have you ever had soak?

meaneyedcatz · Jul 9, 2018

Not wanting to highjack the thread on mudbucks coffee, figured I'd ask this.

My ancestors and some of you often saucered your coffee.

My mother and grandmother spoke of eating soak.

Take a nice biscuit with a crusty bottom and split it, Put the bottom in the saucer and pour your coffee on it. Eat it with a fork.

I've never eaten soak, have you?

JayFramer · Jul 9, 2018

No but the boys during the war soaked their hardtack in coffee to make it eatable. Sounds like it might be a holdover.

carpriver · Jul 9, 2018

when I was 5-6 years old and would spend time with my grandpa we would have a coffee, coffee and Pet Condensed Milk and sugar poured in a saucer. we dipped fried cakes in it. thanks for the memories.

gman51 · Jul 9, 2018

I have many times dunked a donut or such in my coffee. But I just don't like the sound of soaking. That sounds just to mushy for my likes.

ParadiseRoad · Jul 9, 2018

...some of my ancestors ate SOP...bread dipped in the meat juices and fat in the bottom of a roasting pan...

amazingflapjack · Jul 9, 2018

Here's yo coffee-everythang but sausered and blowed!

DWalt · Jul 10, 2018

JayFramer said:
No but the boys during the war soaked their hardtack in coffee to make it eatable. Sounds like it might be a holdover.

I once tried eating what was purported to be authentic Civil War recipe hardtack. Those Yankees and Rebs must have had strong teeth - it was like biting a rock. You had to soak it in water or coffee if you wanted to eat it, and even doing that didn't work very well.

My grandfather used to drink his coffee out of a saucer, but I don't remember him soaking up coffee with a biscuit.
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"..some of my ancestors ate SOP...bread dipped in the meat juices and fat in the bottom of a roasting pan..."

When my mother was trying to stretch her grocery budget, we'd have what she called "Gravy Bread". Same idea, it's exactly what it sounds like. Actually, I sort of liked it.

Jst1mr · Jul 10, 2018

ParadiseRoad said:
...some of my ancestors ate SOP...bread dipped in the meat juices and fat in the bottom of a roasting pan...

ANCESTORS!? Why, the best reason to keep your steak on the medium-rare side is to have an excuse to clean up those juices with a nice crusty piece of fresh bread. Once, while on a carb-restrictive diet, I had finished a nice ribeye but could only gaze fondly at the juices going to waste on my plate....after glancing away for just a moment, I was taken aback to find a thick piece of ciabatta on my plate. My son, ever the opportunist and always with an impressive "boarding house reach", was apparently sacrificing himself to save me the temptation....good kid!

Ivan the Butcher · Jul 10, 2018

Back in the 60's an architect of Italian decent lived next door. He was pretty well off, but came from a "Church of Italy" background. (A highly persecuted Non-Catholic group from the northern regions of Italy.) It was his habit from childhood to fry some pork belly before breakfast, and soak stale bread in the grease. Then wrap that bread in oil cloth and take it to work for lunch. He could afford much better food, but to him, that is what "Working Men" ate! Some people have habits, customs, and tastes that go back hundreds of years!

Ivan

ParadiseRoad · Jul 10, 2018

Jst1mr said:
ANCESTORS!? Why, the best reason to keep your steak on the medium-rare side is to have an excuse to clean up those juices with a nice crusty piece of fresh bread. Once, while on a carb-restrictive diet, I had finished a nice ribeye but could only gaze fondly at the juices going to waste on my plate....after glancing away for just a moment, I was taken aback to find a thick piece of ciabatta on my plate. My son, ever the opportunist and always with an impressive "boarding house reach", was apparently sacrificing himself to save me the temptation....good kid!

...by ancestors I meant from my Dad on back... ;-)

keith44spl · Jul 10, 2018

Well, here south of the Mason/Dixon...…..

I enjoy cured country ham fried in a cast iron skillet.
Ya leave the drippin's in the skillet and pour in a generous
amount of black coffee, thus making 'Red Eyed' gravy.

Pour that over your scratch biscuits....(eat it with yur fork)

As ol Grampa Jones would say, "That's what's for supper!"

Oh, I've sop'd the juice of a good steak up in a many o' high tone eatery and or greasy spoon.
.

CajunBass · Jul 10, 2018

I remember my parents and grandparents drinking coffee out of a saucer. I suppose I've done it myself when I was younger, just because I saw them do it. I never asked but I suppose they did it so the coffee would cool quicker.

I've never heard of soaking a biscuit in coffee, but again I would imagine it was a way to use stale/cold biscuits.

Jst1mr · Jul 10, 2018

Don't want to hijack, but well on the subject of ancestors' peculiar (or at least different) eating habits, consider this one: My great-grandfather, while eating dinner featuring some fresh garden peas, would carefully line the peas up on his knife to eat them...anyone else seen that? (I have always been lucky to keep the darn things on a fork, for crying out loud!)

Chubbo · Jul 10, 2018

Another eating habit.

My maternal grand father, also "saucered", his coffee, but each morning, he also broke two eggs into a coffee cup, broke, and stirred them, with a spoon and then drank them raw, and straight. The next thing that he ingested, was a large slug of whisky, if it was available, but any alcoholic beverage would do, if not. I don't think, that he ever drew a completely sober breath in his adult life, but, I never saw him when he seemed to be under the influence of alcohol ether. He lived to the age of 96. I firmly believe, that he could have lived to be an old man, if it weren't for his alcohol consumption. Thanks for sharing my true story, about my grand father's eating habits.

Chubbo

kenv1950 · Jul 10, 2018

Jst1mr said:
Don't want to hijack, but well on the subject of ancestors' peculiar (or at least different) eating habits, consider this one: My great-grandfather, while eating dinner featuring some fresh garden peas, would carefully line the peas up on his knife to eat them...anyone else seen that? (I have always been lucky to keep the darn things on a fork, for crying out loud!)

My grandfather did the same thing

PALADIN85020 · Jul 10, 2018

I've never had soak, but I have been soaked a time or two... mostly at gun shows.

John

CajunBass · Jul 10, 2018

Eating pea's with a knife is something I've heard about for years, always in sort of a joking way. It was always portrayed as something rubes and hicks did. I ever remember seeing it done in old cartoons.

Again, I'm pretty sure I tried it as a kid. Don't remember it being very efficient.

meaneyedcatz · Jul 10, 2018

Jst1mr said:
Don't want to hijack, but well on the subject of ancestors' peculiar (or at least different) eating habits, consider this one: My great-grandfather, while eating dinner featuring some fresh garden peas, would carefully line the peas up on his knife to eat them...anyone else seen that? (I have always been lucky to keep the darn things on a fork, for crying out loud!)

The only time I've seen this was in a three stooges episode.

As a kid I learned the following.
I eat my peas with honey,
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
but it keeps them on my knife.

TomkinsSP · Jul 11, 2018

Growing up in NYC, my friend Yevgehney and his parents would put flat sugar cookies in thier coffee saucers. Pour the strong black coffee over the cookies and drink the now sweetened coffee. The cookies were hard enough that they did not disentigrate. Then you eat the softened cookie. I always figured it for a Russian thing.

bamabiker · Jul 11, 2018

We called it soakee and you didn't put it in a saucer, you just crumbled up a biscuit into a cup of coffee and ate it with a spoon. Usually after you finished your other breakfast food. Yum!
My mom made home made biscuits just about every morning.

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