Lancashire Hotpots any good?

Subject: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 03:14 AM

I read a short article about Lancashire Hotpots. Has anybody seen them? Are they any good?

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 06:46 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_hotpot

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 07:08 AM

They are extremely tasty and good for a cold, winter's day. But not if you're vegetarian.

LTS

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 07:11 AM

EVERYTHING from Lancashire is good:-)

Even me!

:D

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: GUEST,Ruston Hornsby
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 07:52 AM

You quite often have the option of straight Hot Pot or a Hot Pot With a Lid On - i.e. a shortcrust pastry top. Whatever, it should always be offered with pickled red cabbage. I moved to the North West in the late 80's and have been converted to run on Hot Pot, a little like being changed over to natural gas. In the Bolton area the cuisine also includes "Pastie Barm" which is a pastie seved in a bread bun, "Barmcake" being the local name for a bread bun/roll/muffin etc, derived from "Barm", an old word for yeast. In Wigan it's all pies, and a pie in a barm is a "Slap Barm" as they tend to tap the barm to break the pie up a bit. (Are you all still with this?). Then there's "Babby's 'yed and pea wet" (Baby's head and pea wet) which is actually (thank goodness) a small steamed steak and kidney suet pudding with processed peas over it.

The folk connection is that Lancashire has the "Lanky Night" - an entity on the distant edge of the world of folk and usually in a social club, where you'll get what somebody once described as a "Folk Cabaret Band" like the Houghton Weavers, Oldham Tinkers, Gary and Vera Aspey etc singing songs about wearing clogs in the good old days and always accompanied by a "Hot Pot Supper".

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: Sue Wilcock
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 08:05 AM

My kids love them, they're playing at Eclectica, a free festival in St Helenson Saturday so we may go and have a listen

The full line-up:
11.00am Streetwaves - Merseyside Showcase
2.00pm                The Lancashire Hotpots
2.45pm                Josephine Grace (Streetwaves Winner)
3.15pm                Giant Root Attack
4.00pm                The Aclyrics
4.45pm                The Poems
5.30pm                John Power (ex Cast and The La's)
6.45pm                Little Man Tate
8.15pm                Echo & the Bunnymen
9.30pm                Close

It may not be that folkie but it's free- Oysterband played there last year.

The Hotpots are also supporting the Damned in September.

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: Folkiedave
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 08:12 AM

I once went to a folk event in Lancashire and they served a "really traditional" Lancashire Hotpot for lunch. The bit about the red cabbage is certainly true.

The other thing had that much meat in it - the vegetarians felt they could safely eat it.

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 02:31 PM

What do they do?

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: GUEST,greg stephens
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 03:12 PM

New songs in Lancasheer accents

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: tijuanatime
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 03:36 PM

They are on myspace: that might be a good place to start

I saw them on Channel M a couple of months ago - they appear to come from a dance(clubbing not ceilidh) background, and specialise in parodies of one kind or another: I heard them do an amusing version of "Dirty Old Town" on "The Drift"

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 05:45 PM

A good recipe is here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/traditionallancashir_70908.shtml
Hotpot

Subject: RE: Lancashire Hotpots any good?
From: GUEST,Hotfoxy
Date: 13 Aug 07 - 11:13 AM

The Lancashire Hotpots are absolutely amazing have seen them a few times now and they never disapoint!

Check them out here www.myspace.com/thelancashirehotpots

Be sure to check them out!