In any case, if you're afraid you might miss out on that Brown Friday rush, Sunsweet Recipes (California Prune & Apricot Growers Association, 1950) offers a few Thanksgiving-appropriate recipes to make sure your plumbing gets a good workout.
Of course, people expect some vegetable sides, like sweet potatoes. Instead of the ever-popular sweet potatoes and marshmallows angle, try sweet potatoes and prunes.
But why stick to prunes in just the veggie sides? People expect some roughage in those anyway. The turkey might be a good place to hide additional prunes.
Just stuff it full of Fruited Stuffing-- and the fruit will be Sunsweet prunes, of course!
And then you need some cranberries for a zesty counterpoint to all the rich foods. Why should the cranberry entirely steal the spotlight, though?
Make a Prune Cranberry Conserve instead. I mean, the family should be really tripled up on prunes just to make sure the big meal keeps on moving....
I guess if all else fails, a host desperate to get in on Brown Friday can just try sending a box or two of Sunsweet prunes straight down the garbage disposal to get the kitchen in on the action, but it wouldn't be the same.
In any case, may your Friday after Thanksgiving just be a Friday. Hopefully one when you don't have to work... or make anyone else work overtime....
Technically brown Friday is more about clogged kitchen sinks than toilets. Thanks to people not knowing how to cook or clean up after cooking, they pour everything liquid (including grease) down the sink. At least that's what I've always heard.
ReplyDeleteThe prunes would be a good strategy if the only bathroom in the house is right next to the kitchen sink (like our one grandmother's house). You could make desperate family members wash a dish before using the facilities.
Also, why do you have to rinse raisins before cooking them?
Good question. I know a lot of recipes call for briefly boiling or at least soaking the raisins so they'll be juicier, but rinsing them seems pretty pointless. (Old recipes do like pointless busywork, though.)
DeleteI had a feeling it was like the idea of rinsing meat before cooking it. Let's make sure that we get bacteria all over the place before we cook it.
DeleteThat prune-cranberry conserve sounds really good for a cheese tray. But I don't want to serve a prune-loaded turkey to my entire extended family unless the house has bathrooms I forgot about.
ReplyDeleteIt probably would be good for that (though I'd throw some orange in too)!
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