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----- Original Message ----- From: "Deanna Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 7:53 AM Subject: Re: Some good news? | Did anyone see "Manor House" on PBS? Apparently, hog's head was a common | Edwardian delicacy. The cheeks, especially, are supposed to be delicious. | | Me, I prefer cheese and chili tamales. Mmmm. | -d | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:12 AM | Subject: Re: Some good news? | | | > not "were" but "are" still made that way! | > | > This is still a holiday family tradition among Tex-mex families in the | South | > Texas area, especially the financially challenged. | > | > Specialty meat markets, and now even the big chain grocers sell hogs heads | for | > the purposes. | > They are usually boiled whole until done then scraped. I don't think the | > tongue, ears or eyes are used, but most everything else is. | > | > The area, being a big pork production area, and has a number of pork | packing | > plants, hogs head is about as cheap as you can get, thus is very popular | for | > this very labor intensive production of quantizes of tamales. Use of hogs | head | > is not a gross as the name implies. | > | > Googling for tamale recipes, brings up sites that are not in the South | Central | > Texas area, and as a result the recipes have been "localized" and while | they are | > called traditional, they vary quite widely from the traditional. | > | > There are family owned tamale "plants" that only operate during the | Christmas - | > New Year time frame, and can employ up to 150 family members making | tamales for | > sale. One must usually make reservations a week to ten days ahead of | time or | > you cannot even buy them. Even then, on the day of purchase, lines form | a | > block long, and usually make the TV news. It is widely accepted that this | "home | > made" tamale is far superior than the usual factory made product. Fresh | hogs | > head, fresh garlic, Cilantro, and other local chilies are used. | > | > ====================================== | > Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! | > For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com | > ISP rated: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 | > ====================================== | > If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! | > | > ----- Original Message ----- | > From: "Harkins,Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:52 AM | > Subject: RE: Some good news? | > | > | > | tamales were made with hog's head? | > | | > | | > | >-----Original Message----- | > | >From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | >Sent: June 13, 2003 10:50 AM | > | >To: CF-Community | > | >Subject: Re: Some good news? | > | > | > | > | > | >Scrapple used similar ingredients that the Mexicans use in | > | >making Tamales. And | > | >they are a delicacy! | > | > | > | >Course ground corn meal = masa | > | >principal source of meat for filling = hogs head | > | > | > | >yummmmmmmmm | > | > | > | | > | | > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
