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Subject: [Leica] Gout?-- Haggis - pies and ale
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:01:55 +0530
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Douglas,
What is the point in replacing kidneys with ale or Guiness? Except
that when you imbibe the latter, it is filtered through the former,
what else is there in common?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> 
wrote:
> One of my favourites too - though I only know of one pub in Yorkshire that
> still makes it with a baked suet pastry crust like my granny used to make.
> Th typical mountains of flaky pastry served on top of pies these days are
> ridiculous.
>
> Sadly, the true S+K (aka Snake & Pygmy) has almost disappeared, and has now
> been almost completely replaced by steak and ale or steak and Guiness pies.
>
> There's a really excellent S+A pie with a very good shortcrust pastry at 
> the
> Hart Inn in Sandsend on the north Yorkshire coast.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/138940-2/20080907-_MG_8906.jpg
>
> The Rose Inn on the bridge at Pickering does a good one with ruff-puff
> pastry
>
> here are two that got away
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/179151-1/_MG_0254.jpg
>
> and there's a very good traditional, home-baked S+A at the Station Hotel in
> Grosmont (with homemade shortcrust pastry and fresh veggies - not frozen).
> The S+G pies at the Three Fiddles in Guisborough are well worth trying too.
>
> Jerry,
>
> 80/- is a quite strong McEwans Scottish ale (4.5% abv) , sadly now only
> available as a keg ale and in bottles, the cask (barrel) ale was
> discontinued in January 2007.
>
> The 80/- refers to the duty based on strength that was levied on each
> barrel.
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
> Frank Dernie wrote:
>>
>> Steak and kidney pie wow, my favourite food!
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> On 27 Oct, 2009, at 02:45, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>>
>>> DOUGLAS
>>> For the uninformed among you, haggis is a sausage-like melange of
>>> ingredients (don't ask), cooked
>>> inside a dead sheep's stomach. ?Quite good really!
>>>
>>> The only thing I could not take when I lived and worked in the UK was
>>> "snake and kiddley" pie ?It
>>> always smelled like the old Paris street pissoirs.
>>>
>>> Umm, Douglas, what is 80/--? ?I recall no ale with that name.
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>>
>>>
>>> Douglas Sharp wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Turnip in Scotch??
>>>>
>>>> It's nice with haggis, though.
>>>>
>>>> We had a really nice haggis, neep and tattie pie on our recent vacation
>>>> in the north of England.
>>>> Washed down with a pint of 80/- - wonderful!
>>>>
>>>> The only thing that should ever be put in Scotch is water - and that
>>>> only from drinking outside in the rain. :-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Douglas
>>>>
>>>> H. Ball Arche wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Haven't you ever heard of an Orkney Libre?
>>>>> Scotch and Coke with a twist of neep.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>>> From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net>
>>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>> Sent: Sun, October 25, 2009 7:15:33 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Gout?
>>>>>
>>>>> Good Lord.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
>>>>>> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jeffery 
>>>>>> Smith
>>>>>> Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 6:37 PM
>>>>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Gout?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would definitely merit a test. Do they make a single cherry Scotch?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
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Replies: Reply from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] Gout?-- Haggis - kidneys)
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