• Today in History - 1791

    From Dave Drum@1:18/200 to All on Thu Aug 25 05:55:00 2022
    26 AUSUST 1791 - FITCH WINS A PATENT FOR HIS STEAMBOAT: Entrepreneur-
    inventor John Fitch receives a US patent for his steam-powered boat,
    after years of experiments result in a craft that can travel at a top
    speed of 8 miles per hour. It'll take two more decades and engineer
    Robert Fulton's involvement before steamboats become a profitable
    enterprise.

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    Title: Seafood Steamboat
    Categories: Seafood, Vegetables, Chilies, Greens
    Yield: 7 servings

    3 l Chicken stock
    1 tb Salt
    2 tb Sugar
    2 tb Fish sauce
    1/2 Chinese cabbage (wombok);
    - washed, sliced in 4 cm pcs
    1 bn Mustard greens; washed,
    - sliced in 4 cm pieces
    1 bc Chrysanthemum leaves (tan o);
    - washed, torn in 10 cm pcs
    500 g Raw tiger prawns; peeled,
    - deveined
    500 g Barramundi fillets; sliced in
    - 5 mm pieces
    500 g Mussels
    500 g Calamari
    12 Scallops; on the half-shell
    225 g Dried vermicelli noodles;
    - cooked
    4 BirdgCOs eye chilies; thin
    - sliced
    125 ml Soy sauce for dipping

    For this recipe yougCOll need a portable gas stove for
    cooking at the table and a special steamboat hotpot or
    a large saucepan.

    In a large saucepan, combine the chicken stock, salt,
    sugar and fish sauce. Mix well and bring to the boil.
    Place the gas stove and steamboat hotpot or large
    saucepan in the middle of the dinner table.

    Transfer 2 litres of the chicken stock mixture to the
    steamboat. On separate platters, arrange the vegetables,
    herbs, seafood and vermicelli. In small dipping bowls,
    add some sliced chilies and soy sauce for dipping.

    When the stock starts to simmer, each person dips some
    greens and seafood into the stock until cooked. They
    then retrieve their cooked ingredients with their
    chopsticks and ladle some stock into their bowls.

    As the greens and seafood cooks, the more flavoursome
    the stock becomes. When the stock starts to boil down,
    replenish the pot with more stock.

    Dip into soy and chilies.

    By: Luk Nguyen

    Serves: 6 - 8

    RECIPE FROM: https://www.sbs.com.au

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  • From Dave Drum@1:2320/105 to All on Sat Aug 26 04:48:00 2023
    26 August 1791 - FITCH WINS A PATENT FOR HIS STEAMBOAT:
    Entrepreneur-inventor John Fitch receives a US patent for his
    steam-powered boat, after years of experiments result in a craft that
    can travel at a top speed of 8 miles per hour. It'll take two more
    decades and engineer Robert Fulton's involvement before steamboats
    become a profitable enterprise.

    The person who gets the most credit for an invention is typically not
    the innovator, but the one who makes the idea pay. Take, for example,
    Robert Fulton, the "inventor" of the steamboat. The real innovators
    behind steam propulsion were John Fitch and James Rumsey.

    They began meaningful experiments around 1786; Fulton's successful demonstration with the Clermont did not come until 1807. Fitch and
    Rumsey are usually dismissed with brief mention when the evolution of
    the steamboat is discussed; yet their groundbreaking work occurred
    decades before Robert Fulton won acclaim as the inventor of this
    transportation breakthrough.

    Both Fitch and Rumsey were outstanding innovators. Rumsey was a
    mechanical genius with an innovative approach to solving mechanical
    problems. Fitch was a colorful frontier entrepreneur who seemed fated to
    suffer misfortune throughout his life. They came into direct conflict in
    1788 as they fought for the patent protection they both thought they
    deserved.

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    Title: Tom Yam Steamboat Soup
    Categories: Seafood, Herbs, Vegetables,
    Yield: 4 servings

    2 Tom Yam Stock Cubes
    2200 mL (75 fl oz) water
    80 g (3 oz) spring onion bulbs;
    - lightly smashed
    3 ts Sprig coriander root
    3 Lemongrass; thin sliced
    4 Lime leaves; smashed
    1 tb Olive oil
    1 c Straw mushrooms
    100 g (3 1/2 oz) long bean
    50 g (2 oz) ripe tomatoes
    100 g (3 1/2 oz) assorted seafood;
    - mussels, scallops, fish
    - fillets
    8 Fresh prawns; cleaned and
    - whiskers trimmed off

    Heat up a pot with olive oil, lightly fry the shallots
    and spring onion bulbs a light brown.

    Add in 2 Knorr tom yam cubes and the rest of the
    ingredients for steamboat stock.

    Bring it to a boil, add in the fresh prawns and simmer
    for 5 minutes or until the prawns turn bright red.

    Add in the rest of the steamboat ingredients and be
    ready to serve in 5mins.

    Do add in the prawns only when the soup base is boiling
    so as not to overcook the prawns.

    RECIPE FROM: https://www.knorr.com

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