Food From My Past

[Norbert]

On 01/08/2021 at 05:24, stephen 7 said:

 Don't  mention yorkshire puddings its enough to make me pack up and come home anybody else miss there favourite foods because of where they live

Surly there are eggs, flour and ovens in Australia? 

[John bycroft]

Hi Stephen.  My dad used to love tripe and onions, not to mention black pudding, neither of which were my cup of tea.  I just about lived on chips and scraps, orr sometimes fishcakes.  I could stand school dinners (Abbeydale Sec Mod).  They used to arrive daily a big tins and the smell when they were opened, particularly the potatoes or the semolina has been enough to put me off for life.

[Rockers rule]

6 hours ago, John bycroft said:

Hi Stephen.  My dad used to love tripe and onions, not to mention black pudding, neither of which were my cup of tea.  I just about lived on chips and scraps, orr sometimes fishcakes.  I could stand school dinners (Abbeydale Sec Mod).  They used to arrive daily a big tins and the smell when they were opened, particularly the potatoes or the semolina has been enough to put me off for life.

Tripe, onions and potatoes (wi skin on) in a White sauce done in't pressure cooker.

Thanks Mum You did us proud 

Edited August 2, 2021 by Rockers rule
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[FIRETHORN1]

I moved to live in London in the late 1970's and among the foods I still miss, even after more than 40 years, are breadcakes, hot roast pork sandwiches from a shop, Sheffield style fishcakes from the chippy and a decent pork pie. None of these things are available in or around London, so I make a beeline for them whenever I return to Sheff to visit my family.

[hauxwell]

Living in Newcastle I also miss the Sheffield fishcake they don’t sell them in fish shops up here. Before lockdown last year I would visit Sheffield once a month so it wasn’t to bad.

When I lived in Sheffield and visited Newcastle I use to love going into a cafe and having a ham sandwich with pease pudding on a stottie cake, I still do. It’s nice how different parts of the UK have their own traditional food.

[FIRETHORN1]

Yes Hauxwell - it's good that different regions are managing to hold on to their own local foods. I've never seen a Sheffield style fishcake anywhere except Sheffield - although I've also heard that they are available in Barnsley.  There's nowt like a proper Sheffield breadcake either. I've had baps and rolls, barm cakes and stottie cakes - all perfectly nice, but nowt like a proper, floury Sheffield breadcake... especially when slathered in that pork jelly dripping that you can still buy in many Sheffield butchers. I also miss tomato sausage and polony from when I was a kid.

[trastrick]

On 02/08/2021 at 05:41, Rockers rule said:

Scotch Pies when they had proper Mutton in them not the vile, bland mush that's in them nowadays.

Used to get ours from a sandwich shop (no longer there) on Meadow St, Shalesmoor.

Probably one of the best sandwich shops in Sheffield, their Cheese & piccalilli sandwiches were to die for,

Crusty Bread cakes, & Piccalilli  overflowing out all over the place, Messy but good fun!

Ah, picalilli!

 

Coming home from the pictures when everybody was in bed Mum would leave out bread, butter, cheshire cheese and picalilli.

 

And if we were lucky a piece of pork pie!

 

As for school dinners, sago, tapioca, farinoca, and semolina pudding has been mentioned, but why no rice pudding?

Edited August 3, 2021 by trastrick

[Rockers rule]

4 hours ago, FIRETHORN1 said:

Yes Hauxwell - it's good that different regions are managing to hold on to their own local foods. I've never seen a Sheffield style fishcake anywhere except Sheffield - although I've also heard that they are available in Barnsley. 

 

We can get them but have to ask for a Fish Scollop.

Pontifract  you have to ask for a Fish Patti.

Ask for a fish Cake and you get a Rissole in batter 

4 hours ago, trastrick said:

 

 

And if we were lucky a piece of pork pie!

 

 

What happened to all the Jelly?

Finding a pork pie with Jelly in was becoming like finding the Holly Grail,

To the point I started making my own pork pies and boiling down Pigs feet for the Gelatin.

 

Pig's feet, Pigs Chaps & home made Brawn would have youngsters turning their noses up now a days.

When we first married Pigs Chaps would provide for at least 3 days worth of meals and sandwiches.

 

Stay safe,

Eat well.

 

[hauxwell]

5 hours ago, FIRETHORN1 said:

Yes Hauxwell - it's good that different regions are managing to hold on to their own local foods. I've never seen a Sheffield style fishcake anywhere except Sheffield - although I've also heard that they are available in Barnsley.  There's nowt like a proper Sheffield breadcake either. I've had baps and rolls, barm cakes and stottie cakes - all perfectly nice, but nowt like a proper, floury Sheffield breadcake... especially when slathered in that pork jelly dripping that you can still buy in many Sheffield butchers. I also miss tomato sausage and polony from when I was a kid.

The floury breadcakes are nice, don’t think I’ve had one for ages.  I remember going to a birthday party in a pub at Loxley, a relative of mine put a large plate of dripping breadcakes on the buffet. She bought the pork dripping in Lincoln, she said it was the best dripping she had tasted. I thought no one would touch them but how wrong I was.  People were saying how nice they tasted and asking each other if they had tried the dripping breadcakes. Most people said they didn’t eat dripping because of health reasons.  What’s that saying, eating bad foods in moderation doesn’t hurt you.

 

I use to go to a fish and chip shop in the centre of Barnsley because my mum liked their fish. They did a decent Sheffield fishcake, not the best I’ve tasted tho, but that was a few years ago.  

 

29 minutes ago, Rockers rule said:

Ask for a fish Cake and you get a Rissole in batter

Same here in Newcastle but without the batter.

[trastrick]

12 hours ago, Rockers rule said:

..........What happened to all the Jelly?

Finding a pork pie with Jelly in was becoming like finding the Holly Grail,

To the point I started making my own pork pies and boiling down Pigs feet for the Gelatin........

 

As a pork pie aficionado, (addict?) who spent some time sampling the market in Sheffield, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, I came to the conclusion that freshness is the main factor.

 

The M & S, Sainsbury, Tesco products have a long shelf life.

 

The best pork pies came from local butchers who sell them, still warm, before they have had a chance to dry out and all the juices disappear into the absorbent crust.

 

Ironically, the worst pork pies I tasted, were actually on a wasted side trip to Melton Mobray!

Edited August 4, 2021 by trastrick