Another pointless thread

Made of glass? Perhaps you are looking right through it!

G

Some nitwit claimed that kedgeree was a Scottish dish because the first recipe was found in Scotland.

We can't say definitively where haggis originated, but the first (known) written recipe provides no evidence at all.

G

Hardly anyone seems to know what Lancashire Hotpot really is!
Every cookbook you look at has something different and Sainsbury's and Tesco's have had different variations out non of which bear much resemblance to what people from around Wigan/St Helens areas would accept as a Hotpot. Around there it has to have a pie-crust (usually suet pastry) on it and that is by far the most important part You can't have pies without a crust

Hotpot suppers are a big thing around Lancashire with many outside catering businesses set up to supply them.

Kegeree used to be a staple breakfast dish for the landed gentry in Scotland, many of whom had retired there after military service in India, kedgeree having reputedly been an enduring favourite in the officers' messes in India. The recipe being unfamiliar to the local cook on the average Scottish shooting estate would have had to be committed to paper, which may be why the recipe was found here.
Come to think of it, perhaps that is also why a recipe for haggis came to light in Lancashire- such a demand for it from Scots on holiday there in the 1400s

I`m keeping out of this one !!!

All food of the Terroir or "local" food is individual to the area and the produce available and the cook - generalisations are usually accepted to be the norm - however, I have seen two "TOP" chefs describe Pommes Gratin Dauphinoise recently as containing CHEESE - not in my lifetime mateys - perhaps they should go to the Dauphine region !! The Savoyarde region uses cheese and bouillon.

Cook

You've been around.... traveled around and seen it all Tony
What's the "Two Worst Winters" you can remember!

Question open to anyone else who goes back a bit

I like cheese and jam sandwiches MMMmmmmmmm

1947 - I was 1 and 1982 - I was trying to run a restaurant

Tony

Every winter spent north of the Arctic Circle

I remember 1962-63 just about.

1979 was a cold winter, but I was glad to be back in the UK then. My second son was born on February 15th, which was a bitterly cold day, but until two months before we had been living in the Dutch countryside. If we had still been there I think the farmer would have had to deliver my son - the snow there was so deep it was up to the windows on the cow shed - some 2 metres up.

1981-2 was bad with all that snow. We couldn't open our back door for the snow - which was a pain since we used the back door the most. In December 1981 my husband was racing the snow back from the Netherlands to Wantage, and just about made it.

In January he was away again and more snow fell. I was trapped, school was cancelled for two days, the milk couldn't get through. Our neighbour, who had a Land Rover did the shopping for all the neighbours which was a life safer with three young children in the house, the youngest was only 7 months at the time.


We've had plenty of really cold winters since moving here, but I can cope with them. It's snow which does for me.

So why am I going back to Norway

Sorry you've all got it wrong

The correct answer is "Mike and Bernie" (Winter)

Groan. I had managed to erase them from my memory until now you have put them back there .

but didn't they have a nice dog ?

And there's me thinking you were much older than I