Finger
foods like these rolls have long been a welcome addition to any party
or meal. Pasta wraps, stuffed with all kinds of mixtures were
introduced with other oriental delights to the English people and
incorporated into their everyday cuisine by the mid 18th
century. These are designed to honor an important part of LGBT
history: The Molly Houses of London. Please read the short article
after the recipe.
Warm
rolls of savory mustard sausage to be dipped into an Asian pear
sauce! Excellent bites to start the appetites or just to stave off
the “hungries”!
Ingredients:
Rolls
1
lbs pkg uncooked bratwurst
½
onion chopped
2
tbs yellow mustard
1
pgk egg roll wrappers
1
egg
Sauce:
1
can pears in heavy syrup
1
cup teriyaki sauce
¼
cup scallions
spiced
rum optional
Directions:
Do
your cutting:
chop the onions finely.
For
the sauce:
drain
the pears and chop finely, cut up the scallions, set aside.
Make
the sauce:
In
a medium sauce pan heat the sauce with the chopped pears, stirring to
blend and thicken (let simmer on low heat for 10
minutes.
Set aside (add the scallions & rum just before serving)
Split
the bratwursts down the side and empty the sausage out.
In
a medium skillet, lightly brown
the meat
(about
10 minutes) break
apart as it cooks,
and
drain.
Add
onions to skillet. Stir occasionally as they soften. Stir in the
mustard and let cook for about
7 minutes,
or until mustard is well absorbed.
Remove
to plate and Let
cool completely.
From
the egg roll wrap package:
Assemble
the rolls:
Lay
out some waxed paper.
Beat
1 egg yolk into a small bowl with 1 tbs water. Get out your pastry
brush.
Set
up a rack to hold the rolls before cooking.
Lay
out the stack of wrappers with a point towards you.
Add
spoonfuls of mixture in the center of each wrap and “paint the two
side points and the top.
Fold
up lower point and fold in each side. Then roll it up. The egg wash
will be a glue to hold it all together.
Stack
on a rack as you finish the rolls.
Heat
oil in a clean large skillet. Fry the rolls in batches so they are
not crowded in the pan. Once the oil is hot it will only take 1
minute on
each side. Flip when golden.
Set
them in a 200
degree oven
to stay warm as
you cook.
When
ready:
set out the sauce and stir in the scallions and serve as a dipping
sauce. May be heated if you wish.
Enjoy!
The
sweet pear sauce makes a perfect counter point to the mustard sausage
in the rolls.
What
a treat!
So
happy to be serving my Master Indy!
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
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buy slave's cookbook:
The
Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes
by
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How
did they survive?
Throughout
history humans have shown basic needs. The need for air and food. The
need to love and to have sex. These fundamental drives fuel growth
and behaviors. They are essential
for life.
For
a moment, imagine yourself as a young gay man born back in 17th
century England. A time when King
Henry VIII proclaimed
any type of gay sex punishable by death!
You
had felt the urges but knew nothing about them. There was no place to
learn what they were. No internet nor electricity. Few printed pages
existed but not about that. In fact the chances are, you were never
taught to read. How did you live? Find others? Fill your basic needs?
Just because guys did not have the same tools we have today doesn't
mean they were stupid. Never confuse knowledge with
intelligence.
So
young gays sought out large groups of men: joined the army or navy,
or even became a priest or monk. If you were smart you found a way to
teach or perform in entertainments that were the only available media
at the time. There you found others!
Large
groups of men at times offered chances of sex but also chances of
extreme violence. You had to keep up your guard.
They
developed their own gay language (Polari),
so that finding others was less dangerous. Clubs or meeting places
were established throughout London that were known as “molly
houses”.
The age of molly houses did not last long but established many things
that allowed the development of what we now know as gay bars.
Molly
Houses
In
1709,
the London journalist Ned Ward published an account of “the
Mollies Club.”
In his descriptions of the “Gang
of Sodomitical Wretches”
is the clear image of a social club that sounds like a really good
time.
A
“molly”
was a common term for gay, bisexual or queer. A whole molly
underworld found its home in London. The clubs and bars where these
men congregated were scattered across the city.
The
1533
Buggery Act,
sentenced those found guilty of “unnatural sexual act against the
will of God and man” to death. In practice, this came to mean any
kind of sexual activity between two
men.
At first, the law was barely applied, but as attitudes changed,
enforcement became more vigorous.
Oscar
Wilde called homosexuality “the
love that dares not speak its name,”
others saw it as a crime too
shocking to name,
with “language ... incapable of sufficiently expressing the horror
of it.”
Most
writers of the time, trying to wrangle with the idea, seem incapable
of getting beyond the impossible question of why women would not be
sufficient for these men.
Gay
sex remained a capital offense until 1861.
In this context, molly houses came to be the scenes of raids and
arrests, and their customers the ideal target for blackmailers.
Loopholes
in the buggery act
In
order to obtain a conviction, it was necessary to prove that both
penetration
and
ejaculation
had occurred, and two
witnesses were
required to prove the crime.
Both
the "active" and "passive" partner could be found
guilty of this offense. But due to the difficulty of proving actual
penetration and ejaculation many men were prosecuted with the reduced
charge of “assault
with sodomitical intent”.
From
the late 1690s,
the Societies
for the Reformation of Manners,
actively pursued: “prostitutes, Sabbath breakers and homosexual
men”, through the means of spies to dismantle molly houses and
prosecute individuals. The
peak of this prosecution was the raid on the most famous molly house,
Mother
Clap's in
1726.
Molly
houses were the most organized phenomenon of London's 18th century
homosexual subculture. They were enclosed, private spaces where
individuals gathered with a common purpose: socializing and seeking
pleasure with partners of the same sex.
Tonight's
recipe is to honor these
establishments and the craftiness of the
wonderful gay men and women that survived
in much tougher times. In
an era of hatred
and fear, love flourished bravely!
