Typical Maine Winter Comfort Foods (teach, kids, cellar)

[CoastalMaine]

Originally Posted by txmom

I love that brown bread in a can! I could eat just the bread with my mother-in-law's baked beans, and I would consider that a great meal (especially with the whole onions that she cooks in the beans).

I love Maine food! MIL also makes a French pork spread called "corton" that is très délicieux

Welllllll.... tell us what's in that!!!????!!!??? Is it like a pate'?

[elston]

Originally Posted by msina

French Meat Pie!!! omg,.... now I want to make that too!

I notice a Lewiston butcher (Mailhot) makes the meat pies and the creton (pork spread) and the salmon pie also.....plus boudin (blood sausage) and wonderful breakfast sausage. They also put up salted herbs (herb salee) which I have started using in stews, my turkey dressing and soups.

[txmom]

Originally Posted by Elcarim

We eat oatmeal. And we eat grits and cream of wheat. CofW is my favorite other than oatmeal.

And what's this about canned bread? CANNED bread???? I thought when someone mentioned "brown" bread, they meant wheat. We eat whole wheat bread.

Yes El, there really is bread in a can:

[tankratt]

Originally Posted by Elcarim

We eat oatmeal. And we eat grits and cream of wheat. CofW is my favorite other than oatmeal.

And what's this about canned bread? CANNED bread???? I thought when someone mentioned "brown" bread, they meant wheat. We eat whole wheat bread.

Steamed brown bread, made with corn meal whole wheat flour and rye flour, sometimes I add raisins sometimes not. put the dough in a coffee can and steam it for 1 to 2 hours

[txmom]

Originally Posted by CoastalMaine

Welllllll.... tell us what's in that!!!????!!!??? Is it like a pate'?

Yes, it is a pate...I'll get her recipe for you! Elston is right, it is called "cretons" (but I think some people call it "corton")

Originally Posted by elston

I notice a Lewiston butcher (Mailhot) makes the meat pies and the creton (pork spread) and the salmon pie also.....plus boudin (blood sausage) and wonderful breakfast sausage. They also put up salted herbs (herb salee) which I have started using in stews, my turkey dressing and soups.

[Elcarim]

Hmmm. I see it's fat free. That's good. So you take it out of one can and put it into another to "cook"? I'll have to check that out. Very interesting!

[msina]

cretons
Ingredients
1 1/4 pounds ground pork
3/4 cup finely chopped yellow onion
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
3/4 cup whole milk
1/4 cup fine bread crumbs

Cretons: Breakfast Pork Spread Recipe : Emeril Lagasse : Food Network

[CoastalMaine]

Originally Posted by Elcarim

Hmmm. I see it's fat free. That's good. So you take it out of one can and put it into another to "cook"? I'll have to check that out. Very interesting!

No El, you put the can in a pan with hot water and let it steam inside the can. Then you open the can and eat the warm brown bread with your baked beans and hot dogs. It was a New England tradition to eat beans and franks on Saturdays.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by CoastalMaine

... There's always a spaghetti supper going someplace near ya. lol. Church sponsored, or the Elks, Masons, etc.

The masons in Old town do a lot of spaghetti dinners.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by txmom

Yes El, there really is bread in a can:

B makes bread in a mason jar. Sealed it lasts a really long time.