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Alsace Christmas Eve Loaf
Sounds yummy - always open to new recipes! Well done
MBC, on 11/08/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
I don't know what recipe you used for your farls. I think Irish farls are made with bi carb of soda and mashed potato.
Veronica, on 11/07/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
Hot pot refers to any dish cooked in one pot - a hot pot. There are several types of hot pot . Cumberland is my husband's favourite.
Veronica, on 11/07/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
II note that you mention Cumberland hotpot, which sounds delicious. How many kinds of hotpot are there ? [I know of Lancashire hotpot, we ate enough of it as children!] Do you think that there is scope for an article focusing on hotpot for you ...
frankbeswick, on 11/07/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
Veronica. are Tattie Scones the same as potato cakes, also known as farls? If so I have made them myself out of surplus mashed potato.
frankbeswick, on 11/07/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
Cumbria was part of Scotland for a short time long before the potato came to Britain. for a while then it was an independent jarldom before integration with England.
frankbeswick, on 11/07/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
I don't know the answer to that one to be honest. I do know that Cumbria was once part of Scotland and therefore there must have been links.
Veronica, on 11/06/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
Question Tattie scones uses the Scottish for potato, tattie. While there were affinities between Cumbrian dialect and Southern Scots, was there an alternative Cumbrian word for potato? I say this because relationships between Cumbrians and Scots ...
frankbeswick, on 11/06/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
As Kimbasa says ...she's "never seen recipes quite like these. " I have covered recipes from Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire now and I must say that traditional NW England foods are different. But they are cheap , filling and tasty.
You ...
Veronica, on 11/06/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
You are absolutely right about there being little wheat in Cumbrian recipes, for the cereal that thrives in the North of England is barley, and oats are also viable in the damp climate and difficult soils. The need to use up food stuffs well ...
frankbeswick, on 11/06/2017
The Wild Atlantic Way
This reminds me of an old college colleague, whose family farm was near the south western tip of Kerry. The windows and door faced inland for protection from the sea,and in winter they used to listen as the Atlantic threw pebbles at their back ...
frankbeswick, on 11/06/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
Re Tattie scones, if you make a it extra mashed potatoes one day and save it and cover some to next day, you can make tattie scones. The people wasted nothing.
Veronica, on 11/06/2017
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
Yes I am rather fond of Tattie scones. Our local baker bakes them once a week and they have cleared the shelves within 2 hours. Eaten warm with butter or grated cheese they are a delight.
Yet again the food people create is a result of ...
Veronica, on 11/06/2017
Alsace Christmas Eve Loaf
TY Kimbesa
I think that people are the same wherever we go . They have love in their hearts and like to celebrate with what they have , creative and loving.
It's governments who cause strife not people.
Veronica, on 11/06/2017
The Wild Atlantic Way
It is beautiful there, and reading your article makes me want to go back! I didn't get to see as much as you did, but enough to imagine how beautiful it would be in warm weather. It was certainly wild in February, when the wind blew seawater ...
kimbesa, on 11/06/2017