What to have with a buttery...this and new food experiences

[farmerbarleymow]

I've just been reading about it and the diference seems to be that it's made with condensed milk rather than cream.

I can't see why this would be a bad thing so in the spiririt of experimentation I have just ordered some tablet from the Ochil Fudge Pantry.

Book yourself a dentist appointment for false teeth now.

 

[Sue]

Had to look that up.

What's the difference between tablet and fudge?

Fudge is softer and smoother, tablet is quite granulated. You know the difference between normal rum and over-proof rum? That's like fudge and tablet except instead of being alcohol, it's sugar. If your tooth enamel doesn't hurt afterwards, you're doing it wrong...

 

[weepiper]

My mother always had a massive downer on tablet, claiming it was bad for our teeth. Now I'm a a grown up, I can kind of see her point.

(Seriously though apples and monkey nuts at Hallowe'en really didn't cut it.)

Known as Dentist's Delight in our house growing up.

Tablet and fudge can be distinguished by their consistency: if you had a thin bit of tablet and tried to snap it in half you would get a clean-ish break whereas fudge would bend.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Thankfully we only eat Kendal Mint Cake when visiting the lakes. It doesn’t seem widely available.

 

[geminisnake]

Will have to have a look if the local one stocks any.

not sure how far south they go tbh, yrs ago the furthest south you could get rowies was South Queensferry Tesco

 

[geminisnake]

lol it is a bit weird to us....but we are getting used to it...the wierdest thing was asking what is Lorne and then buying a breakfast pack of it! Live and learn

Lorne is foul!! It's not even meat imo, scotch pies I would have advised against also, but you do need to try spicy haggis Though I mostly only eat Lidl's veggie haggis these days

 

[geminisnake]

Of course. Bridies are Scotland-wide. Although geminisnake will probably come along and say everywhere else does them wrong.

no, she'll come along and say they are also on the foul not meat list The only bit of a forfar bridie I would eat is the pastry and I prefer my pastry to not contain crap alleged meat, but I can't eat pastry anymore
I remembered later a steak bridie may be ok, and re scotch pies they are all crap ime

 

[farmerbarleymow]

tablet is quite granulated disgusting

More accurate

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Thankfully we only eat Kendal Mint Cake when visiting the lakes. It doesn’t seem widely available.

You'll be glad to know Go Outdoors stock it - they have branches nationwide I think.

You can but it online too here.

Romney's Kendal Mint Cake

The home of Kendal Mint Cake. Quality confectionery since 1918. Traditional, Handmade Fudge & Old Fashioned Treacle Toffee. Conquered Everest in 1953.

mintcake.co.uk

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I love that the site is mintcake.co.uk

 

[Artaxerxes]

I just looked them up and they sound as though they might be rather nice but all the photos have the jam spread on top of them, on the crust, which somehow looks wrong. Are they not ever split through the middle? Doesn’t the topping just slide off?

What fucking jam are you eating that it slides off?

 

[Raheem]

I thought a Buttery was an archaic term for a cafe. I once enjoyed a cuppa and a cake in the Penzance Buttery

It's an ancient term for a food storage place, along with pantry and larder.

As you would expect, butter was kept in the pantry, and the buttery was for storing beer and bread, even though the word pantry literally means "place for bread".

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Here you go Sue and danny la rouge - claim ownership of

Tablet.co.uk – Brandable

Tablet.co.uk is a premium brandable domain name which is for sale on Brandable – The Uk domain marketplace

www.brandable.co.uk

 

[Sue]

The Tablet

The Tablet - International Catholic weekly newspaper

www.thetablet.co.uk

 

[xenon]

You should be able to get macaroni pies in a bakers or in a chippy. Cos they're even better as a supper. Mmmmm.

Macaroni pie and chips? Basically carbs, carbs and carbs....

nah. Is not for me...

Scotch pies are great though. The ones from Greggs are not very good I learned today. Tesco used to do them. Proper bakers who know how to do them are better obv.

 

[danny la rouge]

Macaroni pie and chips? Basically carbs, carbs and carbs....

The problem being…?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've just been reading about it and the diference seems to be that it's made with condensed milk rather than cream.

I can't see why this would be a bad thing so in the spiririt of experimentation I have just ordered some tablet from the Ochil Fudge Pantry.

You'll regret it.

Scotland is so wrong in many ways

 

[teuchter]

There's a lot of stuff that is sold as "tablet" that's really just fudge. Good tablet is not always easy to find. In my possibly rose tinted mind, the best tablet is the kind you used to get at jumble sales (maybe you still do), home made by elderly ladies who knew what they were doing.

It should be a bit powdery on the outside and snap into pieces without any hint of bending. And as someone already said, a bit granulated.

Fudge, of course, is awful southern stuff, and could be legislated against in an independent Scotland.

 

[Raheem]

I'm really not sure tablet and connosieurism go together. I think it's a get-what-you're-given affair. Which is not meant as a slight on tablet. Once upon a time that's how it was with most food.

 

[krtek a houby]

This thread is much informative and something that urban excels at. Love the idea of exotic sounding foods like "tablet" and "buttery", and must try them if ever reach the ancestral lands.

Hmm. Must check for Scotland food outlets over here.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Tablet

The Tablet - International Catholic weekly newspaper

www.thetablet.co.uk

Who cares about the catholic church

 

[farmerbarleymow]

danny la rouge could be webmaster and post his favourite pilchard recipes

 

[Raheem]

Who cares about the catholic church

Father Jack

 

[moose]

I love that the site is mintcake.co.uk

The mascot at Kendal Town FC was a bar of mint cake till he was stolen He's probably out in the wild somewhere with murderous intentions. Or looking for his missing fingers.

 

[iona]

not sure how far south they go tbh, yrs ago the furthest south you could get rowies was South Queensferry Tesco

Do you know how widely available they are in the other direction? I was thinking about heading up to either Orkney or the Hebrides some time soonish, possibly via Inverness, and rowies are the one thing I've not tried yet (luckily I still have a macaroni pie and some tattie scones in the freezer from last time, or I'd have to put this thread on ignore out of jealousy)

 

[Plumdaff]

You can definitely get butteries, both types of pie, Lorne sausage and white pudding in Corby, Northamptonshire (it's an enclave of Scotland due to the old steel industry). Not sure about rowies though.

 

[sparkling]

I actually managed not to find any Cullen Skink, in Cullen, but we did have better luck in Portsoy.

Really? That surprises me as they've just held the Cullen Skink championships there at the weekend and the runner up was the local cafe. Cullen Skink World Championships 2023 & 2024 - Discover Cullen

Strange how the winner was the chef at the hotel in which the championships were held

PS Portsoy is my favourite place...its our Friday night pub place

 

[Magnus McGinty]

What’s with all the food world championships? I hear Bolivia’s buttery was especially creamy this year.

 

[danny la rouge]

There’s the Golden Spurtle, the annual world porridge making championship. Home Page - Golden Spurtle®

I knew slightly a past frequent winner. (I was at school with his sister).

 

[Stig]

it's the wrong name for a rowie Though butteries tend to be a bit puffier than rowies ime, whole thread about them in the Scotland forum, I used to bring them d own to London with me, no-one ever said no to extras

I remember you bringing me a rowie down to William of Walworth's flat! That's got to be 20 years ago now. You also brought your own tapwater down IIRC (don't blame you)