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[JenniferG]

shredded suet, equivalent to butter or the little blobs i buy for the fird feeder?

 

[Doug]

Cathead biscuits. I haven't heard that term in a long time.
Bye the way Patti, After yesterday's discussion, I just had to get up this morning and have a big bowl of grits(with black pepper and butter) with some Jimmy Dean hot sausage.

 

[Pattipoo]

I'm enjoying that vicariously through you....not on my diet....

yummmm

 

[Doug]

Not on mine either but I had a yearning.

 

[Pattipoo]

You men ain't nunthin but one big yearn!

 

[Doug]

That's why you love us!!

 

[Josephine]

Oh no, I think when everyone wakes up and sees this, things could get rough.
Do men in England really look up at a waitress or worse yet a waiter and say, "I would like a spotted dick"? If the waitress smiled I'd be happy. If the waiter smiled, I'd hit him!!

Oh my!! You have a wicked sense of humor there, Doug.

You realise this was the staple diet of school dinners in places like Eaton and Harrow since the Victorian times? Britain's finest - Winston Churchill, Harold McMillan and Anthony Eden - were raised on puds like this. What's more it is still on the restaurant menu in the Houses of Parliament. They tried to remove it once, not so many years ago, and nearly had a riot on their hands from the MPs and their staff!!

 

[Doug]

Well I would try it once. Just once. But someone else would have to order it for me cause I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.

 

[Nursepair]

shredded suet, equivalent to butter or the little blobs i buy for the fird feeder?

Suet like you use in your bird feeder, this pudding definately has a "few" calories in it eh Josephine?

Now, no one has made a guess at the Toad in the Hole?

 

[Doug]

Sounds like our "pig in a blanket"...hot dog or sausage wrapped with dough and baked.

 

[Nursepair]

Sounds like our "pig in a blanket"...hot dog or sausage wrapped with dough and baked.

I guess it does really. The dish is just sausages baked in yorkshire pudding batter. It appears no one really knows the origin of it's name but here are a couple of possibilities.

It is called "toad in the hole" because it looks like a toad sticking its little head out of its hole...when the sausage cooks, it pokes its "head" out of the batter


Toad in the Hole was 1st recorded in print in 1787, named after a pub game of disks being thrown into holes on a table. Started as frog but became toad.

 

[Doug]

Is yorkshire pudding considered a dessert or a main course??

 

[Nursepair]

It's a main course, but the batter is also used to make english pancakes or what you call crepes.

 

[Doug]

Naw, Naw, southern boys don't do crepes. Those real thin french things. That's for sissy's. Pancakes yes, crepes no.
I will look up the recipe for the pudding though sounds interesting.
By the way, my family name originates from northern England. A worker of metals.

 

[Nursepair]

Your kind of pancakes are thick and dryer (I love them). We don't call ours crepes, that is the french word for them, I only thought that is what you would know them by?

A worker of metal, isn't that a farrier? Makes horse shoes etc.?

 

[Doug]

Yep, I sent the name to you by pm. I don't think we are supposed to post the personal stuff in a public domain.
I eventually want to exchange e-mail addresses with the group.

 

[Josephine]

You figured it out then, Doug?

 

[Doug]

yep...and I looked up the resipe for the yorkshire pudding. Interesting. I might have to try it one of these days.

 

[Josephine]

I meant the pms - private messages!

 

[Skeet]

I agree that when we are ready to "leave the nest", which won't be for a while, we need to exchange email addresses and agree to stay in touch, maybe come back to the forum for a one year reunion or something!