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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby PatsyMFagan » Fri Oct 30, 2020 4:07 pm

herbidacious wrote:https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/one-british-thing-a-bottle-of-welfare-orange-juice-c-19611971/7A3A07A71E9CFEA0214EC22984C486A7/core-reader

I remember it coming in little milk bottles but that may be a false memory.


This orange 'juice' was available from the milkman ... it was a real treat for me and my sister to get one of those, but it brought us out in hives. Our milkman (Express Dairy) also sold bottles of chocolate flavoured milk too ..

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Postby Stokey Sue » Fri Oct 30, 2020 4:46 pm

The welfare orange juice changed its label a couple of times I think, and it was very sugary - the sugar and citric acid were the preservative

I remember having the little bottles of orange juice from the milkman as an occasional school holiday treat, glory knows what was in them Patsy, probably a lot of tartrazine to make it a nice bright colour - it’s still used (E102, I checked but it can cause hives and I think it’s no longer permitted in prescription meds

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby scullion » Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:05 pm

i, too, loved the welfare orange. my aunt, a district nurse, used to bring it for us. i think i've said before that i found some 'sunqick' orange juice concentrate in an asian shop when i lived in london that tasted exactly the same. unfortunately, a few years later the recipe must have been changed as it was much, much sweeter and i haven't looked for it since.
i have one of the little orange juice/school milk bottles (⅓ of a pint?) along with a half pint milk bottle. - the things we save!

ps. it must have been milk as we never had the bottled orange juice - we were always told it was just the same as the bottled squash that our mother bought but already diluted - but then how would we have known if it was different‽

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Stokey Sue » Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:37 pm

It was different from ordinary squash, but no nicer - a sort of forerunner of Capri Sun?

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Postby Stokey Sue » Sat Oct 31, 2020 7:41 pm

Tip from Pioneer Woman - the best sticks for toffee apples are those too-small disposable bamboo chopsticks that come with some takeaways :thumbsup

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Pepper Pig » Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:11 pm

I’m not sure my teeth could cope with a toffee apple these days. Good tip though.

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Pepper Pig » Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:22 pm

Just in case anyone is doing Bonfire Night. I like the comments . . .

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... ght-treats

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Postby Earthmaiden » Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:33 pm

Priceless comments PP! Must say I was wondering about the chilli in mittens too. I love animals but adore bonfire night so feel very torn and sad that it seems to be dying out. I don't remember ever having special food as a child, we were too busy with the fire and fireworks but the proper traditions of parkin and cinder toffee do sound good.

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Pepper Pig » Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:42 pm

Thinking about gluten free Christmas cake anyone?

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/n ... stmas-cake

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Pampy » Wed Nov 04, 2020 1:23 am

Our bonfire food was baked potatoes (done in the fire), black peas, parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee.

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby jeral » Wed Nov 04, 2020 1:27 pm

There are lots of mentions of black peas in the bonfire comments. What are black peas please, which seems to be a Lancashire tradition?

I don't feel silly asking, since one commenter said they always ate them but never knew what they were.

A great comment is in the wording of a post suggesting parliament as a bonfire, adding "Bring your own spuds". :lol:

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Stokey Sue » Wed Nov 04, 2020 1:38 pm

I have a packet of dried black peas aka Carlin peas - apparently they are boiled, dressed with salt and vinegar and eaten as a snack a bit like Popcorn

They are grown in the UK, have quite a strong flavour and the skins are very dark when dried. To me they resemble tropical pigeon (gungo) peas and in some parts of England they are called pigeon peas, though a different variety

I don’t like them much, Hodmedods, who sell them suggest using them like chickpeas but I can’t see that working
https://hodmedods.co.uk/products/black- ... arlin-peas

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Pampy » Wed Nov 04, 2020 2:52 pm

They're cooked like any dried peas and served hot with vinegar.

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Busybee » Wed Nov 04, 2020 6:19 pm

Pampy wrote:They're cooked like any dried peas and served hot with vinegar.



Always available at Bury market, along with hot new potatoes and black pudding, one north west delicacy I haven’t bothered sampling. Just doesn’t appeal, having said that the stall is always busy with locals. It’s not a north east tradition so may be quite local to Lancashire?

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Pampy » Thu Nov 05, 2020 1:01 am

Yes, all are Lancashire delicacies.

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Pepper Pig » Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:57 pm

A collection for you sweet potato lovers.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... heesecakes

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Pepper Pig » Fri Nov 06, 2020 7:10 pm

I thought Diwali had been, cancelled and gone.

https://www.foodandwine.com/holidays-ev ... thai-chaat

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Re: Foodies In The News

Postby Stokey Sue » Fri Nov 06, 2020 7:30 pm

No, it's mid-November this year (14th), it was the Jewish festivals that were toned.. So there will be more fireworks next weekend for Diwali/Deepavali
Rosh Hashanah Fri-Sun, Sept. 18-20, 2020
Yom Kippur Sun-Mon, Sept. 27-28, 2020
Sukkot Fri-Fri, Oct. 2-9, 2020

Hanukah is fairly early this year Thurs-Fri, Dec. 10-18, 2020

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