General Chat

Julia, I bought some bread rolls from T*****'s this week as we were having guests for lunch. They were disgusting, and left a very salty taste in my mouth. I normally make my own bread with the aid of my breadmaker, though have made it by hand as well in the past.

I notices on Hugh's programme last night that he put the yeast into the flour with one batch of bread , instead of letting it froth up in a jug of warm water. Never seen that done before.

We never buy organic food from the supermarket, cauliflowers taste of nothing, and carrots as has been stated are very bland.

Shop bought bread is my bug bear. We make our own, time permitting, but occassionally have to buy a loaf, and or bread rolls. They taste like nothing on earth. There is actually no taste at all, to be honest. Had some bread rolls in the week for lunch from T***co, ugh, they went straight in the bin after the first mouthful. I noticed last night Hugh on Channel 4 was making Sourdough bread, so I think I will have a go at that soon.
Julia in Derbyshire

Been using deep fat fryers for about 35 years now. Since oven chips came out - I use those, takes less cooking. G.children used to ask for real chips when they came as their mum only cooked oven chips!

You can't beat abit of toast and dripping for breakfast. Nowt finner. Made from the Sunday joint.
Agh but, find me a Sunday joint, either Pork or Beef that yields dripping these days. All pigs and cows are now breed for leanness, so no dripping. Lucky if you can get any cracklin' off the Pork.
Chip pan went out years ago, and have to resort to oven chips.
We were bought up on butter, margarine did not come in until later.
Surely, as Jgee says, this could not be any worst than all the addatives in food today.
Julia in Derbyshire

threw my chip pan away years ago .to my childrens disgust .. they plead for me to to get another..

mmm beef dripping on crusty bread with salt and pepper yummy..

it didnt do much harm to our parents.. i reckon all these additives is as bad ..

I have never tasted chips as good as my mum cooked. She cut potatoes into big chunky chips and fried them in a frying pan in the dripping fat from the Sunday Roasts. She used to buy big chunks of Beef dripping from the butcher to do all the roasting and saved the dripping each week with the jelly settling at the bottom of the pudding basin. Toast with dripping and some of the jelly with salt and pepper on was yummy,the best was the toasted end crust or nobby as we called them.
Not very PC now though with all the emphasis on healthy eating.

I DONT KNOW WETHER ITS ME BUT LATLEY
SUPERMARKET VEGTABLES HAVE LOST THE TASTE EVEN THE MORE EXPENSIVE LABLED,THE CARROTS AS I SLICED I ATE SOME RAW,,NOTHING NO TASTE AND THEY WERE ORGANIC I ASKED MY FAMILY THEY SAID THE SAME.
OVEN CHIPS I KNOW COOK THE IN A TRAY WITH A SMALL DROOP OF OF OIL