Food you've never heard of??

[Squiglet]

how about..... parched peas??

Peas are a sin against nature....

 

[Kimbo]

how about..... parched peas??

Peas are a sin against nature....

Sometimes called "Black Peas", long soaked overnight and simmered slow to produce a type of mushy pea, popular in Bolton, and traditionally sold a funfairs. 'Parching' was an old term for long slow boiling.

lol


oh and Manchester Tart... its a cake lol

A Manchester tart is a traditional English baked tart consisting of a shortcrust pastry shell, spread with jam, covered with a custard filling and topped with flakes of coconut and a Maraschino cherry. One variation includes slices of banana underneath the custard with the jam.

 

[Squiglet]

oh and Manchester Tart... its a cake lol

Or so you say

 

[paradysso]

crumpets are crumpets

and pikelets are thinner crumpets that seem to cost more in tesco


i just looked the recipe is the same, but crumpets are cooked in a ring so they stay a nice round shape lol

 

[Kimbo]

oh and Manchester Tart... its a cake lol

Or so you say

of course, i wasn't talking about Jo

 

[Emmylou]

crumpets are crumpets

and pikelets are thinner crumpets that seem to cost more in tesco


i just looked the recipe is the same, but crumpets are cooked in a ring so they stay a nice round shape lol

Hmmmmm....I always just called crumpets pikelets......get that from my mom, maybe she was trying to be posh

 

[paradysso]

lol maybe...... every pilkelet recipe i find seems to involve smoked salmon and the like

 

[Guadagnia]

Im orignally from Notts/Derbys area and moved to Essex.
There seems to be a lot of variations becuase of the great North/South divide !!! Lol

I miss Chips & Gravy, or Chips & Mushy Peas, ask for them here and you will get some strange looks ! To me this is normal Northern Quisine, thank-god Im moving back

But then again, Pie & Liquor aint weird is it lol

 

[Squiglet]

But then again, Pie & Liquor aint weird is it lol

mmmmmmmm pie and liquor... I miss me pie and mash shops...

 

[libs]

pikelets are a lot thinner here - like an oatcake (staffs not scot) with raisins in

 

[Misslarue]

filem??

Yer northerner language for FILM.. as in pictures... as in cinema... correctly pronounced...

Why aye man, gona go see a a FILLEM... (Oh God I hope my mum don't read this )

Ohhhhhhh think you're on about geordies

i sound more like the cast of coronation street

Psssf... all the same... all from UP THERE...

I wouldn't say that to a mackem