We arrived slightly hungover from the night before and were immediately impressed – lots of stall selling absolutely everything! The range of meat and game was excellent, as was the cheeses, veg, pies, cakes and everything you could ever wish for.
For my 35 notes I came away with:
1. Smoked trout fillets
2. A hare
3. A brace of partridge
4. Smoked, cured streaky bacon
5. Pigeon and pea pie
6. Mutton pie
7. Corned beef pie
8. Chocolate-covered crystallised ginger
9. Banana Tea Loaf
10. Chocolate cake
Not bad I reckon. I’m particularly interested in the hare – there are a few recipes in English Food, and I’m thinking about cooking it as the 100th dish as it is fast approaching and I need something unusual and impressive. I was going to do an elaborate Victorian pheasant dish, but you need pheasant giblets and you need to order those apparently. The hand-raised mutton pie was the pie-highlight for me, I have to say, and it has gotten me enthused to cook some mutton dishes too.
Choosing my game.
We also had an ace laugh which is just what I needed, the best bit being me and Charlotte tasting some extra-mature Lancashire blue cheese…
Charlotte: This is really good.
Me: Really creamy, nice after taste. It tastes a bit like sick; but in a good way.
Charlotte: Yeah, not your own sick.
(Pause)
Charlotte: Err..like somebody else’s….?
(Hilarity ensues)
Ange's Celtic aggression comes out at the mere weilding of sprouts.
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Just so you all know the 'sick' cheese was great and went down a treat with my folks who I took a block home to. It did get quite ripe, but frankly it was so mature to begin with that there was little appreciable difference in smell. Not for the faint-hearted, but if you like blue cheese...
Charlotte.
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