British Food: Actually edible?

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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:33 pm

I am actually considering making the shooters sandwich for my new years eve party. But i might have to get rid of the mushrooms and replacing it with something more edible. Perhaps sun dried tomatoes. Or cheese as Irish suggested.

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:36 pm

^^^Butterstewed onion? I have a good recipe. Wink

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Yummy

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:20 pm

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Pasties and Scrumpy

Sounds like names for cats!!

I vaguely remember what a pastie is, but don't remember Scrumpy. But it's been 20 years or so since my visits to Scotland and a LOT of alcohol consumed there.

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:05 pm

^
Pasties & Scrumpy native to SW England only, not Scotland.

Pasties; Lamb or Beef with bits of swede, carrots, onions & seasoning sealed and cooked in pastry (originated in Cornwall hence the 'Cornish' prefix).

Scrumpy: Rough apple cider, very potent.

1st choice fare of many Gloucester Rugby Club supporters.

Too much information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:30 pm

There's a good beer festival in the North East of England that brings many tasty scrumpy ciders up for the Wurzels.

A few years ago I tried 14% Gazza's Tears and the night quickly became a blur after a few of those. It's been reduced to 11% the past few years but still sells out before anything else.

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:30 pm

Pasties are eaten quite a bit in the coal mining areas of America, as the miners (at least 20 yrs) ago would take them down in the mines in their lunch pails as the recipes had been passed on down from immigrants from their homelands.

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:09 pm

Zargs wrote:

This is why I like Canada. We don't really have food of our own, we just take everybody elses' good food.

Well, we have poutine and beer. If anyone wants to complain about poutine and beer, I don't know what to say.

Fellow Canuck here. *sigh* Poutine and beer...love 'em both, but not at the same time.

I make my own poutine at home. It's sooo good!

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:11 pm

Morgain Le Fay wrote:

And don't the Canuks like their beer warm. One nice thing about when I lived in Ontario the beer truck made deliveries to your home.

Mr. Ding and I live just outside Montreal and we always drink our beer cold.

We can buy beer from depanneurs aka convenience stores seven days a week, from eight in the morning until eleven at night. We can also buy wine and cider at the deps though we rarely do.

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:18 pm

My mother was Scottish born and I visited the UK several times, though I haven't been across the pond in many years.

Nothing beats British fish and chips. I used to like to eat in local curry houses and I absolutely love Scottish meat pies.

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:13 pm

Warning!
DO NOT FART when full of scrumpy! Shocked

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 12:32 am

^^^
It sounds like you're speaking from personal experience...

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 4:42 am

manbiteslion wrote:

Koko.Dk wrote:

But I did see the British version of New Zealand "Marmite" which I hear is similar to Aussie "Vegemite." Neither of which I've tried.

Koko, vegemite and marmite are incompatible. If you can eat one, the other is unbearable. If you weren't raised on either though, they'll both be unbearable. The Kiwis have another version also called 'Marmite' but incompatible with the other two, if you want to try British marmite, you want what the kiwis call 'my mate' (black glass jar yellow cap).

Salty yeasty goodness, you love it or hate it, there is no middle ground.

Hmm...I do love salt more than the average person so who knows? So I will consider trying it and we will see if I like one or the other or neither.

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 4:47 am

Fartina: This coming from somebody who loves farting and finds it humourous. Laughing

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:59 pm

@ Bart Fargo I received my shipment of the B&M canned brown bread with raisins yesterday. Now, as we say down South, I am in tall cotton.

If anyone has a good Yorkshire Pudding recipe send it to me via PM.

I took a loan out and got a nice Standing Rib Roast so we will have prime rib for Christmas and hopefully make a Yorkshire Pudding as well as my former MIL.

Oh, Pastor Frank, MIL is Mother In Law - since you don't do text-speak. Laughing

BTW, is anyone familiar with Baby's Head Pudding? I think it is a Brit recipe. Graham Kerr made it on t.v. one time. I know it has beef kidney in it so was thinking it might be British.

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 7:54 pm

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BTW, is anyone familiar with Baby's Head Pudding?

That'll be steak and kidney pudding. As Homer would say Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I can see an offal thread coming up real soon! Anyone for liver/kidneys/hearts?

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:36 pm

Say yah to da U.P., eh!

The is a Corninsh (possible colonists?) connection though. Seems the early citizens of the Eatsern U.P. dispatched militia to aid British troops at the outset of the War of Independance. Oops!

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:12 pm

A U-pper??? That is what the folks in the UP of Michigan are called.

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:33 pm

^^^I love marmite - especially on buttered toast and as a hot drink. In the UK, you can get packets of Marmite oven baked cashews - they are yummy beyond words.

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:03 am

They're called Yoopers, Morgain. Trolls live under the bridge Very Happy

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I'm not official, just lived up there for a few years.

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:32 am

^^^^ I never know how to spell Yoopers. I lived in SE Michigan for a while

Maybe you would like this version of Twas the Night Before Christmas Yooper style http://www.usaring.com/holidays/christ/uppoem.htm and they include pasties in it and lots of beer too.

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 1:12 am

Any idea where you can get decent Hague in the US ?

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Esox lucius wrote:

Pasties

The best I've ever had was in Ishpeming, Michigan. Love'em.

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:09 am

Good ol' Ish, Mich!

A real good pasty tour is also found driving US2 from Menominee to St. Ignace.

We best get back on topic... Laughing

Capers and eggs?

Not quite a Newb Joined: 19 Dec 2010 Posts: 43

Koko.Dk wrote:

manbiteslion wrote:

Koko.Dk wrote:

But I did see the British version of New Zealand "Marmite" which I hear is similar to Aussie "Vegemite." Neither of which I've tried.

Koko, vegemite and marmite are incompatible. If you can eat one, the other is unbearable. If you weren't raised on either though, they'll both be unbearable. The Kiwis have another version also called 'Marmite' but incompatible with the other two, if you want to try British marmite, you want what the kiwis call 'my mate' (black glass jar yellow cap).

Salty yeasty goodness, you love it or hate it, there is no middle ground.

Hmm...I do love salt more than the average person so who knows? So I will consider trying it and we will see if I like one or the other or neither.

Promite is nicer imo. Whichever you try, the trick is to spread very very very thinly. Most first timers to these make the mistake of spreading too thickly.

I love Aussie cuisine. Some of the UK ones make me cringe at just the thought of the ingredients. I lived with my english grandmother for several years growing up and thank goodness she never tried to cook any of those traditional English recipes for us.

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