Culinary Delights

[Subdeacon Joe]

EDIT:  That was weird.  When I highlighted it, all the text showed up.  Take 2 on this.

 

 

https://www.loc.gov/item/96126967/

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12815

 

 

To alamode a round of Beef.

To a 14 or 16 pound round of beef, put one once salt-petre, 48 hours after stuff it with the following: one and half pound of beef, one pound salt pork, two pound grated bread, chop all fine and rub in half pound butter, salt, pepper and cayenne, summer savory, thyme; lay it on scewers in a large pot, over three pints hot water (which it must occasionally be supplied with,) the steam of which in 4 or 5 hours will render the round tender if over a moderate fire; when tender, take away the gravy and thicken with flour and butter, and boil, brown the round with butter and flour, adding ketchup and wine to your taste.

To alamode a round.

Take fat pork cut in slices or mince, season it with pepper, salt sweet marjoram and thyme, cloves, mace and nutmeg, make holes in the beef and stuff it the night before cooked; put some bones across the bottom of the pot to keep from burning, put in one quart Claret wine, one quart water and one onion; lay the round on the bones, cover close and stop it round the top with dough; hang on in the morning and stew gently two hours; when done tender, grate a crust of bread on the top and brown it before the fire; scum the gravy and serve in a butter boat, serve it with the residue of the gravy in the dish.

[Alpo]

I didn't see any mention of ice cream in that recipe.

[Subdeacon Joe]

2 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I didn't see any mention of ice cream in that recipe.

 

What does ice cream have to do with it?

[Alpo]

Pie alamode is pie with ice cream on it. Logic says that your beef ala mode recipe should also include ice cream.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Just now, Alpo said:

Pie alamode is pie with ice cream on it. Logic says that your beef ala mode recipe should also include ice cream.

 

Nope. When applied to beef a la mode means stewed or braised with wine and/or herbs. 

 

A la mode doesn't just mean "with ice cream." 

[Alpo]

So the French don't even know how to speak French?

 

Al a mode means ice cream, except when it means stewed.

 

That's worse than i before e except after c.

[Pat Riot]

à la mode

adjective

\ ˌä-lə-ˈmōd  , ˌa-lə- \

variants:  or less commonly a la mode

Definition of à la mode

1: FASHIONABLE, STYLISH

2: topped with ice cream

 

Merriam-Webster

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/à la mode

[Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438]

Actually, a la mode means "according to the fashion", and can be applied to any number of dishes (as well as to clothing, furniture and other items).  In common usage, pie a la mode is served with ice cream, but that is simply the current fashion.  "A la mode" does not translate to "with ice cream".

 

LL

[Subdeacon Joe]

From "The Lion In Winter:"
 

Eleanor:  I don't much care. In fact, I wonder, Henry, if I care for anything. I wonder if I'm hungry out of habit and if all my lusts, like passions in a poem, aren't really recollections.		They remain seated.
Henry:  I could listen to you lie for hours. So your lust is rusty. Gorgeous, gorgeous.
Eleanor:  I'm so tired, Henry.
Henry:  Sleep, then. Sleep and dream of me with croutons. Henri a la mode de Caen.
Eleanor:  Henry, stop it.
Henry:  Eleanor, I haven't started.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

4 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Nope. When applied to beef a la mode means stewed or braised with wine and/or herbs. 

 

Ala mode doesn't just mean "with ice cream." 

Say it ain't so, Joe

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Steak à la mode, anyone...?  

 

 

                       

[DeaconKC]

Anyone else remember the original Japanese Iron Chef? Saw one of their champions make trout ice cream once....

[watab kid]

im hungry - ill take my steak with or whiteout ice cream , but i want it medium rare - bit pink in the middle but warm throughout , and soon please