Stand-Offish wrote:
What kind of childhood did you have?
We would eat anything and everything, apart from raw lard.
You were deprived by the sound of it.
I know that my mother used lard for chips, but don't recall anything special about her chips. The other day, when I mentioned dripping and lard, she suddenly burst forth with a memory about some form of bread and dripping. But I don't remember that myself at all. I don't think she made any pastry with lard either.
Perhaps this was more to do with the culture of not taking 'too much' pleasure in food that was a household mantra.
Stand-Offish wrote:
The Big Bread Experiment just started on BBC2 Minty.
Right up your street.
Saw bits of it while getting dinner after we'd got back from Paris. Quite interesting. Although I did wonder if it was a new series of
The Vicar of Dibley at one point.
Just had it again.
