Student Recipes is a website that does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s full of recipes, submitted by students. Recipes. For students. There are several versions of CBH, and I picked this one at random.
Track Record?
Scrambled Egg - not entered.
Welsh Rarebit - not entered.
Poached Egg - not entered.
Did We Get Permission?
I asked but didn’t receive a reply.
Website Version
There’s no photo online, sorry.
You can find this recipe here: http://www.studentrecipes.com/recipes/beef/corned-beef-hash/
Ease & Effort:
It‘s fairly simple to follow this recipe, as the recipe is very vague. Well, when I say “follow” I really should say “make half of it up yourself, as you go along”. The list of ingredients includes “Thinly sliced potatoes” and “Sliced onions” - no amounts are included. There’s a handy tip about chilling your corned beef to ease slicing, but that’s as helpful as it gets. “Bake for about an hour”, but no temperature means that the cooking was rather hit and miss. So - easy to follow, because it’s lacking detail. Score 2.5.
Presentation:
Poor. This didn‘t look at all how I‘ve come to view CBH. It didn’t look like a finished dish, it looked like a dollop of sliced potato, sliced onion, and sliced corned beef. Which is what it is of course, but I hope you understand what I’m getting at. In itself it didn’t look horrible. Score 1.5.
Taste:
Not good. The cooking times left the potato too hard and the onion too crunchy. Double it and you’d be getting there. The three main ingredients didn’t combine at all, meaning this was a plateful of part-cooked items, not a complementary meld of flavours. Score 1.
My Version
Scores On The Doors
Delia Smith - 13.5
Get Stuffed - 12
Brian’s Belly - 11.5
Wally Webb - 11
Netmums - 10.5
James Martin “B” - 10
Wasabi Bratwurst - 10
Mamma Cherri - 9
James Martin “A” - 8.5
Student Recipes - 5
Running Order:
11 - Bob Jude
12 - Crazy Squirrel
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