Sorry ... in my kindness there lurked heinous cruelty.


I understand that the latest edition of said hefty tome has now been updated to include puddings moistened with green water in which peas have previously been boiled.

Ha! Very good, no doubt a fine and noble tome.

I remember as a kid and playing against North West Counties at some god forsaken place in Sintellins, after they had absolutely annihilated us were were served some sort of vague stew with a piece of edible card board, the Lancashire lads were lapping it up, it was very strange and I have no idea what it was.

Whatever you do DO NOT go on the Leigh messageboard and ask how Lobby is made.... You'll start WWIII!!!

I did get told off once when I blogged about Lancashire hot pot – my recipe uses lamb's kidney and I was told that the dish never uses it. In fact, the recipe came from a book of Lancashire cookery by a Lancastrian: the point with many of these dishes is that there are probably as many versions as there are people who've ever cooked it.

I don't put kidneys in anything, can't stand them



One thing I do miss in the chippy since moving to Carlisle is steak pudding. Nowhere (chippies that is) north of the original Lancashire border seems to sell them.

Nope, what he was describing is a fish scallop. A fishcake is the potato and fish mixed together and deep fried

Or shallow fried.

You are correct my friend.

^^THIS^^

Quite how anyone could bring themselves to eat an organ that a sheep or pig has used to strain p[iI[/iss is totally beyond me

Yet are happy to eat bottom feeders who eat all the in the sea !

I have never eaten fish guts though