Re: British cuisine

Raymond Brown re-scryfat:

> At 9:43 pm -0800 25/3/00, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> >From: "John Fisher"
> [....]
> >> A mixture of potato and boiled cabbage, made into cakes and then fried.
> >> I generally add an egg to bind it together.  It's actually surprisingly
> >> nice.  It's not usually something you set out to make, you just make it
> >> when there's some left over potatoes and cabbage sitting in the fridge.
> >
> >Thanks John. That sounds inocuous enough.
>
> It is and, as John says "surprisingly nice".  It was a favorite when I was
> young, with a fried egg (or two) on top.  I've always added a bit of milk
> if it needed binding, and kep the egg separate :)
>
> One can add other left-over vegs and some chopped onion is a nice
addition,
> but the essentials are the mashed potatoes & boiled cabbage.
In my family, we make it from whatever's left from the Sunday roast and the
big fried breakfast, so bubble and squeak has potatoes, cabbage, carrots,
bacon, peas and all sorts in it. It's a more of an English rather than
British dish, though, I don't think it's as common north of the border.

Dan, the authentic lower-class Englishman.