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Title: Local food favourites
Post by: yorkshirelass on Wednesday 20 October 04 07:51 BST (UK)
What got me thinking about that was from when i went to a chippy in whitby and asked for a chip butty open. I ended up with chips wrapped up, and a breadcake in a plastic bag tied in a knot. Maybe it was just the poor lady who was confused  ???
Besides a chip butty, chips IN the breadcake, Yorkshire pudding has to be the local favourite along with meat and potatoe pie with Hendersons relish.

And has anyone ever heard of mock crab? An American relative of my Nan's neighbour gave it to her. Tomatoes, eggs and cheese all boiled and mushed together in a pan and then slapped on toast.


Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Fitty on Wednesday 20 October 04 08:30 BST (UK)
Morning Yorkshirelass!

Us Yorkies must be early risers!!  lol

I love Parkin Pigs!  Pie and Mushy Peas and Bonfire Toffee!

Yorkshire puds with a bit of Sage and onion stuffing in them floating in gravy thickened with Yorkshire pudding mixture!

We're healthy eaters in out house.....lol
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: yorkshirelass on Wednesday 20 October 04 08:41 BST (UK)
lol morning fitty

I totally agree with the mix in the gravy  8)

My first sunday dinner was tragic. I put too much mix in the gravy. Was kinda strange, just a brown powdery liquid, the flour content killed the oxo...... but i'd used self raising instead of plain so also created yorkshire biscuits WEY HEY
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Lloydy on Wednesday 20 October 04 09:17 BST (UK)
yum yum yum .................. Yorkshire puddings are my favourite  ;D ;D  I also love the large Yorkshires filled with meat, veg and loads of gravy  ;)
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Kimi on Wednesday 20 October 04 16:35 BST (UK)
My favourite is Pie & Mash.  Since moving from London over a year ago, I've not had it :'( - can't get it where I live, and even if I could, I bet it wouldn't be the same .  Can somone make some and post it to me???????  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Kimi
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: molar on Wednesday 20 October 04 17:52 BST (UK)
I lived in Lancs when I was young and a meal I enjoyed was black tripe and elder,served with sliced tomatoes,sprinkled liberally with vinegar and pepper and eaten with bread and butter. I even enjoyed it when I discovered what it was!! (my dad preferred honeycomb tripe). The tripe was bought from the local Tripe Shop! No this wasn't in the dark ages but the sixties! My grandma liked cow heel or pigs trotters (the latter are now appearing on menus in posh restaurants). Having moved away the food I like to buy when I go "home" is Bacon Ribs, boiled and served with cabbage and lovely creamy mash,yummy! :)
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: GRACELAND on Wednesday 20 October 04 17:56 BST (UK)
 :o  A favorite food down here is ....wait for it....
 

                        Pigs tail stew !!!

          it is rather good athough a bit fatty  ;D
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: GRACELAND on Wednesday 20 October 04 17:57 BST (UK)
 :D Another nice thing is BLACK PUDDING made with pigs blood
                        :o ;D

 Theres Double Gloucester cheese
 Gloucester old spot pigs  / dripping cakes  ..Brawn (pigs head roasted down so all meat falls off then pressed nice melted over chips))   ;D
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Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: JillJ on Wednesday 20 October 04 19:58 BST (UK)
Whether it is local or thousands of miles away it is always better if someone else has cooked it!

Plum Bread - which I had never heard of until I came to Lincolnshire.   Made with cold tea, dried fruit (no plums) and spices, all boiled together before being baked in the oven.   Delicious with lashings of butter and a lump of cheese.   

Jill
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Fitty on Thursday 21 October 04 01:05 BST (UK)
Sounds a bit like a Malt Loaf , Jill

ummmm Malt loaf!  now theres a thought..........
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Kazza on Thursday 21 October 04 01:50 BST (UK)
Jill,

Round my way they just call it Boiled Cake,  good thing is it is fatless,  until you slather the butter on that is.  ;D

I made 2 last week and took them to church for the kids Harvest Service,  they went down a treat.  8) Almost as good as the Buttons Cake my daughter (Jess,  10)  made for the kids.

Kazza.

Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: JillJ on Thursday 21 October 04 11:44 BST (UK)
It is a bit like Malt loaf, yes, but fatless........No!

1 Cup Cold Tea
1 Cup Currants
1 Cup Sultannas
1 Cup Sugar
2 Cups S/R Flour
1 tsp. Bicarb
1 tsp. Mixed Spice
2 oz. Margarine
2 Eggs.

Put tea, fruit, marg. bicarb & spice in pan, bring to boil and simmer 15 mins.   When cool add sugar, flour & beaten eggs.  Bake in greased & floured 2 lb. bread tin at 325-350 degrees for one and a half hours.

Enjoy - oh and the cup is English tea cup, not American!

Jill

p.s.   Perhaps this should be moved to the "Even Lighter Side" Board - you can't get much further off topic!!
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Fitty on Thursday 21 October 04 12:33 BST (UK)
Sounds lovely Jill.

Have wrote it all down and might make that at the weekend,  Will let you know how it turns out.

Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: JillJ on Thursday 21 October 04 12:55 BST (UK)
My Goodness!   What a busy weekend you are going to have Fitty!   Baking, yomping round graveyards, not to mention searching for Baxendales and floating on cloud 9!

Jill

Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Su on Thursday 21 October 04 20:52 BST (UK)
cold baked beans outta the tin....ooooh lovely.
And no washing up.
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: GRACELANDONE on Thursday 21 October 04 20:54 BST (UK)
 ;D This will save on bubblebath  ;D
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Amy K on Thursday 21 October 04 22:13 BST (UK)
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, home baked Welsh Cakes with loads of butter and a lovely cup of tea!!

Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: yorkshirelass on Friday 22 October 04 01:26 BST (UK)
cold baked beans outta the tin....ooooh lovely.
And no washing up.

ha ha ha classic, was expecting something like pot noodle but this works
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Fitty on Friday 22 October 04 11:54 BST (UK)
;D This will save on bubblebath  ;D

Chortle!!!
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: GRACELAND on Friday 22 October 04 18:47 BST (UK)
 ;D  HEY Fitty none of your brews on here frogs legs ect  ;D
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Jean McGurn on Saturday 23 October 04 09:43 BST (UK)

I remember 'mock crab' from when I was a kid in Liverpool in the 50's only we didn't have tomatoes in it but mustard powder. Never liked it cos it was too hot and spicy.


My late brother absolutely loved Tripe. White is was and boiled in milk Ugh. Tried to make me eat it but no way was I going to eat that stuff. Although I do love black pudding. Had some for breakfast this morning but living in Sussex it's nowhere near the same as Lancashires black puddings.   

Mind you I think the same of white cheshire cheese. It's nowhere near the same sharp taste as what I call proper cheshire cheese. Maybe as I have hit my second childhood it my taste buds that have changed, Who knows?

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: fluffnco on Sunday 24 October 04 19:12 BST (UK)
My fave when living up home in newcastle was a Stottie cake Breakfast :P Stottie cakes are a round fairly flat bread very moist and light inside which was then filled with bacon, egg, mushrooms, black pudding, and anything else you could stuff in it. YUM!

Up in Scotland my fave was buttries fresh from the bakers every morning. Can't get them south of the border unfortunately :(

other faves are hamshank soup with huge fluffy dumplings

Pan haggerty a kind of potato and cornbeef hotpot but done on top of the stove...ermmmm.. got to be loads more :)

Adele
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: troods on Monday 25 October 04 00:00 BST (UK)
Hello All


Being a dinkee di aussie and have married into an Italian family I now love pasta and I think I cook it pretty darn good as well. Learn't off the husband.

You can't beat good homemade pasta with sauce.

Though I am now a good deal heavier than what I was when I met him, thanks to my love of pasta.

Troods
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: Fitty on Monday 25 October 04 01:25 BST (UK)
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My fave when living up home in newcastle was a Stottie cake Breakfast  Stottie cakes are a round fairly flat bread very moist and light inside which was then filled with bacon, egg, mushrooms, black pudding, and anything else you could stuff in it. YUM!

we call em Oven Cakes here....or Oven Bottom Cakes.  lovely warm with butter and Jam   3 millions calories a bite tho!   lol
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: GRACELAND on Tuesday 26 October 04 12:57 BST (UK)
 :o :o Fitty ,
                    Don't eat all that you won't get the broom off the ground  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: nooshie on Monday 06 December 04 22:12 GMT (UK)
South west dishes include the famous cornish pasties, clotted cream and scones, devon roast (meat cooked in water with onions and spuds around it - yummy), hogs pudding (as it comes or fried) a sort of white black pudding, saffron cake spread with butter, and strangest of all the cornish star gazey pie which is made of herrings under a shortcrust lid with the fish heads and tails sticking out of the crust!
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: D ap D on Tuesday 07 December 04 10:53 GMT (UK)
[quote .... cornish star gazey pie which is made of herrings under a shortcrust lid with the fish heads and tails sticking out of the crust!
Quote

sounds like the Malaysian national dish: Fish head curry.

You daren't look at what you're eating, as it stares back at you. Nothing so offputting as being watched while you're eating. Sounds disgusting, looks worse, tastes lovely though.
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: nutkin on Wednesday 08 December 04 16:21 GMT (UK)
My favorites come from my mixed ethnic heritage.

Pirogies and sauerkraut with kielbasa (my grandfather is Ukrainian)

and

Roast Beef covered in salt and garlic until it is all crispy with Yorkshire pudding. (my grandfather is British).

I am sooooo hungry now! :P
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: nutkin on Wednesday 08 December 04 16:23 GMT (UK)
I forgot...my grandma loved pickled pigs feet.  My brother and I used to run out of the room scared when we were kids when the bottle was brought out.  We thought it was Miss Piggy.  Icky!!
Title: Re: Local food favourites
Post by: teddybear1843 on Wednesday 08 December 04 23:26 GMT (UK)
Mine is similar to Graceland's Brawn but we call it Pork Cheese & make it out of the trotters in Norfolk.

My real favourite is Samphire, a sort of seaweed which you boil, pull off the stalks & eat with loads of bread & vinegar. Rots your guts but!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Teddybear