Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:47 pm  

peggy wrote:

This really is becoming intolerable, firstly you embarrass yourself and insult us regarding a dish of immense historical value to us Leythers, the pie barm (only equalled by Lobby, the epitome of haut cuisine). You then go on to make a sarcastic remark that that our rugby team is worth watching when we know and you know it is not the case...

Sorry ... in my kindness there lurked heinous cruelty.

peggy wrote:

The dishes pie barm, chips n gravy and lobby can be found in Leythrousse Gastronomique

I understand that the latest edition of said hefty tome has now been updated to include puddings moistened with green water in which peas have previously been boiled.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:54 pm  

peggy wrote:

Leythrousse Gastronomique

Ha! Very good, no doubt a fine and noble tome.

I remember as a kid and playing against North West Counties at some god forsaken place in Sintellins, after they had absolutely annihilated us were were served some sort of vague stew with a piece of edible card board, the Lancashire lads were lapping it up, it was very strange and I have no idea what it was.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:47 pm  

Whatever you do DO NOT go on the Leigh messageboard and ask how Lobby is made.... You'll start WWIII!!!

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 2:27 pm  

rob_a wrote:

Whatever you do DO NOT go on the Leigh messageboard and ask how Lobby is made.... You'll start WWIII!!!

I did get told off once when I blogged about Lancashire hot pot – my recipe uses lamb's kidney and I was told that the dish never uses it. In fact, the recipe came from a book of Lancashire cookery by a Lancastrian: the point with many of these dishes is that there are probably as many versions as there are people who've ever cooked it.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 2:37 pm  

I don't put kidneys in anything, can't stand them

One thing I do miss in the chippy since moving to Carlisle is steak pudding. Nowhere (chippies that is) north of the original Lancashire border seems to sell them.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:26 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

Rightly.

EDIT
No, I need to change that to "wrongly".
A scallop is a slice of potato (no fish), battered and fried.
Or fried without even the batter.

What you describe is a fishcake.

Nope, what he was describing is a fish scallop. A fishcake is the potato and fish mixed together and deep fried

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:28 pm  

World of Redboy wrote:

... A fishcake is the potato and fish mixed together and deep fried

Or shallow fried.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 4:35 pm  

World of Redboy wrote:

Nope, what he was describing is a fish scallop. A fishcake is the potato and fish mixed together and deep fried

You are correct my friend.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:18 pm  

rob_a wrote:

I don't put kidneys in anything, can't stand them

^^THIS^^

Quite how anyone could bring themselves to eat an organ that a sheep or pig has used to strain pIss is totally beyond me

[Durham Giant]

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Sat Nov 16, 2013 12:23 am  

cod'ead wrote:

^^THIS^^

Quite how anyone could bring themselves to eat an organ that a sheep or pig has used to strain pIss is totally beyond me

Yet are happy to eat bottom feeders who eat all the poop in the sea !