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>>> You didn't link us to the recipe!
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>Alan that is almost exactly the recipe my Mom used for years.
>She was from No. Ireleand and it's apparently a British variation.
Hi Pete
The original version (heavily modified now) was from an
Australian cookbook I bought when I was first told in no
uncertain terms "if you want anything spicy or fancy you'd
better cook it yourself" nearly forty years ago.
Excellent advice - never eat food that the cook will not
taste.
I still have the book sans covers - so I've no idea of the
title. Australian culinary culture in the '60s was still
fairly British.
The term "Curry" as I understand it is actually a British
invention from the Raj days. The Indians saw all of the
dishes as quite different and didn't use the generic term.
maybe Nicky could expand on that.
Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
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Nicky - 02 Feb 2006 18:43 GMT
> The term "Curry" as I understand it is actually a British
> invention from the Raj days. The Indians saw all of the
> dishes as quite different and didn't use the generic term.
> maybe Nicky could expand on that.
I'm not even sure that curry is a word in Hindi. There are thousands of
different dishes that we would term "curry", each of which have different
spices and preparation methods. And they're so much nicer when you make them
at home, preferably starting with whole spices.
Nicky.

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Dan Abel - 02 Feb 2006 20:19 GMT
> The term "Curry" as I understand it is actually a British
> invention from the Raj days. The Indians saw all of the
> dishes as quite different and didn't use the generic term.
> maybe Nicky could expand on that.
Almost the story I've heard. The British who came back from India
wanted to continue to eat some Indian food, but in India, each dish had
its own unique combination of spices, and that was just too
time-consuming. So the British invented "curry powder" which is a
mixture of spices that the British liked in making Indian foods.

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