eusebiovic
1:00 Fri Jul 1
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(nt)
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Grumpster
12:38 Fri Jul 1
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41 Hairy and my mum still makes it.
Guarantee that's my dads doing, as he was probably bought up on it during the blitz, where as she's a posh bird from Chiswick!
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HairyHammer
12:35 Fri Jul 1
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Bread and Butter pudding how old are you lot?
I love it, but my kids probably do not know what it is.
Nearly all Cafes did it in the early to mid eighties
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ironsofcanada
12:27 Fri Jul 1
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Always a bit a roll of the dice.
I confess I am a heathen and like oysters fried. Especially in a po-boy.
(There is an explicit working-class food, by the way. But again not so much anymore, especially the oyster ones.)
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Coffee
12:23 Fri Jul 1
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ioc
Several years ago, I had oysters in a restaurant in Charlotte Street, can't remember the name of the place. 24 hours later, the oysters took their revenge and for the subsequent three days I had complete sympathy with the views of your reviewer. Particularly the last phrase.
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ironsofcanada
12:17 Fri Jul 1
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Coffee
On your original post, found something today,make of it what you will.
"One being desired to eat some Oysters refused , saying , they were ungodlie meat , unchristianlie meat , uncharitable meat , and unprofitable meat ; And being demanded his reason why he said it ; he answered , They were ungodlie meat , because they were eaten without saying of Grace ; unchristianlie meat , because the Creature was eaten alive ; uncharitable meat , because they left no offal [remnant] to the poor ; and unprofitable meat , because most commonly there was more spent upon them than the Oysters cost."
From
The Wittie companion, or Jests of all sorts. 1679
by Robert Burton (The author of The Anatomy of Melancholy.)
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Coffee
12:17 Fri Jul 1
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Thanks for the helpful WHOmail, Grumpster!
;-)
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Grumpster
12:16 Fri Jul 1
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You foodie Coffee, you even knew how to spell his name ;o)
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Coffee
12:15 Fri Jul 1
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Custard and a dollop of jam = Heston Blumenthal style
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Northern Sold
12:12 Fri Jul 1
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Arctic Roll
Custard and a dollop of jam
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Grumpster
12:11 Fri Jul 1
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The point of Bread and Butter pudding was originally to use all of the shit left over to avoid waste, as families couldn't afford food as it was.
Once you start turning it into a Heston Bloominhell dish, then the point is it's not exactly the same as the original working class dessert, it's something different entirely.
I love the stuff!!
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neilalex
12:02 Fri Jul 1
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Rice pudding as well. We used to love that. Used to take ages to cook and we'd scrap and argue over who got most of the crust. Jesus I'm getting old.
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Coffee
12:00 Fri Jul 1
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Who says traditional has to be rubbish?
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Grumpster
11:59 Fri Jul 1
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But then it isn't exactly a traditional bread and butter pudding is it?
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Coffee
11:57 Fri Jul 1
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Agent Scud 11:17 Fri Jul 1
Fully agree with that. The very best bread and butter pudding I've ever had was at a restaurant called Kilroy's, in Kathmandu. I could never have imagined that humble B&B pud could taste so good.
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Agent Scud
11:17 Fri Jul 1
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KingandPaynter 9:52 Fri Jul 1
I'd disagree with that. Bread and Butter pudding can be elevated to an amazing level with a bit of effort.
Use decent bread, rum soaked fruit, a vanilla creme anglais and cover with a bitter orange glaze. Handsome.
*applies for Masterchef*
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HairyHammer
11:13 Fri Jul 1
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All fast food !
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KingandPaynter
9:52 Fri Jul 1
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Bread & Butter pudding
Stale sliced white bread buttered in a baking dish, layered with raisins, in between the slices, soaked in milk then sprinkled with nutmeg and cinnamon before baked in the oven.
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Agent Scud
9:31 Fri Jul 1
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If you're looking at modern food then I'd say it's microwave meals, frozen pizzas and other food of that ilk. It's the preserve of the terminally lazy and the feckless. It's all cheap, nasty, full of crap.
It takes about 30 minutes to knock up a half decent meal from scratch if you're not a flailing moron.
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neilalex
9:29 Fri Jul 1
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Stomper - not sure where we came across it, it was powdered stuff from a tin.
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Mirkwood
7:09 Fri Jul 1
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I would say English working class food was what my Nan would cook really.
Her grub was mainly put together in the war years when there was rationing.
Bloody lovely. Streaky bacon and onion roly poly, Meat pudding and tea loaf. All stodgy stuff to fill you up.
Got to be poor peoples menu as it was all they had.
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