It comes in cans now!

[veg-o-matic]

Suet is the beef version of lard.

Currants are little berries (I think). Anyway, they're a fruit.

I guess Spotted Dick would make good "afters" for Bangers and Mash.

Cock soup is yummy. Even better is cream of...oh, never mind.

veg

 

[maytagbear]

There are two sorts of currants.

One sort of currant, is made from particularly small grapes--originally from Corinth. These are called Zante Currants on the box.

The other sort of currant is indeed a berry. They come in white (golden-never have had), red (good--but very astringent), and black currant (purple.) I adore black currant jelly, black currant syrup, and....... The trouble with currant bushes is that they have a negative effect on certain types of coniferous trees. A good, easy dessert with red currant jelly is called Bar-le-Duc, and I make it (there are other versions), by spreading most of a jar of red currant jelly over a block of cream cheese (even the reduced fat, but never the non-fat!) and spreading it on plain, plain crackers. Bar-le-Duc was very popular in the 20s-40s. I like it because it's just good. It looks nice on a "Candlewick" plate, too.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[jamiel]

You can buy both animal or vegetable suet in the UK--the vegetable suet is essentially Crisco, a little bit harder/firmer and generally shredded (i.e. in little bits) so it disperses through the mixture then melts at oven temperature. Looks a bit like shredded Mozzarella cheese.

 

[kenmore1978]

Vegetable suet

OK,, that means I can use Crisco (generically known as "vegetable shortning") in place of the suet. Never seen a beef version here, though one can still buy lard

 

[petek]

Shortening

x

 

[toggleswitch]

Food by Proctor and Gamble?

and hence the FLUFFO softener-appropriate name.

 

[maytagbear]

Crisco, Jif, Duncan Hines---

all of these lines used to be P&G.

Crisco and Jif are now made by Smuckers, and Duncan Hines is made, I think, by a company called Arora Foods (sp).

Pringles are still P&G, though.
As is, I think, Sunny Delite.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[toggleswitch]

*WOW* not much over 40 y.o. and i'm already in a permament fog..

 

[veg-o-matic]

Pete, do you actually remember Fluffo? In the states, it was Golden Fluffo, but I don't see any mention of the color in your ad. It was also packaged like Crisco here. Don't recall ever seeing American shortening in a box like that, even during the WWII (glass jars at that time.)

veg, who just LOVES Crisco!

 

[kenmore1978]

Crisco in a box

I just bought come Crisco that came packaged like stick butter. Rmeber the competing brnads like Spry and Snowflake?