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I am in the process of collecting old receipes to put on a web page would really appreciate any that could be sent to me I eventually would like to publish a free web page where all could be available without a charge and just be able to keep a bit of history alive doesnt matter how near or far you live please send to jaybird894@yahoo
 
Jean Nesbitt is right about steak and kidney pudding in North America and kidneys in general I think. You see kidneys in the grocery stores but never on the menu anywhere. My Canadian wife would never think of kidneys as food. It's mostley steak and kidney...sans the kidney here. Strange that. Anyway, I like steak and kidney pie better. The pudding has a softish heavy containing pastry which is a bit filling...still ok though...when you put your knife into it...ah, the gravy runs out.
The best S&K pie that I had was at a little restaurant in Aldridge, that was a converted residence on a main street there, by the industrial estate, in the early sixties. I went back in the mid seventies with my wife for a meal and it was a chineese restaurant. I suppose things change...too bad. That pie did not have a flakey crust, it was more like a sponge topping and had a totally wonderful aroma and taste. Er...leave the jugged hare soup alone.
Talking about Hares, I saw a nature programme on tv the other night and the Arctic Hares shown move around in herds of up to 2000 animals. Never knew that before. There they were, a sea of white Hares jumping across the landscape close together. What a wonderful sight.
 
David,
You should go to Daventry farmer's market for your trotter's they give them away,to a good home.Bought some last week at Betts of Banbury,they cost a quid for 5,also buy my tripe there.
 
the only shop widows of baskets or trays you would have seen those pigs trotters
in the display of thompsoms the butchers on lichfield rd .and aston , cross and years later inthe window of thompsons in erdington and od couse there tails
the only pigs trotters i ever seen down by the market was on new cannal street
after he escaped and the men chasing after him from the detaining yards under the bridges on new cannal ready for monday morning slaughter and the odd cow
but the cows more often walked down gracuosly to the hide and skin next door to the shop struting down from digbeth along new cannal street
walking on the pavement stop and lok in the spotted dog windows and also the coffee shop windows before the man persued him on next door i used to watch them every sunday morning coming
best wishes astonian ;;;
 
Rick Stein has had a go at the lack of decent english food in pubs. I like Rick but having ONCE visited his establishement his prices certainly do not meet the expectations of pub goers.

My experience is that there is more affordable food available in pubs than there has everbeen.Not every pub has a gifted cook or chef nor could they compete at the price level or choice we have come to expect.

Nor do I expect to see offal dishes other than steak/ kidney,liver onions and bacon on a modern menu. Time and tastes move on. However I do like to be able to buy the makings for consumption in a darkened room at home.

Good Luck to any brave person opening a place serving real traditional fayre but I think it is to late.You have seen some efforts at a ploughmans lunch. probably get thrown out for eating tripe and onions.Keep flying the flag for the "funny bits" and gravy, no "J`uce" thank you.
 
No problem Alf. The job I hate is singing the hairs off the feet smells awful. These feet are going to the van in the morning and put where we know the fox has babies. These were from Perry Barr and are nothing near as good as the Beacon butchers. I remember years ago a Witton butcher used to sell turkey parsons noses and I loved them but can't get them now unless you buy the bird. Jean.
 
Thought you might like these as well Alf.
Straight from the farm yesterday,they are goose,turkey,duck and hen,I like a mix.
 
War years Rupert - Oh my - people talked of the rationing on this side of the pond - But 2oz of this and that and one egg each a week - and the damned dried egg powder my mom use to have to cook with - tasted like leather - points for a can of bullie beef or a can of salmon

The chip shops the food was tasty --Then they closed - ' No Fish '
 
Rupert my daughter in law worked in Canada as a nanny and the family always got her to cook steak and kidney pudding. I love it but can only eat small portions. When I worked in Wales with the horses I lived in with a family and most mornings kidneys were for breakfast. I love them in a pie or on their own. I cook steak and kidney pie for Pete but he wouldn't dream of kidneys on their own. Jean.
 
Hello Jean,
Never had a quail egg,I don't think they would be big enough for me.
Today for lunch I had a goose egg.the best way to have them,is with wild field mushrooms made into an omelette,with garlic.
yummy.
 
Beryl, I read that although rations were meager in the war years, people were fitter with less weight and stress on the heart due to not over eating. I can remember as a child running all the way to school and after being let out running all the way back home. It was not the love of running but impatience to arrive I think. Strange the things you do when you are alone, as Hancock would say. These days the cat Jappi gives me a head start up the stairs and like Francis Drake finishes his game of bowls (or whatever), only deeming to set off when I am two steps from the top. I swear that when he looks up at me after putting his paw down on the top step, ahead of my foot, he has a huge grin on his face. I have been secretly training on stairs that he can not get to…just wait.

Jean, I have seen kidneys for breakfast but…I don’t know…might be difficult to hack. I have another suggestion for you that you might find nice. When I was living in Devon close to the sea, a favorite breakfast meal in those parts was fresh mackerel. Open and fried like a kipper. This is really a good tasting option and it seems to me that back then this fish was the only thing that could be sold on Sunday’s. Used to be that in Torbay you could pull up a half dozen of these fishes on a single baited jig at one time. Anyway I am beginning to hog the thread.
 
No your not Rupert we love to hear peoples preferences and then give them a try. Every week I eat three oily mackeral as I love them. The way Mrs Evans did her kidneys was in the oven but it's so many years ago that's all I can remember but I did thoroughly enjoy them. Jean.
 
I used to have an after school job at bywaters on the cov rd opposite the horse trough and they sold trotters and tails those i could stomach but the chitterlings and tripe oh no......used to cook tripe for my dog the smell was like an open sewer never have been able to eat it
 
I see on the MSN Home page they have the Ten Most Disgusting Foods. OK I agree with 9 of them BUT BLACK PUDDING !!!! Whats disgusting about that?. I notice none of the E.U. sausages got a mention.

A good Black Pudding is all natural products, well cooked and has not undergone strange " production " methods. And Yes its totally dead.

A thing of beauty, with lumps of fat and not to much cereal. Traditionally made, Factory made is all wrong.....Rant Over
 
Arkrite,
Black pudding is lovely grub.During the war,the M.of F.considered making it using human blood as a substitute for pigs,they only gave up on the idea because the church objected.
Jean,the tripe you gave your dog would have been unbleached,it doesn't smell after bleaching,go on,give it a try.
 
Ray the tripe from the farm is sold as fit for human consumption yet other butchers don't sell it. I think it is because a lot of the meat is cut into joints boxed and sent like that. Found out that the local butcher down the road buys it in like that. Well at least the beef don't know about the lamb and pork though. The thought of human blood made into pigs pud makes me cringe. Bye. Jean.
 
G'day Jean,
Once went to a lecture by Magnus Pike,and he said the human blood was a proposal that was considered,desperate times needs desperate measures,perhaps they went ahead and never told us,yuck!
There is an abatoir near us and they put all the tripe in tins for dog food,it is seasonal.
 
Jean,
Didn't really eat raw fish,honest,although on one occasion I was swimming in a place called shark bay,and was bitten by a snapper,got my own back though,had his brother for lunch,snapper & chips.
 
Blood pudding chitlins tripe or sweet breads my dad used to like - not me - ofal is awful
 
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