Questions about Deep Fried Mars Bars

[HollyElise]

Hi everyone!

I'm getting ready for the Ohio Scottish Games and we're thinking up goodies to give to the new members and volunteers at the membership tent, and i thought it'd be great to have deep fried Mars bars... a very Scottish cuisine!... and no one else at the fair will have them.

Soooo... any suggestions for batter? Particularly you Glaswegians out there if you've eaten them, can you tell me what it tastes like?

Thanks heaps!

[Polwarth]

HollyElise
I posted my deepfried mars bars recipe on this forum a while ago..... I've cut and pasted it here.

These are sold in some chip shops! I can honestly say I have never tried one - but I have cooked them, as a joke, for a couple of English friends. They didn't like it!

This is how you do it...

Make up a thick coating batter (thicker than for pancakes) as used for 'battering' fried fish. Stick the Mars Bars in the freezer for about 10 minutes to ensure they are quite firm. Heat the oil in the pan until it is almost smoking.
Dip the chilled (but not frozen) MBs in the coating batter, ensuring that the whole bar is well coated.
Lower cautiously into the hot oil. Fry until golden and puffed up. Drain on kitchen paper.

As simple as that!

I don't recomment that you cook them ahead of time... the batter won't be very nice cold.... any more than it would be on fish!

Why not do something like butterscotch sweets? I've got a family recipe if you would like it....... or puff candy?

[ScabbyDouglas]

For a real Glaswegian delicacy of the savoury variety.

This is a real heart-stopper. It's the cholesterol equivalent of the Trojan Horse.

The Deep-Fried Pizza!

I'm not joking.

One Deep-pan pizza. Maybe a 9 inch (please!) pizza. Probably a Margharita would be best.. without too many loose "bits" of topping. I've only ever seen this done with "fresh" (ha hahaah hehe heehh heeh "fresh" heheh.. "fresh" - in a Glasgow chippie...well, non-frozen pizzas)

Cut it in half (trust me - the human body can only absorb so much fat at one go).

And deep fry each half until crisp and golden on the edges.

Serve hot with a paramedic.

[HollyElise]

Originally posted by Polwarth
HollyElise
I posted my deepfried mars bars recipe on this forum a while ago.....
This is how you do it...

Why not do something like butterscotch sweets? I've got a family recipe if you would like it....... or puff candy?

YAY!!! Thank you Polwarth! I'm very excited about trying this!

And yes, definitely on the butterscotch sweets!... i was thinking of making something butterscotch already... i bought morsels today... i thought i'd invent butterscotch biscotti or something like that, but authentic and (yum) tested is better!

[HollyElise]

Originally posted by ScabbyDouglas
For a real Glaswegian delicacy of the savoury variety.

This is a real heart-stopper. It's the cholesterol equivalent of the Trojan Horse.

The Deep-Fried Pizza!

I'm not joking..

I know you're not! I can't remember if i heard about it from someone in Glasgow or if i saw it on A Cook's Tour.... there is this nutty tall american guy who travels the world, feasts on the local cuisine and liquor, and does a half-hour show on the food (and the show is A Cook's Tour). He did one episode on Scotland, which was really cool!... and quite varied. One segment i think was in Inverness? ... anyway he went to a country B&B that was known for being a good hunting and fishing spot. People come, sometimes hunt, and then the kitchen prepares their catch along with locally grown and gathered food. I was drooling!!!

Hopefully i can try deep-fried pizza in Glasgow later this summer. So how was it? Do you like it?

[HollyElise]

Originally posted by ScabbyDouglas


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whell! since my posting in another thread (which shall remain nameless) would not be appreciated there... i shall post here..

And i must say, ScabbyDouglas, I agree, you certainly are a gog! you GOG you!

And leave the flies alone. They didn't do anything to anybody. WEll, almost. And if you do... well, i might have to complain to a fly moderator. (oh i'm being bad)

[ScabbyDouglas]

The deep-dried pizza is sadly on the decline these days, as even many chippies have pizza ovens now ( will miracles never cease? ). However, there are still a few unreconstructed Stalinist-type chippies where you can have it any way you like, as long as it's deep-fried. If you work from the basis that you can deepfry most solid sorts of food - pies, sausage, fish, then that was the ethos of the Glasgow chippie for many decades.

HollyElise, thank you for your kind remarks. (Assuming that they were kind)

the "agog" joke is a line I stole from a Bud Neil cartoon.
Bud Neill was a Scottish cartoonist who drew strips for Scottish newspapers from the 1940's. I'll try and get the original from which I stole that line, but it's basically a group of Glasgow wifies standing around being amazed and wondering what was going to happen next.
It goes something like
"I'm agog."
"I'm agog tae" (tae = too)
"I'm agoger than any o yese"