traditional lancashire hamper - what to put in it?
 

need help here good people..as part of someones chrimbo present we are giving them a food hamper made up of solely food from lancashire..but are kinda struggling on what to put in it..

so far I have came up with cheese and blackpudding..:( its going to be pretty bare for a hamper so I need your help on what else I can put in it..

your ideas please..

thanks

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£5 in greggs should sort out a modern day lancashire hamper :)

or the obvious lanashire hotpot im sure somwhere will sell them ready made.

iron bru was orgionaly invented in accy i believe so stick a can in there

wine to go with the cheese and some crackers.

your right its harder than it seems lol

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Chorley Cake, for one,
Then you could perhaps use your imagination go on the web and look at sites like this.
Lancashire Food:)

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Some Local Beers, they'll go down well ! :D And some local sweeties.

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I thought I would ask the good people of here before I used my imagination and look on the web..

thanks for the link and the chorley cake.

and iron bru? may have been invented down here but the real deal (irn bru) was definately invented north of the border by the barrs brothers..

always beware of poor imitations..

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lancashire sauce

Entwistle's Lancashire Sauce :: Relish :: Shake on Condiment :: Ramsbottom

fitzpatricks in rawtenstall ... the temperance bar .. dandelion and burdock, sarsparilla etc

Mr Fitzpatricks of Dublin, botanical herbalists 1890 | Cordials & Soft Drinks

lancashire sausage ...

Choriza, Cumberland & Lancashire Sausages | The Port of Lancaster Smokehouse

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You can get Fitzpatricks stuff from Hoskins on the outside market

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and dont forget .. hollands pies or cissy greens ..

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Pendle witch beer . They selll it at Booths lol

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What about a box of Lancashire Tea. Also a bag of Black peas. Thats Lancashire Fayre.

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Dew-lay at Garstang or Singletons cheese at Longridge are produced locally .

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Morecambe shrimps and cockles ?

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Which is why I never buy the Barr's stuff. Stocks' Iron Brew was much better and, I believe, the original.

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Me

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What about some Lancashire tea towels to help with the washing up afterwards?

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A Stanley mug to put the Lancashire Tea in?! ;)

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Blackpool Rock

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As well as Chorley cakes already mentioned, you could add Eccles cakes (greater Manchester now but still Lancs.)

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Try some free grit from the council ...seems to be the most wanted item in Accy.. if you can get it! :D

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How about some tripe ...seems to be a Lancashire delicacy

"In Lancashire and other parts of the North of England in the 1950s there were 146 UCP shops-cum-restaurants specialising in tripe dishes and with long queues for seats. UCP stood (and still does at its single remaining outlet) for United Cattle Products, who also provided ox tail, cow heel and other bovine extremities in an age when little was wasted. Tripe was also sold in chip shops." fast food in the days before KFC and McDonalds

UnitedCattleProducts.co.uk | Welcome to the United Cattle Products supporters' site

have to say I don't ever remember it being sold in chip shops , .... bit of a wander ... Mr Heffernan , a teacher at Gt. Harwood Top Council school (days before Norden) think he later taught at Rhyddings had a tripe shop in Arrod run by his wife , a couple of doors up or down from Redmans on Queen St.

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how come it took so long for Blackpool rock to be listed ???

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Interesting that you mention that because i'm sure that as a kid i drank Iron Brew (thats how it was spelt then) round here, and i'm certain it wasn't by Barrs either, but i cant find any reference for Stocks Iron Brew, i do remember it being more flavoursome than what we drink today though!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Manchester Tart - not one from the Gaumont Long Bar, Nettle Beer from Heysham.

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Sunny Delight, a Greg's Pasty and 20 Fags.

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Mount Pleasant Wine, Bolton-le-sands (By Morecambe) it was even praised by Oz Clark on his travels with Hugh Dennis "Oz & Hugh raise the Bar"

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Did you make up a Lancashire hamper, if so what did you put in? Be interested to know.

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I don't quite 'get' how this is considered Lancashire Fare.

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And to finish off- of one Uncle Joe's Mint Balls and a Fisherman's Friend, washed down with Vimto, all of which are made in Lancashire.

There are at least 4 types of Lancashire cheese: Crumbly, Tasty, Creamy/Mild and Blue. If it isn't made in PR3, then it isn't Lancashire cheese.

Of beers , there's Thwaites', Moorhouses,Holt's, Pheonix, Hyde's - all made in Lancashire. All available in bottles.

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I can't find any reference to Stocks Iron Brew either but my mother used to sell it back in the 1960's and 70's. It didn't have the same label as the rest of the Stocks pop but was definately theirs. The label was much smaller and had a picture of a blacksmith or a forge and I'm sure said that it was created in the 1870's. I always understood that Barr's had to call theirs Irn Bru because Stocks had the trademark on Iron Brew. I think they sold it to Ben Shaw's when they closed down in Accy because I've seen the odd can of it since although I have to say I've never tried the Ben Shaw's stuff.

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Burton's biscuits in Bl;ackpool make Wagon Wheels and others. There's also another biscuit bakery but have forgotten the name. Near Kirkham there is Fox's biscuits.

As well as Eccles and Chorl;ey cakes there are Goosnargh cakes.

Goosnargh is famed too for the quality of the ducks reared there.

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There are also Lancashire Sheeps Milk and Goats Milk Cheeses too, & very nice they are!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Butter pies.

Beyond Preston and Accrington they seem to be relatively unknown, even in the outer parts of Lancashire.

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How about a cup with the Accrington Pals on it

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Butter pies Ken, I've never heard of them;)

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Obviously if you've never heard of them, you've never had one. They're fantastic, love them.

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Think I've eaten everything in my time (within reason) but butter pies:eek:where do you get um from

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Clayton Park makes a good one, you can buy them from Asda. Also Greenhalges (across from cash converters, Accrington) do a decent one. But out of the two i prefare the Clayton Park ones.

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yeh bin cooped up too long mate butter pies are magic.:)

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I thought you were joking! Butter pies are made from potato, onion and a lot of butter which makes it a pretty stodgy little chomp but they're delicious. Glovers bakery in the Leyland area do the best butter pies for me, nice and moist. Some can be a little dry but once tasted never forgotten!

Butter pie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I thought John were joking aswell!!!
You HAVE to try one, I put plenty of black pepper on mine.
Like Ken has said though they are very filling as they are stodgy.

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Honest Ken never come across them in my life and I've travelled near and far, do they have another name? you've got me thinking now will have to ask my daughter to have a look for them when she does my shopping next weekend, will let you know if I like them when I've tried them:D

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According to the Wikipedia article they're also known as Catholic pies. I've never heard that one before.

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No just Butter Pies is all I have heard them being called.

Wonder why some people call them Catholic Pies? Strange.

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Again the same here yerself and I'm a Red Neck, maybe they used to eat them on fridays in the old days:)just had another quick look at wik and thats the reason because catholics didn't eat meat on friday, how strange, my mother never mentioned them at all

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Always used to be Finny/Finnan Haddock for school dinner on Fridays when I were a lad. Is that a Lancashire dish?

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Always thought it was more connected with Scotland yerself although I did have it occasionally when I was a sprog

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I'm sure if it was going up to Scotland, they'd appreciate the value of a couple of bottles of Corporation pop being in the hamper.

For a luxury hamper, a Magnum of this delicious beverage would be a nice touch.

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It is a Jock concoction but I reckon it should be called 'Catholic fish' due to it regularly being served on Fridays for school dinner. Well it seemed like every Friday at St. Mary's in Hassy.

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Butter pies sound like some cheap, meat free, muck those miserly Yorkshire folk dreamt up.

After they'd worked out how not to give you much roast beef, by inventing the custom of eating an eggy puddin' 'n' gravy, before the main course.

:rolleyes::D

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Butter pies were called Catholic Pies because they were aimed at the Catholics and their meat free Friday.......John I am amazed that you have never heard of them, let alone tried them.
Mrs Almond....at the end of Marsden St in Accrington used to do them just on a Friday.....so we also knew them as Friday Pies(cheese pies were also dubbed this).......and they were absolutely delicious.
I haven't had one of these for years.

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No never heard of um Margaret, infact I'm just kicking myself as I forgot to ask my daughter to try and get some for me from ASDA:rolleyes:

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jaysay cissy greens in hassy sell them ... though ive never tried em ....

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Once you,ve got this hamper sorted......can you send one to me in Brisbane?....:rolleyes:

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Butter pies, try the bread basket up ossy, quality say no more, howver going back to the original question Lancashire Hamper heres my two penny's worth
Bombay Mix, Mixed Kebab, Chicken Balti, Polski Chicken and off course that good old favourite Regae Regae sauce

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Loads of places sell em, Clayton Park Bakery make them, they have them in Spar Supermarkets, Lens in the Market Hall sometimes have them too!

Best Regards - Taggy

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you can buy cissy greens at the butty shop at the end of queens road, yum yum

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Well I have now tried Butter Pies, thanks to Jen, and they are very good, the meat pies from cissy greens aren't bad either

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You are right about the Catholics, my family used to get them on Fridays as we weren't allowed to eat meat on that day. Used to get them from a bakers in Clayton which, strangely, was near All Saints school, the non-catholic one!