Meme and state of me

[mistletoe]

I have a cold. How very dare I. The sinus thing I have had since a week past Thursday decided to become sneezy and sniffy and eye hurty yesterday for realz so I have at least got rid of the headache. Yesterday was funny. We had arranged for mam and dad to come up here, unless it was raining, in which case I would go down to their place. It was raining so off I went. When I got there, the door was locked. I realised they had gone up to my house. After much fumbling with the house phone, mobile phones and voice mails we eventually got in contact and they came back to their house from my house which I hadn't tidied up like I normally do Anyway, we sat at their house for the rest of the day and watched the golf. I came home at teatime and went to bed. Didn't get up until 9.15 and I feel much better, just runny nosed.

Here is the meme that I saw first on tempertemper 's journal.

Age: 56

Where did you grow up: North East England then 3 years in Wales at University and a year in Yorkshire at another university then back to the North east

What do you call:

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
beck

2. What's the thing you push around the grocery store called?
trolley or bogey

3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
We didn't have them, we had school dinner, but my dad had a bait tin.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
frying pan

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
settee

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
gutters and downcomers

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
you might have a lean to but most people sat in the back yard which is not the same as an American yard it is just an area of concrete with a coalhouse, a rain barrel, a washing line and the outside toilet, That was my nana's yard anyway.

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
pop

9. A  flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
drop scone would be nearest, sold elsewhere as Scotch pancakes

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
baguette but we'd be more like to have stotty cake.

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports?
trainers though growing up they were plimsoles and when I was in Wales, Daps

13. Putting a room in order?
tidying up, dusting, hoovering

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly. Never seen one

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?
It's a pill bug but I don't remember calling them anything

16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down?
See saw

17. How do you eat your pizza?
When we eventually got such things it was pointy end first but I was quite old before I ever ate pizza

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
jumble sale was the usual thing. People didn't have stuff to sell, they did deals with the candy man.

19. What's the evening meal?
tea or supper

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
cellar but we don't have them. Everybody had coal fires and airing cupboards with the hot water tank in them..

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
drinking fountain

Here's one: what do you call bread buns?

Comments

[huronia.livejournal.com]

I think you win with beck and drop scone, but it is comforting to me to know that I could order pop and would not be met with uncomprehending stares.

Bread buns are dinner rolls, or just rolls at our dinner table (where we have supper)

I see your prediction has come to fruition as news is reporting Ms. Brooks has been arrested.

Are you watching the Open? Clarke just narrowly avoided disaster in the bunker. I'm rooting for him.

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Pop! It's great. Drop scones are made on a hot plate. They are thick pancake batter and you drop a spoonful at a time on the hot plate. You make girdle scones the same way. Drop scones can be served buttered or with golden syrup. Some people put sultanas in them. They used to be very popular for tea.

Yes it looks like Ms Brooks has got her come uppance.

I am switching between the golf and Bertie and Elizabeth. Mickelson seems to be having a bit of a run at it.

[makd.livejournal.com]

My mother and my gran made scones, and I've made them, too.
However, they're different than pancakes here - which are lighter and thinner than scones.

In other regions of the US, by the way, scones are often baked, like biscuits, not griddle-cooked. Oh - and for us, biscuits are not cookies; they are small baked rolls. (Bread buns?)

Oy! Shaw was right!!

[limone1.livejournal.com]

Guess it didn't rain where your parents live!

Do drop scones have a pancake like batter or is it a softer/wetter scones dough? To me scones are like bubble baths, nice when you think about them, but once you get around to them, not so much. More of a rolls person. Though Welsh cakes are nice, am spoiled for life after someone smuggled some all the way from a Welsh bakery ;)

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Actually it did, but they thought it would clear up! LOL

Yes drop scones do have a pancake batter and are about the same thickness I think. Observe
http://klaireskitchen.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/drop_scones.jpg

Welsh cakes, oh how I I miss them. My Welsh landlady used to make them and they were lovely. Girdle cakes are quite similar and not as large as real scones. Although I am partial to a cheese scone I find the fruit ones a bit overwhelming.

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

A drop scone is a bit of a misnomer. Here's a picture with syrup and I think they look like American pancakes, though I have never tasted American pancakes.


Only girdle scones are cooked on a griddle or girdle (interestingly similar word there). Actual scones are baked in the oven. I think the girdle scone was invented to be made when the oven wasn't on but the top of the range was, or the open fire which you could hang the girdle over from a hook.

Here's a girdle
and girdle scones recipe
8 oz Flour
1/2 ts Bicarbonate of soda
1/2 ts Cream of tartar
1/2 ts Baking powder
1 oz Butter
1 t Golden syrup
Buttermilk, Or
Full cream milk OR
Sour milk
Sift the flour into a bowl.
Add the other dry ingredients and mix.
Rub in the butter.
Add the syrup and sufficient milk
and mix with a palette knife to a soft consistency.
Turn On to a floured surface and roll quickly and lightly
(handle as little as possible) to about 1/4 inch thick.
Cut in rounds.
Grease and heat the girdle and, with a slice or broad knife, turn once until brown on both sides.
Serve freshly baked, spread with butter. Fancy variations can be achieved by adding treacle,cheese, fat, sugar, potato, currants, syrup, or dates. This is a Scottish recipe.

[limone1.livejournal.com]

Looks like pancakes to an uninitiated person, but now I know better!

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

My theory is the Scots took them to America when they emigrated in droves during the Highland clearances. Of course, I bet other European countries would claim them.