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  • Roly Polys

    This isn't really a recipe for transforming your crop, but being a child of the 50s and 60s I was bought up on a lot of really "not good for you" food. Realising tonight I had absolutely nothing to cook with (fridge and cupboards bare for some reason) I suddenly thought of this old favourite of my mother's and boy was it delicious!

    Make some suet pastry (actually I cheated and used a Dumpling Mix!), roll it out into a rectangle, add chopped onion, grated cheese and a bit of dried origano (sorry Mum you wouldn't have done that!). Then just rolled it up, sealed the ends, placed it on a baking sheet, glazed with milk and cooked for 30 minutes in the oven.

    Tonight we had it with stir fry cabbage (with onions, garlic and cashew nuts).

    I'll not be doing it too often as I imagine it was pretty high on the calorific front , but it was lovely. (Mum also used to do it with bacon and onion which is more traditional I think.)
    ~
    Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
    ~ Mary Kay Ash

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    Jenny, yes I grew up in that era too, and remember dishes like this. Beef stew and dumplings, bacon & onion suet roly poly, etc. I don't think the food is bad, it's just that people lived a much more active lifestyle then so needed the calories the food provided. Also, the food may have been high in calories but it was fresh - no packaged, high in salt and additives convenience food.

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    • #3
      Jennie
      Roly polys are done in a pudding cloth and steamed arn't they? one reason to look forward to winter but the oven method sounds good, I will give it a try.
      Sue

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      • #4
        Sue - we never had them done in a pudding cloth, always baked in the oven.

        Now a jam one with a crispy suet pastry and lashings of custard ...... perhaps Ill do that tomorrow night!
        ~
        Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
        ~ Mary Kay Ash

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        • #5
          Originally posted by JennieAtkinson View Post
          Sue - we never had them done in a pudding cloth, always baked in the oven.

          Now a jam one with a crispy suet pastry and lashings of custard ...... perhaps Ill do that tomorrow night!
          do you have lumps in the custard if so can i pop round jacob
          What lies behind us,And what lies before us,Are tiny matters compared to what lies Within us ...
          Ralph Waide Emmerson

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          • #6
            My Dad used to make the custard so thick you could have a slice!

            Do you like lumpy custard jacob?
            ~
            Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
            ~ Mary Kay Ash

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