Hairy Bikers Mum Knows Best

ubamother

Gigervamp wrote: »

I was shocked that one of the ladies couldn't cook. She looked about the same age as me and although in the past, I have used convenience foods, I still cooked other meals from scratch. She didn't even know where the ingredients were in her own kitchen!

Surely that was her mother's kitchen - didn't we see them going into her mum's house? I was a bit surprised to start with, but then I thought she came over very well even though she hadn't had much experience in home cooking - how lovely to see someone new to homebaking starting preserves, chutneys and pastry - not the usual stuff of newbies I would normally have thought.

lickylonglips

anguk wrote: »

That's what we call it too! Ours is different though, we do ours in a big pan with diced potatoes, onion & corned beef.

Same here and I'm from Durham (Coundon/Bishop Auckland) and ours is like yours... more like a corned-beef hash than anything....

lickylonglips

debs2327 wrote: »

am i right in thinking that panackelty has sausages in or is that just a thing my mum used to do ( we were from north east ??)

also does any1 have the recipie for the impossible cake they showed where the woman said she put everything in together then cooked it and it created a kind of base by seperating during cooking ?????? would like to give it a go xx

sausages? ooh, no... nothing as posh as sausages go in it!! not in deepest, darkest durham anyway!

hex2

My mother is from Lancashire, as is my DH. We both had sad cake which is made with left over shortcrust pastry with no additional sugar or fat. Dried fruit just goes in the middle on its own. My favourite pudding when I was little, and I always hoped there would be left over pastry on a Sunday.

ETA Also called 'dead fly cemetary', again an expression we both knew so not just my family.

ravylesley

I'm Lancashire born and bred and actually come from Burnley where Judith in the programme also came from and we do sad cake exactly as it states in the recipe on the website.Its leftover shortcrust pastry rolled out and then spread with butter,then sprinkled with dried fruit and sugar.Then pastry folded over and rerolled out again.Then brushed with milk and sprinkled with more sugar and then baked.They taste divine and go down a treat in this house and the kids fight over them

Eccles cakes are indeed made with puff pastry,Chorley cakes are made with an enriched butter pastry and are quite a lot richer than sad cakes.But if you think about it Eccles,Burnley and Chorley are all within about 20miles of each other so its logical that recipes would be very similar


Lesleyxx

janeym8

me and DH loved tonights show we laughed so much especially when they were trying to cook out in the open in the rain and kept throwing the water out of the bowls.
pan haggerty ive heard of before
dead flies grave is what we call the sad cake-it sometimes iced on top

we thought the meat and potato pie looked very dry and could be doing with some gravy

i wish the lady cooking punjabi(?sp) food was a friend her food looked fab may give her salmon dish a go

we have decided on trying the fishcakes for dinner tomorrow night-never made fishcakes before

really enjoying the series both for its recipes and more for its entertainment value

janey xxx

MrsE_2

janeym8 wrote: »

we have decided on trying the fishcakes for dinner tomorrow night-never made fishcakes before

really enjoying the series both for its recipes and more for its entertainment value

janey xxx

I made the fishcakes, they are the best I've ever made.

I think the sauce really made them.

I did them from the book.

Its a great book & a great show.

I think seeing the show makes you much more likely to do more recipes from the book.

Gigervamp

Those were hefty fishcakes, but they did look nice especially with the sauce.

Reverbe

Lesley thats odd cos I am Lancashire born and bred (with a hiatus in Germany)and my Lancashire born and bred Nanna made Sad Cake in the way I described and as far as I know that was what it was. The one on TV was more of a cake than Nannas which was plain pastry with currants well mixed in.?? Like Hex there was no additional fat or sugar added. I used to think it was one of Nannas inventions just for me who loved both currants and pastry...

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Both hubby and I watched the episode 'simple suppers' and were hooked. (We hadn't watched it before). Si and Dave come over so well and are so kind and encouraging. I am going to have a look for the impossible cake recipe too as I'm intrigued.

A big thumbs up to the boys:T