Stout Bread
A fine accompaniment to any soup or stew for
St. Patrick's Day, Watkins Good Tastings Bread gets
an added flavor boost from the most popular dark beer in
the world. Serve this bread with the Pepper-Pot Soup
or Jiggs' Favourite below, or with a traditional Irish
stew (see our new Recipe
Archives!)
- 1 package Watkins
Good Tastings Bread Mix
- 1 cup/250 ml flour
- 12 fl oz (1-1/2 cups/355
ml) Guinness or other stout beer
Preheat oven to 375
F/190 C. Form in a round as for Irish soda bread, or
place in a loaf pan. Bake 45 to 50 minutes.
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From Betty Jo's
Kitchen
Just a few blocks from Watkins'
headquarters in Winona, Minnesota is a little
bar/restaurant called Betty Jo Byoloski's. They serve generous sandwiches and great homemade soups, and
proudly place tins of Watkins Pepper at every
table.
Betty Jo's is named for a piece of Winona history. In the early 1900's, Watkins was only a few decades old and Winona was a bustling port for shipping lumber by train and down the Mississippi River. Betty Jo Byoloski ran a brothel in the
wild-and-wooly down-town district. Betty Jo
Byoloski's opened as a disco on the East End in the late
1970's, and re-emerged 20 years later as the eatery it
is today. Betty Jo's uses a lot of Watkins spices
in their kitchen, and was happy to share a couple of
their favorite recipes with
us.
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Betty Jo's German
Pepper Pot Soup
We toned this recipe down substantially
from the original given to us by the chef at Betty Jo's,
as it had a high 'burn' factor. It's still plenty
hot!
- 3 quarts/liters water
- 3 cups/750 mL
shredded cabbage
- 2 large carrots, diced
- 1 small onion, diced
- 1 tbsp/15 ml minced
garlic
- 2 Watkins Bay
Leaves
- 2.5 lbs/1.1 kg beef, cubed
- 2 tbsp/30 ml
Watkins Black Pepper Grapeseed Oil
- 1/4 cup/60
mL Watkins Beef Soup Base
- 1 tbsp/15 ml
Watkins Black Pepper
Boil cabbage,
carrots, onion, garlic and bay leaves in water until
carrots and cabbage are tender. Brown beef in oil;
add to pot along with pepper and soup base. Simmer
for 30 minutes or until beef is full
cooked.
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 Betty Jo Byoloski's Winning Chili
NEW - March 2, 2006 -
Betty Jo Byoloski's Chili, made with Watkins
spices, won 1st place out of 17 entries in
the Winona-area 12th Annual Chili Cook-off. Besides
providing a variety of chili samples to judges and
participants, the event raised over $7,000 for the "Ready
Set School" program, an organization created to ensure
that children from families with limited financial
resources have the basic and necessary school supplies to
better succeed in school.
.. Way to go, Betty
Jo! (with a little help from Watkins).
The staff
at Betty Jo's told us that they will only use Watkins Chili
powder in this customer favorite! They ran out one day
and used a different brand, and the chef said the customers
didn't like it. (We always
knew their clientele had good good taste!)
The
original version of this used 10 pounds of ground beef and
made enough to feed an army. We scaled it down, but
made no other changes. Be warned that this chili has
some fairly substantial heat. you may wish to start
with a fraction of the
cayenne.
- 2.5 lbs/1.1 kg ground
beef
1 tbsp/15
ml salt
1 tbsp/15
ml Watkins Black Pepper
1 large yellow onion,
diced
2 tbsp/30 ml minced
garlic
1-1/2 green bell
peppers, diced
1/4 cup/60
ml Watkins Chili
Powder
2 tbsp/30 ml
Watkins Paprika
1 tbsp/15 ml
Watkins Cayenne Pepper (or less
to taste)
1 tbsp/15 ml
sugar
1/2 tbsp/7.5 ml
Watkins Cumin
1/2 tbsp/7.5 ml
Watkins Parsley
2 tbsp/30 ml
Worcestershire sauce
1 (28 oz/800 g) can
diced tomatoes
1 (32 oz/950 ml)
container tomato juice
2 (14 oz/500 g) cans
chili beans
Brown ground beef in
large kettle with salt and pepper. Add onions,
garlic and green pepper; simmer until onions are
translucent. Add rest of spices and Worcestershire
sauce; stir well. Add tomatoes, beans and tomato
juice; simmer for 30
minutes.
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...from "Watkins
Recipes for Special Occasions" Cookbook - Published
1997
Lace Cookies
When backed, these
delicate, crunchy cookies resemble fine Irish
lace.
- 1/2 cup/125 ml unsalted
butter, softened
- 1 cup/250 ml brown
sugar
- 1 cup/250 ml old-fashioned
rolled oats
- 1/4 cup/60 ml all-purpose
flour
- 2 tbsp/30 ml 1%
milk
- 1 tbsp/15 ml
Watkins
Vanilla
Preheat oven to 350
F/180 C. Grease and flour 2 large baking
sheets. Cream butter and sugar together. Stir
in oats, flour, milk and Vanilla. Drop batter by
level tablespoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheets alowing
room to spread (6 per sheet). Bake for 10 minutes or
until cookies flatten and look dry. Let cookies cool
for 2 - 3 minutes on baking sheets. Lift from baking
sheet with metal spatula and move to wire rack to cool
completely. Repeat with remaining
batter.
Makes 2 dozen cookies.
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...from "Watkins
Cookbook" - Published
1925
Jiggs'
Favorite
- 4 lbs/ 1.8kg corned
beef
- 4 beets
- 1 small cabbage
- 4 carrots
- 2 small turnips
- 6 potatoes
- 3 onions
- 6
parsnips
Wash the
meat and let stand in water 1/2 hour to remove some of
the salt. Put in a kettle with boiling water to
cover and simmer about 4 hours. Prepare the
vegetables and cut the cabbage into quarters; cook
beets separately. Remove the meat when
tender. Add the carrots, turnips and cabbage and
cook 2 hours and add the potatoes the last
half-hour. Add the cooked beets and the
meat. Heat all together and serve on a large
platter with the vegetables around the
meat.
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 Getting Into the
St. Patrick's Day
Spirit!
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Place a dark green or
black bowler hat in the center of the table for a
centerpiece.
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Place fresh shamrocks in
small vases at each place setting.
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Horseshoes are known for
their good luck, but make sure you hang them with
the rounded ends up so the luck doesn't run
out.
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Of course, no Irish get together
would be complete without a traditional Irish
toast! Here is one we thought that you and
your guests would
enjoy. "May you fly straight to
heaven, But if you go to Hades, May Lethe run with
Guinness!"
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