tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post8440018924406999930..comments2024-03-25T09:57:45.669+00:00Comments on A SLICE OF CAKE: PILCHARDS ON TOAST, NEW CAKE STANDS AND SOME SAD NEWSJeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09726164724131916224noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-16383940104901179292020-10-07T07:34:26.565+01:002020-10-07T07:34:26.565+01:00Phil, at 50p a tin it's not a lot to gamble if...Phil, at 50p a tin it's not a lot to gamble if you find you still don't like them!<br />I'm very lucky in that school dinners were mostly delicious at my school, the trifle was wonderful. Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726164724131916224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-53605782883836572002020-10-07T00:10:32.347+01:002020-10-07T00:10:32.347+01:00Crushed avocado on toast is a fine thing that I...Crushed avocado on toast is a fine thing that I've been eating for many years but I've no idea why it's considered a new and, recently, a trendy thing. On the other hand, I haven't eaten pilchards since my school days. They were a school dinner favourite and, like pretty much everything in our school dinners, they were hideous and inedible. Having read this, I think I should buy a can and try them out again.Phil in the Kitchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15904292856978631382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-46460541393748462562020-10-06T08:59:04.403+01:002020-10-06T08:59:04.403+01:00Roderick, I can see that some foods would evoke un...Roderick, I can see that some foods would evoke unhappy memories and you would never want to eat them again. I had to look up snoek and even reading about it made me feel queasy. <br />Fortunately all of my food memories are happy ones (with the possible exception of my MIL's "grey quiche").<br />I once made a "war cake" for a vintage themed cake club meeting and did a lot of research beforehand. That one was made using white cooking fat, originally lard, and was delicious but I can understand why your Canadian readers took umbrage over the liquid paraffin incident, it sounds awful!<br />You can see the war cake recipe here and it has an unexpected royal connection:<br />http://bakinginfranglais.blogspot.com/2013/11/war-cake.htmlJeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726164724131916224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-42319682398118830492020-10-06T08:08:39.033+01:002020-10-06T08:08:39.033+01:00I believe I'm older than you are. That's n...I believe I'm older than you are. That's not to say I'm necessarily wiser, only that I may have walked further in this Vale of Tears. Right through WW2 in fact, which I have to say was a culinary as well as a philosophical disaster. On my own blog I have already reminisced about a WW2 recipe for Canadian Suppercake in which liquid paraffin was used as a substitute for more normal forms of fat. The Canadians who then read my blog (they don't now) were, perforce, younger and were appalled. Reckoned I'd besmirched the maple leaf.<br /><br />So it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut says.<br /><br />Tinned pilchards were available during WW2 and I ate them. Including their backbones which tinning mysteriously converted into thin columns of damp chalk. I ate pilchards to stay alive and as a ya-boo to Adolf. I'm not really knocking pilchards, though I would knock tinned snoek which arrived just after the war. Pilchards were edible. But once Britain was through WW2, round about the time the Swinging Sixties started, I didn't feel I had to persist with them. They evoked the past, as with Proust's madeleines, and it was a past I could do without.<br /><br />I fear this comment is something of a non-sequitur and may be ignored. Just to say that in the future you need not take my views on pilchards seriously. I have said all I know on the subject.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-41084173282518222312020-10-05T16:45:35.825+01:002020-10-05T16:45:35.825+01:00Really? So much for taking back control!Really? So much for taking back control!Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726164724131916224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-50117186697672613392020-10-05T16:41:34.594+01:002020-10-05T16:41:34.594+01:00Oh, I thought you were going to say about the sad ...Oh, I thought you were going to say about the sad news that Hovis has been - or will shortly be - sold to the Italians. Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-25978958951327027692020-10-05T13:22:03.893+01:002020-10-05T13:22:03.893+01:00Angela, you could see immediately that the parcel ...Angela, you could see immediately that the parcel was dented and the wrapping torn but unfortunately it was Nick that dashed to the door as it was delivered. I could hear the broken bits rattling from the next room as he picked it up from the doorstep! If it had been me I would have alerted the courier before she, as you say, ran off as fast as she could get back in her little van.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726164724131916224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-61816817254392352732020-10-05T13:17:25.560+01:002020-10-05T13:17:25.560+01:00Interestingly, its description on Ebay was "l...Interestingly, its description on Ebay was "lettuce leaf".Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726164724131916224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-33504614156356521792020-10-05T13:16:50.209+01:002020-10-05T13:16:50.209+01:00Gaynor, I can't wait to use it! Diet notwiths...Gaynor, I can't wait to use it! Diet notwithstanding!Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726164724131916224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-10795786811794007992020-10-05T13:00:35.760+01:002020-10-05T13:00:35.760+01:00Oops... cabbage leaf!
Oops... cabbage leaf!<br />GaynorBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12971753467966206018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-67917529855730624792020-10-05T12:59:31.706+01:002020-10-05T12:59:31.706+01:00I covet the Clarice Cliffe! It is a shame about th...I covet the Clarice Cliffe! It is a shame about the lettuce leaf one, though, but if one has to be broken better that than the beautiful CC. Just right for Cake Club...xx<br />GaynorBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12971753467966206018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3896642794207631523.post-80734732014526680892020-10-05T11:41:04.998+01:002020-10-05T11:41:04.998+01:00Sorry about your cake stand! I have been selling s...Sorry about your cake stand! I have been selling some china on behalf of a friend through my Etsy shop - and only sell to UK, I dont want to risk Royal Worcester Egg Coddlers going off to the other side of the world. Much Bubble Wrap and Royal Mail only! We had a Hermes delivery dropped over the side gate - it contained a computer! Fortunately the sender had been very thorough with wrapping. I understand that the staff are paid per delivery, so the more they can get rid of, the better - hence the drop-it-and-run technique. Angelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494078135251214182noreply@blogger.com