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Mom's Szkeley Goulash
INSANExBUTCHER @INSANExBUTCHER
Many different regions for this dish and countries your's seems more like szekely gulyas check Wikipedia you might be surprised!!! Happy new year!!!!
doug.chunyo @cook_3271425
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Hi Insane Butcher! Thanks for the good laugh and opportunity to explain. Where do I begin? I guess with the word "goulash" would be best. Gulyas actually refers to a type of wandering herdsman in Hungary. They raised and sold a particular type of cow in the Middle Ages. That cow was more similar to an ox than it is to a current cow. Those animals were used primarily as draught animals (for pulling plows, wagons, and that type of thing) it wouldn't make any sense for a Gulyas to kill and eat what he was trying to sell now would it?Tomatoes. Up until about the 1800s, Europeans believed that Tomatoes were poisonous. So there is simply no way that tomatoes could be part of a classic goulash.
Hi Insane Butcher! Thanks for the good laugh and opportunity to explain. Where do I begin? I guess with the word "goulash" would be best. Gulyas actually refers to a type of wandering herdsman in Hungary. They raised and sold a particular type of cow in the Middle Ages. That cow was more similar to an ox than it is to a current cow. Those animals were used primarily as draught animals (for pulling plows, wagons, and that type of thing) it wouldn't make any sense for a Gulyas to kill and eat what he was trying to sell now would it?Tomatoes. Up until about the 1800s, Europeans believed that Tomatoes were poisonous. So there is simply no way that tomatoes could be part of a classic goulash.
doug.chunyo @cook_3271425
And finally the word itself "goulash." The Hungarian language has certain letters that don't even exist in our alphabet. But the name of the dish sounds very close to "goulash" so that's the way Americans spell it.The recipe I give here dates most likely, back to the early 18th century. If we went back much further than that to find a really old recipe it would probably contain paprika root vegetables and rabbit. Because the peasants before then we're generally forbidden from eating meat, but I'm sure they poached a few rabbits here and there and some probably died for that infraction as well
doug.chunyo @cook_3271425
The tomato and beef type of goulash is just an American invention, like American Pizza vs. Italian pizza, or American Sushi vs. Japanese sushi
INSANExBUTCHER @INSANExBUTCHER
Lol happy new year and I wasn't trying to offend you in a manner sorry if I came off that way!!
doug.chunyo @cook_3271425
Oh, I'm not offended at all, just showing my research. I'm into that sort of thing, but I know there is a lot that I do not know, so if you have other sources, please share!
MrPowderfinger @iceslice
Cooking it as I write this. Very pleased at the aromas coming from it.American goulash seems to be more of, as you called it, home made hamburger helper. I made that last night and figured there has to be something more worthy of the name than that. I was good friends with a hungarian family growing up. Id like to think this would make them smile.
doug.chunyo @cook_3271425
For the sour cream - it's really up to you. I put in between 1/2 and 1 cup, when it looks and tastes the way I like it - that's enough.
