Cheery Pics

[Icemaiden]

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To be fair, I once bought my husband a Dyson Ball on the basis that it made hoovering like dribbling a football... It worked; he now does most othe vacuuming

 

[bigyetiman]

 

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[Hen-Gen]

 

[Hen-Gen]

A snapshot of home.

 

[bigyetiman]

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[Margaid]

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Euch! I wouldn't want to eat LAVA bread ... The delicacy is LAVER bread, have to buy the tinned stuff though.

 

[Hen-Gen]

Whoops. Never eaten it, tinned or fresh.

 

[bigyetiman]

Whoops. Never eaten it, tinned or fresh.

I quite like laver bread.

 

[Icemaiden]

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Also Cornish pasties...

 

[bigyetiman]

Definitely Cornish pasties, and cream teas, Welsh cakes, Bakewell tarts, is it Fat Rascals a type of rock bun from Yorkshire?

 

[Hen-Gen]

Definitely Cornish pasties, and cream teas, Welsh cakes, Bakewell tarts, is it Fat Rascals a type of rock bun from Yorkshire?

Don’t know a Fat Rascal but all the others are good.

 

[bigyetiman]

A Fat Rascal, bit like a rock cake, but decorated with 2 cherries and 3 almonds. They are akin to traditional turf scones apparently. very popular in Bettys tea rooms in York and Harrogate I am informed.

Shrewsbury biscuits they are nice as well

 

[Hen-Gen]

Nope. Don’t know Shrewsbury biscuits either. I fact my knowledge of regional biscuitry is sadly lacking. But I do know that plain, unchocolated Hob-Nobs are the best dunkers in the world.

 

[bigyetiman]

Hob-Nobs great dunking biscuits, I agree

 

[Icemaiden]

How about Dorset Knobs? Despite growing up in Dorset, I only know that they're biscuits because there was a pub named after them...

 

[bigyetiman]

They are round and crispy I seem to remember from childhood. I know there is a Dorset knob throwing contest every year. We saw a piece about it being revived after Covid on the news when we were in Cornwall.
Anyone had Ecclefechan tarts ?
Who else lives/lived somewhere with a delicacy named after the area, or local to it

 

[Hen-Gen]

Traditional food here is rooted in the extreme poverty of bygone times and generally involves salt and oatmeal in various combinations. However seafood is abundant and modern freezers means it can be stored easily. So mackerel, crabs, mussels, lobsters all good and as an occasional treat, turbot. Oh, and Shetland black potatoes which cook to a purple colour.

 

[bigyetiman]

Never heard of Shetland black potatoes. Are they a good boiled potato rather than a roasting one.

Only thing that comes to mind for our part of the world is the Dunmow Flitch which was a lump of bacon giving to the couple that had lived in marital harmony with never a cross word all year in Great Dunmow.

I suppose London can lay claim to jellied eels

 

[bigyetiman]