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Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 05 8:08 pm Post subject: What's your favourite family recipe/dish?

Whether it's cultural, religious, native, or just a mad family...

off the top of my head:

potato bread (Irish...everyone else seems to call them potato farls!)
brown bread (ditto...wheaten bread or brown soda bread to everyone else)
apple sandwiches (I think that's just my mother...don't knock it til you've tried it though

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My brothers have mild obsession with rissoles. I'm not quite sure what they are.

Provide recipes, links or just reminiscences - what does your mum/dad make you when you go home, or what do you long to recreate?

alison
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 05 8:11 pm Post subject:
WE always had apple sandwiches at my nans house. Every Saturday my Dad and his 6 brothers and sister, their partners and children all had tea with nan and grandad. They had 5 apple trees, and we always had apple sandwich with a teaspoon of sugar, to dip the remaining slices from your apple in.

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 05 8:12 pm Post subject:

alison wrote:

WE always had apple sandwiches

I'm not alone!

Alison, thank you!

Hurray. Are there more of you in the woodwork?

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Location: cambridge

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 05 8:50 pm Post subject:

From Delia originally but I think my great love of sponge cakes in particular and baking in general comes from my mother who always baked a lot but the sponge recipe at least should be in an article soon

Other than that I don't think there is any food I particularly remember from home

This has reminded me though to try and ask my mother again for the recipe for nig nogs which were a lovely oaty gingery biscuit

As far as apple sandwiches do I do remember a he class where we had to invent a sandwich filling and I did tuna and apple which was surprisingly good I guess apple sandwiches aren't that far off the banana sandwiches I have seen many people eat

alison
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 05 9:27 pm Post subject:
My son loves banana sandwiches.

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
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Location: Suffolk

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 05 11:10 pm Post subject:
Roast dinners!!!!!!!! My favourite in any circumstances

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 05 7:30 am Post subject:
My favourites are: My mum's Saag with Makki di roti My MIL's smoked haddock with mash My own cookery is just stuff that I throw together by and large so no favourites there

jema
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 05 8:03 am Post subject:
I guess our signature dish is Chicken Tetrazini, though I can't spot a recipe for this that looks very much like ours on the web. I guess it is hardly the sophisticated dish in the galaxy. But what the hell

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