my childhood

[mrsbrown]

When I was a child, before my parents split up, I would only eat my vegetables mashed into what my Dad called a "prikky". He would form it into a cake shape and I would spoon appelmoes (applesauce) over the top as icing. We ate appelmoes with every meat and veg type meal I ate at home until my mum moved to Rockhampton when Sneetch was a baby and we stopped having ordinary meals with mum.

For christmas day we had pork roast so I made sure to make appelmoes, but I've never inserted it into my children's memories by cooking it regularly. Although, if we have the meat and veg meal this weekend, I will probably pull out the leftovers from the fridge to have with it.

Today coquinaria reminded me that my childhood appelmoes was one of the few things that my family kept of the Dutch way of life.

Her page on appelmoes talks of this tradition and then goes on to suggest medieval apelmoes recipes that I'm not sure I want to try - applesauce with fish liver, applesauce with beef broth and white grease, and applesauce with almond milk and olive oil.

Comments

[pheloniusfriar.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'd tend towards your aversion to the listed recipes... ick!

[(Anonymous)]

I too had "prikky" although it was pronounced "praakky"! After we had finished a meal and there were a few potatoes and appelmoes left, they would get mushed together and covered in thin gravy.."jus". This was known as "heete bliksem" which literally translates as hot lightning!...yum...I want some now!

[monstah.livejournal.com]

woops...that was from me!