Stovelessness

[Jim_Parkin]

Just wish my other half would eat decent cheese... we always end up with red Leicester

My revelation of 2022 is that farmhouse red Leicester is actually a very good cheese, on reminiscent of Old Amsterdam Gouda for flavour. I'd say the difference between that and the usual red Leicester is as big as between "mild cheddar" and farmhouse cheddar.

My daughter's friend found this out and have been persuading people to try it - including the friend's mother who likes cheese but developed a dislike of red Leicester as a child.

 

[Jim_Parkin]

Or "girdle" scones according to a book Mum bought in New Zealand -Bush Lore by Tony Nolan.

Some interesting ideas in it.

 

[OwenM]

My revelation of 2022 is that farmhouse red Leicester is actually a very good cheese, on reminiscent of Old Amsterdam Gouda for flavour. I'd say the difference between that and the usual red Leicester is as big as between "mild cheddar" and farmhouse cheddar.

My daughter's friend found this out and have been persuading people to try it - including the friend's mother who likes cheese but developed a dislike of red Leicester as a child.

I grew up in Leicestershire so I know what you mean, the difference really Red Leicester and supermarket stuff is chalk and cheese, literally. You can get the real thing from "The cheese shop" Morpeth, they do really good quick online deliveries. www.thecheeseshopmorpeth.co.uk.

 

[old-skool-lite]

You can get the real thing from "The cheese shop" Morpeth....

Thanks for that. We may take a look on next weeks van trip.

 

[dovidola]

Or "girdle" scones according to a book Mum bought in New Zealand -Bush Lore by Tony Nolan.

Some interesting ideas in it.

As so often with the language of vernacular cookery, a great deal of sheer nonsense abounds because the language was seldom written down over its centuries of development.

Thus, there are those who will aver that a girdle is a flat bakestone whereas a griddle is a ridged iron pan, or those who claim that a girdle has to possess an arched metal hanging loop to suspend over a fire. The reality is that they're all the same thing.

Girdle is a Scots variation of the word Griddle - and of course many Scots settled in New Zealand. It's also the common Northumbrian usage. Linguists call this phenomenon metathesis. An example from my Liverpudlian childhood is the substitution of 'Immaterial' by 'Mint Imperial', although admittedly that has more than something of the Malapropism about it (cf Hilda Ogden's 'Muriel' painted on the living room wall).

 

[OwenM]

Thanks for that. We may take a look on next weeks van trip.

If I remember rightly they call it "Rutland Red" but it's made in Old Dolby which is only near Rutland.

 

[old-skool-lite]

Cool - thanks. Used to live in Rutland (Edith Weston & North Luffenham) as a bairn

 

[Johnny3000]

Didn't Monty Python make a sketch about that cheese shop?

 

[dovidola]

 

[WildAboutWalking]

Bought some garlic coated Fuet dried sausage in Lidl the other day - absolutely delicious!
Made with 166g of pork per 100g of finished product, and packs an impressive 490kcal/100g.
Recommended. I shall buy some more!