What's 'Scrapple'?????

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: 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 - 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: SharonA
Date: 01 May 02 - 09:27 AM

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: michaelr
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 08:54 PM

Gawd, I'd RATHER eat Spam...

Michael

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Don Firth
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:04 PM

All things in moderation—including moderation itself.

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 - 04:52 PM

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

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 - 04:28 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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