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Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
White fat is what Americans call Shortening. We would call it white fat or lard.
Yellow fat would be butter or margarine.
Veronica, on 02/08/2018
Belfast; Titanic Hotel
The tiles in the bar have been locked away in boxes for over 00 years and hadn't seen the light. The only others like these are at the bottom of the Atlantic. It was very moving emotionally .
Veronica, on 02/08/2018
British English Phrases, Idioms, and Expressions (Letters A-C)
Mira,your English is so good that I could not tell that you are not a native speaker.
frankbeswick, on 02/08/2018
Traditional cider making
The raw steak has been abandoned.
Much of English life remained unchanged by the conquest,and daily customs carried on. After all, one bunch of exploitative nobles was exchanged for another.The statement that less than ten percent of nobility ...
frankbeswick, on 02/08/2018
Celebrating Christmas
Derdriu, it is always great to hear from you. Thanks for the information about the path ceremony.
Yes, we do have Black Friday, for it was imported by certain multinational companies to boost sales and others followed suit. I am not happy with ...
frankbeswick, on 02/08/2018
Traditional cider making
FrankBeswick, Thank you for the cider-making tour. Have craft-minded cider-makers today included the raw steak? Your mention of persistent Anglo-Saxon and Briton customs made me think, in another direction, of 1066, the Domesday Book. New Anglia ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2018
Celebrating Christmas
FrankBeswick, Thank you for the time travel through Christmas now and past. The tradition of a candle in the window still exists widely throughout Massachusetts, and particularly in Boston. There's also a celebration of a path -- on the way to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2018
British English Phrases, Idioms, and Expressions (Letters A-C)
Mira, What accents -- one of the Mid-Atlantics, Midwesterns, New Englands, Southerns, Westerns -- in American English do you follow when you speak?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2018
The Contemporary Art of Cindy Sherman
KatieM2, Thank you for the images and information on Cindy Sherman. She's already beat that workaholic of a Rembrandt out in numbers of self-portraits. Do you know if her digital and pre-digital camera depictions do equally well in the art ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2018
How to Create Beautiful Yards and Landscapes on a Budget - The Images of Spring
KatieM2, Thank you for sharing your daughter's cat and your garden's bees, fish, flowers and foliage with us. Do you have soil analyses regularly conducted on your property? All that old metal and all those rocks must be leaching minerals for a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2018
Old English Lake District Traditional Recipes
Veronica, Thank you for sharing the images and information regarding Lakeland fayre. What is the difference between white and yellow fat? Is there any other color of fat?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2018
Belfast; Titanic Hotel
Veronica, As always, thank you for sharing you and your family's tour of the Belfast Titanic Hotel. The choice of tiles for the bar on the ship is interesting since I'd expect the paleness over time -- if there'd been more time -- to be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2018
The Burren:Ireland's land of stone
You have always had strong feelings for Galway and Limerick [where our Father's relatives originated] but I prefer the North West of Ireland, firstly because I once dwelt there in Cavan and secondly because I married into a family rooted in ...
frankbeswick, on 02/04/2018
The Burren:Ireland's land of stone
Yes The Burns and Burkes are Connemara and Gort in Galway.
I have been to Gort and visited the church and pub there. Connemara is magnificent. I have been there too.
The Limerick ancestral home for the Mannings are Castleconnell and ...
Veronica, on 02/04/2018
Traditional English Christmas Cake
Our mother baked magnificently on a limited budget and with limited ingredients. I still use her pastry recipe and her apple shortbread recipe and I have passed them on to my daughters in law.
Veronica, on 02/03/2018