song called "People my age, have started looking gross"

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 May 02 - 02:17 PM

Of course we HAD to get Scrapple for the MudGathering breakfast!

Grits & redeye gravy from the venison stew! YEAH!

~Susan

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 03 May 02 - 03:25 PM

I got stuck between two Korean gentlemen on a flight from Miami to Buenos Aires some years ago who were eating Kim Chi. Fumes were enough to knock a buzzard off a hioney wagon at a thousand yards and still melt the tar underneath. Sure hope the Hell it tastes better than it smells or that would be some truely heinous fare. Baked scrapple? That does have possibilities. Hmmm.. Kindest regards, neil

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Blues=Life
Date: 03 May 02 - 03:35 PM

Den, I take great exception to the crack about dyslexics, "And here was me thinking it was a word game for dyslexics." As a proud member of the DNA, the National Dyslexia Association, I.... oh, never mind. ;-) Blues

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Pseudolus
Date: 03 May 02 - 04:21 PM

Oooooo, the PC police are-a-comin, I can just feel it!

:)
Frank

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,jaze
Date: 03 May 02 - 05:29 PM

When I moved from the Philly area to W. Va. I craved scrapple(and soft pretzels) because they didn't have them there. Habersets scrapple was famous in the Philly area. Not something you could eat all the time but a nice change from bacon. Now I want some!

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: SharonA
Date: 03 May 02 - 05:45 PM

Bobert, you are quite welcome. I used to live in the town next to Telford (and I do mean "next" – cross the street and you've changed towns), so I've seen locally-produced turkey scrapple in the local supermarkets up there. In fact, that whole area is rife with meat-packing plants. I can still smell the unmistakable aroma of the trucks full of pigs headed for the plant down the street on those sweltering August days... ahhhh, memories... *G*

Anyway, I sure hope you like Godshall's turkey scrapple, especially if you're really buying TEN POUNDS of the stuff!!! Remember what I said earlier about different companies' scrapple having different flavors, different recipes for spicing, etc.? I've found only one other turkey-scrapple-seller on the internet, but there must be more out there. If you're interested in comparing flavors, that other seller I found is Eberly Poultry, a company near Ephrata, PA that specializes in organic products (free-range chicken and such): http://www.eberlypoultry.com/index.htm (it doesn't appear that they ship products to customers; however, there is a multi-state "where to buy" list).

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 03 May 02 - 06:01 PM

Ephrata? Why, that's not too far from Hershey, where I went to medical school. Maybe you can find chocolate-covered scrapple.....

Actually, I was surprised to learn from this thread that scrapple was not an exclusively Philadelphian culinary tradition, like cheesesteaks, hoagies, soft pretzels, and poi. (Aha--just wanted to see if you were paying attention!) Never ate the stuff myself, but I remember they served it at Horn & Hardart's restaurant on Roosevelt Boulevard (yes, I know H&H started in New York, but it was also a Philadelphia tradition...)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: SharonA
Date: 03 May 02 - 06:30 PM

Mark: Ah, a Hershey Medical grad, eh? Excellent! I'm not sure you'll find chocolate-covered anything out there before long, if the Hershey Foods strike drags out. Better stock up on those Kisses while you can!

Speaking of junk food, I'd like to add to your list of exclusively Philadelphian culinary traditions the inimitable Tastykake. IMO, Tastykakes don't taste quite as good now as they used to when no one outside the Philly area had ever heard of them, but they're still pretty darned good. I haven't quite forgiven them, though, for changing the name "Tandy Takes" to "Kandy Kakes".

But I digress. Back to the wonders of scrapple (and wondering how long it'll take Bobert to eat ten pounds of it!).

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 May 02 - 07:00 PM

Well Sharon, I buy my regular scrapple in loaves of about 5 pounds each and I use two loaves about every 6 months. Now if it wasn't such a fat/cholesterol disaster, I could easily go through 10 pounds in a month and never tire of it.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Georgetownboy
Date: 03 May 02 - 07:11 PM

Although I have lived Tennessee for a long time, I am from the Delmarva peninsular, where scrapple is great treat. You can make it from hog head, but you can also use a pork butt or any other piece of pork with bone. Boil off the meat meat til it is almost falling from the bone, cool and chop fine. Measure the meat, add two parts cornmeal for each three parts meat. We season it with salt, pepper, sage, nutmeg and cayenne. Add all back into the broth and cook til it gets thick, about an hour, stirring all the while. Pour into loaf pans an chill. Unmold as you need it, slice and fry. You can also use oatmeal instead of cornmeal. Haslet Stew is made at "Hog Killing Time," Take the the heart, liver and lights(lungs) and cut up cut into dice, dredge in flour, fry in lard with onions, reduce heat add water and simmer for several hours. This was my Daddy's favorite food.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 03 May 02 - 07:59 PM

Sharon, do you know I can buy TastyKakes in the KTA Supermarket here in Hilo? I agree, they should never have changed TandyTakes. My favorites were cherry and peach pie, and Butterscotch Krimpets. By the way, for my birthday party in my first year of med school at Hershey, one of my classmates gave me a special present: a Nestle's Crunch Bar! (She had to go all the way to Harrisburg to get it.)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,JJ
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 09:35 PM

I'm originally from PA. and live in MO. now. They have a brand of scrapple in PA called Habbersett's, that I think is the best tasting brand I have ever tasted. Just thought you might like to try it.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Scoville
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 11:52 AM

One of our f/Friends used to bring it to Christmas breakfast at meeting and there was a lot of very unQuakerly elbowing and shoving to get to it.

I know better than to eat it often but I do when I can get it. Somebody mentioned Mexican chorizo, which sounds like a good idea for a variation . . .





I don't know how everyone's bitching about grits. There's nothing offensive about grits (except when people get snotty and call them "polenta"). Little bit of salt, little bit of pepper, maybe some garlic and shredded sharp cheese, or an egg on top. Good stuff. It amazes me that Midwesterners, for all they surround themselves with corn, can't make a decent bowl of grits.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 12:04 PM

Can someone explain to me why they assume that scrapple is high in either cholesterol or saturated fats? Of course, if you fry it in butter...

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 12:05 PM

People assume anything made with pork is fatty. (And some scrapple I've had *is* very fatty - but most is not)

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 01:31 PM

Pork, oddly enough, is considerably less fatty than beef--as long as you trim it. Most of the fat is in a single thick layer, rather than marbled thoughout. And in any case, whatever fat is in the pork by-products (read wast and scrap) used is considerably diluted by the large amount of cereal used.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Jim Bob Boy
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 02:30 PM

I like it and I don't want to know what it is. I might loose my apetite if I knew.

JBB

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 10:37 PM

SharonA and Mark Cohen--Jelly Crimpets were my favorite Tastycake. And lets not forget the best ice cream ever-Breyers! Another Philly traditon.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 03:49 AM

So it doesn't have apples in it then....

LTS

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 04:13 AM

No Liz, and just to prove it, in east Ohio where it is real popular as well, we call it "Krepples." Don't ask, I have no idea......

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 04:19 AM

But it all seems to be based around the root word 'crap'.....

LTS

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,calcynic
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 02:41 PM

they do use assholes...it's where we get our rennets...a culturing and souring agent (Junket Rennet Custard).

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Folkiedave
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 04:24 PM

I was fed this in Pennsylvania along with other myriad of foods I had not eaten before.

I was told that it was the scrapings of the abattoir floor and was best eaten fried and with maple syrup. My wife tried it and said it tasted of fried maple syrup.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Nov 07 - 04:42 PM

Its not either of the above.....Read the thread.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 08:31 AM

"What is scrapple?"

An abomination. Nuff said.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 11:39 AM

Bloody disgoostin' is what it is.


100

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 11:53 AM

I hesitate in accepting food criticism from anyplace where mushy peqs and bacon butties are considered delicacies.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GLoux
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 11:58 AM

Scrapple originated from the "waste not, want not" belief of farm life for the Pennsylvania Dutch/Germans.

-Greg

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 12:29 PM

"Its not either of the above....."

oh, but it is. I was the one who described it to Dave as the scrapings off the abbatoir floor, and I stand by that.

I'm not one to wantonly diss honest food, especially honest food which has come out of poverty. Some of the best food in the world falls into this category (for instance, I'll not hear a word said against brawn, or "head cheese" - lovely stuff).

But scrapple is vile. The texture is kind of soft and mushy. The taste is indescribably awful. To smell it cooking makes me feel ill. It's like Irish white pudding gone horribly, horribly wrong.

And don't get me started on canned corned beef hash...

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GLoux
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 02:43 PM

Sounds like you're basing your opinion on poorly-prepared scrapple. If you ate scrapple that had a soft and mushy texture, like pudding, it was not properly prepared and must have been disgusting. No wonder you don't like it.

There is a range of both quality and spicings across the various brands that are available around the Philadelphia area, and butcher shops each have their own recipes. If it is quality scrapple and is properly prepared, it's delicious. A whole lot of people agree.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 03:09 PM

I had all but forgotten this thread but now that it is back, the Godshall's turkey scapple was delicious... Might of fact I reckon I ougtta order me up another 10 pounds...

Now the way to cook it is fried in a cast iron fry pan... Alll you gotta do is thrown jsut a little butter or olive oil in the bottom so9 as to keep it from stickin' to the pan... Now here's the way I like it: thinly sliced and fried until it's crisp on both sides...

Yummmmmeeeeeeee...

Bobert

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GLoux
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 03:27 PM

Joe Offer wrote:

My French-Canadian grandmother used to make something called Pfannhaus, or something like that. She was married to a German, and probably got it from his family. She died in 1958, and the recipe died with her. As I recall, it was much smoother and milder than scrapple. She'd bake it like a meat loaf, and then my mom would cut off cold slices and fry them and serve them with syrup. As I recall, it was like heaven to eat it - but I haven't had it since I was ten. Anybody know anything about it?

Joe,

I've got a great Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook that parenthetically includes the Pennsylvania Dutch names for each of the recipes. There is a recipe for Scrapple (Panhaas), so I'm gonna guess that it was scrapple. Are you sure she baked it? This recipe calls for it to be cooked stovetop into a mashed potato-like consistency, then poured into loaf pans, allowed to cool, then covered and refrigerated overnight. Next day, turn out the loaves and cut into thick slices and fry in a hot, greased skillet. If your grandmother's homemade scrapple was smoother and milder than commercial scrapple, that would be because she ground the meat finer and spiced it milder...probably her secret, or her in-law's secret recipe. You might try to locate your grandmother's cookbooks...a family member may have them. My brother has my grandmother's cookbook that I know has a scrapple recipe in it.

By the way, Pennsylvania Dutch aren't Dutch at all...they're Deutsche (German).

-Greg

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 03:32 PM

Ruth, you don't know shit from shinola.(;<))

And I could care less if its made from 10 day old road kill, I love the stuff!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GLoux
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 03:37 PM

Bobert,

You're absolutely right about how to fry it. I'll add that you shouldn't try to flip it until it is nicely crisp, or you'll risk breaking the slices.

-Greg

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GLoux
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 03:38 PM

Down south, they call it Livermush.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 04:36 PM

Actually G, I've had both and they're different. Livermush distinctly tastes of liver. I like it but it ain't Krepples. Also had some all beef scrapple which was kinda' weird.

Way back at the beginning of this thread many years ago, I sugggested and still do now that you slice regular pork scrapple a little thick, cook it in bacon grease (oils are okay but bacon grease is the thing!), and get it crispy on the outside and soft in the middle.

I've been eating this stuff all my life on a regular basis and finding good scrapple is getting harder and harder.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 05:28 PM

my dad was from Philly. He grew up on the stuff, and it featured in breakfasts throughout my childhood. My mother sliced it and fried it so it was crisp on the outside, and retained softness inside. It was stll vile.

Shit? Shineola? Presumably these are its principal components?

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GLoux
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 05:44 PM

Actually, we're both right...Livermush definitely has a liver taste, but the recipe I referred to earlier in my Pennsylvania Dutch Cookbook has as for its meat ingredients:

1 pork heart
1 pound meaty pork ribs
2 pounds pork liver

I admit I've never made this recipe, but I have to believe it has to have a distinct liver taste. I'll also admit that the commercial scrapple from around Philadelphia (Parks, Hatfield, Habersett have been mentioned here) don't have the distinct liver taste of livermush. But when I've served scrapple for my southern visitors, they call it livermush. When I've had it, I think of livermush as scrapple made predominantly with liver.

I've eaten scrapple all my life, too. And I'm Pennsylvania Dutch. My dad would fry it up for Sunday morning breakfast. I do the same for my kids. My grandmother's cookbook recipe for scrapple calls for scraping out two split hog heads (I remember reading that as a boy)...I expect that recipe would taste different still, but I don't think I'll try that one. I've enjoyed a wide variety of scrapples.

And I think this thread is motivating me to make homemade scrapple from the recipe I have, from: Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking by William Woys Weaver published by Abbeville Press. If I make it, I'll report back here with the results.

-Greg Loux (pronounced like "loud", but with a hard "x" or "cks", 'cause it's German.)

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GLoux
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 06:08 PM

But scrapple is vile. The texture is kind of soft and mushy. The taste is indescribably awful. To smell it cooking makes me feel ill. It's like Irish white pudding gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Sure sounds crunchy to me. Sounds like you were made to eat poorly prepared scrapple as a child and it scarred you for life. You are not dissing scrapple; you're insulting it. I've had food I've not enjoyed, but I never had to insult it.

Does mayonaise make you angry?

-Greg

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 06:14 PM

Pretty much the same experiences Greg. Now in the Swiss/Amish country of east Ohio I will never know why we call it "Krepples."

In any case, I don't think I've ever met a Scrapple I didn't like, but the quality varies. The "All Beef" loaf I got from someone in PA. but I can't remember the name......Martin Farm maybe? It was pretty good but there was just something almost too lean, too meaty. I have never tried the turkey version that Bobertz got though.....Somehow I just can't imagine it. On the other hand I have used a lot of turkey sausage so why not?


Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 06:27 PM

Livermush an' scrapple is teo different things... You go into a Harris-Teeter in North Caroline and they are both sold in the same palce in the store but one is lievermush and the other scrapple...

I use to have a friend who made scrapple and he used parts of the pigs head to make it... Livermush uses the liver & is distinctly darker... And meatier...

B~

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Jeri
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 06:41 PM

First and only time I had it was once when my whole office went camping. I woke up one morning to the sound of loons and the smell of this stuff frying. I was starving, it smelled amazing and it tasted wonderful. I should point out that it was home made by my boss's brother. He made it every year and sent it to my boss. I've tried the Jimmy Dean stuff. On a scale of 1 to 10, with my boss's scrapple being a 10, Jimmy Dean would be about 4. Edible, but nothing like the rapturous experience of eating a slab of carefully seasoned ground-up critter parts in a campground on the edge of a lake.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 06:53 PM

Jeri, I think that's because camp cooking done well in iron skillets and Dutch Ovens makes everything taste really special.....I'm sure that was excellent scrapple but frying up anything out there in the fire with the woods and lake smells, the cool dampness, etc.........yeah............

We need a campfire cooking thread.........

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 02:59 AM

"I've had food I've not enjoyed, but I never had to insult it.

Does mayonaise make you angry?"

Well, that depends. Kraft mayonnaise does, actually. *Gag*

Lighten up, chap - it's only food. It cannot feel. It has no self-esteem to be damaged.

In the UK, there's an ad campaign for Marmite (yeast extract - another abomination). The whole campaign - which is quite funny - is based on the fact that some people love it, and some people really, really hate it. So the ads either end with the words "My mate Marmite" or "I hate Marmite". Scrapple similarly divides people, it seems.

Just to prove I'm not castng nasturtiums at Pennsylvania Dutch cookery in general, I love a good shoofly pie. Apple butter is the food of the gods. And they make the best baked ham in the whole world round Lancaster, PA.

Am I forgiven?

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: billybob
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 08:20 AM

My brother in law in Pennsauken NJ has scrapple every time he goes out to breakfast, he introduced us to it when we last visited. Any relation to the black pudding and white pudding served up for breakfastin Ireland?

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Art Thieme
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 10:35 AM

When we were kids, we used to go out into the forrest and throw it at each other.

When we missed, we took note of the fact that, unless we hit a tree, the scrapple didn't fall far from the tree---!! ;-)

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 11:44 AM

Just to prove I'm not castng nasturtiums at Pennsylvania Dutch cookery in general, I love a good shoofly pie.


   Do you like your bottom wet or dry.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Art Thieme
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 03:15 PM

As I get older, I prefer dry! But alas, that all Depends...
Art

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 03:20 PM

wet every time.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: PoppaGator
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 03:45 PM

Two questions:

1) Why is this not down in BS? Is the thread so old that it predates creation of the "below-the-line" section?

2) Am I correct in remembering Shoo-Fly Pie as being pretty much the same as pecan pie, but without the pecans?

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 04:00 PM

Its above the line because scrapple, like possums, holds a special place in Mudcat lore. So do grits. And Ruth, you need to read through all the Marmite vs. Vegemite threads around here. As you say, they too have a love/hate thing going. I love it, prefer Vegemite myself, but have both in the house and I'm an American for chrissakes!

On the other hand, I see you have no taste at all(:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 04:19 PM

Pleb. Marmite is evil.

Now Gentleman's Relish - that's WORTH smearing on your toast!

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,heather
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 07:03 PM

scrapple is pork (pig) it has intestins, heart, tougue, skin, alot of organs.. its really good though :D

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: bobad
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 07:09 PM

I was glad to see by Google that Gentleman's Relish is a real foodstuff and not a euphemism.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 08:22 PM

I see most of the Scrapple recipe links seem to have died.

It sounds good to me. Probably improved by mixing in a bit of Marmite.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 08:25 PM

It's a game played with lotsa little wooden squares with letters on them.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 11:25 AM

My adopted Mom, who just passed away at 100, was from a large Mennonite family based in rural Kansas. Their ancestors had come from Holland and Germany. Her particular group came from a region south of present day Ukraine, formerly part of Prussia. They adapted their folk recipes to utilize locally available produce, etc. Scrapple is best known as a Pennsylvania Dutch specialty, but it is simply part of the "nothing wasted" school of cooking common to most Mennonite communities of an earlier era.

Subject: RE: What's 'Scrapple'?????
From: TIA
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 01:47 PM

It is exactly what it says it is...right there in the middle part.