That’s incredibly kind and truly appreciated. Glad you’ll be around for what’s to come, and please let me know if there’s something from history you’d like me to explore!
I can't help but think that a home cook of the era would have looked at it and thought, "Well, I wouldn't have gone with the head, never saw a duck in the market that you cooked with the head still on", but otherwise a magnificent effort. Have a subscription.
I had the same agonising debate with myself. In the end, I sided with the voice that said: “given you’re this bad at arts and sculpture even without the use of sausage meat, would your family even know what it was supposed to be without some cheap comic attempt at a duck’s head and beak?” Thanks so much for subscribing!
"Well, it's, er... it's smiling at me!" (A Christmas Story, admittedly set in the USA in 1940, referring to a cooked Peking duck with the head still on.)
Possibly the best yet mainly because you can actually eat the result. Are you sure the little girl did not help you with 'duck fashioning'?! Loving them.x
Thank you! Though, in my defence, I see my role here as trying these so you can know whether or not they’re worth trying. Like a public service no-one asked for.
I used to hear stories from my family about victory gardens and British restaurants and the strange foods that the US brought in like powdered eggs and SPAM.
All very true from what I’ve read and heard too. I’ve actually covered this in some of my previous episodes. Check out First School Dinners if you’re interested. Thanks for watching!
I suspect your onion chopping skills look more impressive to me than they ought (I'm not great at chopping onions), but nevertheless I was very impressed. Would veggie sausagemeat (maybe mixed with 10% meaty sausagemeat) have borne more resemblance to Second World War sausages? (This may be a daft idea on my part - it's quarter to four in the morning when I'm writing this.) Looked uncommonly delicious for Second World War food!
Thank you! I tried really hard to find some records from WW1 butchers to see what the meat ratios would have been like, but there’s not much record beyond an understanding that it was pretty low. Though it could have been worse: during WW1, the kaiser ordered that most intestines used for sausage casing should go into zeppelin production instead. So some may argue at least we had something!
