English Cuisine ??

When I was a kid, "fast food" while out shopping on a Friday after work/school meant an egg salad sandwich at the Woolworth's diner counter, and we walked. We looked forward to it, a really good week meant a new "Dinky Toy" for the dirt lot in the back yard, or a model to build over the weekend. I went to an A&W before McDonald's, and preferred it, taking home a glass jug of root beer was a treat that kept on giving. Later, the north end McDonald's meant just going to see all the hot cars; Corvettes, Novas, Chevelles, Camaros, GTOs, Firebirds, newly owned and modified by GM workers fresh out of High School, making more money than they knew what to do with. My, how times have changed.

FYI, "Bubble & Squeek" is chopped up supper leftovers, usually mixed with eggs and/or mashed potatoes to hold it together, fried up and served with/for breakfast. With rationing a fact of life, it was popular during WWII with the UK working class. Friends of ours in Salisbury still make it all the time, it's almost revered like a delicacy.

 

Steak and Kidney Pie. Done right, this is terrific.

Begged for the recipe I discovered and it has been a staple for 35 years here.
Hmmm... time to make another batch...

 

Aberdeen frying station. they fry all they can find to get it more delicacy in the same oil! fish, chocolate, pizza, sausages..........

 

haah.....my favorite mention from the above has to be the 25 year old mutton........bet you can smell the lanolin cooking from across the pond........... a truly vexing thought of what may be cooked.............here we have the variation known as mutton stew which rhymes with I love you.....should you wish it to be at formal courting occasion where together(you and yours),.... savor such meats, with resulting romantic lanolin breath it will leave you with, while you are in such close proximity with the dear invite.

 

Aah! You will enjoy this then!

Thin strips of fatty mutton can be cut into a substitute for bacon called macon which really came into it's heyday during WW2 rationing in Britain.

http://www.ww2f.com/western-europe/...ation-book-dishes-helped-britain-victory.html
Isn't that bread just ever so yummy looking?


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Can't leave this thread without at least a reference to Ron Goldstein's Army Album:
What did you eat in the war, Daddy? http://rongoldsteinsarmyalbum.blogspot.ca/2006/02/what-did-you-eat-in-war-daddy.html

 

One look should tell you the answer. The truth is, you will never recover from the smell... let alone get close enough to actually taste it.
It takes a real man to sink his teeth into it.

Good cured macon is light black and yellow in color.
But you have never truly experience revulsion until you have seen it uncured.
Me? I think I set a Guiness distance record for spewing. My dad's comment: "Explosive projectile diarrhea of the mouth."

 

Oh yeah. Steak and kidney. Mom makes a great batch... That's what they eat when they go to the Legion....Thinking Squeak and Bubble is the after effect..... Wheat Belly, my next thread.

 

Tripe and onions...that's what real men eat!
Tripe - What is Tripe?

 

I thought it may be of interest to some to see what a genuine, classic 'old English pub' actually looks like. I stopped for lunch at this one during the week ; it has a strong WWII connection which will have to wait for a thread of its own.





Points to note :

- The word 'pub' doesn't feature on the building. If it does, it's a fake.

- Food is locally-sourced ( in this case, Suffolk ) and home-cooked.

- It's 'slow' food ie - no microwave.

- It doesn't serve curry. The only thing with gravy is Sunday Roast.

What did I have ? As it was an old RAF pub - ham, eggs and chips. And a draught beer.

Simple - but delicious......

 

Ditto for Scottish ones. This is the oldest alehouse in Stirling (conveniently round the corner from me! ) and dates from 1733-