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  • Current Status: Holidays,

    I was checking about Boston buns with a younger sibling ('cause I can be as wrong as anyone) re the inclusion of currants or sultanas and he said, Nah, none of that, but remember how we used to spread the butter?

    Yep. As thick as the icing. A really good sweet & fat hit-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Current Status: Holidays,

    Hit in one Lyndon: while the name came to ANZ, the teacake known as a Sally Lunn (made with a light yeast dough with dried fruit but not iced) didnt...Sally Lunns are associated with Bath (but are *not* the same as a Bath bun.) Info courtesy my English grandmother's cookbook, but probably much more uptodate in Wikipedia...

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Current Status: Holidays,

    Luncheon sausage was also called Belgian sausage (it was originally German sausage but changed with WW1.) Segg was marketed as having 'steak & egg" flavour.

    And no, when I was growing up (and with the last one I ate, 3 years ago) Boston buns didnt have fruit.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Current Status: Holidays,

    As someone way uptread pointed out, it's another example of North v. South dialectual words...luncheon sausage, pottles, flagons, cribs - there's quite a few of them (especially when you throw in fish names...)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Current Status: Holidays,

    O, I was born in the late 1940s-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Current Status: Holidays,

    Boston bun was used for large roundish flattish buns with coconut-sprinkled pink icing in my Christchurch childhood. They didnt have any fruit in them. We didnt know anything as a Sally Lunn.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Obamania, For Real,

    "7am Obama escots outgoing president"etc.

    Bugger. I'd hoped a commemorative waterboarding was going to be the departure ceremony of choice.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Current Status: Holidays,

    Dont worry Isabel! Dunno how Raymond treats his, but I *never* beat a flounder. (I just kill them.)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Current Status: Holidays,

    Waimate is also home to one of my nieces and her family...Oamaru is where my mother & her brothers were born (and she lives again in the house in which she was brought up.) Two Matches-from-Totara women married two Millers-from-Purakaunui men and shifted to Oamaru at the turn of the 19th & 20th centuries...there's a *lot* of descendants.

    One of the neat aspects of 'baiting here is the flounders tend to follow the incoming 'bait shoals...it's not uncommon to wind up with both in your net (only 7 months & 24 days to go...courage, self!)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Hard News: It's not OK to just make…,

    Bill Ralston is basically a hadit trying to be - something again. Sad, eh.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

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