Cultured Palate: Dishes from the American Northeast
| April 4, 2018
2. Scrapple
Many of the early settlers in New England were hardy, resourceful folk, and their recipes made use of every single scrap of food. Scrapple is a unique dish invented by the Pennsylvania Dutch to make use of pork trimmings and offcuts not suitable for consumption. The trimmings were combined with cornmeal, pork fat, flour, and spices, shaped into a loaf, and left to set. Slices of scrapple are still made the same way, fried or broiled are being formed, and are now usually eaten with breakfast.
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