27 Jun 2011, 9:27 am
Indy wrote:
My friend has family in Liverpool and Ireland. She makes a really nice soda bread which she learnt from her Irish relatives. If you like very salty food, I think soda bread would go really well with marmite.
Bara brith is delicious and much better than Lava bread and other Welsh breads
. I would keep marmite away from anything with that much fruit in though, unless you're very adventurous.
Bara brith is delicious and much better than Lava bread and other Welsh breads
. I would keep marmite away from anything with that much fruit in though, unless you're very adventurous.Cool
My uncle's wife (she's was Irish herself BTW) then she was a live I used to visit my family in Ireland over in County Longford were they use to live. My aunt made the best Soda bread I ever tasted her secret was that she used buttlemilk from a local farm 
27 Jun 2011, 10:09 am
27 Jun 2011, 10:09 am
cdfox7 wrote:
Indy wrote:
My friend has family in Liverpool and Ireland. She makes a really nice soda bread which she learnt from her Irish relatives. If you like very salty food, I think soda bread would go really well with marmite.
Bara brith is delicious and much better than Lava bread and other Welsh breads . I would keep marmite away from anything with that much fruit in though, unless you're very adventurous.
Bara brith is delicious and much better than Lava bread and other Welsh breads
. I would keep marmite away from anything with that much fruit in though, unless you're very adventurous.Cool
My uncle's wife (she's was Irish herself BTW) then she was a live I used to visit my family in Ireland over in County Longford were they use to live. My aunt made the best Soda bread I ever tasted her secret was that she used buttlemilk from a local farm Thanks for the tip. I'm going to email my friend later. I hope your aunt wouldn't mind me passing on her secret.
BTW, I really want to visit Ireland. I'm thinking about asking my friend if she'll go over on the ferry with me. It's something I've always wanted to do.
27 Jun 2011, 10:11 am
Indy wrote:
BTW, I really want to visit Ireland. I'm thinking about asking my friend if she'll go over on the ferry with me. It's something I've always wanted to do.
It's a lovely place but, from my travels on the island, you're best off out of most of the cities if you get what I'm saying. Visit them but a lot of them are a bit of a dump.
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27 Jun 2011, 10:12 am
cdfox7 wrote:
I have an uncle born in Liverpool and now lives near to Galway.
I really want to visit Galway - bit expensive though. Fly from Manchester too.
27 Jun 2011, 10:36 am
Tequila wrote:
Indy wrote:
BTW, I really want to visit Ireland. I'm thinking about asking my friend if she'll go over on the ferry with me. It's something I've always wanted to do.
It's a lovely place but, from my travels on the island, you're best off out of most of the cities if you get what I'm saying. Visit them but a lot of them are a bit of a dump.
Thanks for the advice Tequila
. It's the same here in Wales - parts of the cities are nice, but some areas are not safe for someone who isn't street-wise (me).
Thanks for mentioning flying too. Might be easier/cheaper.
27 Jun 2011, 10:48 am
Tequila wrote:
cdfox7 wrote:
I have an uncle born in Liverpool and now lives near to Galway.
I really want to visit Galway - bit expensive though. Fly from Manchester too.
Galway is a nice place a been a few times, my silly uncle lives in the middle of nowhere with thats especially bad with his health condition he got transverse myelitis.
I know how sodding expensive it is my mother been a few times thanks to my uncle getting MRSA after just having a quadruple heart bypass as he send 3 months in Galway hospital recuperating from it
27 Jun 2011, 10:54 am
27 Jun 2011, 11:01 am
cdfox7 wrote:
Galway is a nice place a been a few times, my silly uncle lives in the middle of nowhere with thats especially bad with his health condition he got transverse myelitis.
I know how sodding expensive it is my mother been a few times thanks to my uncle getting MRSA after just having a quadruple heart bypass as he send 3 months in Galway hospital recuperating from it
I know how sodding expensive it is my mother been a few times thanks to my uncle getting MRSA after just having a quadruple heart bypass as he send 3 months in Galway hospital recuperating from it
That's the thing about Ireland - people think that it's a tiny place, but really it's anything but. A lot of it's very rural.
27 Jun 2011, 11:20 am
hyperlexian wrote:
Indy wrote:
It's the same here in Wales - parts of the cities are nice, but some areas are not safe for someone who isn't street-wise (me).
WALES!! ! wicked! ok, so i have a question, but don't laugh ok? is Welsh rarebit really from Wales or it some kind of a stereotype that we call it that? i've heart it called "Welsh rabbit" too, is that common?
ok, one more question (if it happends to actually be a Welsh dish)... are there lots of recipes for it or only one standard way to make it? my family has an old recipe passed down for generations but it's not much like the dish i see on internet searches. we make it as a kind of thick milky cheddar cheese sauce (with worcestershire sauce in it for flavouring) mixed with chopped hardboiled egg, then poured over buttered toast.
but the pictures i've seen make it look more like simple cheese toast (with a half of a hardboiled egg in it). is my family... ummmm... out to lunch?
Haha - now I feel stupid! I had to look it up on Wikipedia.
Apparently, nobody really knows why it's called Welsh rarebit/rabbit. You can call it by either name, although I personally just call it cheese on toast, because the other names make no sense. Your family is right to make it how they like it, because there are lots of recipes
When I was abroad, I had cheese on toast with ham, and they called it croque-monsieur. With egg and ham it was called croque-madame. I think there is a worldwide habit of giving cheese on toast recipes weird names.
27 Jun 2011, 11:39 am
Indy wrote:
Apparently, nobody really knows why it's called Welsh rarebit/rabbit. You can call it by either name, although I personally just call it cheese on toast, because the other names make no sense. Your family is right to make it how they like it, because there are lots of recipes
ahhh thanks for the background. funny that you call it cheese on toast! perhaps it is like national varietes of whiskey, like Scotch or Irish whiskey. i had heard that only outsiders call them by those names, but residents of the applicable nations just refer to it as "whiskey". not sure if it is true though.
we also have a variety of bacon that people from other countries sometimes call "Canadian bacon" and we just call it "back bacon". actually, we rarely eat it here anymore anyways, so the "Canadian" label is even stranger to us.
27 Jun 2011, 11:39 am
hyperlexian wrote:
WALES!! ! wicked! ok, so i have a question, but don't laugh ok? is Welsh rarebit really from Wales or it some kind of a stereotype that we call it that? i've heart it called "Welsh rabbit" too, is that common?
ok, one more question (if it happends to actually be a Welsh dish)... are there lots of recipes for it or only one standard way to make it? my family has an old recipe passed down for generations but it's not much like the dish i see on internet searches. we make it as a kind of thick milky cheddar cheese sauce (with worcestershire sauce in it for flavouring) mixed with chopped hardboiled egg, then poured over buttered toast.
but the pictures i've seen make it look more like simple cheese toast (with a half of a hardboiled egg in it). is my family... ummmm... out to lunch?
ok, one more question (if it happends to actually be a Welsh dish)... are there lots of recipes for it or only one standard way to make it? my family has an old recipe passed down for generations but it's not much like the dish i see on internet searches. we make it as a kind of thick milky cheddar cheese sauce (with worcestershire sauce in it for flavouring) mixed with chopped hardboiled egg, then poured over buttered toast.
but the pictures i've seen make it look more like simple cheese toast (with a half of a hardboiled egg in it). is my family... ummmm... out to lunch?
The name historical is to do with the English poking fun at the Welsh for being poorer than them.Not as bad as the references the English make about the Welsh activities with sheep now!
I make it kind of like what you do tho without the hardbolied egg as I hate them with a passion. I just makes me feel sick thinking about hardbolied eggs now 
27 Jun 2011, 11:46 am
27 Jun 2011, 11:49 am
cdfox7 wrote:
The name historical is to do with the English poking fun at the Welsh for being poorer than them.Not as bad as the references the English make about the Welsh activities with sheep now! I make it kind of like what you do tho without the hardbolied egg as I hate them with a passion. I just makes me feel sick thinking about hardbolied eggs now
I make it kind of like what you do tho without the hardbolied egg as I hate them with a passion. I just makes me feel sick thinking about hardbolied eggs now awww that's kind of mean. interesting that your recipe is similar! i feel better about it from knowing that, and also what Indy said.
i like eggs hardboiled, but not in a souffle or quiche.
27 Jun 2011, 11:53 am
27 Jun 2011, 11:59 am
hyperlexian wrote:
Indy wrote:
Apparently, nobody really knows why it's called Welsh rarebit/rabbit. You can call it by either name, although I personally just call it cheese on toast, because the other names make no sense. Your family is right to make it how they like it, because there are lots of recipes
ahhh thanks for the background. funny that you call it cheese on toast! perhaps it is like national varietes of whiskey, like Scotch or Irish whiskey. i had heard that only outsiders call them by those names, but residents of the applicable nations just refer to it as "whiskey". not sure if it is true though.
we also have a variety of bacon that people from other countries sometimes call "Canadian bacon" and we just call it "back bacon". actually, we rarely eat it here anymore anyways, so the "Canadian" label is even stranger to us.
That's funny! I've had bacon labelled "Canadian bacon" and I just assumed that's what it's called in Canada too. Now that I think about it, that wouldn't make much sense.
I've never seen Welsh rarebit on sale in Wales. I've only ever seen it sold as "cheese on toast" or "cheese and tomatoes on toast" etc. Probably some of the posher tourist restaurants would call it "Welsh rarebit".
