so excited!

startrekker

:rotfl:God this thread could gather some pace.......What about plain bread then, nice big heel toasted and buttered with plenty of jam,Ormeau me lord...:drool:

So whats this to do about money saving....nothin really....just a chat with some Norn Irish folk, remembering what good food tasted like.
Here, can you still get snowballs from the bakery,?:rotfl: :drool:

arkonite_babe

Yes you can still get snowballs from the bakery

As for Dulse. I haven't touched that in years :lipsrseal

Anyone got a good recipe for fadge/spud bread/tattie bread or what ever you call it in your locality?? I clarify the name as me OH hadn't a clue what fadge was when he moved to Ballymena. He's originally from Lisburn and hadn't heard the saying before and him a bread man too :rolleyes:

Edited to add: I don't want to post my fadge query on Old Style, don't want to confuse most of them

Thriftylady

startrekker wrote:

So whats this to do about money saving....nothin really....just a chat with some Norn Irish folk, remembering what good food tasted like.
Here, can you still get snowballs from the bakery,?:rotfl: :drool:

snowballs as in spongey things sandwiched together with jam and covered in coconut? you certainly can.....my mum used to take me into the bakery and get me one after my music lesson every Thursday afternoon when I was wee. Ah, memories...

bingo_bango

arkonite_babe wrote:

Anyone got a good recipe for fadge/spud bread/tattie bread or what ever you call it in your locality??

Slims where I come from, but I don't have a recipe to hand. Sure my late grandmother has a recipe somewhere in one of her cookbooks though. I'll be up visiting tomorrow, so I'll see if I can dig any up.

badabing

Couple bits of slim & sody

What do you take in your PIECE?

Thriftylady

arkonite_babe wrote:

Anyone got a good recipe for fadge/spud bread/tattie bread or what ever you call it in your locality?? I clarify the name as me OH hadn't a clue what fadge was when he moved to Ballymena. He's originally from Lisburn and hadn't heard the saying before and him a bread man too :rolleyes:

Edited to add: I don't want to post my fadge query on Old Style, don't want to confuse most of them

:rotfl: I had no idea that it was a Ballymena-ism until I mentioned it in work one day in the canteen and the whole table went silent (and I swear a tumbleweed rolled across the floor.) The Belfasties thought that it sounded rude

As for a recipe.....I don't actually have one on me, but if you could get your hands on a WI cookbook, they'd sort you out.........and you could whip up a few tray bakes for a bun-worry while you're at it. Now, I bet thats a Ballymena-ism...

startrekker

I used to have butter and sugar in my piece and if i was lucky some Tayto cheese and onion...............

SnowyOwl_2

Here's a recipe for potato bread...

http://www.nifda.co.uk/viewrecipe.asp?id=86


and here's another one (scroll about half way down):

http://www.cookingisfun.ie/letters/2006/march/theirishgovermetnevervotedagainstgmfoodandcrops11th.htm#Fadge_or_Potato_Bread

I haven't made either of these, mainly because I love my spuds therefore never have any "left over" from dinner.

Pink-winged gave me a recipe a week or two ago for potato bread - she seems to be expert at making N.Ireland things. She even does soda bread, the proper farls. I used her recipe and got brick farls with gooey middles.

arkonite_babe

My last sodas were rock hard on the outside :eek:

I can cook non traditional things better, I've only just mastered irish stew

*yells* Piiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnkkkkkk where are you?????

arkonite_babe

Thriftylady wrote:

:rotfl: I had no idea that it was a Ballymena-ism until I mentioned it in work one day in the canteen and the whole table went silent (and I swear a tumbleweed rolled across the floor.) The Belfasties thought that it sounded rude

As for a recipe.....I don't actually have one on me, but if you could get your hands on a WI cookbook, they'd sort you out.........and you could whip up a few tray bakes for a bun-worry while you're at it. Now, I bet thats a Ballymena-ism...

Thriftylady your post had me grinning like a cheshire cat, really made my (very long, extremely tiring) day!

I could organise a "bun worry" in a blink of an eye