Alternative Source for British Food
Aug 11th 2003, 3:23 am
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Alternative Source for British Food
I know you can order British food from certain websites, but if you're lucky to have one locally, try an Indian Grocery Store.
Tonight we ordered Indian food to go and whilst waiting on the order we had a look in the "Bombay Bazaar" next door. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had (amongst other stuff):
Ambrosia Rice Pudding, HP Sauce, Colman's Mustard, Lilt, Irn Bru, Lucozade, Heinz soups, Ribena and Robinson's Barley Water.
Tonight we ordered Indian food to go and whilst waiting on the order we had a look in the "Bombay Bazaar" next door. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had (amongst other stuff):
Ambrosia Rice Pudding, HP Sauce, Colman's Mustard, Lilt, Irn Bru, Lucozade, Heinz soups, Ribena and Robinson's Barley Water.
Aug 11th 2003, 4:26 pm
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Re: Alternative Source for British Food
Originally posted by DaveC
I know you can order British food from certain websites, but if you're lucky to have one locally, try an Indian Grocery Store.
Tonight we ordered Indian food to go and whilst waiting on the order we had a look in the "Bombay Bazaar" next door. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had (amongst other stuff):
Ambrosia Rice Pudding, HP Sauce, Colman's Mustard, Lilt, Irn Bru, Lucozade, Heinz soups, Ribena and Robinson's Barley Water.
I know you can order British food from certain websites, but if you're lucky to have one locally, try an Indian Grocery Store.
Tonight we ordered Indian food to go and whilst waiting on the order we had a look in the "Bombay Bazaar" next door. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had (amongst other stuff):
Ambrosia Rice Pudding, HP Sauce, Colman's Mustard, Lilt, Irn Bru, Lucozade, Heinz soups, Ribena and Robinson's Barley Water.
Of course, Indian grocery stores are the first place to go for the ingredients to make a British style curry.
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Aug 15th 2003, 2:32 pm
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Re: Alternative Source for British Food
Originally posted by DaveC
whilst waiting on the order
whilst waiting on the order
I'm fixin' to leave, y'all!
Aug 15th 2003, 5:43 pm
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Anyone have a scone recipe?
MISSING MY CREAM TEA
I've found Ribena in Chinese (the Hong Kong connection, I presume) grocery stores before.
Does anyone have a good scone recipe? I like the Scottish? kind, round and crusty on the outside, moist and delectable on the inside. The hard triangular kind sold by Au Bon Pain won't do. Some mixes out there say they'll make both scones and biscuits, which is impossible in my mind.
While I'm at it, does anyone have a recipe for making your own clotted cream? I hear that US pasteurization laws prohibit even the import of clotted cream. There's some fake? clotted cream you can get in a can, but again, it doesn't quite cut it.
Finally, the obvious question. Tea? I order mine from Canada!
Mari
I've found Ribena in Chinese (the Hong Kong connection, I presume) grocery stores before.
Does anyone have a good scone recipe? I like the Scottish? kind, round and crusty on the outside, moist and delectable on the inside. The hard triangular kind sold by Au Bon Pain won't do. Some mixes out there say they'll make both scones and biscuits, which is impossible in my mind.
While I'm at it, does anyone have a recipe for making your own clotted cream? I hear that US pasteurization laws prohibit even the import of clotted cream. There's some fake? clotted cream you can get in a can, but again, it doesn't quite cut it.
Finally, the obvious question. Tea? I order mine from Canada!
Mari
Aug 15th 2003, 6:03 pm
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Re: Anyone have a scone recipe?
Originally posted by mariawatanabe
MISSING MY CREAM TEA
I've found Ribena in Chinese (the Hong Kong connection, I presume) grocery stores before.
Does anyone have a good scone recipe? I like the Scottish? kind, round and crusty on the outside, moist and delectable on the inside. The hard triangular kind sold by Au Bon Pain won't do. Some mixes out there say they'll make both scones and biscuits, which is impossible in my mind.
While I'm at it, does anyone have a recipe for making your own clotted cream? I hear that US pasteurization laws prohibit even the import of clotted cream. There's some fake? clotted cream you can get in a can, but again, it doesn't quite cut it.
Finally, the obvious question. Tea? I order mine from Canada!
Mari
MISSING MY CREAM TEA
I've found Ribena in Chinese (the Hong Kong connection, I presume) grocery stores before.
Does anyone have a good scone recipe? I like the Scottish? kind, round and crusty on the outside, moist and delectable on the inside. The hard triangular kind sold by Au Bon Pain won't do. Some mixes out there say they'll make both scones and biscuits, which is impossible in my mind.
While I'm at it, does anyone have a recipe for making your own clotted cream? I hear that US pasteurization laws prohibit even the import of clotted cream. There's some fake? clotted cream you can get in a can, but again, it doesn't quite cut it.
Finally, the obvious question. Tea? I order mine from Canada!
Mari
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Aug 15th 2003, 6:18 pm
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Mrs. S. takes care of all that by ordering favoured commestibles from somewhere on the web (no idea where). She has always considered shopping to be a recreational activity...
She keeps us well supplied with biscuits, tea, fishpaste, electric kettles, vertical toasters, etc., etc. Our pantry is an absolute wonder, I can tell you...
She keeps us well supplied with biscuits, tea, fishpaste, electric kettles, vertical toasters, etc., etc. Our pantry is an absolute wonder, I can tell you...
Aug 15th 2003, 9:27 pm
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We just ordered a whole lot of stuff from Camerons in Florida, shipped out by FedEx. Excellent quality and a good range of food items, but pretty expensive, I have to say.
Aug 15th 2003, 9:57 pm
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Re: Alternative Source for British Food
Originally posted by DaveC
I know you can order British food from certain websites, but if you're lucky to have one locally, try an Indian Grocery Store.
Tonight we ordered Indian food to go and whilst waiting on the order we had a look in the "Bombay Bazaar" next door. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had (amongst other stuff):
Ambrosia Rice Pudding, HP Sauce, Colman's Mustard, Lilt, Irn Bru, Lucozade, Heinz soups, Ribena and Robinson's Barley Water.
I know you can order British food from certain websites, but if you're lucky to have one locally, try an Indian Grocery Store.
Tonight we ordered Indian food to go and whilst waiting on the order we had a look in the "Bombay Bazaar" next door. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had (amongst other stuff):
Ambrosia Rice Pudding, HP Sauce, Colman's Mustard, Lilt, Irn Bru, Lucozade, Heinz soups, Ribena and Robinson's Barley Water.
The Cost Plus World Market carries some things like Ambrosia Rice and Custard, assorted jams and biscuits, pickle, chocolates and sweets, teas. (Also egg cups, very hard to find.) In Chicago we have a little family shop called Gaelic Imports, for the soups, Ribenas, and especially tooth-rotting sweets that we all miss. And a lot more besides. Distressingly, I read the ingredients on Bird's Custard powder, and discovered that there is nothing in there really except cornstarch, and possibly monosodium glutamate. I had always thought that there was at least a dusting of dried egg or something.
Aug 16th 2003, 12:43 am
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Re: Alternative Source for British Food
I go to my local Indian shop every month to get Wheatabix. I cant get up and go to work in the morning without my Wheatabix. I don't know how the hell it gets here but it seems to be of Canadian origin.
They also have a lot of stuff from India which is very UK, e.g. Ribena, Digestives etc. I never knew the Indians liked British food so much. I thought they preferr curry.
They also have a lot of stuff from India which is very UK, e.g. Ribena, Digestives etc. I never knew the Indians liked British food so much. I thought they preferr curry.
Originally posted by DaveC
I know you can order British food from certain websites, but if you're lucky to have one locally, try an Indian Grocery Store.
Tonight we ordered Indian food to go and whilst waiting on the order we had a look in the "Bombay Bazaar" next door. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had (amongst other stuff):
Ambrosia Rice Pudding, HP Sauce, Colman's Mustard, Lilt, Irn Bru, Lucozade, Heinz soups, Ribena and Robinson's Barley Water.
I know you can order British food from certain websites, but if you're lucky to have one locally, try an Indian Grocery Store.
Tonight we ordered Indian food to go and whilst waiting on the order we had a look in the "Bombay Bazaar" next door. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had (amongst other stuff):
Ambrosia Rice Pudding, HP Sauce, Colman's Mustard, Lilt, Irn Bru, Lucozade, Heinz soups, Ribena and Robinson's Barley Water.
Aug 16th 2003, 3:44 am
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I always thought trolls ate billy goats gruff not wheatabix ?
For those in the Northern VA/ DC area I can heartily reccomend an Asian food shop next to Little Wars in Fairfax VA. Not only do they sell the most wonderful spices and herbs for Asian culinary delights, they also sell videos of the latest test matches too. A win win situation.
Cannot remember the name though, spent most of yesterday racking our collective brains trying to remember it.
For those in the Northern VA/ DC area I can heartily reccomend an Asian food shop next to Little Wars in Fairfax VA. Not only do they sell the most wonderful spices and herbs for Asian culinary delights, they also sell videos of the latest test matches too. A win win situation.
Cannot remember the name though, spent most of yesterday racking our collective brains trying to remember it.
Aug 25th 2003, 8:47 am
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how to make clotted cream
Hello Penguin,
I met a woman from Devon at church yesterday, and she said her mother made her own clotted cream all the time. According to her, you skim the cream off of many bottles of non-homogenized milk, put it in a double boiler (stand a pot inside another pot) and slowly heat for 2 hours. I don't know how many gallons of milk you have to drink before you can collect enough cream, and whether the skimmed cream goes bad if it takes too long. Maybe you have to live on a dairy farm to be able to do this? Anyway, now I know what to do if I get desperate. I'll probably experiment first with putting light cream in a double boiler, and see what happens.
Mari
I met a woman from Devon at church yesterday, and she said her mother made her own clotted cream all the time. According to her, you skim the cream off of many bottles of non-homogenized milk, put it in a double boiler (stand a pot inside another pot) and slowly heat for 2 hours. I don't know how many gallons of milk you have to drink before you can collect enough cream, and whether the skimmed cream goes bad if it takes too long. Maybe you have to live on a dairy farm to be able to do this? Anyway, now I know what to do if I get desperate. I'll probably experiment first with putting light cream in a double boiler, and see what happens.
Mari
Aug 25th 2003, 9:23 am
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Re: Anyone have a scone recipe?
Originally posted by mariawatanabe
MISSING MY CREAM TEA
I've found Ribena in Chinese (the Hong Kong connection, I presume) grocery stores before.
Does anyone have a good scone recipe? I like the Scottish? kind, round and crusty on the outside, moist and delectable on the inside. The hard triangular kind sold by Au Bon Pain won't do. Some mixes out there say they'll make both scones and biscuits, which is impossible in my mind.
While I'm at it, does anyone have a recipe for making your own clotted cream? I hear that US pasteurization laws prohibit even the import of clotted cream. There's some fake? clotted cream you can get in a can, but again, it doesn't quite cut it.
Finally, the obvious question. Tea? I order mine from Canada!
Mari
MISSING MY CREAM TEA
I've found Ribena in Chinese (the Hong Kong connection, I presume) grocery stores before.
Does anyone have a good scone recipe? I like the Scottish? kind, round and crusty on the outside, moist and delectable on the inside. The hard triangular kind sold by Au Bon Pain won't do. Some mixes out there say they'll make both scones and biscuits, which is impossible in my mind.
While I'm at it, does anyone have a recipe for making your own clotted cream? I hear that US pasteurization laws prohibit even the import of clotted cream. There's some fake? clotted cream you can get in a can, but again, it doesn't quite cut it.
Finally, the obvious question. Tea? I order mine from Canada!
Mari
http://www.devon-calling.com/food%20...tted-cream.htm
http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/food/clotted.htm
http://www.cornishlight.co.uk/cornish-clotted-cream.htm
and here is one for the scones:
http://www.cornishlight.co.uk/cornish-cream-tea.htm
Debbie
Aug 25th 2003, 9:26 am
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Forgot ... they had a yummy picture of it, too .....
Aug 25th 2003, 3:06 pm
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You are all going to love our new website. www.basketsgiftsandbeyond.com We should be live around the middle of September. Luxury hampers filled with delicious English treats such as Christmas puddings, brandy butter, cakes, biscuits etc. You can send within the US or we can send within the UK through our sister company.
I will remind you all again a little nearer the time :-)
I will remind you all again a little nearer the time :-)
Aug 27th 2003, 5:32 pm
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Originally posted by dbark
Forgot ... they had a yummy picture of it, too .....
Forgot ... they had a yummy picture of it, too .....
The clotted cream recipes sound like a lot of work, but then again, I normally make my own yoghurt (it's so hard to get full fat yoghurt in the US, that I have no choice). A friend just sent me today a bulk recipe for scones. The recipe sounds like it will make what I had gotten used to buying religiously from a wee store on Byre's Road in Glasgow called the Pantry. Anyway, see:
http://staffweb.library.northwestern...s/oscones.html
Mari
