My metabolism has decided I have an equator
Other folks have waists…
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OK. For an semi-educated eejit … what’s ‘barm brack’ ?
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‘Speckled bread’, so a fruited loaf.
Normally non-yeasted, though there are plenty who swear by that. Sultanas and raisins plumped in tea before mixing. Eaten sliced and buttered. You will have had it; it might have been called tea bread.
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Bluddy Lovely
And as fer toasted…
Even Bluddy Lovelier…
Carinthia.xx
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Or Soreen.
OK, I wondered as the famously misused term “barm cake” for a bread bun is actually a very specific bread made with the skimmings of beer brewings as the rising agent. It’s barely used these days, I think due to elfansafety rools but was the norm in my area in my youth and was my favourite.
A breaded boiled ham barm cake was a very special thing.
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Ah now, barm cakes: you are teetering on the very sharp edge of a can of most persistent worms there, laddie. People get very defensive and territorial and cross about the naming of small, round minibreads. Even if they have deviated from the original. Like woodlice. Um. I know what I meant there, and never fear, your lunch has (probably) not sprouted short wriggly legs.
I wish I had met and et one.
Wash yer mouth out. Well, you would, wouldn’t you, really?
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Soreen
Soreen?
Poor man’s Malt Loaf in my day…
Carinthia.xx
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Well, it’s better than Bara Brith.
Though, tbh, I can’t be doing with any of it. Dark fruit loafs, or cakes … as in Christmas Cake. Or Eccles Cakes. Door-stop material the lot of it.
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Armrest my dear
I would be very careful about saying that fruit breads and cakes are not light and flavoursome things of beauty
I am going to feed you sultana and mixed peel toasted soda bread
Golden sultanas so plump and gorgeous
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Right. Well … you’re not.
I like currants. After that dried fruit can do one. Sultanas are the devils droppings and as for peel … whether candied or not … it should be consigned to the waste bin directly rather than have me go to the bother of picking it out piece by piece and put it there.
I’ve not even started on marmalade !! Gawd, I’ve tried. I really have but never get past spitting the first mouthful back out.
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Gus I grew up eating barm brack in Ulster Tea bread in my Yorkshire Grandma’s house and now I have grown up I eat brack in S Ireland
All yeasted bread
Fruit sodas are risen using bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk in my hovel
I made one this week and it appeared to sublimate along with half a pound of butter leaving a suspiciously happy Bull
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Okaaaay
You are like my father who did NOT do fruit apart from apples and melons
Fair enough
Here have this currant bun as a peace offering
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Oh god, and now the cellar has deviant woodlice. Can’t you be a bit more careful?
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Best dealt with by calling a (mostly) woodlouse-free
yardarm
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Fruit does not belong in soda bread IMNSHO
Carinthia.xx
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A fine woman. I’ve always said it
Actually I like most fresh fruit.
Not so much preserved … & not their rinds, & not their pieces ‘candied’.
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I’ll just eat this box of sugared ginger all by myself then.
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Ginger is for biscuits, or snaps or some curries.
What is it with people ?
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Carry on, Dunnock
I’d fight you for pickled ginger, though…
Carinthia.xx
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Anybody would think they had different tastes. Obviously the simpler explanation that they’re all Wrong. Like foreigners claiming not to speak English.
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