Anyone ever make scrapple? Have checked recipes on line

[Zoigal]

and there's a lot of variation. Anyone have any
hints to share? Thanks.......z`

[Warpy]

1. My grandmother used to

She'd cook some pin oats (not oatmeal, Irish oats) and fry up odds and ends that didn't sell from a brother's butcher shop with onions and seasonings. She'd mix the two thoroughly and load the mixture into greased tin cans. When it cooled, it could be sliced and fried up like sausage and wasn't bad, as I dimly recall.

It was a great way to stretch meat back in the Great Depression and will come in handy in our Depression.

[Zoigal]

3. Thank you, Warpy. My grandparents made it, too.

But they lived on a farm and butchered their
own meat. This, too, was during the Great Depression.
My husband really likes it and i promised him that i
would make some......z

[canetoad]

5. Very much like haggis

Even though I was born in Scotland, have only eaten haggis once. My father in kilt, with silver dagger used to perform the ritual 'killing of the haggis' while reciting,

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!

[Zoigal]

7. What a great memory of your father...i looked up a recipe for

haggis, and it is quite similar to scrapple, except for
the boiling in the stomach, etc. And the use of sheep or
calf instead of pork. Thanks for sharing.......z

[kestrel91316]

2. My uncle showed me how he made scrapple. Bits of cooked pork

mixed into cornmeal mush, basically. Sliced and fried, served with maple syrup. Mighty tasty.

I have only fixed it a couple of times, but I love it and should do so more often.

[Zoigal]

4. Thanks for the reply, Kestrel. I have noticed from your posts

that you enjoy cooking. Some recipes use polenta
instead of cornmeal. Think i am going to use ground
pork sausage and yellow corn meal plus seasonings.
Easy way out......z

[kestrel91316]

6. That should be quite tasty!