It’s been a year now since the last gooey drop of this daily staple in a land near Down Under has been extruded from its orifice. No yeast in your yearly intake of salt today bucko! Your sodium intake will be finally stifled down to manageable levels. But alas no! They have rebuilt it. It will prevail. And onward groans the worldly battle against the sodded sodium savage Marmite.
So this week the ”GOVERNMENT” has announced that the fortuitous factory has begun the process of manufacturing this delectable deli item again. The culprit? Sanitarium.
In any other part of the world that is the nut house. Not too Un-PC, but this is my blog and I log it. Here is what I quote to you, read at your own risk, “Sanitarium is urging consumers not to "freak out" as it works to relocate its Marmite manufacturing facilities to a safer part of the Christchurch site.”
Only in the papers you say? The media and government are both urging people to be frugal with their spreading practices. Spread thinly an preferably on warm toast where you can spread more finely because the heat from the toast will soften the gooey guck.
“The "Marmageddon" as wags on the Internet quickly dubbed it became a hot topic on Twitter, where "Marmite" was the top trending phrase in New Zealand tonight, with fans and foes of the spread debating how to deal with a shortage.”
Thank the powers that be that we hurdled the return date without widespread pillaging and riots on the two islands. “Marmite will be back in the pantry by March 20, Sanitarium says.” Can you believe? Almost a year of sparing the rod and spoiling the children. As I hear it, most adults would not allow the younguns’ to take in any of the black gold during the Great Marmite Famine of the 2012’s. Almost on par with the Potato Famine of past years in the Empire.
So for future reference for you do it at homers:
A litre of Brewer's yeast (top fermentation from a brewery)
A little sea salt
1 onion, diced
2 carrots, diced
1 turnip, diced
1/2 celery stick, diced
1) brewer's yeast with salt. Simmer at blood heat, (30 to 40 ºC) for ten hours or overnight.
2) Then simmer this mixture at 50 to 60 º C for 2 to 3 hours.
3) Boil at low temperature 90ºC for half an hour.
4) Filter
5) Let it cool for a day.
6) Filter again.
7) Convert it to a paste in the pan a few hours.
8) Boil up all the vegetables until they are cooked. Strain off liquid and incorporate into the Marmite paste.
9) Let the mixture reduce into a Marmite like texture. Do not allow it to burn:
The entire process takes about ten days.
And 90 seconds for the perfect Jo.
Pour my Java slowly Pete while I ponder that.
Mark Hull Du Calumet, First of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler, Having been again to Australia, and now Grandad's Land, and for some, from The Dark Side. Not am Main nor ab der Elba, but down the Donau.
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