Folklore: Bread Rolls

Subject: RE: Folklore: Bread Rolls
From: Rowan
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 11:41 PM

I figured when I poured out the mix I'd find it filled with what we in the states call sprinkles.

And what we in Oz call "hundreds and thousands"; sprinkled over buttered white bread they become "fairy bread", an essential part of any child's birthday party spread.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Folklore: Bread Rolls
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Apr 10 - 07:19 AM

Dorset Knob close but no cigar. Not even the Clinton kind.....

Subject: RE: Folklore: Bread Rolls
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Apr 10 - 07:23 AM

and if I wasn't at Upton FF I would go to the Knob Flinging at the Frome Valley Food Festival in Cattistock.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Bread Rolls
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Apr 10 - 08:40 PM

"essential part of any child's birthday party spread"

Sadly today most children have never seen nor heard of it. Me, I blame Arnott's for bring out biscuits that had these sprinkles, parents just got lazy. :-)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Bread Rolls
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 08:08 PM

Pikelets? I used to have a reproduction 19th century cookbook with a recipe for Yorkshire Pie Clates!!

Wot's a clate when it's a tome?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Bread Rolls
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 08:12 PM

"Yorkshire Pie Clates"

Haha - one wonders about the source of the word pikelets...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Bread Rolls
From: Rowan
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 08:13 PM

And, locally, there's a woman who organises the "Biggest Morning Tea" fundraising for the Cancer Council who insists that pikelets should be piklets.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Folklore: Bread Rolls
From: Raggytash
Date: 22 Apr 10 - 04:07 AM

Newport Boy, my explanation is based on my experience in Salford, now it may not be a working area now with massive unemployment but it was working when I was a kid.

But by far the best and most accurate description has to go Madauntie Cat, brilliant !

Subject: RE: Folklore: Bread Rolls
From: GUEST,Elfcall
Date: 22 Apr 10 - 04:53 AM

Guest 14/04 I was dragged up in Coventry and our 'rolls' were always referred to as batches - sausage batch, cheese batch, etc. IIRC them strange folks in Leicstershire called their rolls cobs.

However having one geordie parent and one welsh parent made for interesting comparisons.

Elfcall