Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Let's Scrapple

Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name panhaas or "pan rabbit,"[1][2] is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. The mush is formed into a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then pan-fried before serving. Scraps of meat left over from butchering, not used or sold elsewhere, were made into scrapple to avoid waste. Scrapple is best known as a rural American food of the Mid-Atlantic states (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia). Scrapple and panhaas are commonly considered an ethnic food of the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Mennonites and Amish. Scrapple is found in supermarkets throughout the region in both fresh and frozen refrigerated cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

Sounds delicious, no? Let's take all the bits and pieces and junk of the pig and mix it with cornmeal and eat it? Sure. The sad part is it's not even that much cheaper than sausage. I got a 1lb "loaf" for $2.30 on sale. I can get low tier sausage for $2.80/lb on the reg. Still, I bought some and ate it. Here are pics.


Ingredients: pork stock, pork livers, pork snout, pork heart, cornmeal, spices! Yummy!


Slice it and fry it. You really want it to get crispy as sin.


Serve with egg, toast, and liberally apply tobasco. The great thing is that you think you are eating sausage, but it's mostly cornmeal so yeah it's weird as hell when you eat it.

Overall: I'd eat it again if it was cheaper.

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