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Christmas cake & cheese

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Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby zico » December 11th, 2018, 7:44 pm

Apparently people in the USA are shocked (on Twitter, at least) that here in the UK we like to eat a slice of iced christmas cake together with a lump of cheese.
It also seems a lot of people in the UK have never come across this particular dish.

I always thought it was perfectly normal, at least it is Lancashire and Yorkshire, though it seems to be an unspoken rule that the cheese should be crumbly, e.g. Wensleydale, Lancashire or Cheshire.

Any other regional specialities that might seem odd to others in the UK?

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby swill453 » December 11th, 2018, 7:53 pm

Must say I've never heard of cake and cheese, but willing to give it a go.

On telly just now they were debating whether Yorkshire pudding had a place on your turkey dinner plate. Again something new to me but sounds fair enough.

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby zico » December 11th, 2018, 8:50 pm

Used to be that Yorkshire Pudding could only be served with roast beef, but seems to have spread to all roast meat dinners in the last 20 years. Also, filled giant (plate-size) Yorkshire puddings have become a thing. But, maybe just in Yorkshire!

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby Urbandreamer » December 11th, 2018, 8:59 pm

swill453 wrote:Must say I've never heard of cake and cheese, but willing to give it a go.


As said, it's quite common up here, though the Wife had never seen the like when first presented with it. She poked the cheese with a knife and said "what's that". Cheese I say's, or it should be. She's now a convert.

Another one from up here is Apple pie and cheese. As in "Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze". Then again a nearby villiage also holds a "Dock pudding" challenge every year, though cold weather meant that it had to be canceled this year through lack of ingreadients.

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby AleisterCrowley » December 11th, 2018, 9:18 pm

Hmm, Christmas cake and cheese? I'd give it a go. Wensleydale d'ya think?
Yorkshire puds go with any roast meat in my opinion - I insist on them with lamb and chicken as well as beef
I've seen jumbo Yorkshires filled with sausage and mash, and even chilli con carne

My fave weird combination is bacon and marmalade sandwiches. Has to be good quality tart marmalade, and only a thin layer. You have pork with apple sauce, so why not bacon with orange sauce?! (From memory, sausage and marmalade sandwiches were a Paddington Bear thing..)

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby PinkDalek » December 11th, 2018, 9:49 pm

AleisterCrowley wrote:My fave weird combination is bacon and marmalade sandwiches. Has to be good quality tart marmalade ...


Less of the weird.

Oh... Er... Me flakes... Scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes, toast, coffee... Marmalade, I like marmalade...

Despite those being Alan’s words, every Full English I have is garnished with marmalade, I love marmalade, macrobiotic stuff.

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby Coleywife » December 11th, 2018, 10:25 pm

Christmas cake and cheese - excellent combination, my husband introduced me to it. I like sautéed potatoes with apple sauce, roesti with apple sauce and boiled egg for breakfast has to be accompanied by toast and jam or marmalade. Any sweet/salty or sweet/sour combinations are good for me. Licorice with a coating of salt and sugar - delicious! In Iceland they sell licorice with a coating of chocolate - very tasty!

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby swill453 » December 11th, 2018, 10:37 pm

Peanut butter and mango chutney on crackers.

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby midnightcatprowl » December 11th, 2018, 10:42 pm

Also, filled giant (plate-size) Yorkshire puddings have become a thing.


Well yes a thing generally but certainly living in Sheffield in the 70s very large Yorkies filled with something or other and gravy were quite common as a starter in restaurants.

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby AleisterCrowley » December 11th, 2018, 11:00 pm

Hmm. A giant Yorkshire pud, filled with Christmas cake, and cheese. Possibly battered and deep-fried. Mmmmmm

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby swill453 » December 11th, 2018, 11:12 pm

3 course Christmas pasty at Morrisons https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/fo ... 13271.html

Paté starter at one end, turkey and all the trimmings* in the middle, pud at the other end.

* - No sprouts though...

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby UncleEbenezer » December 12th, 2018, 12:12 am

midnightcatprowl wrote:
Also, filled giant (plate-size) Yorkshire puddings have become a thing.


Well yes a thing generally but certainly living in Sheffield in the 70s very large Yorkies filled with something or other and gravy were quite common as a starter in restaurants.

I think it may have been my first day of work in Sheffield and a team lunch at the pub just across the road from the department, when I encountered oa whole-plate-sized yorkshire pudding. I was surprised 'cos my idea of a yorkshire pud was different, but was assured it was entirely normal in Yorkshire.

That was 29 years ago.

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby tjh290633 » December 12th, 2018, 9:22 am

My mother in law would normally make a big Yorkshire pudding for her husband, eaten with a cucumber salad as a starter. The rest of us had ours bun sized, eaten with our roast beef. As I understand it, the large Yorkshire pudding compensated for the lack of meat when times were hard. This was Barnsley in the 1950s.

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby kiloran » December 12th, 2018, 9:26 am

We used to eat yorkshire pud as a dessert when I was a lad. Sprinkled with sugar.
Not really a dessert of course, desserts hadn't yet been invented in those days. We had pudding.

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby dionaeamuscipula » December 12th, 2018, 9:29 am

zico wrote:Apparently people in the USA are shocked (on Twitter, at least) that here in the UK we like to eat a slice of iced christmas cake together with a lump of cheese.
It also seems a lot of people in the UK have never come across this particular dish.

I always thought it was perfectly normal, at least it is Lancashire and Yorkshire, though it seems to be an unspoken rule that the cheese should be crumbly, e.g. Wensleydale, Lancashire or Cheshire.

It came to me through my Bradford born maternal grandmother, I was always told it was a Yorkshire thing.

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby zico » December 12th, 2018, 9:31 am

According to the James Herriot books, Yorkshire pudding was served as a starter before the meat course with the idea 'those that eat the most pudding will get the most meat' as a cheap way to fill up the family.

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby bungeejumper » December 12th, 2018, 9:42 am

Christmas cake isn't my idea of a good time, really - I don't have a sweet tooth at all, so I usually nibble a postage-stamp sized piece on the day, and hope nobody will think I'm a spoilsport. But I'm surprised that Americans think it's odd to mix sweet with salty. The land of the peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich? The people who thought it was OK to load a curry sauce with corn syrup?

For goodness sake don't let them ever find out what used to go into a Christmas pudding in ye goode olde days of yore, or we'll never hear the last of it.

BJ

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby AleisterCrowley » December 12th, 2018, 9:53 am

..a sixpence- at my gran's anyway
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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby Skotch » December 12th, 2018, 11:26 am

zico wrote:Apparently people in the USA are shocked (on Twitter, at least) that here in the UK we like to eat a slice of iced christmas cake together with a lump of cheese.
It also seems a lot of people in the UK have never come across this particular dish.

I always thought it was perfectly normal, at least it is Lancashire and Yorkshire, though it seems to be an unspoken rule that the cheese should be crumbly, e.g. Wensleydale, Lancashire or Cheshire.

Any other regional specialities that might seem odd to others in the UK?


Its a classic combination - Eccles Cake with Cheshire Cheese, Christmas cake with Stilton

My wife loves Cheese and marmalade sandwiches

My wife's grandfather (a farmer) used to have yorkshire puds with his Sunday Roast followed by another Yorkshire Pudding slathered in a sweet blackcurrant vinegar

Sweet and savoury combos are great!

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Re: Christmas cake & cheese

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Postby Slarti » December 12th, 2018, 12:01 pm

Certainly Christmas cake with cheese, any strong cheese.

Yorkshire puddings were served with any roast meat for as long as I can remember, by those who did them.
My family preferred the suet batter, mix as for a suet pudding poured into bun tins with hot fat in and cooked in the oven for about half an hour until golden brown on top. Crunchy on top, light and fluffy inside.

Also, a nice crisp apple with cheese
Crackers and Marmite with cheese is one my wife likes, as did my mother.

Christmas cake, fried in butter - after picking the marzipan and icing off.

All things from my childhood, some still eaten to this day.

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