Beef Marrowbone for Veal Marrowbone...

[Charlie Penrose]

Can any one tell me whether beef marrowbone is an acceptable substitute for veal marrowbone, when making, say, Fergus' marrowbone & parsley salad? No butchers near me seem to have, or be willing to get any veal marrowbone.

Charlie

[jdanton]

Can any one tell me whether beef marrowbone is an acceptable substitute for veal marrowbone, when making, say, Fergus' marrowbone & parsley salad? No butchers near me seem to have, or be willing to get any veal marrowbone.

Charlie

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Where are you? It would be expensive, but you could get some osso bucco.

[rarerollingobject]

Beef marrow definitely works for this dish, more than acceptable IMO and not too different from how I remember St. John's tasting..see my somewhat hideous pictures here.

[Magictofu]

As long as the bones were not aged too long it should be very good. The great thing with veal is that it is rarely aged for very long. If you get bones from a well aged carcass, they will taste off... unlike meat, bone marrow degrade quite fast.

[Mallet]

Beef will definitely work for the parsley and bone marrow recipe. I've had relatively old beef marrowbones (3 weeks), with no off flavours that I could detect.