Topic: Scouse recipes.

[DowntheLine1981]

What is it with you?  First we move to an amicable agreement over cats and now you want to start an unfortunate exchange over peas.  Do you have a burning desire to bring untold wroth upon you.  Or are you possessed by demons? 

lol honestly Maggie, scouse is made with peas.  Thats how my Nan/Mother/Gran used to make it.  Its got peas in it.

Have even been stupid enough to buy scouse as a meal from a local chippy and that had peas in it too.  It also probably had botulism in it but that's my own fault from buying something edible out of a chippy in Kirkby.

[Maggie May]

lol honestly Maggie, scouse is made with peas.  Thats how my Nan/Mother/Gran used to make it.  Its got peas in it.

NO.  That is not so.  Look mate.  Your mother may well have been corrupted and misled into this peas business.  Fair enough.  It was likely not her fault.   But I am well old enough to be your Nan, and there was no fucking way Nans put peas into scouse. 

I shall have to consult with Danny Boy's Dad about this terrible abomination.   

[Danny Boys Dad]

I shall have to consult with Danny Boy's Dad about this terrible abomination.   

Peas don't belong in scouse. I have had scouse with peas in, at a do I went to last year. Tasted strange. They used new potatoes with their skins on as well.

I just use beef, potatoes, onions and carrots, no need for anything else.

[Hightown Phil]

Beef?

Beef isn't Scouse.

[LeHurricane]

got a big pot bubbling away right now, it's half beef half lamb and not a pea in sight.

[Danny Boys Dad]

Beef?

Beef isn't Scouse.

Have you seen the price of lamb? They'll have beef and like it, which they do.

[Millie]

got a big pot bubbling away right now, it's half beef half lamb and not a pea in sight.

So have I - and no peas here either

[Maggie May]

lol honestly Maggie, scouse is made with peas.  Thats how my Nan/Mother/Gran used to make it.  Its got peas in it.

Have even been stupid enough to buy scouse as a meal from a local chippy and that had peas in it too.  It also probably had botulism in it but that's my own fault from buying something edible out of a chippy in Kirkby.

You can actually buy something edible out of a chippy in Kirkby?     That's one for the record books. 

Peas don't belong in scouse. I have had scouse with peas in, at a do I went to last year. Tasted strange. They used new potatoes with their skins on as well.

I just use beef, potatoes, onions and carrots, no need for anything else.

So have I - and no peas here either

The oracles have spoken.  You must henceforth and immediately renounce peas in scouse or suffer the terrible punishment and lingering pain reserved specifically for heretics.  It gives me no pleasure to say this, but it is for your own good. 

[kingjari]

I'm a chef and a taff, we have our own version of scouse called Lobsgows: it contains Lamb(welsh obviously)  but sometimes mutton, stock, spuds, onion, carrots, swede (optional) and seasoning. and NO PEAS thats just odd !!

and it's fuckin lovely. mine's even better than me mam's 

[red annie]

Lamb, onion, spuds, carrots and stock. Anything else is just stew.
 

[gomez]

Lamb, onion, spuds, carrots and stock. Anything else is just stew.
 

Amen.

[sak0101]

I keep trying different things when I'm making scouse and I haven't poisoned anybody yet. My latest was adding leeks to it and it turned out fine.

Does anybody know of anywhere in Liverpool that you can go in and get scouse cause I've only ever found one place but can't remember now where that was !!

[kavah]

£10.95 in Malmaison   !!



http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/finefoodfestival/index.asp?Sessionx=IpqiNwY6KaqiNwF6IHq

[Danny Boys Dad]

Lamb, onion, spuds, carrots and stock. Anything else is just stew.
 

Scouse was supposed to be a meal made using the cheapest most basic ingredients, using lamb makes it an expensive.

Scouse with lamb is just wrong at today's prices.

[۩ Imperator ۩]

Scouse has always been a dish to be made with whatever comes to hand vegetable-wise. Celery, leeks etc are all quite common variants, and I've had it with both before. My mum normally does it with spuds, carrots, swede and onions, but I am an advocate of basically sticking whatever veggies you've got in it.

My mum's tip is always to stick some mince in there as well as the stewing steak, as this helps to get a thicker stew going. I guess everybody has a reason to love their mum's scouse best!

[۩ Imperator ۩]

Lamb, onion, spuds, carrots and stock. Anything else is just stew.
 

You're eating Lancashire Hotpot, I'm afraid. Scouse MUST contain stewing steak.

[۩ Imperator ۩]

Beef?

Beef isn't Scouse.

Yes it is. It's supposed to be half and half.

Personally, I'm not a lamb fan, so I just have it with beef.

[Hightown Phil]

Then YOU are eating Lancashire hotpot.

[۩ Imperator ۩]

Then YOU are eating Lancashire hotpot.

Hotpot is ALWAYS neck of lamb.

[sak0101]

£10.95 !!! I'd like a bucket of it for that price!!

[red annie]

Hotpot is ALWAYS neck of lamb.

Scouse is any cheap lamb.

Hotpot is an entirely different thing. Hotpot is layers of meat potatos & carrots cooked in the oven.

[Danny Boys Dad]

Scouse is any cheap lamb.

No such thing as cheap lamb anymore.

[۩ Imperator ۩]

Is right.

Annie, if you don't stick beef in your scouse as well as lamb, then what is the difference between that and irish stew?

[kavah]

Is right.

Annie, if you don't stick beef in your scouse as well as lamb, then what is the difference between that and irish stew?

we cook our Irish stew in the oven ( unlike scouse which we do on the top ) and use some Pearl Barley to add a little something - where as with scouse it's the starch in the spuds that give the unctuousness ( as nigela would say )

I agree scouse is a much better dish with beef and lamb. ( although we have blind scouse  now and again and it is surprisingly good).

[Danny Boys Dad]

we cook our Irish stew in the oven ( unlike scouse which we do on the top ) and use some Pearl Barley to add a little something - where as with scouse it's the starch in the spuds that give the unctuousness ( as nigela would say )

I agree scouse is a much better dish with beef and lamb. ( although we have blind scouse  now and again and it is surprisingly good).

Every time I buy the stuff for the scouse I go and have a look at the lamb but I just can't get my head round paying that much for it. Not when I can get really nice lean stewing steak for half the price.

My nan (from Wicklow I think) used to put barley in her stew, absolutely lovely it was. She used to put whole onions in as well.

I might start putting whole onions in my scouse, those little ones about the size of tomatoes. It would be a pain to peel them all but I think it would be nice.

[Lo]

No such thing as cheap lamb anymore.

Well that depends how bad your driving is and how good you are at skinning them..........

[danwms]

I Cook it over night in a slow cooker then add brown sauce to it to eat.

i sometimes add sweed or Turnip, basically whatever root vedgtable is at hand.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[TonyTheRed]

Scouse = Lamb, onion, spuds, carrots and stock. The longer you leave it, the better it gets.
No lamb = Blind Scouse

There is only one way to eat Scouse - pour onto plate/large bowl and serve with beetroot & brown sauce. Crusty bread is optional - that is all

Leeks and peas my fuckin' arse. You ever heard the likes? Fuckin' wools 

[Maggie May]

I might start putting whole onions in my scouse, those little ones about the size of tomatoes. It would be a pain to peel them all but I think it would be nice.

I cannot belieeeeeeeve you've just said that.  Defiler.  Have you run mad?

Oooooh.  Little dinky whole onions.  Oooooooh.  How twee.  Ooooooooh.  They're "a pain to peel".  Well I'm sure there's a ladyboy gadget you can buy from Lakeland Plastics so you don't soil your delicate lilywhite hands - oh hang on - they're far too grand these days and have banned the common word "plastic" - now they're "Lakeland Limited" aren't they?  Pretentious poofs.

The old ways are assailed from all sides.  But I never thought that you .......  Dinky onions in scouse.  Whoever imagined such a dark day would come.  This is Armaggeddon.  The end of civilisation as we know it.  Oh woe.  And thrice woe........   

[Danny Boys Dad]

I cannot belieeeeeeeve you've just said that.  Defiler.  Have you run mad?

Oooooh.  Little dinky whole onions.  Oooooooh.  How twee.  Ooooooooh.  They're "a pain to peel".  Well I'm sure there's a ladyboy gadget you can buy from Lakeland Plastics so you don't soil your delicate lilywhite hands - oh hang on - they're far too grand these days and have banned the common word "plastic" - now they're "Lakeland Limited" aren't they?  Pretentious poofs.

The old ways are assailed from all sides.  But I never thought that you .......  Dinky onions in scouse.  Whoever imagined such a dark day would come.  This is Armaggeddon.  The end of civilisation as we know it.  Oh woe.  And thrice woe........  

I've been thinking of putting beer or red wine in it too. End of season this saturday so I think I might do something a bit different.

[Maggie May]

I've been thinking of putting beer or red wine in it too. End of season this saturday so I think I might do something a bit different.

Oh well that just tears it.  The barbarians have got thorough the gate.  And all is lost.

I thought something strange was going on this morning when I put the suitably sorted rubbish out (sturdy black plastic sacks (provided by me at my own personal expense I may add) and those shitty pink things provided by the council), there was this skinny horse munching on my fuchsias if you please.  "Oi you.  Bollix"  Says I to the rider.  "Get your nag the fuck off.  And try feeding the poor bleeder while you're at it."

"We are Plague, Pestilence and Death" says he.  "Oh.  And I'm Famine - as well - sorry - forgot about that". 

"Gerraway" says I.  And "Erm.  What's with the "we" business then on account of there's only one of you?" says I again. 

"Well we all set off together at Ealing but got split up.  That tube's a fucking nightmare in the morning."

"Tell me about it son.  Come and have a cuppa tea.  Kathy'll take care of the horse.  And a few bacon butties for you I think.  You need fattening up.  Look at you, not a pick on you. "

"Oh cheers Mags.  Erm.  Could I have some eggs with that?"  "And extra sugar in the tea?"

[red annie]

Is right.

Annie, if you don't stick beef in your scouse as well as lamb, then what is the difference between that and irish stew?

Scouse isn't thickened with  a roux making it like a proper brown gravy. Irish stew is & cooked in the oven.

Scouse is thickened by the spuds.

[BIGdavalad]

Irish stew is & cooked in the oven.

My mother in law doesn't cook it in the oven 

[Danny Boys Dad]

Irish stew isn't cooked in the oven, hotpot is cooked in the oven because it's got layer of sliced potato on the top and you need to get them crispy.

What's a "roux"?

[Lo]

Irish stew isn't cooked in the oven, hotpot is cooked in the oven because it's got layer of sliced potato on the top and you need to get them crispy.

What's a "roux"?

Is not a rue?

I have just been whoosed havent I

[Maggie May]

Is not a rue?

I have just been whoosed havent I

Ahem.  You'll rue the day you posted that Lo.   

[red annie]

oh dear oh dear oh dear!!!!

a roux is fat & flour which is what thickens stock to make lovely lovely gravy!!

Always ready to instruct!!!!

[red annie]

my irish stew is cooked in the oven

[kavah]

my irish stew is cooked in the oven

me too, nigella's recipe

[Maggie May]

my irish stew is cooked in the oven

me too, nigella's recipe

Like that phoney fat twat would know about Irish stew ......