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[Brian Cross]

Merlin, on 22 April 2010 - 08:42 PM, said:

Lamb and fresh mint from the garden, I can taste it now...drool And the yorkshire puds, I wish I could make them like my grannie used to, an leek pudding, an rabbit pie with a crust an inch thick with the cup in the middle to stop the pastry sagging. What we have lost by not taking notice

We have my cousin and his wife over here for a holiday, they are from Bedlington and she is a cracking good Geordie cook. i think i have put on 10kilo's since she has been here .............

[Vic Patterson]

All of the above! Dan Dare & Mighty Meakon! 40 Berkley Square (Eagle) Picking williks, Tettie guns, Picking the tar with a stick, Beatle Drives, Saturday morning flix (Tom Mix, Gene Autry, Batman) "Welcome to Workers Playtime" Take your pick, Dixon of Dock Green (evening all) Muffin the Mule (OMG!) B**** & W**** show. Terry O'neil's One O'clock show (nah, not realy) Chips in paper (outside

[Pete]

Bedlington

[Merlin]

Simple and straight to the point again Pete

[Owen]

i tell somthing i dont miss....the back ramp of Tescos! lol
(tried pushing 10 trollys up it!! lol)

it would have to be Industry of the Area, Blyth Power Station, Ellington Colliery.
(remember seeing these working as a kid) and just remember the old railway depot at Cambois.

[BedlingtonLass]

Things i miss are my family - i only get to see them now and again and honestly nothing else!!

[Merlin]

Brian Cross, on 22 April 2010 - 11:38 PM, said:

We have my cousin and his wife over here for a holiday, they are from Bedlington and she is a cracking good Geordie cook. i think i have put on 10kilo's since she has been here .............

Jealous I need some recipes, good old fashioned Geordie ones ask her for some PLEASE!!!!!!!

[Brian Cross]

Merlin, on 29 April 2010 - 09:38 PM, said:

Jealous I need some recipes, good old fashioned Geordie ones ask her for some PLEASE!!!!!!!

what recipes would you like and i will ask her............

[Merlin]

Brian Cross, on 30 April 2010 - 12:46 AM, said:

what recipes would you like and i will ask her............

Leek pudding for starters, it was steamed or boiled in a muslin bag I think and how to make that thick stodgy pie crust to cover the bunnies I was on about. I love my food and cook a lot so anything else she has involving any kind of meat, pies, stews etc and not forgetting a good old broth! I have made broth numerous times but just can't get the taste of my grannies broth it's always missing something but I don't know what!
Thanks and I'm still jealous

[Pete]

Merlin, on 01 May 2010 - 06:41 PM, said:

Leek pudding for starters, it was steamed or boiled in a muslin bag I think and how to make that thick stodgy pie crust to cover the bunnies I was on about. I love my food and cook a lot so anything else she has involving any kind of meat, pies, stews etc and not forgetting a good old broth! I have made broth numerous times but just can't get the taste of my grannies broth it's always missing something but I don't know what!
Thanks and I'm still jealous

Meat pies, rabbit pie, broth and leek pudding, you are making me feel hungry, what we need is a Bedlington book of recipe's Merlin, can we start with peas pudding?

[Monsta®]

Leek Pudding


How to make leek pudding:
A typically English meal, probably dating from the 18th century. This dish was cooked in the time-honored way, boiled in a pot that no doubt contained the rest of the meal cooking in the same water. This would have included some sort of meat and other vegetables boiled in a string bag.





Ingredients

2 cups self raising flour
1/2 cup suet
a pinch of salt
organic leeks
cold water to mix
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Put the dry ingredients into a bowl and mix together.
- Add some of the water and make into a fairly stiff dough.
- Take only the white parts of the leeks, clean them and cut into 1/2 inch lengths.
- Roll out the pastry into a large oblong shape.
- Put the leeks onto one half of the pastry and season with pepper and salt.
- Bring the other half of the pastry over the top of the leeks.
- Pinch all the edges together to seal the leeks in and then roll the whole lot up in a damp, floured cloth.
- Put into a pan of boiling water and boil for about 3 hours.

[Merlin]

Pete, on 01 May 2010 - 07:24 PM, said:

Meat pies, rabbit pie, broth and leek pudding, you are making me feel hungry, what we need is a Bedlington book of recipe's Merlin, can we start with peas pudding?

If I get enough Bedlingtonian recipes I'll certainly have a go Pete, Monsta came up with a cracking good leek pudding one though he probably found it on the net, saying that not everyone has access to such modern day functions and some can't be bothered to use it! So you Pete and all you others out there get asking your grannies or your better halves for some good recipes for some good old fashioned wholesome food and forward them to me on here. I think I just put on a stone thinking of the good times ahead Cheers

[wonky]

Merlin, on 20 April 2010 - 08:48 PM, said:

Warlord comic and commando books. Camping oot on the football field and some kind of minty black liquorice sweets in a white box which I can't for the life of me remember the name of,. bout the same size of a tab box. Finding cards in the tea packets.

imps i think they were called. !*!@# hot if you threw in a handfull.. lol

[Merlin]

Sorry m8 not imps I know what those are
The box was as said the size of a tab box liquorice in flavour. The sweets inside were individually wrapped in foil, again the same as the foil in a tab box. Whereas tabs are downward these were across the box and had a groove in them like chocolate.

Don't know where I'm going with this but I got to know what the mother*****s were called

[wonky]

Merlin, on 11 May 2010 - 09:27 PM, said:

Sorry m8 not imps I know what those are
The box was as said the size of a tab box liquorice in flavour. The sweets inside were individually wrapped in foil, again the same as the foil in a tab box. Whereas tabs are downward these were across the box and had a groove in them like chocolate.

Don't know where I'm going with this but I got to know what the mother*****s were called

yeah,,like an itch you cant scratch !! you got my head wrecked now,,i am licorice mad, would eat it till my teeth gan black !! i was mad about spangles. and check out the picture//remember the chewwy backy for kids !!lol. had the taste of !*!@# but we would all chew it and pretend we were miners..lol

[wonky]

Merlin, on 11 May 2010 - 09:27 PM, said:

Sorry m8 not imps I know what those are
The box was as said the size of a tab box liquorice in flavour. The sweets inside were individually wrapped in foil, again the same as the foil in a tab box. Whereas tabs are downward these were across the box and had a groove in them like chocolate.

Don't know where I'm going with this but I got to know what the mother*****s were called

christ man !! you got me up all night now..found this pic on the web,,i am guessing its not these because i am sure you would have remembered..lol ,,could you imagine the uproar if these were on display in the sweetshops this day and age ..? struth !!

[wonky]

Merlin, on 11 May 2010 - 09:27 PM, said:

Sorry m8 not imps I know what those are
The box was as said the size of a tab box liquorice in flavour. The sweets inside were individually wrapped in foil, again the same as the foil in a tab box. Whereas tabs are downward these were across the box and had a groove in them like chocolate.

Don't know where I'm going with this but I got to know what the mother*****s were called

it couldnt be as simple as kendal mint cake could it..the brown one was a bit tangy if i remember..margrets shop at bebside sold them during the seventies.. they came in a slab..
perhaps if you just go down to the sweet shop and pig out it might help...i know thats what im doing when the shop opens...slavering now !!

[Merlin]

Wonky I'll give you this lad 'ya a trier'lol. An chewy baccy jesus h christ I'd forgotten all about that. These liquorice things are doing my heed in! I GOTTA KNOW!
Ya Ni.g.ga boy ciggies would be absolute class now, can you imagine, can you actually imagine what would happen now LMFAO I tell you what I got, I got two Robertson Jam GOLLY W.O.G badges an wear them with pride

The rigmarole you gotta go thru to get words on here and here's me thinking we live in a FREE country with FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Edited by Merlin, 12 May 2010 - 08:28 PM.

[Cympil]

This site sells lots of old fashioned sweets, including Wonky`s baccy

[norman]

Ginnie Wilkinsons fish and chips, catching raisbecks bus from the Terrier to Westridge School cost a penny.

Playing in the Free Wood and the Happney Woods, swimming in the Flaggy and at the quay, camping on the green behind Beaty Road. Building camps in the A pit timber yard and getting chased by the colliery police.