The Old Scythian Malady Meat Loaf

Ever hear of the term? Not many have. It is presented here for information and support of Black History month. Please read the short explanation after the recipe.

Here is yet another take on the old favorite meatloaf. Basic, yet wonderfully tasty and easy to throw together for your next meal.

Ingredients:

• 1½ lbs ground beef
• 1 cup oats
• 1 carrot, grated
• ½ cup half & half
• 1 egg + 1 egg yolk
• 1/8 teaspoon rubbed sage
• 1 tsp salt + 1/8 tsp pepper
• 2 slices bacon cut in thirds

Topping:

• ¼ cup ketchup
• 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
• ¼ cup stone ground mustard
• ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
  

What To Do:

 

Do your cutting: peel and grate the carrot, cut the bacon.

In a large bowl, combine ground beef, oats, half & half, egg, carrot, sage, salt, and pepper; mix well. Let sit on counter as oven preheats to 350 degrees. 

 

Line a baking sheet with foil and place a cooking rack on. Spray it well.

 

In a small bowl, combine topping ingredients.

Turn meatloaf into a platter to form and place on cooking sheet. Spread with the topping mixture and arrange bacon pieces on top.

Bake 60 minutes, or until no pink remains. Switch to broiler and let it develop a crust, about 5 – 7 minutes. This ensures the bacon in crispy. Allow to stand 10 minutes, then slice and serve. 

 

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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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The Old Scythian Malady

When a society decides to ban certain words they really screw things up! Slave was researching newspaper articles from 1888 about a police raid in Washington D.C. This raid was of an African-American “dancing party”. Men were dancing almost nude with each other, wearing women's clothing!

A large black man named William Dorsey Swann – (the “queen of the ball” was arrayed in a gorgeous dress of cream -colored satin) tried to keep the officers from entering. A total of 13 men were arrested and charged with being “suspicious characters”. Of course their names and addresses were published in the papers. This was the second such raid, one occurring just the year before.

Details are difficult to find. However it is clear that while some in the group were white (of high moral standing – according to the papers) Swann and most of his friends were black men who worked for white families employed by the government. In spite of the raids, public shaming, getting fired from their jobs, being disowned by families and even sent to prisons, they repeated gathered in secret in one another's homes to hold these “drag dances”.

Swann was found guilty and sentenced to 10 months in jail. The judge declared that Swann’s home had become a “hell of iniquity.” He told the court he wished he had had the power to impose a 10-year sentence.

“I would like to send you where you would never again see a man’s face, and would then like to rid the city of all other disreputable persons of the same kind,” the judge declared. “Thieving and petty assaults amount to nothing as compared with the conduct of these people.”

At the time, the organizers of Washington's underground drag parties had little support or validation. These were true rebels who sacrificed and showed great courage and determination. 

Their efforts laid the groundwork for the self-acceptance and community that made the Stonewall riots possible more than 80 years later.

The newspapers headlined that the men suffered from “the old Scythian Malady”.

Well 3 hours latter and going through at least 5 different internet search engines, slave found the reference!

AD 195: Clement of Alexandria wrote in his “Exhortation to the Greeks” an account of a Scythian king who found some men dressed as high priestess practicing at Cyzicus in the manor of Cybele. The king promptly slew them with arrows for depriving themselves of their own virility and communicating this effeminate disease to fellow Scythians.

Clement explains precisely what he means by "effeminate" and "to attract men". It has nothing to do with being a gay man and everything to do with worshiping the fertility goddess.

How gay is that?