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30th April 2017, 17:04
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Tricks of The Trade
OK shipmates, the first Galley thread on the new Shipping History site. It's an honour.
I quite often get asked when entertaining mates where I learned some of my cooking methods, and who taught me some of the tricks I use. Common one grinding garlic down with a pinch of salt using the flat of the knife until it forms a paste. 'At sea' is the reply to most of them. Sometimes when I cook using tricks and methods learned years back my mind wanders back to the day, and all the cooks that taught me them. My cooking skills are really a bastardization of all of them combined. Any favourite tricks or tips out there? 
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30th April 2017, 17:24
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If an amateur may contribute.
If you like scrambled eggs with lots of pepper try instead chopping a quarter of a hot chilli and adding in before heating. Smoked Haddock poached in milk. Again, if you need pepper on poached haddock, instead soak one chilli per pint of milk overnight and use that to poach the fish. Seems to work with dishes cooked with dairy stuff certainly does not work when boiling gammon, almost unpleasant
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30th April 2017, 17:54
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kev ...too many little tricks to mention ..before I was bedridden and son and daughter in law came to look after me she was a poor cook so she asked me how to do little things first .how to make a decent gravy ect .4 years late she has turned into a girl willing to try her hand at anything .soups where her big thing this winter.made me a thia curry this week .you right the little things from years ago just worm their way back. what the worst disaster thats happened in the galley in your time the would be a goof thread for you to start....cheers tony ex blue.
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2nd May 2017, 22:36
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3rd May 2017, 00:30
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your right sat morning soup from the left over. putting the right things together always good for me .aspesh when its cold outside and leave the kitchen open bit .young one nowadays just throw food away. my mum would as they say box their ears .cheers
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3rd May 2017, 13:39
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3rd May 2017, 17:13
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My tip for the day:
I find my electric tin opener to be far safer that the old fashioned jab and cutter tool. 
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"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Corporal Hicks (Actually Ripley said it first.)
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3rd May 2017, 19:37
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Kev,
Where did ship's cooks learn how to make those rubber fried eggs? Pat
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3rd May 2017, 20:03
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from yellow rubber ducks of course...
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4th May 2017, 15:05
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On the first ship I was on we used to pay for our own grub, as we had no radar we very often had to anchor in fog in enclosed waters. So sometimes we ran out of grub, but the mate and second engineer used to find rotten veg and meat bones and make the best soup, covered with a clacker made by the mate. Very tasty when you are hungry.
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8th May 2017, 16:37
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Funny you should ask that. By some strange coincidence in my experience eggs only went wubbery when someone upset the cook. Strange how that used to happen. 
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8th May 2017, 17:07
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Probably the origin of that old joke that when you complained to the Ship's Cook and got the reply: "You don't like, eat somewhere else !!"
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"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Corporal Hicks (Actually Ripley said it first.)
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8th May 2017, 19:29
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15th May 2017, 08:49
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After the 4 to 8 morning watch the Engineers deserve "Eggs to Order". The hung over buggers on day work were very lucky to get the rubber eggs with the crispy rims.
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15th May 2017, 10:55
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When we were kids ... we used DREAM of a rubber egg.
 
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"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Corporal Hicks (Actually Ripley said it first.)
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17th May 2017, 19:33
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I soon learned that omelettes, even cooked with only one egg, were a better bet, and from then on most of my seagoing breakfasts were omelette butties. Regards, Pat 
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18th May 2017, 00:07
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Lucky man. You'd have thought an idiot could make a good omelette. Not this one I regret.
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David V Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right It is the duty of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan
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18th May 2017, 20:18
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Did you ever see the omelettes' made on Saturday Kitchen? I wouldn't give them to Fido.
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18th May 2017, 23:16
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That's because Fido wouldn't trust anyone who watched day-time television.
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David V Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right It is the duty of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan
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19th May 2017, 12:25
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I'm a bit of a slob and watch the occasional day-time programme.
there are enough do-gooders to carry out the works of mercy:- To feed the hungry. To give water to the thirsty. To clothe the naked. To shelter the homeless. To visit the sick. To visit the imprisoned, or ransom the captive. To bury the dead. To instruct the ignorant. To counsel the doubtful. To admonish the sinners. To bear patiently those who wrong us. To forgive offenses . To comfort the afflicted. To pray for the living and the dead. Whilst not a practicing Do-Gooder I generally adhere to the above with the exception of "To forgive offenses", forgiveness is not an Ulster trait.
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19th May 2017, 15:38
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I have not (yet) visited the imprisoned. To admonish sinners seems a little hypocritical. Sod, completely, forgive offenses and bear patiently those who wrong me (unless it is only the patience of one waiting for the hangman to arrive). Time spent praying would be better spent in attending to the other commendable 'beatitudes'.
And if that's all there is on daytime television I would fit into the list something about steering the viewer away from this perversion of entertainment.
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David V Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right It is the duty of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan
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#23
2nd June 2017, 15:44
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Epsom Derby Meeting now on ITV, not to be missed.
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#24
2nd June 2017, 15:52
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'Who called the cook a c***t?'
'Who called the c***t a cook?' - Of course you can substitute any other position for cook - Mate is good.
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3rd June 2017, 09:14
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My first trip on a 'real' ship (i.e. not a trawler), Benmacdhui. I always asked for a hard-boiled egg at breakfast. One day the egg was served barely boiled at all; the white was still translucent. Not being one to cause a fuss I began to eat it only for someone (don't remember who, could have been the 3/E), to call the steward and insist he take it back. There was a general hubub and I wished I could crawl away and hide.
That evening the same steward came and warned me that his boss, the Chief Steward, had taken umbrage and was blaming me, so had begun boiling an egg from then with a view to it being served when I requested a hard boiled egg at breakfast the next day. So, he said, I will order a fried egg for you without saying who it's for. So said, so done: the next day I got a fried egg and apparently the Chief Steward went ballistic at his carefully prepared hard-as-a-rock egg not being claimed. Things like that were one of the reasons I left British ships at the first opportunity.
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