Posts by Britcook

An excellent piece of research and well written. In fact so good I wanted to print it out to stick in my kitchen reference book but I am struggling to get it into a form I can use because of the mode of presentation, but I'll...

Bit late to this because I was visiting, among other places, Carmel. The incorrect spelling of this word drives me nuts (along with recipie - strange pie indeed!). Carmelization is the process of filling a small town with art and antique...

Well I had a long and detailed explanation but it won't let me post it. Briefly muffins and crumpets are different and both sold in Britain but the muffin is "English", nothing like the American, these are fairly recent...

No Marmalady, didn't feel I had been adversely rubbed, I find this "real" (people as opposed to battles and stuff) history fascinating. I've a great interest in Dutch stuff, and as a bit of a non-sequitur apparently the...

Well there you go Marmalady, I love it when these little snippets of info surface! I knew about New York formerly being Nieuw Amsterdam and the story of Peter Stuyvesant etc. I don't doubt the descendants of these early settlers are...

Oh I don't know though. Our government (of whatever colour) has shown itself easily capable of passing laws which will cause chaos. It's basically the law of unintended consequences - they decide to do something for the best of motives...

Pongi you are absolutely correct about Chicken Tikka Masala. The original Indian dish, Chicken Tikka, was considered too dry for British palates (they wanted some kind of "gravy" or sauce) so some of the stock sauce a tomato...

Certainly unknown in Holland as there are very few Dutch folk in Pennsylvania;) IIRC the Dutch in "Pennsylvania Dutch" is an Americanization of Deutsch, in other words German.:p

Except the muffins in England are not like the American "English muffin"

A great link but remember that American and UK butchery are significantly different in the cutting, which means that many of the cuts mentioned by Delia are not available in the US (and US recipes refer to cuts not available in the UK).