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black treacle toffee
anyone in the newcastle area know a good recipe for home made black treacle toffee. I was able to buy it years ago but no more. would dearly like to make some the way mum used to so many years ago.
Pete Hammond
alberta. canada
school dinners
when i was at school we used to have mint custard with choc pudding and caramel tart any1 got the recip[es much obliged
maureen
nottinghamshire
Creme Anglaise sauce
Where can I buy Creme Anglaise sauce? bird's used to make it, but my local shops no longer stock it.
Rosemarie Gill
Cheshunt Herts
birds choc custard
In lincoln i am now unable to obtain the packets of choc custard , do Birds still make it, and why dont leading supermarkets sell it?
Rosemarie Gill
Cheshunt Herts
Dough
I am partially sighted, and have tried to make some Barm Cacks. However I seem to have trouble with getting my dough to rise properly. I have tried covering it, nor covering it. Leaving it in a warm room, leaving it under a radiator, and still it comes out half flat. Can anyone advise me on whart I am doing wrong?
Mr. Les Wilson
Halstead, Essex
Help need HORSERADISH in Leek Stafforshire
Hello - I am in Leek (staffordshire) and am looking for somewhere to buy horseradish (not the pre-made sauce) and cannot find any -- any one know of anywhere near Leek, Macclesfield, Wimslow???? thanks!!!
Janeen
LEEK
East Lancashire Oatcake Connection
If you find yourself in Burnley, tuesday to saturday, go down St. James Street and seek out the Red Triange Cafe. Currently stocking Poveys of Biddulph. Oatcakes, better than ambrosia
Cakefan
Ormskirk
oat cakes
OAKCAKES - WOO HOO they are fantastic, if hadn't been for our good friends in Stoke we would never had known about them!!! Best with Cheese and Bacon along with a dollop of tomato sauce - SEXY!
Laura & George Wake
Carshalton
oatcakes dan
I to live in plymouth and miss oatcakes from Andys in Watlands View, Porthill. Is there no end to this misery! Hey duck, if I can perfect the Oatcake in Higher St. Budeax, I will open a shop on Union Street.
Patsy
Plymouth
Indian Brandy
Hello Kathleen, Indian Brandy was given to us girl's for period pains. You can still get Indian Brandy, which you mix with a little hot water & which tastes like Victory V Losenges. Your local chemist will be able to order it in for you & it's a very reasonable price. It's good for all sorts of pains & I am now about to start taking it again & plan doing my own research of its effects on the awful pains I suffer with M.E. (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)...Hope this helps & I will try to keep you updated on how I & It get along. October 2005.
Annie MacKenzie Hosie
Wadebridge, CORNWALL
custard
wheres the mint custard i use to love at school. find me some please or post a recipe!
donna
walsall
restuarants? christmas, drink and be merry!
We are coming to cheadle for xmas, need to book our christmas dinner somewhere any idea?
Must be for family 13 year old girl, 9 year old boy and 2 very young 30 year olds!! good drink and fun after no old-mans place please.
sharon
stevenage
Fresh Herbs
Does anyone know where in Stoke I can buy fresh herbs for cooking without ordering them in advance?
Other than supermarkets as they never seem to have what I'm looking for although what I'm looking for are usually very common herbs such as rosmary, thyme, etc.. Any help would be much appreciated, Thanks.
Tristan
Fenton
The Old Bakery - coal fired
Below, a note was was written by Marie Thomas and Susan Pickering. Is this the Sue Pickering who attended Orme Girls ?
Mavis Machin (Gilbert)
Western Australia
OATMEAL CAKES
YOU ASKED ABOUT OATMEAL.
YOU CAN BUY OATMEAL FROM A HEALTH SHOP LIKE HOLLAND & BARRATTS HOPE THIS HELPS. (i am just off to buy some myself for staffordshire oatcake recipe)
SUE
COLWYN BAY
bakery
We are trying to keep an old bakery, over 100 years old, producing the finest bread you will taste to-day. It was formerly 'Thorley's but he sold it to us in April this year. it's on London Road, Stoke.
We are desperate to let people know about this dying art. How many coal fired stone ovens are still in production?
We reckon we are among the very few still in production. We have a small local band of pensioners who swear this bread has kept them alive .... some of them are over 90 and very frisky. Can you help or advise?
Marie Thomas & Susan Pickering
stoke-on-trent
North Staffordshire Oat Cakes
Title: North Staffordshire Oat Cakes
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 8 oz fine oatmeal 8 oz wholewheat or plain flour -- 1 ts salt -- 1/2 oz fresh yeast -- 1 1/2 pt warm milk and water; mixed -half and half -- 1 ts sugar
Instructions 1. Add salt to flour and oatmeal. 2. Dissolve yeast with a little warm liquid and add sugar. Allow to become frothy. 3. Mix dry ingredients with yeast and rest of warm liquid to make a batter. 4. Cover with clean cloth and leave in warm place for 1 hour. 5. Bake on well-greased griddle. Put enough batter onto griddle to produce an oatcake about 8 or 9 inches in diameter. The surface will be covered in holes as it cooks. Turn oatcake after 2-3 minutes when upperside appears dry and underside is golden brown, and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
Sue
WAS STOKE ON TRENT (NOW COLWYN BAY N. WALES
OATCAKES
Hi, my name is Mike Machin ex Kidsgrove. It is Saturday morning and I am about to light the bbq here in Western Australia. Nothing special over there you might think!
But wait, I have modified my four gas burner bbq and fitted a plate on which I can make up to seven OATCAKES at a time! My grandson and son in law rave about them and have them with cheese and bacon Sunday mornings. So remember this, 'There in some corner of a foreign, where they'r making bloody OATCAKES!
Michael Machin
Joondalup Western Australia 6027
banana milk and sugar
I still love banana, milk and sugar.
my mum used to mash it up and i would have it on a sandwich! Its still one of my favourite foods.
sam
Longton, Stoke on Trent
LOBBY
HIYA LOUISE, I AM FROM STOKE ORIGINALLY. I MAKE LOBBY FOR COLD DAYS TO HELP WARM EVERYONE UP. I NOW LIVE BY THE SEA. THIS IS WHAT I PUT IN IT THIS WAS MY GRANDMOTHERS RECIPE AND NOW I AM A GRANDMOTHER MYSELF.
1LB stewing steak, 1 onion, 2-3 potatoes, 1sm turnip(swede), 3-4 carrots, (1-2 parsnip optional - they tend to give you wind not everyones cuppa) handful pearl barley, peas and dumplings (optional) salt & oxo's to flavour.
stir not to stick - put meat onion barley in a lg s/pan and COVER WITH water & simmer ON LOW LIGHT stirring regular (barley takes awhile to soften) for 30 mins, then add the veg once it has been diced.
top up the water just covering the veg and add the oxo's & salt to taste continue to simmer for about another 20-25mins until everything is softly cooked stirring very regular so not to stick to bottom of pan
then make dumplings--- 8 ounces plain flour 4 ounces shredded beef suet -- 1/2 teaspoon salt -- 1 teaspoon baking powder -- water enough to mix so you can handle.
put into 2" balls; cook for about 5mins each side; mix this all together and add to the lobby when it is bubbling, turning them over after 5mins (saucepan lid can be put on while these are cooking)..........
if the lobby is too thin gravy wise then thicken.
serve and enjoy (very warming on a cold wet night mmmm lobby weather) with nice cut slices of french stick dipped in........
I do Hope this helps you Louise. you could use other veg also but I dont this is a nice combination.
Sue
Indian Brandy
Like Diane,I was always given Indian Brandy as a child and it did help. I can still buy it from my local chemist. I'm looking at a bottle now and the first listed ingredients appear to be rhubarb tincture and capsicum tincture plus other ingredients. You would think that the first two alone would give you gastric problems, but they seem to work. Good Luck.
Kay Boothby
Warrington
Burslem Restraunts
The best curries in Burslem has to be found at the Kismet - its the oldest curry house in town - opened in the 1960's
Lynn Meredith (nee Holford)
Tamworth - but born and bred in Burslem
Grated Pudding
It sounds like an old Black Country/Staffs recipe called "Groaty Dick" which is absolutely gorgeous. Dead easy to make, it's sort of like a beefy savoury porridge.
Basically just chuck a pound or so of beef, a couple of roughly chopped onions, perhaps a bit of leek to add a bit of mellow taste, about half a pound of pinhead oats (they really should be the full oat groat, hence the name, but you don't seem to be able to get them for love nor money, so the next size down is the pinhead oat), perhaps a little fried chopped bacon as well, cover with a beefy or vegetable stock and cook for several hours.
I do it in a slow cooker for about four or five hours but it seems to be something that can just cook all day whilst you are at work if you like.
Serve with either boiled potatoes, or just some crusty home made bread.
Great Winter comfort food.
Mark Wiles
Ludham, Norfolk (ex Rugeley/Walsall)
Jean Alden
Looking for a recipe for Lobby, Can't access Jeans website. Is this temporary or am I to be lobbyless for ever???
Graham Gallimore
Lincoln
Yes, Graham is right - Jean's page on the GBK site has disappeared! can anyone supply a lobby recipe?
How do I make lobby?
I'm at university in London and would love to make lobby for my housemates and open their eyes to this wonderful North Staffordshire dish. When I say lobby, I mean 'proper' lobby!!!! They all adore oatcakes [I get mine from a cheese shop in Covent Garden or freeze packs when I come home during holidays] and would all love to try lobby.
It would be fantastic if somebody could share the knowledge!
Louise
London
Banana milk and sugar
As a kid, my mother (who's northern) used to mash a banana in a bowl, add milk and sugar, and I used to have it at breakfast, or as a snack. I thought this was a well-known dish, but since coming to university, everyone thinks it's really strange. I was just wondering if anyone else had had it.
Jonathan Mann
Grantham
Indian Brandy
I used to be given this for stomach ache as a child but have never heard of this remedy since. I would be obliged if someone could get in touch, so I can purchase some
Diane MacDonald
Outer Hebrides
Indian brandy
Indian brandy is definitely not exclusively northern. I'm from Leicester and it used to be given to me for period pains. It's a herbal remedy, I think containing ginger. Very effective.
Christine Thompson
Liskeard
Lobby and Lobscouse
Moorlander is bang on! A scouser mate saw the same dish in Norway, so the connection is from the Vikings who settled in West Lancashire. Towns with names like Ormskirk are definetly Viking. the is also "Blind" Scouse which has no meat!!!
Chris Coates
Perth Australia
lobby
simple to make, I use my gran's recipie. diced beef, onion, carrots and potatoes. Add beef, sliced onions and sliced carrots. pour in water to just below the level of the ingredients. cook slowly for about an hour, add potatoes, (diced is good)cook slowly for a further hour to hour and a half.
Matt
stoke
lobby
I'm fascinated by lobby. It appears to be almost identical to scouse, but perhaps a bit runnier. Interestingly my elderly parents who're very Liverpudlian refer to scouse as Lobscouse.
While travelling in Norway recently I discovered a very similar dish called Lapskaus, and pronounces very like lobscouse. When I told my folks they immediately said, Oh yes, that's where scouse comes from, we've always known it was borught here by Norwegian sailors. So is lobby - ie the first half of the name - the same as scouse? and is itderived from the Norwegian dish? Or am I talking complete tosh?
moorlander
Lobby in Australia
My husband and I lived in Hanley and Newcastle-under-Lyme for several years in the 1950s I worked at Chatfield's Garage in Hanley for a few of those years. I wonder if anyone remembers me. I am Sylvia Whalley. We now live in Western Australia and I make Lobby every week for my husband, Norman, but I am not sure if I have the recipe right. Can anyone tell me how to make it properly. We don't miss Stoke but always like to hear from people from that part of England. I would love to hear from anyone who worked at Chatfields when I was there. Hoping to hear from someone Sylvia Whalley.
Sylvia Whalley
Perth,Western Australia
Lobby
I've just moved here.. how do you maker lobby? I've heard lots of people talk about it but I don't know what it is. Can anyone explain?
Chris
Burslem
cake makers of stoke-on-trent!
is their anybody out there who can make a cake shaped as a motorbike? i want one made for july 15th,a birthday party.
victoria davies
stoke-on-trent, biddulph.
Custard
Love the stuff - hot, with old-fashioned 'school-dinner' type puddings, or cold, thick and solid from the fridge and eaten either on its own or with banana. You can keep your cream - single, double, whipped, clotted or whatever - give me custard any day. Nothing you find abroad ever matches good old custard - long may it continue to flourish!
Paul Gubbins
Congleton
Birds Custard
When I was at Moorland Road Secondary School (Burslem)the dinners were quite good. We used to sit on tables of 8 (4 each side)in a descending order of age. The older ones at the top dished out the food between those seated. As you can imagine there was not always a fair distribution of food. When it came to the custard (most days)The youngest at the bottom of the table got the skin from the top of the jug as well as a small portion to go with the pudding. Although everyone liked custard they didn't like the skin but everything had to be eaten. ( No Jamie Oliver in those days, it worked well without supervision) It didn't put me off custard, and I see that it is making a come-back in fashionable restaurants. Whilst we are on about that why has a 59 year old like me lived through eras of different names for the food after the main course. When I went to school it was a pudding, then it was afters, then a desert, then a sweet, and yes you have guessed it the top eateries are now calling it a pudding. The wheel goes around?
Clive Smith
Leek North Staffordshire
fritters
Does anyone else have fritters? You make a cheese sandwich, dip it in beaten raw egg and fry until the cheese is melted.It's a heart attack on a plate but fabulous served with branston pickle. You can add other ingredients to the cheese sandwich.
helen
Penkhull
wrights pies
hi does anyone know if wrights pies have been brought into perth australia thanks antony ex stoke-on-trent
antony
perth
chinese restaurants in hanley??
ok so its my turn to pay this valentine day for the meal we've decided on chinese but have no idea which restaurant in hanley based on food (of course)and prices ppl have said sen and mr chans but want to ask any1 out there who has been and what they think? cheers me ducks ;-)
gem
meir
bonk
does any one else remember bonk meaning suger and milk? my cousin often drank this concoction
sharon white
Alsager now Brown Edge younger
chinese restaurants in hanley??
ok so its my turn to pay this valentine day for the meal we've decided on chinese but have no idea which restaurant in hanley based on food (of course)and prices ppl have said sen and mr chans but want to ask any1 out there who has been and what they think? cheers me ducks ;-)
gem
meir
recipe
I am trying to find a recipe which I saw last saturday part of the Saturday Kitchen programme where a lady made a dish using stewing beef and pickled onion - can you help?
Mary Bilsborough
Swindon
buy already made
All recipes sound lovely - but there's a fab selection of ready made meals now...just buy one of them!
Sarah
Hanley
Bacon & Pesto pasta
Simple and delicious! Get your pasta on to boil (I prefer Penne, but Farfalle or any will do). Simply fry chopped bacon, sliced mushrooms and garlic (and anything else you fancy - peppers, shallotsetc...) in a large frying pan. When the pasta is cooked, add your cooked bacon etc and stir vigorously with a couple of teaspoons of pesto. Et voila! A quick and easy meal to be enjoyed with french bread and a glass of red wine.
Dave Hamer
Stoke-On-Trent
Staffordshire cheese
There is such a thing as staffordshire cheese? I bought some from the farmers market at Penkridge. It comes from "The Staffordshire cheese co" it's absolutely lovely
Linda A
Cannock
Grated Pudding
Has anyone heard of this? Its a family recipe and apparently came from my maternal grandfather's side of the family who were from the Staffordshire area. It is a mixture of leeks, pinhead oatmeal and stewing steak .. and eaten at breakfast time with sausage and bacon. I've never heard of it outside our immediate family ..
Ian Scott
Leeds
BANANA CAKE
Does anyone know where sells BANANA CAKE! I have searched everywhere for it. I used to have it as a child but have not seen it for over 10 yrs.
Lorraine
Newcastle Under Lyme
oven shelf positions
Hi.. you know when theres a recipe and it says ..put food in oven on whatever teperature.what shelf do you normally put the food if it doesnt say?
Bryan Stanley
Birkenhead
oatmeal cakes
hi i saw the recipe for oatmeal cakes and it stated that you need pinhead oats..i didnt know you can buy small oats thought they were all the same size..would it be ok just to use ordinary oats??
Bray Stanley
Birkenhead
blackpuddings
anyone got a good recipe for blackpuddings. we're im from in the wirral we have lovely ones but id like to try others..
Bryan Stanley
Birkenhead
Christmas Cake and Pudding making
Does anyone know when 'Mix up Sunday' is. It should be coming up soon. I'd be grateful if someone could let me know please. Thanks, Terry.
Terry
Hartlepool
Banana Bread Recipe re Canola Oil
As far as I know, canola oil is simply rapeseed oil. The recipe should work fine with the same amount of corn oil, sunflower oil, or any of the "light" vegetable oils (as opposed to nut oils or the heavier olive oils) as a substitute.
Kasey Coff
Warrington
In reply to Bernard
In reply to Bernard: the county has "Farmer's Markets" (for local produce) in Staffordshire at Lichfield, Stafford, Stone, & Uttoxeter. Outlets for all local speciality foods and farm shops, game meats etc The Uttoxeter Lions Food & Drink Festival is at Uttoxeter Race Course, 4th Sept 04.
David
Middleport, Burslem
Batter Pudding
Has anyone out there heard of a sweet treat called ''Batter Pudding''? My mother remembers it as a child and would love to have the recipe. She's from Newcastle and spends a lot of time talking about her childhood in the 30's and 40's.
Diana Robinson
newcastle
cheese
Just a thought and I don't mean to upset anyone, in the S.T.O. but why when there is cheshire cheese, and Lancashire cheese, to the north in green areas, where you might see cows of many different colours standing up or lying down (depending on what the weather is going to do of course), why oh why is there not such a thing as Staffordshire cheese?
what do you do with your milk just south of the border? It can't all go into oatcakes! can it?
John Barron
Sulzbach, Germany
it's the best
The "Taste of Staffordshire" awards (for best eateries) just confiormed what i always knew - the Elms is a fantastic place if you like indian food.... you'll never eat in some dumpy old takeaway again once you've eaten there!
Mac
Shelton
Find out about the Taste of Staffordshire awards by using the "Search"
Poor Man's Lamb and Tasty Veg recipe.. (from a Leek man!)
Ingredients: Two Large Leeks; One Large Onion; One & a half pounds of Potatoes; Pint and a half of Chicken Stock; Salt & Pepper to taste.
LEEK SOUP
Dice Potato into half inch cubes. Slice leeks about quarter inch strips. Chop Onion into smallish pieces. Into a large frying pan put a little olive oil and margarine, heat pan, melt oil and margarine together.
Mix together all veg - place in pan and heat for about ten minutes. Pour chicken stock into a four pint pan - add veg, bring to the boil, turn down heat and simmer for about 30 mins.
Allow to cool, then blend in blender until smooth, place in fridge until ready to use. Do not overheat as boiling will impare the flavour of this inexpensive but beautiful soup..and cream.
MAIN COURSE
Ingredients: 3llbs of breast of Lamb; 5llbs of Potatoes; Small turnip; Two Parsnips; Two Cloves Garlic; Pickled Red Cabbage; Salt & Pepper.
Method: Cut breast of lamb into single ribs, place on rack over over drip tray, sprinkle lightly with salt & pepper, place in oven preheated 150 degrees - this will take approx. 2 & a quarter hours until the ribs are crispy and the flesh will snap between the fingers.
Take approx 3llbs of potatoes - when peeled, cut into rounds, approx three quarters of an inch thick, boil for about 10 mins. When cool, brush a skillet lightly with olive oil, heat can well and heat potatoes until golden brown, the scored potatoes are then placed with the lamb in the last 20 mins of its cooking time.
The rest of the veg - peel and cube and boil together not forgetting the garlic and a little salt. When cooked, mash well with a little cream and butter.
Serve with pickled cabbage.
David Barlow
Leek
This recipe won BBC Radio Stoke's local Eat Your Heart Out competition - ST
LIVER & BACON CASSEROLE...
You need: Streaky bacon; Lambs liver; favourite stuffing mix; Stock cube; Large onion; Gravy powder; Butter/oil; Cocktail sticks; Casserole dish with lid; Frying Pan; water
Allow about 4 rolls per person.
Take strips of streaky bacon, put a small slice of lamb's liver at one end of each strip, make up a bowl of your favourite stuffing and put a spoonful of the stuffing on the liver.
Roll each strip up, trying to cover the stuffing as much as you can, and secure with a cocktail stick.
In a frying pan saute a sliced onion in oil or butter for a few minutes, until soft and slightly coloured.
Add rolls and cook for few minutes to slightly brown meats. Put everything into a casserole dish.
Make up enough stock to cover rolls and slightly thicken with gravy powder, add to dish, then cover and cook in medium heat oven until rolls are nicely browned/cooked through.
The stuffing will thicken up the stock more but you could add extra gravy powder if needed, (after mixing with small amount of water in a bowl] and you could remove cocktail sticks if you wish.
Serve with buttery mashed potatoes, and vegetables of your family's choice.
The flavours will be hopefully be really nice, and my family liked this even though they were not keen on liver, so it might be of interest to someone wfo has the same problem....
Hope you like it.
Rita Foster
Madeley
PUDDING - Apple Raisin Ginger Cinnamon Pie.
Two large Staffordshire Cooking Apples; 4oz Brown Sugar; 3ozs Raisins; a little ground cinnamon; a little ground Ginger; quarter of a pint of cold tea; 2 tablespoons whisky
PASTRY: half a pound of plain flour; 5/6 ozs margarine;one egg yolk; one dessertspoon of caster sugar; half a teaspoon baking powder; a little cold water.
Soak the raisins overnight in the cold tea and whisky. Peel the apple, cut into nice large segments. Put into a bowl, add water and a little lemon juice, drain the raisins.. you may find there is no liquid to drain as the raisins may have absorbed it all... drain apples, add raisins, sugar and spice, toss togther in pyrex bowl, place in micro for about 3mins (do not over cook as you want the apples to remain firm and whole).
Roll out pastry about one sixth of an inch thick, line a round foil baking tray (6 inches) with the pastry, put in all the ingredients, cover with pastry lid, crimp sides well, put on middle shelf of oven 170 degrees for about 25-35 mins until golden brown.
Serve with cream or custard.
Stuart Johnson
Abbey Hulton
Stafford Castle
I moved with my wife and kids to Perth, Australia, from Stafford (my home town), in November 2002.
I miss Asda curries, Walks up Milford Common and Stafford Castle, Alan Titchmarsh on telly on a Friday night,watching bowls in Victoria Park on a Saturday whilst having a break from shopping, the Ancient High House, having a cool beer at the Castle Tavern in front of the log fire, my family and friends.
My best mate of 25 years got married this year and I couldn't be there. Mind you the sun helps!!!
Steve
Stafford/Perth
Banana Bread Recipe
I used Canola Oil in USA recipe - please can someone tell me of a substitute for Canola Oil (not butter )
Barbara Bennell
Haywards Heath West Sussex
Debbie in Auckland--Fellow Stokie wants to meet up..
Hi Debbie,Belinda here in Takapuna.
Came to NZ from Longport in'96.
Fush'n'Chups DUNNER THINK AR'LL EVER GET USED TO EM cooked up from scratch when you order em.. YUCK & no chance of gettin any batter bits,neither..
WHAT,NO WALKERS Crisps? Tis a crime to humankind and as such, punishable by death..So too for MIDGET GEMS,SPORTS MIXTURES,PEAR DROPS, KOLA KUBES & SHERBERT LEMONS.- SADSVILLE!!
BUT,at Crabtree & Evelyn in 2 double 7& Westfield,Shore City,they sell Jaffa Cakes & Bassetts Licorice All sorts.-It's a start I suppose..
In Hurstmere Rd,Tak apuna,you can buy a smallish box of Thornton's Con tinental,but it's 30 bucks!!
New World sell Terry's tap it/unwrap it Chocolate Oranges-$6.95 AND much as it pains me to say this,AFTER A FEW YEARS of trying to cope with SERIOUSLY ODD-TASTING Cabdbury bars-(it's to do with the ingredient added to keep them from going white & speckly in the heat we so enjoy here in NZ-oh yeah,I new there was a reason why I no longer live in Boslem.)
Believe me you just learn to cope with the taste AND EVEN GET TO ENJOY FUNNY FLAVOURS LIKE ROCKY ROAD & BLA CK FOREST-conner be doin with that SCROGGIN though ANYROODUP..
e-mail me @ bpol008@ec.auckland.co.nz then we can hook-up for HORLICKS n JAFFA CAKE sesh
Belinda Pollett
Auckland,New Zealand
BRIAN - YOU BEAUTY!!!!
Brian,just the mere mention of the words make my mouth water!!! Please,please,lovely ex-pat Potters Savoury Ducks also to & Oatcake recipes.
I'LL BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL,FOREV ER IN YOUR DEBT AND WILL MAKE YOU A BATCH,SHOULD YOU EVER VISIT AUCKLAND....
Belinda Pollett
Auckland,New Zealand
Savoury Ducks
Now that we have got the oatcake recipe there,s only one other thing SAVOURY DUCKS?Does anyone remember those hot tasty savoury items one got from the Butchers and took home in a Jug for Dinner.Hope Im not reviving to many memories for ex. pottery people but another recipe please.
brian breeze
Chrischurch.New Zealand.
I Miss the local Chippy
My Family moved to New Zealand from Stafforshire, the things i missed the most when we first moved were funny faces icecreams, curly-wurlys, sherbert & shredded Wheat. You can get Shredded wheat her now but its made in Australia.. still havent come across a curly wurly or funny face yet but i live in hope. I came back for a visit in the 80's and fell in love with the local chippy, pie & chips, peas & gravy...... my mouth still waters when i think of it. If i could find a good ole english chippy i'd be in heaven but untill then I'll just enjoy the great views and lifestyle.
Debbie
Auckland New Zealand
Vancouver is a wonderful place in many ways but they don't know how to run a real boozer. Of course I miss my kith & kin. But let's not forget..... although the five towns (or is it six now ?) lack a bit of sparkle, Stoke is not an island.
There are MANY great & historcal places to visit within a small radius; you can see most of them across the Cheshire plain if you go to the top of Mow Cop castle. If anybody is bored out there, just get yourself a map of the area & explore.
David (formerly Spike)
Vancouver
