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[JFM]

Following on from the Christmas Past theme
1 What is the Ultimate recipe for "LANCASHIRE HOT POT" to be dished up on New Years Eve?
2 What time do you eat it?
3 Do you have a Crust or not?
4 What go's with it?
5 What drink's go best with it?

P.S HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL

P.P.S Are tere any other hot pots to match a Lanchashire Hot Pot? (I doubt it!)

[SWIMMER]

Hi JFM, if you check back you will find there is another post on this somewhere with some very interesting answers you may enjoy, can't remember which it is but it will probably on around the same time last year. Love New Years hotpot always been a strong tradition with my family,

This New Year will be spent and my Son and daughter in laws as normal, we will eat the hotpot at gone twelve after the Newyear has been let in. There would be ructions if there were not a crust on it and plenty of redcabbage, little onions and picallili to go with it.

Drink sorry can't help you there as none of us drink, but if my dad were still here he would probably say whiskey. lol
hope you are having a Merry Christmas and a brilliant New Year to come

[JFM]

Thanks Swimmer and the same to you and yours
will try and find that post

[glassman]

in our house hot pot was always done in the oven & had a crust on

lobbies had no crust & where cooked on the stove ring

it seems fron various discussions the terminology varied area to area

[Olliebeak]

I'm sure that most families have their own variations of what constitutes Lancashire Hot Pot. I thought that the one I was brought up on was just that - but apparently not .

Traditional Lancashire Hotpot Recipe - but not necessarily what we all know and love.

Personally speaking, I prefer my own version - about the same as my nan's, of course . Stewing Steak/Shin Beef, onions, carrots, chunks of potato (not slices), pearl barley and some shredded dark green savoy cabbage all cooked together in Oxo Stock and then into the oven with a pastry crust on the top. Served with Barton's Piccalilli/Pickled Red Cabbage/Pickled Beetroot/Pickled Onions or plain boiled beetroot because my digestive system can't take the vinegar these days.

Edited by Olliebeak, 30 December 2011 - 10:31 PM.

[Carr Millite]

I wouldn't bother making it when Cottoms do such a fantastic job.

[Nanny Ogg]

We always made hot pot with lamb, onions, carrots, anything that was lying around the kitchen and, like Ollie said, chunks of potato. Salt, pepper, rich stock and my secret ingredient LOL I always put Marmite in it. Always a crust, too

[Olliebeak]

The 'Traditional Fare' for New Year in Liverpool is - you guessed it - Scouse!!! .......... or Bacon (not Pork) Ribs and Cabbage - equally as

In fact both dishes would be served at e-v-e-r-y get together if allowed - engagements, weddings, 21st's, funeral wakes, barmitzvah's etc - ooops well perhaps NOT the Ribs at barmitzvah's - but you get my drift .



Oh dear missed out the rest of JFM's questions -

What time do you eat it? - I prefer to eat it around 9.00pm but I'm not a late night party person - I'd want to be tucked up in bed by 1.00am. When I was younger, I'd have wanted it after Midnight - extra fortification for further .

Crust or No Crust? - Crust! Crust!! Crust!!! - with an extra crust baked separately just in case there's not enough on the actual dish!

What goes with it? - Anything at all made by Bartons - end of conversation on that subject

What drinks go with it? - Dandelion and Burdock, Tizer, Shandy

everybody

Edited by Olliebeak, 31 December 2011 - 09:15 AM.

[leschip]

We eat it early evening, with a glass of mild. No crust and make it with lamb, onion, carrot, swede, sliced potatoes,mushrooms. When I worked in Huyton and said that I had lobbies for my tea I was laughed at-- 2 miles away and they'd never heard of them. When I explained it was what they called Scouse they knew I was a foreigner. It took some explaining that they were called after Lobscuse a dish that was introduced by Scandanavian sailors.

Edited by leschip, 31 December 2011 - 11:35 AM.

[EFC]

Now I know all jars of Red Cabbage was sold out at Morrisons

[kizzy]

Mine was made with lamb shank, potatoes, carrots onions and celery in slow cooker. Crust was baked seperately in oven but it was eaten at tea time (6 pm). Wouldn't sleep if I ate after midnight! Don't bother with the pickles either I like crusty buttered bread with mine. Happy New Year to everyone. I wish you all a healthy and peaceful 2012

[SWIMMER]

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL Hotpot was fantastic, the kids stayed up and there was not a scoric left on anyones plate, you cannot beat the first hotpot of the newyear, accompanied with red cabbage and picallil. Lovely. Hope you all have a fantastic 2012
love swimmer and family.

[Honey]

glassman, on 30 December 2011 - 10:23 PM, said:

in our house hot pot was always done in the oven & had a crust on

lobbies had no crust & where cooked on the stove ring

it seems fron various discussions the terminology varied area to area

agreed! I cook lobbies often, hotpot is cooked in the oven unlike lobbies

[Lowe House Boy]

For me hot pot must have a crust to be a proper St.Helens version,even though traditional Lancashire hot pot in other areas tends to be crustless.
Red cabbage is also a must to accompany the dish.As for drink,anything that takes your fancy.
I must agree with Carrmillite that Cottams make a wonderful hot pot and when I visit St.Helens I usually bring half a dozen back to Leicester and put them in the freezer.
I then ration myself to make them last till my next visit.
Happy New Year to all on Connect.

[Nanny Ogg]

I'm with you, Lowe House Boy, crust essential and with others, red cabbage and piccalilli make the best ever