catfan 14,793 Posted November 29, 2010 Report Share Posted November 29, 2010 Anyone remember Bramley Pork Butchers on St Anns Well Rd? Best Pork Pies ever. I do, they did nice Faggots as well. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 can't find a soddin' one this year.Used to get the huge field ones (Foot across) in an ancient meadow near Hoveringham...Thanks to Tarmac and Co. it's now a ruddy gravel pit....hooligans. You wouldn't have got many when my old man was alive. He worked for Hoveringham, so knew every field where they grew; used to come home with dirty great bags full of blueys. Funny thing was he was allergic to all fungi, so my Mum used to do 'em for me and her, just how radfordred showed us only without the fried egg on the side, and cos we was poor it was streaky bacon not the posh shortback wot he's got! :tongue: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Just had this take-a-away food menu drop through the letter box - thought i would share it with you ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Breakfast Pyclets & Lurpak......... lovely Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Used to love pyclets years ago but haven't had any that weren't like India rubber for donkeys years.Can't count the number of times I've bought 'em and they've finished up in the bin.Maybe it's the Monosodium Glutamate on the label affecting my taste buds. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sneintongal 12 Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 just reading some of the delights that we eat,condensed milk i still love by the spoonful,also not cocoa and suger but ovaltine and suger,cannot male a hot horlicks or ovaltine without having a couple of spoonfulls straight from the jar Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 what about bournvita as a drinkbut by the spoonful and slowly let it melt in your mouth umm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 brought a pkt of pyklets this week had them a couple of times for my breakfast hovis ones not too bad but as pooh bear sez not as good as they used to be. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 I think our taste buds suffer like everything else does with age,but in saying that, I still find a good chicken dupiazia tasty,with a Peshwari naan, eh Mick. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 It's not the old taste buds though is it?...when it comes to pyclets it's the texture...I'm damned sure they weren't rubbery in the old days...firm yes,and crunchy if the edges got a bit scorched. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bazza 71 Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Breakfast Pyclets & Lurpak......... lovely They're not pikelets they're crumpets. Pikelets are little pancakes. Baz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Theoretically Pikelets and oatcakes were flatter,the batter not poured into a mould. But the common name known to my Mother and her Mother of those pictured in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire was pyclets.The words muffins and crumpets were more associated with the London of Charles Dickens. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 I wonder how the pyclets and oatcakes escaped the hi-jacking of the double entendre unlike the other two bakery products mentione by P/B in #62? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 That Bazza's right you know!! https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=553&q=pyclet&oq=Pycle&gs_l=img.1.0.0j0i10i24j0i24l3j0i10i24l2j0i24j0i10i24j0i24.1557.5660.0.10815.5.5.0.0.0.0.107.505.2j3.5.0...0.0...1ac.1.7.img.AWb3Ks5Vk20 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 That Bazza's right you know!! I'm quite aware that pyclets are considered by many the flatter of the products on the market...In fact I used to sell the yeast to two companies in Derby to make them. What I'm saying is all the females in my (Nottingham) family always called them pyclets...mistakenly maybe,but I never ever heard Nottingham people call them muffins or crumpets. Maybe the word pyclets was used as a regional term for all similar products.In a similar context that Nottingham people use the word cobs and not bread rolls. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 What I'm saying is all the females in my (Nottingham) family always called them pyclets...mistakenly maybe,but I never ever heard Nottingham people call them muffins or crumpets. I've always been confused by these distinctions; I think it actually varied from street to street even within Nottingham! My mother (and grandmother) used to tell me what they considered the difference between pyclets and crumpets - but I can't remember what their explanation was. But I definitely heard the words crumpets and pyclets equally. But muffins.......... they were something totally different. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Pyclets and crumpets are basically the same in size, texture and taste, except that pyclets are flatter. Also, the word 'pyclet' is reputed to be used more in the North of the country, whereas the word 'crumpet' is used in the South. PS: Muffins may be toasted both sides. 'Have you seen the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man? Have you seen the muffin man who lives down Drury Lane? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Pyclets, Pikelets or Crumpets, notwithstanding the name, IMHO they do not taste the same as they used to, they do not toast the same, Rather stodgy nowadays. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Always knew them as pikelets/pyclets - be they thick or thin. However, crumpet in my youth was something highly desirable on two legs and of the female gender! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 And the confusion exists with muffins because these are muffins.... And so are these.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 :Confusion @ #70 sorted: the muffins at the top are traditional British, whereas the muffin below (cake) is traditional American. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 Thanks for the explanation Ms Jackson I'm not too bothered about the confusion; I'll eat anything anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 Cliff Ton: 'Anything'? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 I always thought that pyclets were flat and crumpets were thicker. They are both nice with a cup of tea, though. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 And is it correct in saying that 'muffin top' is a world wide affliction caused by eating too many pyclets/pikelets/crumpets/muffins? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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