tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post8881084046470624132..comments2023-11-29T07:39:34.401+00:00Comments on Carla Nayland Historical Fiction: September recipe: Sausage and apple ragoutCarlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-85506901739254208662007-10-13T15:38:00.000+01:002007-10-13T15:38:00.000+01:00Eigon - glad you enjoyed it! Our school didn't go...Eigon - glad you enjoyed it! Our school didn't go in for learning poetry by heart, so I tend to know odd lines and couplets but rarely the whole poem - something else to get round to one day!Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-89157043039803403882007-10-13T14:39:00.000+01:002007-10-13T14:39:00.000+01:00Delicious recipe - thanks!"...and by a cider press...Delicious recipe - thanks!<BR/><BR/>"...and by a cider press, with patient look, thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours...."<BR/><BR/>To Autumn was one of the poems I had to learn by heart at school, and I still have most of it.Eigonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11368838188678418192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-36987725054921567612007-10-06T16:11:00.000+01:002007-10-06T16:11:00.000+01:00Hello Orion and welcome! Hope you enjoy the recip...Hello Orion and welcome! Hope you enjoy the recipe, and the rest of the blog.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-73480371924317782772007-10-05T20:11:00.000+01:002007-10-05T20:11:00.000+01:00So this is what happens when I go blog trolling! I...So this is what happens when I go blog trolling! I found you from Bernita's blog and now I have a recipe to try! Good fun!ORIONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534064935115027523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-68158170076816009312007-10-04T13:23:00.000+01:002007-10-04T13:23:00.000+01:00Megumi - are the recipes all that unique? They're...Megumi - are the recipes all that unique? They're all dishes I cook regularly at various times of year, depending what's in season.<BR/><BR/>I wonder who first discovered the happy marriage of apples and pork? It probably goes back to the days of Ug the cave man.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-26684398863528023322007-10-03T21:30:00.000+01:002007-10-03T21:30:00.000+01:00You always have the most unique recipes on your bl...You always have the most unique recipes on your blog! And it's amazing how apple and pork just go together so well.Meghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03375626649089998707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-81543376022596719902007-10-03T19:42:00.000+01:002007-10-03T19:42:00.000+01:00Gabriele - I think I'd describe them as interestin...Gabriele - I think I'd describe them as interesting rather than pretty, myself..... :-)Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-81990834263658636612007-10-03T17:01:00.000+01:002007-10-03T17:01:00.000+01:00Lol Alianore, the ugly black things I find in the ...Lol Alianore, the ugly black things I find in the bathtub aren't worth a pic. Tarantulas at least are pretty - securely behing glass. :)Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-73759340067248315712007-10-02T10:41:00.000+01:002007-10-02T10:41:00.000+01:00Bernita - yes, apples and pork seem to be traditio...Bernita - yes, apples and pork seem to be traditional partners. Red cabbage is another traditional accompaniment to both.<BR/><BR/>Alianore - well, spiders are quite sensible and when the weather turns cold and damp at this time of year they come into houses looking for warm dry places to snuggle down in for the winter. Which is why you tend to see them in autumn. Fortunately we don't get tarantulas!<BR/><BR/>We have three apple trees, one cooking apple of unknown variety and two eating apples. We had quite a good crop this year (so we ate a lot of this casserole and its variants!). I heard on Gardeners' Question Time that apparently it was a good season for fruit in the UK, but maybe that only applied to some areas. If your mother's trees were caught by an unlucky late frost at blossom time that could take most of the flowers off and there goes the crop. I'd guess apples don't mind cool damp weather, since they turn up in Norse mythology and therefore presumably grow in Scandinavia.<BR/><BR/>Yes, it's from Keats' poem "To Autumn". There's even a line in it especially about apple trees, something like "fill fruit with ripeness and bend with apples the mossy cottage trees", though I admit I can't quote the whole poem verbatim!<BR/><BR/>Elizabeth - hope they enjoy it! Glad to hear the plum compote recipe is still proving useful. Something like it could have been made easily enough in the Middle Ages, I should think, with honey instead of sugar. Ginger would likely have been for posh folks only, though!Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-83650689820082476502007-10-01T22:49:00.000+01:002007-10-01T22:49:00.000+01:00Sounds the sort of thing I would like a lot and th...Sounds the sort of thing I would like a lot and that the dh won't touch with a barge pole (total wuss, I despair). My parents will love this, so I will alert them to the recipe - thanks!<BR/>We're still eating your plum compote recipe from last year. I took some to a re-enactment do in Sherwood forest last Sunday and it was much appreciated.Elizabeth Chadwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911841862257909703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-17221567742628225092007-10-01T18:50:00.000+01:002007-10-01T18:50:00.000+01:00Sounds yummy! (But what is it with the spider ment...Sounds yummy! (But what is it with the spider mentions at the moment?! Gabriele even has a picture of a tarantula up on her blog! ;)<BR/><BR/>Do you have your own apple trees, Carla? My mum has a few in her orchard, but hasn't had a good crop this year - because of the terrible summer weather, I suppose.<BR/><BR/>Is the 'Season of mists...' quote from John Keats?Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-14848555876508942022007-10-01T09:14:00.000+01:002007-10-01T09:14:00.000+01:00Nice.Sounds something like one I've done using shr...Nice.<BR/>Sounds something like one I've done using shredded cabbage instead of the peas. Apple and pork have gone together a long time haven't they?Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.com