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Subject: [Leica] Gout?-- Haggis - pies and ale
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Querol)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:46:39 +0100
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Good pictures Douglas, specially interesting to see before lunch!

Saludos
Lluis


El 27/10/2009, a las 10:24, Douglas Sharp escribi?:

> 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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