Beef cut. The chuck or shoulder quarter is large and can yield a number of different cuts, of which this is one. Also available are inside chuck roll, chuck tender, blade pot roast or boneless shoulder steak, chuck short ribs and arm pot roast. These are less tender cuts than the prime loin and rib cuts but are nevertheless particularly tasty when cooked well. A moist heat is required, which makes all these cuts suitable for braising and pot roasting, as well as casseroling. A sub-primal cut of the beef primal chuck. It is tough but with good flavour. On the bone.
A fish soup made with white fish such as cod, onions, green peppers, celery and potatoes cooked in fish stock with milk and flavoured with cayenne pepper.
White hake: a long, lean member of the cod family. Although they can grow up to 1 meter (3 ft) in length, the average size now is about 30-50 cm (12-30 inches). They are found in temperate and cold waters. During the day they lurk on the bottom, but rise in the evenings to hunt for fish such as herring and mackerel.
A very popular variety of soft, butterhead or round lettuce, with a small, slightly loose head, with larger, paler leaves than the other popular variety, bibb.
White hake. Boston Ling. An American hake with a range from southern Newfoundland down to Cape Hatteras. It is not a true hake, but then, neither is it a true ling.
An old variety of eating apple with red-brown skin and sweet, juicy white flesh which probably arose in the early 1600s in Roxbury, near Boston. It is a late-season apple, picked from mid-October in South-East England, is stored and is at its best between January and March. When we lived in Boston we worked in the Hospital district not far from Roxbury, which was a dangerous place. The annual murder rate in 1990 for the greater Boston area was the same as for the whole of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (and the Troubles in Northern Ireland still persisted). About 90% of these murders occurred in Roxbury. Children were caught in the cross-fire of drugs wars and innocent people died in large numbers. Many African-Americans coming to Boston to work found themselves with no option but to live in Roxbury however respectable and hard-working they were. I have no idea what the predicament of Roxbury is now, but it is somehow comforting to think of a pleasant apple being raised there.
A sought-after 'fish' in New England. It actually refers to the size of white fish and may be either cod or haddock. Scrod is the youngest, followed by markets, and cows, which, surprise surprise, are not so often seen on menus.
