I’ve heard this is some sort of viral craze. Haven’t seen it anywhere where I live but I’ve not really been out a lot recently. I read a website called Mumsnet where one pregnant poster with a craving was very upset that her husband ate the entire piece she was saving in the fridge for later.
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I wonder if said husband is still alive…
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I noticed a version pop up in my IG feed about Matilda Cake in Toronto, so I guess it’s global! Although I’m seeing a lot coming from the UK. maybe the Epicenter.
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It was a pretty classic Mumsnet thread!
I won’t post the entire thing.
Resounding support for the poster from the Mumsnet crowd. I love Mumsnet because it’s very British in an inexplicable way.
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Well, he sounds like an inconsiderate asshole, cake or not. Lordt.
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Ottolenghi’s Matilda Cake recipe, including halvah and tahini in the layers. Because of course he would!
UK Food subReddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/UKfood/comments/1qhj3r1/i_made_a_fudgy_matilda_chocolate_cake/
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10 Sticky Toffee Puddings in the North-East
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/6881054/north-east-sticky-toffee-pudding/
Tonight’s dinner starts lightly with quiche and salad.
So we can then be very greedy over the pancakes. Well, you have to keep to traditions. Nothing fancy - just as Zoe’s link indicates. I’ll keep my maple syrup for the occasions when we have American style pancakes for beakfast
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these smoked haddock, leek and cheddar cakes look good.
Annie Mae Herring posts her recipes on IG through The Culinary Bee, as well as through Substack and Patreon.
She makes a lot of fairly obscure historic British recipes. I really enjoy seeing her posts on IG. (realize some of you don’t use IG, that is why I am mentioning Substack and Patreon, and her name!)
Bedfordshire Clangers
Hertfordshire Pork Plugger
Let the enshittification begin.
Edit: Before anyone gets their knickers a knot, this isn’t a shot at American companies. When companies sell to owners from another country, the quality usually tanks. A prime example close by is the selling of ACE bakery (Canadian. Used to be excellent quality )to Bimbo, from Mexico. The stuff took such a dive that it’s no longer the same product. Cadbury’s is another good example of a good product gone bad after being sold.
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I expect riots, or at least some opinion pieces in the Guardian.
and more memes.
Might be a good idea to stock up on the good stuff before it is gone.
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I’m fairly loyal to McCormicks Canada, which has continued to operate in London, Canada. I like to buy their products when they donate baskets to Charity Auctions.
Kellogg’s left after 99 years in London, Canada, and Heinz Canada shut down in Leamington shortly after. Caterpillar (equipment) left for Muncey, Indiana, where the wages were half of what our minimum wage, hardly a living wage in Ontario, was.
Southwestern Ontario has a massive opioid crisis and meth crisis. The poverty caused by these multinational companies leaving Canada helped create the perfect storm, along with Oxycontin, meth, current affairs elsewhere, and whatnot. (That’s a shot at Multinational Companies and Big Business)
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Yup. Going to head out today.
Ugh. It always come down to
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One of my Easter treats are Cadbury’s mini-eggs. They no longer taste the same. And not for the better.
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The Canadian creme eggs still taste worse than the UK creme eggs.
The old formula Cadbury’s UK Creme Eggs are a taste burned into my memory.
I’m not really a Cadbury Mini Egg person. They are popular in cookies here. (I will eat them! Just not something I buy for myself, since I like trying other Easter Chocolates made by other companies.)
Funny how the new formula never seems to taste better. Why mess with perfection? (I guess, cost)
and now for something completely different
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