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Urgent help about Ancient Greek Food needed
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Posted by goldhills via Gympie, Qld (My Page) on Mon, Feb 20, 06 at 21:54
| My son kindly informed me that he needs an Ancient Greek Food recipe made by tomorrow for an assignment at school - he is making it this afternoon. He gave me a recipe, written out quickly on a piece of paper by a mate, without a name. He said they got it from the internet and told me to look it up if I wanted to but he didn't know the site - just said search Greek food! Yeah right!
My problem is I'm not sure if the quantities are right. It is only a simple recipe. All that is written down is 6 hardboiled eggs, juice of 2 lemons, 1/2 cup oil, 1/4 cup mustard, salt & pepper. He said just cut eggs into 1/4s, mix up the rest and pour over. We don't use mustard a lot and I only have mustard powder - a quarter a cup of mustard powder seems an awful lot - would this be right or will he need paste?
I also think it would go soggy if he poured dressing over today, cooking the eggs will be done but I think we should leave the dressing until tomorrow.
I hope someone can help me today please. I will throttle my son later. Thanks. |
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RE: Urgent help about Ancient Greek Food needed
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| It would definitely be mustard paste - NOT powder. Can you just make enough paste with mustard powder? I don't use mustard powder, so I have no idea. Good luck! :) |
RE: Urgent help about Ancient Greek Food needed
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| Thanks. How much powder would I need and do I just use water to mix? I'm showing my ignorance but for some reason most things we eat don't have mustard. |
RE: Urgent help about Ancient Greek Food needed
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| As I don't use mustard powder I had to do a search to see what you do with it: Mustard powder A handy form of mustard that needs to be blended with cold water before use. When the water is added the essential oils from the mustard seeds are released to give the mustard its characteristic flavour. The flavour of the made-up mustard will diminish with time so it is best to make fresh mustard as and when required.
Uses: Serve made-up mustard with cold meats and roast beef. Mustard powder can also be added to salad dressings, cheese sauces, dips and mayonnaise - it is quite strong though so just add a pinch at a time until the required taste is reached.
To prepare: Mix equal quantities of cold water and mustard powder together until smooth, allow the mustard to stand for 10 minutes for the flavours to develop, before using. Hope that helps. Good luck! :) |
RE: Urgent help about Ancient Greek Food needed
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| Thanks for that. I spent an hour and a half searching greek food sites for a similar recipe to this one and didn't find it. My son said when he and his mates found the recipe they typed in Greek food and it was the 3rd one on the list. Anyway, after I finished strangling my son :) we prepared it last night but didn't put the dressing over, he can do that at school before serving - that is if it survives the bus trip to school. I don't think I want to try all these foods the kids are doing. The class were split into groups of about 5 and each group had to do a section about ancient Greece - my son's group chose diet. They decided to prepare foods from that time to serve the class as their part of the assignment. Didn't ask the Mums first though! Luckily one of the kids is part Greek so his mother cooked up the main part. They had better get 'A's for all the trouble though.
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