Recipe of the Day

[patgund]

Blueberry Poutine

2 cups water
2 cups sugar
2 cups crushed blueberries
1/3 cup vegetable shortening
1 egg
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 cup milk
2 cups flour

Bring water to boil in a medium saucepan. Add 1 1/2 cups sugar and berries. Mix well.

In a medium bowl, blend together remaining sugar and next six ingredients to make a dough. Drop the dough by heaping teaspoonful into boiling berry mixture.

Allow dumplings to cook about four minutes, then flip them to cook another four minutes.

Spoon into bowls to serve. Yields 4 to 6 servings.

(note, recipe is from Cajun country. I suspect they have a different meaning for "poutine" than those north of them do.....:-)

Comments

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Wow. Big difference between the separated cousins of the Acadians and Cajuns, what? "I seek dees word does not mean what you seenk eet means."

[patgund.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Ce mot ne signifie pas que ce que vous pensez il signifie..... (and the French speakers on my flist are now wincing at how rusty I've gotten.....)

Well, there's a lot of difference between Québéc and Acadians as well. To the point that some Québéc seperationists have dismissingly referred to Acadian culture in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia as "still warm corpses" (Never mind that New Brunswick was the first provence to be officially bilingual. The Québécoise are just a lot louder and more obnoxious about it.....)

Really, the french-fry dish *should* be called "poutine québécoise", because that's where it originated. There's an Arcadian dish, poutine râpée, which is a ball of grated and mashed potato, salted, filled with pork in the centre, and boiled. The result is a moist greyish ball about the size of a baseball. It is commonly eaten with salt and pepper or brown sugar.

In Cajun Louisiana, Poutine, (I guess we could call it "poutine louisiane") is used for various types of puddings or dumplings though. There is some arguement as well that poutine is a generic word to describe country or rural food. (in France, "poutine" can be used to describe a small fish as well, and can be used as a term of endearment for small children)

It's quite funny how one word can mean a wide variety of dishes :-)

[patgund.livejournal.com]

I did stumble across a "Cajun Poutine", which was cajun-seasoned french fries covered in gouda cheese and gumbo. But that seems to be more styled after the Québéc version than an actual Cajun dish.

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

Thats more of a cobbler or a grunt then poutine.
Very interesting.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

It's very much in keeping with the cajun meaning of the word. Actually sounds good :-)