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British Cuisine Traced Back 8000 Years
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by Vinny | September 13, 2007 at 04:23 pm
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Roasted hedgehog, nettle pudding and smokey stew, which can be traced back more than 8,000 years, are among the oldest British recipes.
The ancient culinary delights were first recorded in 6,000 BC according to new research.
Ruth Fairchild of the University of Wales Institute (UWIC), Cardiff, Food Science Department, spent two months finding the definitive list of the oldest recorded recipes.
Records show nettle pudding to be the oldest recipe, closely followed in chronological order by smokey stew, meat pudding, barley bread and roast hedgehog.
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at 02:16 on September 14th, 2007
vinny1, I like this story. It's good stuff.
LOL cute Video, But roast HedgeHog surely there is not much meat on those things. :) you would need at least 4 per person.
I can just see them in some beaker market with Roast Hedgehogs on a stick like Toffee apples :)
at 06:08 on September 14th, 2007
The original gastropub!
at 06:09 on September 14th, 2007
Back when the Slug & Lettuce was a family-owned public house serving, well, slugs and lettuce.
at 06:27 on September 14th, 2007
Good story Vinnie, guess that explains British Boiled Beef today, as well as everything else they boil.
at 10:49 on September 14th, 2007
vinny1, forget the hedgehog, I will have roasted nettles and barley bread. Good stuff.
at 17:31 on September 14th, 2007
I do like Spam though ....probably they had HedgeHogSpam..
at 17:32 on September 14th, 2007
I would go so far as Hedgehogspam in a white wine Spam sauce, served on a bed of nettle, with more Spam of course.
at 07:44 on September 15th, 2007
That sounds great Barry please invite me when you are having it.
at 04:35 on September 16th, 2007
Why wait for the invite, go to your nearest Haute Cuisine British supermarket. a free Viking Hat is included with each purchase, just tell em "Dinsdale" sent ya.
at 04:41 on September 16th, 2007
Vinny I have taken the liberty of adding two new British Spam products to your post in the photos section.
at 05:37 on September 16th, 2007
LOL Barry I did think of those old Python video's but there was also a program called not the nine o'clock news that had it in for hedge hogs, it starred Rowan Atkinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH7hOAaxSg4
And the vid that the complaint was about I like trucking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozVxiQcqFQ8
at 07:11 on September 16th, 2007
Thanks for the vid links SthPacific.
at 07:09 on September 16th, 2007
Many thanks for the pics Barry.
at 10:25 on September 16th, 2007
No Problem, I figured if we were on the subject of cooking "Spiny Norman" that we should include some photos of him.