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English Style Fish & Chips, Without the English.

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I’ve never been to England.  Since they no longer rule the known world and their food is mostly terrible there isn’t much reason for me to go.  My Wife and Sister have both been there and keep talking about Pub Style Fish and Chips, which is apparently the only thing the English know how to cook well. (They do have great humor though.  I love Top Gear.")

It wasn’t worth a 14 hour flight just to eat some Fish and Chips and see a clock with a funny name, so I decided to make me some English Fish & Chips at home.

I used this recipe for the Fish and Chips. http://www.food.com/recipe/Real-English-Fish-and-Chips-With-Yorkshire-Beer-Batter-183399

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Potatoes, before and after the Santoku got to them.

I used a bottle of Rickards Ale for the beer batter, and Grapeseed Oil for a deep frying oil. Many people use Canola oil for deep frying, but I think Canola oil will kill you dead.  Mark Bittman, one of my culinary hero’s, suggests that Grapeseed oil is the best neutral cooking oil, so that’s what I used.

You don’t need a deep fryer to deep fry stuff at home, you just need a 12” cast iron skillet.   A cast iron skillet holds lots of food at once, and the tremendous thermal mass of the mighty cast iron skillet does a better job of sustaining deep fryer temperatures than an electric deep fryer. We have an electric deep fryer, and after making this meal we’ve decided to garage sale it.

The only tricky thing about deep frying this way is measuring temperature.  A candy thermometer is the easiest way, but you can make do with a remote probe thermometer and some ingenuity.  I prefer the ingenuity method personally.

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Bubbles! Notice the paper clip holding the thermometer?

My wife made homemade tartar sauce to serve with the fish and the whole meal was amazing.  I’ve even reconsidered visiting England.

If I could watch Top Gear being filmed live and eat some Pub Style Fish & Chips, it might be worth a trip.

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mopardude said in August 14th, 2010 at 12:14 pm

I agree with you 99% because another great english dish would have to be bubble n squeek .

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admin said in August 17th, 2010 at 6:26 pm

Bubble n Squeek? Only the English would name a dish that. I had never heard of it before so I looked it up and it does look pretty tasty. I could also cook it in my trusty skillet, so it gets extra points. I’ll have to try it out. :) Thanks for the tip!

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