Christmas customs

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 12:53 pm

In our house today and when I lived with my mum and dad, and in all my aunties and uncles too it was customary at Christmas to eat Christmas cake with Cheshire cheese. Same in my wife's family (she comes from Ossett) Is this peculiar to the mill towns or common in Leeds too?

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 1:01 pm

Cheshire cheese?? CHESHIRE CHEESE?????Wensleydale old chap... Wenslydale!!!!! I love xmas cake with a good slice of good crumbly wensleydale cheese.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 1:16 pm

...AND A GLASS OF SHERRY!

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 1:25 pm

Or Port!

Post by **chameleon** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 1:42 pm

simonm wrote: Or Port! And maybe Goodwill to Munki and Dunki and let them out of the cellar for dinner

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 1:52 pm

I'll think about it!!

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 1:53 pm

Aye, it HAS to be Wensleydale. I've even converted my new Midlands family to the delights of Wensleydale. Good grief I can hear the voice of Wallace coming through as I type this!!

Post by **chameleon** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 1:53 pm

chameleon wrote: simonm wrote: Or Port! And maybe Goodwill to Munki and Dunki and let them out of the cellar for dinner Was always Cheshire (and Port) in Gran's day, with the Christmas Wine and spirits actually delivered from a merchant in The Calls, Gale Lister.My wife (from Lincoln Norfolk country) still looks at me with a degree of concern for my sanity when cheese sits next to Christmas cake on my plate, rather the same way as I see more southerly people having jam on Yorkshire Pudding before the Sunday roast Anyone aver heard of Golden Syrup on dumplings and gravy?

Post by **chameleon** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 1:58 pm

I suppose another one for us is a way of using the left-overs, always seem to cook for twice as many people as are coming....The books will tell you that Bubble n' Squeak is traditionally cooked cabbage mixed with potatos and fried - we've become accustomed to mashing and mixing all the left-over vegitables together and frying till on the better side of b*****ed and eating with cold turkey and onion gravy.

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 3:02 pm

chameleon wrote: chameleon wrote: simonm wrote: Or Port! And maybe Goodwill to Munki and Dunki and let them out of the cellar for dinner Was always Cheshire (and Port) in Gran's day, with the Christmas Wine and spirits actually delivered from a merchant in The Calls, Gale Lister.My wife (from Lincoln Norfolk country) still looks at me with a degree of concern for my sanity when cheese sits next to Christmas cake on my plate, rather the same way as I see more southerly people having jam on Yorkshire Pudding before the Sunday roast Anyone aver heard of Golden Syrup on dumplings and gravy? As a kid we allus had jam on Yorkshires, not before dinner but using the leftovers. I still have one every now and then, my Midlands missus looks disgusted when I do.