Cottage Pie

[JW]

Our Cottage Pie in Johnnie Walkers goes down well! Cant see teh extra gravy in the pic and cheese can be added

[migrant]

Like many national dishes it is a way of using up leftover food.

I'm sure you're absolutely right, but as a kid, on Monday's we'd have the meat cold with the left over veg done as bubble and squeak. I'd have that with home made pickled onions and sweet pickle - yummy!

Bubble and Squeak!! The only way I could handle bl**dy sprouts!!! What a great dish - with a little HP sauce of course...

OK, I give up, what is Bubble and Squeak?? Sounds like a couple of circus clowns!

[caller]

Here you go Migrant!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_and_squeak

I know mine is cooked when I can flip it like a pancake !

Nigel Slater explains how its done, although I use a little olive oil rather than butter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... eak-recipe

[migrant]

Here you go Migrant!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_and_squeak

I know mine is cooked when I can flip it like a pancake !

Nigel Slater explains how its done, although I use a little olive oil rather than butter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... eak-recipe

Thanks!

[Takiap]

Like many national dishes it is a way of using up leftover food.

I'm sure you're absolutely right, but as a kid, on Monday's we'd have the meat cold with the left over veg done as bubble and squeak. I'd have that with home made pickled onions and sweet pickle - yummy!

Bubble and Squeak!! The only way I could handle bl**dy sprouts!!! What a great dish - with a little HP sauce of course...

You're a brave man. Not even the Thai can disguise the taste enough enough to allow me to eat them. The only thing worse is cucumber, which has the ability to contaminate an entire plate of food.

[Arcadian]

[quote="migrant".


OK, I give up, what is Bubble and Squeak?? Sounds like a couple of circus clowns! [/quote]

Would you be equally confused by "toad in the hole" or "baby`s head"?

[migrant]

[quote="migrant".


OK, I give up, what is Bubble and Squeak?? Sounds like a couple of circus clowns!

Would you be equally confused by "toad in the hole" or "baby`s head"?[/quote]

Toad in the hole I know, but not baby's head??

[Arcadian]

[quote="migrant".


OK, I give up, what is Bubble and Squeak?? Sounds like a couple of circus clowns!

Would you be equally confused by "toad in the hole" or "baby`s head"?

Toad in the hole I know, but not baby's head??[/quote]


Tender beef and onions encased in a suet pastry ball tied in a cloth and steamed for several hours.

[migrant]

[quote="migrant".


OK, I give up, what is Bubble and Squeak?? Sounds like a couple of circus clowns!

Would you be equally confused by "toad in the hole" or "baby`s head"?

Toad in the hole I know, but not baby's head??

Tender beef and onions encased in a suet pastry ball tied in a cloth and steamed for several hours.[/quote]

Sounds good!

[uncle tom]

Gosh - there's some nostalgia coming out here..

Shepherd's pie (we never called it Cottage pie) - minced lamb (leftovers from a sunday joint) in a thick gravy, dumped in a pyrex dish, with the boiled spuds that were also leftover, well mashed and put on top - and then grilled.

Bubble and squeak - leftover cabbage or sprouts, roughly chopped up with leftover spuds, and dumped in the frying pan.

Toad in the hole - sausages (always Wall's) immersed in a Yorkshire pudding.

And somewhere through the week there would usually be a macaroni cheese and a casserole on the menu..

Although my family wasn't poor, my parents grew up with wartime rationing, and got used to a diet that had relatively little meat in it. Today, living on my own, I probably consume more meat each week than our family of four did forty years ago..

[Arcadian]

Living between the sea and the country we always had good food in the 50`s. Fresh fish and crab and rabbit at least once a week caught by ferret. Anyone remember junket?

[PeteC]

...... Anyone remember junket?

For sure, and it's not just a British thing. My Mom used to serve it as a dessert in the 50's and 60's. I guess you can still find it on grocery shelves if you look hard enough. Pete

[Big Boy]

Anyone remember junket?

I remember my parents talking about it. Don't know if I've ever tried it. What is it?

[PeteC]

Anyone remember junket?

I remember my parents talking about it. Don't know if I've ever tried it. What is it?

"Junket is a milk-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and rennet, the digestive enzyme which curdles milk. It might best be described as a custard or a very soft, sweetened cheese......."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junket_%28dessert%29

[chaspul]

Made it myself as a kid.
Sweetened milk with vanilla. rennet added to set, in effect curdle the milk. Sets like a custard, served with nutmeg on top.

On the nostalgia side anyone old enough to remember "Bread and scrape"?
Chas