On Jun 4, 2011, at 10:36 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 02:58:33AM +0100, Bob W wrote: >> >> it used to be quite common when I were a lad for us mum to give us a slice >> of bread and dripping. Delicious it were. Dripping is the lard that's been >> used then poured into a bowl, put in the fridge and used again later. > > I've still got a container in the fridge, which gets topped up with pan > drippings from roasts. > I wouldn't use anything else for roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, etc.
"Cooking is like making live, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all." Harriet Van Horne > >> Of course a few years of London sophistication put a stop to that diet, so I >> was very shocked when I went to work back up north for a while to see that >> people took a break at 11am to get a slice of bread and dripping from the >> canteen. The perfect diet for people who don't want to live too long. >> >> Delicious but deadly, although it's probably no worse than bread & butter, >> and a lot better than hydrogenated vegetable fats. > > Down in the south I encountered an alternative cheap calorie-laden snack - > brown sugar sandwiches. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
