/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9493656
Always thougt this was a joke. How would you go about deep frying butter? Wouldn't it melt immediately?

>>9399872
>Lots of great culinary inventions came from poorer people who needed to get creative to make tasty food out of what they could afford.
Agreed, but that wasn't the case during the Depression. Depression Era cooking was top down from Elanor Roosevelt in league with Home Economists and Cornell developing recipes based on the misguided understanding of nutrition they had at the time. And how were these Home Economists? Upper middle class WASP women who valued a scientific and pragmatic approach to food rather than one based on taste. The kinds of dishes they popularized were shit. Shit like carrots and spaghetti in white sauce, liver loaf and prune pudding for dessert. It was not food that came from poor people being clever. It was from test kitchens where people with other priorities than taste were working out the cheapest possible ways to get some nutrition into people who had little or almost no money for food. For the most part it was really grim stuff.

Pic related is a good read on the topic.

>>9232438
From pic related:

Creamed Spaghetti With Carrots
1 1/2 cups broken spaghetti
3 Tbs margarine
3 Tbs flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
3 cups fresh or diluted evaporated milk
1 1/2 cups cooked carrots

Clean and scrape carrots, cut in long, narrow slices and cook until tender in a small amount of salted water. Cook spaghetti until tender (about 25 min) in 3 quarts of boiled water to which has been added 1 1/2 Tbs of salt. Drain. Melt fat, add flour and seasonings and blend thoroughly. Pout in the milk and stir until thick and smooth. Cook for 5 minutes longer. Put one half of spaghetti in baking dish, cover with 1/2 carrots then add 1/2 sauce. Repeat using remaining ingredients. Bake in a moderate oven for 15 to 20 minutes.

>>8884485
If you're fascinated by the dark ages of 20th Century American food you might want to read A Square Meal, by Ziegleman and Coe. Really gives some context as to how economic and political forces coupled with misguided values and science really fucked up American cuisine.