General Chat

We did indeed.Black cherry,some Assam tea,scrummy tomato chutney and ketchup to see how it compared to mine.

did you get your jam from Tiptree Sharron?

As we can't be away overnight now my OH and I take little excursions to different places where we like to buy some sort of local food if we can.Last Wednesday we went to Essex to buy some jam.Yes we are on the south coast!
We are toying with the idea of Staffordshire oatcakes.
Any other ideas?

If you live near a Julian Greves, they stock a lot of old-fashioned sweets and I am sure I have seen cinder toffee there.

Hi Marion,

Can I place an order for some to be sent down here please!

Sorry was out.


Found this,doesnt let you see the slice though. It's longer and narrower than the usuall bread.Crust at each end one straight and lighter the othe end is arched(for a better word) and dark.....mmmmm

http://www.tesco.com/superstore/xpi/4/xpi50363824.htm

Hi Barbra,

Talk of that Area brings back lots of memories from my youth and makes me envious.

Hi Julia,

I love the Clyde Coast, very scenic and relaxing.

Hi Barbra,

Did my National Service in RAF at Stranraer. Happy days! ( but seems like a hundred years ago1

Hi Robert, Rothesay,Isle of Bute. Dad was with the Royal Navy. Have a brother born there.
Julia in Derbyshire

Hi Julia

Which part of Scotland?

Me too Robert, but getting abit past the travelling now. Having said that, my old Dad, the reason we went there in the first place, sent me a postcard from there about 4 yrs ago. He had gone to say his farewells to the few old friends still left. He will be 88 this year, lives about a mile from me, and never said he was going. The old sea dog
Julia in Derbyshire

Yes Julia,

It is different isn't it? And I do love going back.

Shake hands then Robert. I came from here, went to there, and came back again. But I do miss it, it's culture, and its foods, aongst other things.
It was my childhood, with very happy memories.
Julia in Derbyshire

Please stop talking about Plain bread and Lorne sausage. You are making me homesick.
Plain bread is made in batches with one loaf being baked alongside the others, consequently only has a top and bottom crust unlike ordinary bread which is baked in tins/pans.


A Scot living in England

I don't want pink wafers nowThis was back in the days when Uncle Arch and Aunty Evie used to come for tea sometimes on a Sunday.Like 1957ish.
This was when I had a great gastronomic disappointment too.Ice-cream had to come homefrom the shop wrapped in newspaper and kept in the draught by the door.A new flavour came out,raspberry ripple,and I had to have it and kept poking the package by the draught in anticipation.
When I tasted it I hated it and I am sure I have never been the same since!

Thanks Julia.

Ann, as a mere southern Sassenach, well Midlander really ,I am perhaps not the best person to describe it, but I'll have a go.
It is basically a 'tall' loaf of bread, that is of denser texture than English bread. As I seem to remember, it did not have crusts, well not of any significance, and came sliced and wrapped in greaseproof paper. It was altogether a nicer bread than what we are used to.
Come back Marion, and elaborate. Please.
Julia in Derbyshire

Interesting thread for a southerner. What exactly is plain bread?

Puff candy??



EDIT*Just googled... it is the same*

Plain bread toasted on a coal fire.....yum.

You get pink wafer biscuits Sharron..pink panther??