Christmas customs

gbdlufc · Post by **gbdlufc** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 3:04 pm

Always a slice of cheese on top of a bit of Christmas cake although when I've asked for this in other peoples houses they look at me gone out!!The other one which Im unsure if its a Leeds thing or not, is having your Yorkshires before having your main Sunday dinner?? Always did this at my nannas as a kid and mi mams and I do now weather the guests like it or not lol.

jan8 · Post by **jan8** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 5:21 pm

It was (and still is) Cheshire Cheese with the Christmas cake. Never eat the stuff any other time through the year though.Best wishes for the New Year to you all, and look forward to reading more interesting topics / debates etc. xx

jan8 · Post by **jan8** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 5:21 pm

It was (and still is) Cheshire Cheese with the Christmas cake. Never eat the stuff any other time through the year though.Best wishes for the New Year to you all, and look forward to reading more interesting topics / debates etc. xx

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 07 Jan, 2009 9:37 pm

simonm wrote: Cheshire cheese?? CHESHIRE CHEESE?????Wensleydale old chap... Wenslydale!!!!! I love xmas cake with a good slice of good crumbly wensleydale cheese. Now I like Wensleydale, I also like Blue Stilton, Cheddar and we bought something called "Yorkshire Fettle" this time which was Yew's milk cheese, but when I was a kid it was always Cheshire. The taste somehow complements the richness of the cake - certainly ours was rich, I put a tablespoonful of rum in it every weekend since it was baked in November! I quite like Lancashire cheese too Up to 1974 the West Riding had a border with Cheshire at Holme Moss.

Croggy · Post by **Croggy** » Wed 07 Jan, 2009 9:48 pm

Eating yorkshire puddings before the 'main course' was a way to fill up before the expensive bit, lol - as my Grandad and then dad used to say - "them that eats most Yorkshires gets most meat" and of course, by the time the children ate a good helping, they weren't hungry enough to want lots of beef!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 07 Jan, 2009 10:00 pm

Croggy wrote: Eating yorkshire puddings before the 'main course' was a way to fill up before the expensive bit, lol - as my Grandad and then dad used to say - "them that eats most Yorkshires gets most meat" and of course, by the time the children ate a good helping, they weren't hungry enough to want lots of beef! We still eat Yorkshire puddings before the main course. Baked as advocated on here by me in ex Fray Bentos tins , the new ones are not as good as the old ones, but once they've had a bit of seasoning the pudding no longer sticks.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Wed 07 Jan, 2009 11:02 pm

Trojan wrote: simonm wrote: Cheshire cheese?? CHESHIRE CHEESE?????Wensleydale old chap... Wenslydale!!!!! I love xmas cake with a good slice of good crumbly wensleydale cheese. Now I like Wensleydale, I also like Blue Stilton, Cheddar and we bought something called "Yorkshire Fettle" this time which was Yew's milk cheese, but when I was a kid it was always Cheshire. The taste somehow complements the richness of the cake - certainly ours was rich, I put a tablespoonful of rum in it every weekend since it was baked in November! I quite like Lancashire cheese too Up to 1974 the West Riding had a border with Cheshire at Holme Moss. 'Yorkshire Fettle' is a type of 'Feta' cheese. They used to call it 'Feta' until an E.U. ruling that only cheese made in a certain part of Greece could use the 'Feta' name (despite the fact that Feta is not an area, but actually means 'slice' in Greek!) Anyway the Yorkshire makers had to come up with another name and so chose 'Fettle'. (Not a lot of people know that!)P.S. its 'Ewe's milk', not 'Yew's milk '- unless it comes from a tree!

jeffn · Post by **jeffn** » Wed 07 Jan, 2009 11:23 pm

Quote: We still eat Yorkshire puddings before the main course. Baked as advocated on here by me in ex Fray Bentos tins , the new ones are not as good as the old ones, but once they've had a bit of seasoning the pudding no longer sticks. This is a new one on me, Fray Bentos tins eh, they're a lot deeper than the yorkie tins I use. So I get a can of Fray Bentos, open it with the key, do I use the top part of the tin, or the bottom? ( don't laugh, its ages since I've bought Fray Bentos )

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Thu 08 Jan, 2009 12:26 am

drapesy wrote: P.S. its 'Ewe's milk', not 'Yew's milk '- unless it comes from a tree! Whoops! Most parts of the Yew are poisonous too

FLOJO · Post by **FLOJO** » Thu 08 Jan, 2009 5:01 am

jan8 wrote: It was (and still is) Cheshire Cheese with the Christmas cake. Never eat the stuff any other time through the year though.Best wishes for the New Year to you all, and look forward to reading more interesting topics / debates etc. xx living here in South Africa people thought we were crazy when we put cheese on Christmas cake and it was not only the Afrikanner the English born also, so maybe it is a Yorkshire thing. Also I have found most Afrikanners turn their nose up at dried fruit eg currants, raisins ect,but they eat like crazy dried mangoes figs pineapples ect and they think we are odd.