Regional foods

[Lampwick]

Another post got me thinking, what the heck is an Oatcake and where do the originate from? and I got me wondering what culinary regional delights are hidden out there? 
So over to you, the PW massive! What would you offer a peckish visitor to your neck of the woods as a Humble snack?

[Sciurus]

Traditionally known as Staffordshire oat cakes, they were are delicacy in the Potteries and Staffordshire.

They are basically a thick cold oat pancake about the size of a dinner plate. They are quite versatile, they can be used in the same way as a ‘Wrap’ with food inside, they can be warmed up and smothered with syrup or honey. Alternatively they can be left on the plate and covered with your bacon and eggs etc. Some use them the same way as Naans.

Interestingly, when I was a college in the potteries in the 1970’s, oatcakes were only baked and sold on a Friday as a treat for the weekend. People used to form long queues at lunchtime when they had been baked, outside their favourite bakers to buy a dozen or so.

They were also incredibly boring and overrated- abit like wraps!

Apart from the Potteries, You sometimes see them for sale in  Sainsbury’s.

 

[PeterHenry]

18 minutes ago, Sciurus said:

They were also incredibly boring and overrated- abit like wraps.

I beg to differ - they are the food of the gods. There are even 'Oatcake suppers' - although I have never been to one.

There is however, also the Scottish Oatcake - which is essentially a cracker.

My Scottish great Grandmother was incensed to find them in the foreign foods section of a Staffordshire / Cheshire supermarket in the 1960s, and considered it something of a personal insult.

[Wb123]

I have a particular love of Cromer crab. 

[Yellow Bear]

2 hours ago, Sciurus said:

Alternatively they can be left on the plate and covered with your bacon and eggs etc.

It soaks up all those tasty "juices" - nowt waisted.

[Old Boggy]

2 hours ago, Wb123 said:

I have a particular love of Cromer crab. 

You can get ointment for Cromer crabs 😭

[The Heron]

The only filling for oatcakes is bacon and cheese done under the grill. 

1/ Cook bacon 

2/ Place oatcakes under a hot grill for 1 minute. 

3/ Turn oatcakes over and put the grated cheese on the oatcakes then put under the grill until the cheese melts. 

4/ Put the bacon onto each oatcake and brown or red sauce and then roll the oatcake. 

5/ Enjoy. 

[washerboy]

Never had an oatcake besides the small ones you buy in a box and devour with cheese after just promising you will only eat one at 11pm just before bed. 

 

[Vince Green]

Oats are a traditional food north of the border and you do find oat cakes being sold in Scottish gift shops. The reason the Scots grew and ate a lot of oats is because it can survive on poorer ground that won't support wheat.

[Yellow Bear]

another regional delight is a north east breakfast Stottie.

[washerboy]

2 minutes ago, Yellow Bear said:

another regional delight is a north east breakfast Stottie.

I like those 👌

[fatchap]

Here in Essex its Nando's.

Or Jams from Tiptree and Maldon Salt.

[washerboy]

One of my favourite cheap meals. Was one my mum would make us all as kids.Onions and tatties. Slow cooked diced in a frying pan, sometimes we had bacon with it. Black onions taste wonderful but stinks the house out. 

 

[washerboy]

How about Curd tarts and thick Eccles cakes. Burning your fingers stealing them off the cooling tray. 

I always visited my mum every Monday evening, she would upset my brother who still lived at home (30 Yr old dole woller) because she would bake me buns or scones and have them ready on a plate with a mug of tea as soon as I rang to say I was popping round. I miss the simple things like that 😞

[Newbie to this]

Bubble and squeak

[washerboy]

31 minutes ago, Newbie to this said:

Bubble and squeak

My wife's favourite. 

[amateur]

Proper Yorkshire pudding, eaten before the meal with a well flavoured (preferably rabbit) gravy, and, if any were left and if you had room for it, cold after the meal with jam on.

A proper kid's fill you up

 

[Vince Green]

Cornish pasties of course

[Lampwick]

4 hours ago, Yellow Bear said:

another regional delight is a north east breakfast Stottie.

What the heck is that? 

[Lampwick]

2 hours ago, amateur said:

Proper Yorkshire pudding, eaten before the meal with a well flavoured (preferably rabbit) gravy, and, if any were left and if you had room for it, cold after the meal with jam on.

A proper kid's fill you up

 

I remember snagging a young lady on holiday in Corfu many a year ago. She lived near Leeds and I went to visit one weekend. Well on Sunday afternoon her mum was cooking up a roast, I was told to sit up and was presented with a plate of yorkies! I was gobsmacked when they all sat down and started tucking in. Where’s the meat and veg? I thought. 😄 

[Yellow Bear]

25 minutes ago, Lampwick said:

What the heck is that? 

A stottie is an oven bottom bread, slow cooked and containing white pepper, about a foot in diameter and inch and a half thick.  Commercial breakfast stotties are usually only a third or half bread.

[Lampwick]

9 minutes ago, Yellow Bear said:

A stottie is an oven bottom bread, slow cooked and containing white pepper, about a foot in diameter and inch and a half thick.  Commercial breakfast stotties are usually only a third or half bread.

Just had a quick Google and they look great! 

[Walker570]

5 hours ago, washerboy said:

One of my favourite cheap meals. Was one my mum would make us all as kids.Onions and tatties. Slow cooked diced in a frying pan, sometimes we had bacon with it. Black onions taste wonderful but stinks the house out. 

 

Still have that quite often with whatver else we might be eating for an evening meal, mixed with baked beans ....awesome.  Must be browned in the frying pan  on both sides . Add some cabbge and you have bubble and squeek.  We never waste left overs, they get used for something the next day and that is one way you can do that and enjoy.

[amateur]

1 hour ago, Lampwick said:

I remember snagging a young lady on holiday in Corfu many a year ago. She lived near Leeds and I went to visit one weekend. Well on Sunday afternoon her mum was cooking up a roast, I was told to sit up and was presented with a plate of yorkies! I was gobsmacked when they all sat down and started tucking in. Where’s the meat and veg? I thought. 😄 

Yup, it's after you have had the appetiser ( or in this case appetite killer ) of the Yorkshire Pud that you are presented with a mound of meat and vegetables. My Grandma always did this for Sunday lunch (or dinner, as she called it).

[figgy]

Teesside a Parmo, a chicken or pork escallope with breadcrumbs covered in bechelmel sauce and cheese , other topping can be added much like  pizza toppings.

Not to my liking. 

Another is a Hartlepool steak, a banana.

Yorkshire puddings were eaten before the main meal to fill you up cheaply, less meat and veg needed for the Sunday lunch.