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Thanks for the info.  although I did know how to make stock, but me being a kind of lazy s** in the kitchen was wondering what bought stock cubes I could use.  You are all such clever cooks see, what about us lazy ones.

Someone managed to put me off Bisto for thickening my stews.   I don't really know whats wrong with Bisto powder or Cornflour but a comment was passed about that as well.  After being a housewife for 40 odd years I am beginning to wonder where I am going wrong???   

Speaking of scarily-industrial-looking:
http://www.ecvv.com/product/vp1201736/Hydrolyzed-Animal-Protein-TA03.html

Bleeeccccchhhhh!

We make our own chicken stock, it's sacrilege to throw the bones away. :D

Speaking of salt, any free-flowing salt has anti-caking agents in it, of various kinds, and to me, they all taste disgusting. It's quite surprising if you do a taste test between a free-flowing salt and a pure salt. The first tastes bitter, and the latter almost sweet in comparison.
Mind you, it also varies for the individual. Potassium chloride, which they use in the low-sodium salts, tastes fine to 25% of people, mildly bitter to 50%, and absolutely foul to the remaining 25%. As in, spit-it-out-and-rinse-your-mouth disgusting, which is my experience! So I stick to rock or sea salt in a grinder.

I can't for the life of me see what's wrong with cornflour to thicken a stew?

Oh lordy, that Chinese industrial food products site is scary.

'Sheep Meat Cream
sheep meat cream is made from fresh goat meat, the material make fragrance by maillard reaction with reducing sugar and kinds of amino acid after biological enzymolysis, and through taste improving and flavor adjust by nature spice. The product has a pure sheep meat stew flavor, mellow and thick, and long. It is the best ingredient for instant noodles, cooking, quick-freezing food, puffed food and etc. '

:o

Quote from: tim on January 27, 2009, 13:19:09
Chicken wings? Yes - but don't discard afterwards - in your fingers!!

OH's treat, with a dollop of hoi sin sauce. ;D

valmarg

Cornflour, yes  - or Potatoes or Beans?