mind the gap, will ya?

And then there is the beloved "Popover". A real treat!

So many differences in the language and a lot of it is in the spelling. Colour/Color comes to mind.

Few things- Clotted cream is cream heated to a certain temperature until it congeals and goes very thick. when cooled it is like concentrated cream with all the calories and cholesterol to go with it and is Solid, until you cut it and then it is like treacle.

Muffins are now the same as the american type but used to be something different and I cannot recall them. Only remember them from the Childrens song "Have you seen the Muffin man"

Drop a cobbler- To drop a brick- make a mistake or in its crude form- to drop a Bo%%ock. Come from the term cobble which is a large round stone- Often faced off with flat surfaces and used in road manufacture-as in the french cobbled roads.
Then there is another form of cobbler which is a meat pie with all the crust on top and baked in an oven. The crust is a suet crust as normally used in Steamed puddings and is fantastic

Talking of steamed puddings- they seem to have disappeared over here- mainly because the wife does not like them, but steamed spotted dick is a fantastic pudding- Suet pastry with dried fruit and spices mixed in and is always served with Custard so hopefully custard is the same over there. Other versions are treacle pudding or anything you like to put in it. Most fantastic is bacon pudding. sliced bacon, onions and herbs and spices and all cooked in steam for hours but the taste is well worth it.

The French complain about Fr'anglais ruining their language but On the anglo american side there have been a great number of benefits. The down side is that a lot of our traditional cooking is disappearing due to the TV Programmes that occur over here, and the fact that our lives are getting busier. The poor housewife no longer has all day to stand in kitchen preparing food. They would rather get out and go to the gym- Drive to the shopping arcade and buy the ready meals as she no longer has the skills that mother taught her.

B-B-Q same over here. most people just cook sausages and burgers but in my household- if it is meat it gets cooked on the b-b-q. Most of the time is spent on the preparation though. Sausages and Brgers just get thrown on but Chicken has to marinated in herbs to get the best out of- Pork is generaaly a No-No due to to undercooking not being good so I cook on the B-B-Q and finish off in the oven. Best of the lot though is lamb. Take a leg of Lamb and cook slowly for about 3 hours- Turning all the time. Marinade is important to get the best out of so Olive oil, mint and rosemary, make my favourite one. Then thinly slice and put in Pitta bread with raw onion. Takes a lomg time to prepare and cook but the taste is worth it in the end.

Specially for DG, and any one else that wants a taste experience

Recipe at http://www.hub-uk.com/family03/family0117.htm

Picture at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2249273.stm

I daresay you won't hear me saying at some future Thanksgiving feast, "Pass the steamed spotted dick, please." :D

:D :D :D

+1. :eek: :D

Treacle?

There is a BBQ rivalry in my family. In Georgia it can only be made with pulled pork. In Texas BBQ is a transitive verb and you can BBQ anything, e.g. armadillo. In North Carolina it is pork as in Georgia, but it is served on a sandwich with cole slaw which is called slaw there.

Upper Michigan is a great place to get meat pies -- pasties -- in the U.S. The tradition was brought over with miners who moved there from Cornwall (England) to work in the copper mines. My wife's grandmother, whose husband worked in those mines in the early 1900s, used to make them for us all the time from a recipe that unfortunately died with her. :(

But, IMHO, blueberry pie can be narrowly beaten by a good rhubarb pie -- if you can find one!

Doug,

A good Rhubarb Pie is a very close substitute for a fresh Gooseberry Pie. Either, when done right, should be tart and fresh with the necessary sweetness provided by fresh handcranked homemade vanilla ice cream. These pies are rarely found outside the hinderlands.

Tyson

Mmmmmmmmmm..... rhubarb pie.... :) :) :)

And don't even get people started on what goes into good Brunswick Stew. I know, but if I tell you I'll have to kill you. ;)

Puffing a *** has a whole different conontation in the states also.

Having grown up in Georgia, I concur on the "pig" for barbeque. There was a little place near the Atlanta airport called "The Flying Pig". We ate there all the time. It also reminds me of my high school classmate, Jeff Foxworthy. In one of his comedy routines about the Atlanta Olympics, he tells of the guy who climbed all the way to the top of the stadium to get close to the Olympic flame. The guy figured with a fire that large someone had to be bbqing a pig!

No, thanks, to the rhubarb pie. I grew up on a rhubarb farm, and can't stand it.
+1 to the huckleberry comments. They are, indeed, ripe just now, and we recently returned from Olallie Lake (Olallie is local native American for huckleberry) and they were wild all over the place.
Many of the differences between spellings in US and UK can be attributed to Noah Webster, who stumped for and won many changes (colour to color, favour to favor, etc.), but was unsuccessful in his attempt at a radical transformation of spelling to eliminate letters that are not pronounced, hoping to achieve a more nearly phonetic spelling: thru for through, brot for brought, eliminating final silent e's, etc. Would have helped a lot of CEO-types if he had succeeded.

:roflmao: :beer:

North Carolina is probably too far north to find good bar-b-que.:p Any sandwich with cole slaw on it is a Reuben.;)

Tyson
Cushing, Oklahoma

It is even different where you live in the States. There is the controversy over the word Soda and Pop. Growing up in the Midwest it was Pop, my son grew up in CA and it was Soda and if you are from Georgia its always Coke. Then there is tea, in the States usually it is consumed iced although in the south it will be sweet and its almost never combined with milk whether hot or cold.

If you ever visit the southern US, for your own safety do not use the words "Yanks" when referring to Americans. You might just get some good ole boy in your face.