Flannel (food)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flannel usually refers to cloth (see Flannel), but has a number of other meanings, related to food items:
- Flannel is a popular dessert in the Philippines that resembles the Mexican custard-like leche flan. However, it has grated lime.
- Red Flannel Hash is a breakfast hash originally from New England that involves beets[citation needed]. Here is the legend:
- Suspecting her husband of unfaithfulness a mining camp wife, who was also ran a boarding house, awoke in a bitter mood. When she went to cook breakfast for the miners she noticed the laundry hanging to dry in the kitchen. In a fit of anger she grabbed her husband's red flannel long johns, ground them up and threw them into the hash she was preparing. The breakfast was served and the miners kept asking for more of that "bright red hash". The wife had ground up her husband's only pair of red flannels, so she substituted beet in the next batch of hash. They proved to be just as popular. 1 c. diced potato 1 med. onion, chopped 8 oz. corned beef 2 eggs Salt and pepper to taste. Slowly fry the beets, potato, onion, and corned beef until done. Fry or poach eggs and place on top. Serve immediately.
- Flannel Cakes are what Americans used to call pancakes, according to the American Woman's Cookbook, (1938).
- In Sophie Kinsella's book, The Undomestic Goddess, (2005), flannel is a synonym for assemblé and is also defined as "souped-up shepherd's pie."
