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Conference turris::cooks

Title:How to Make them Goodies
Notice:Please Don't Start New Notes for Old Topics! Check 5.*
Moderator:FUTURE::DDESMAISONSec.com::winalski
Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4127
Total number of notes:31160

1275.0. "Poutine" by CSSE32::BELLETETE (the Duke makes me Puke) Tue Jul 19 1988 16:34

I was recently at a popular Maine seaside resort and noticed that "poutine"
was offered at many stands and restaurants. It is obviously Canadien and 
I thought I saw a picture of it which looked like an order of French Fries 
and some kind of brown meat gravy on top. Does anybody know for sure what 
this stuff is???

Rachelle �.
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1275.1NAC::L_WILLIAMSThu Jul 21 1988 09:028
    Poutine is very popular in Quebec.  It is French fries mixed with
    cheese and hot gravy.  The heat of the French fries and the gravy
    melts the cheese.   Delicious....
    
    I have had it in Quebec City a while back but can't really remember
    what kind of cheese they used.  Might have been what they call up
    there "grain cheese".  Similar to mozarella
    
1275.2NRPUR::GARRETTstrike up the band!Thu Jul 21 1988 13:384
    
    I have just come back from visiting my family in the eastern townships
    section of Quebec, and we were discussing poutine.  I was told that
    the cheese they use is curd cheese.
1275.3P.E.I. PoutinesWITNES::SCHARTNERThu Jul 21 1988 14:2612
    In my family, and in the section of Fitchburg where I grew up
    (Cleghorn), which is the Canadian French area, poutines are made
    of ground potatoes which are formed into a ball around some meat
    (usually pork).  They are then wrapped in cheesecloth and boiled.
    
    After they are cooked, you can cut them up and fry them and serve
    with sugar sprinkled over the top....there are lots of ways to eat
    them.  
    
    By the way, a lot of people in Cleghorn are from Prince Edward Island
    in Canada, so maybe poutines are served differently region to region.
    
1275.4VERGA::CIAMPAGLIAThu Apr 01 1993 10:391
    Does anyone have a recipe for the poutines described in .3? 
1275.5grew up in MontrealKAOFS::M_BARNEYFormerly Ms.FettThu Apr 01 1993 12:477
    yup - the only Poutine I know is the fries with curd cheese
    and brown gravy. Yah gotta love it.
    
    Monica (Fett) Barney
    (Je suis Anglophone!)
    
    P.S. (re: .3) hi Sue!
1275.6I know, not in this conference...ROBOAT::HEBERTCaptain BlighThu Apr 01 1993 14:485
Nashua House of Pizza (on Library Hill) has Poutine on the menu, and I've
been there when people have ordered it. It's apparently a big seller
there.

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