Hello, As an American cousin, whose ancestors came from Lancashire in the 1860's, I've lost all these wonderful links to the customs and foods of the homeland. I'm wondering if there is someone on this list who might have a recipe for "meat and potato pie" that they would be willing to share? I'd like to try my hand at it, and see what I am missing. We have in the family, a recipe passed from my great grandmother for a sweet pudding of some sort, but it is written with things like "a handful" of this or a"dash" of that, and sometimes measurements that we can't figure out in this day and age. I don't own a copy of it, since it belongs to a cousin who won't share. Can anyone help me out? Kathy Bowlin Missouri, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Hope" <bthopeone@waitrose.com> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [LANCSLIFE] re meat and potato pie > Eileen is absolutely right, particularly in her later comments. I am from > St.Helens originally and have graphic memories of buying Roberts' Meat and > Potato pies in their Duke Street shop, together with a Barm cake. Open up > the latter and insert the pie - schoolboy heaven during the war years, but > watch out for Teachers, it wasn't done to eat in the street in school > uniform. They were always tasty, somewhat lacking in meat, but then in > the days of food rationing who could complain. Cheap cuts were the key as > they were for every meal in those days. Buying meat in the market late on > Saturday night was a basic ploy when Butchers had no refrigeration, and > can't you remember all the Tripe Dressers and Pork Butchers with their > pies. In some ways, good old days. > > Brian Hope > On 10 Sep 2005, at 09:03, Littlmum@aol.com wrote: > >> we call the meat and potatoes and onions cooked in the brown dish with a >> crust on Hotpot, >> >> but you can cook the same ingredients in a pan and make a double crust >> pie >> in a baking tin. >> >> staple food for Lancastrians usually to make a small amount of the most >> expensive ingredient go further by adding the vegetables. >> >> >> Eileen (St Helens, Lancashire) >> >> >> ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== >> Manchester Online: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ >> The Friends of Real Lancashire: http://www.forl.co.uk/001/intro.html >> Lancashire History and Folklore: http://www.geocities.com/kera2000_uk/ >> >> ============================== >> Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >> areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >> Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >> >> > > ______________________________

Kathy Bowlin <mailto:kjbowlin@earthlink.net> wrote on Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:17 PM: | Hello, | | As an American cousin, whose ancestors came from Lancashire | in the 1860's, | I've lost all these wonderful links to the customs and foods of the | homeland. I'm wondering if there is someone on this list who | might have a | recipe for "meat and potato pie" that they would be willing | to share? I'd | like to try my hand at it, and see what I am missing. We have in the | family, a recipe passed from my great grandmother for a sweet pudding | of some sort, but it is written with things like "a handful" of | this or a"dash" | of that, and sometimes measurements that we can't figure out | in this day and | age. I don't own a copy of it, since it belongs to a cousin | who won't | share. Can anyone help me out? | | Kathy Bowlin | Missouri, USA | Kathy, Have a look at http://tinyurl.com/dd3jm -- Rodney HALL Heywood, Lancashire Suaviter sed fortiter Agreeably but powerfully ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ rmh@rmhh.co.uk http://rmhh.co.uk/ http://rmhh.org.uk/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~