Saturday's trip to the butcher resulted in Mr B carrying home the BIGGEST bone I have ever seen. It filled the house with vaguely tantalizing smell. I followed F everywhere she went while she dug out a hacksaw and sawed, then scraped, and dug out bone marrow...
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The trouble with tantalizing smells is that they aren't always that attractive close up and concentrated. Tiny offcuts of recovered meat appeared in my bowl. I refused to eat them.
The bits of bone that didn't get sawed, scraped, filed and transmogrified in bleach got thrown into the marmalade pot and boiled. Now that really was a smell all on its own and the jury's still out on that one. What we had when it had cooled down and the bones removed was a pot full of gloop; wobbly, jellified, grey, gloop.
Someone used the word collagen. Isn't that an ingredient of cosmetics or something? I'd like to see someone slap that on....
F said the bone grafts her dentist did used denatured beef collagen. My mind boggles.
The selected bone piece that did get scraped, scrubbed, filed, and transmogrified in bleach is apparently destined for higher things.
I wonder if this is for making bags?
ReplyDeleteI’d rather have the soup
Gloopy soup. Sounds appetising.
ReplyDeleteAppetising - if you are a mudlark in Victorian London perhaps. F is trying to disguise/enhance/make palatable with barley, lentils, celery, onions etc. Honestly? - waste of good ingredients. She should have just chucked the gloop away, but it's that thing your grandmother drums into you about 'waste not' and what's 'good for you'.
DeleteQuite right of you Tigger to not eat the scraps, we keep them on their toes by often not eating just for the fun of it.
ReplyDeleteRupert, Rowan, Princess, Willow and Mummy Polly
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It's about variety isn't it? They tricked me by hiding it under my dinner, and by morning I had eaten it in the dark! (I sicked on the floor duster next day - it might have been that....) xxx Mr T
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ReplyDeleteI rather think the spoon maker has been visualising... meanwhile making the YAMster a bit gagging from the thought of the smells. Broccoli marrow I can handle, but bones.... 8<} hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
F wasn't best pleased with the smell either - hence the blog title. Fz &Pz Mr T
Deletei get ill smelling a chicken boiling. glad i missed these smells, i have bought similar to the bleached ones for our dogs to chew on.. still not sure what the intended use of the bleached bones is for
ReplyDeleteBone carving - it's probably a Kiwi thing. https://boneart.co.nz/pages/bone-carvings
DeleteActually she is going to use this one to make a shuttle, but she has made simpler versions of these things in the past.
yum marrow, mum mum use to cook lamb chops for us when I was little, a good way to get protein into you, as for the cat turning up his nose, yeah Mr Cat would do the same, fussy little beggars
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