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Historic Society Heritage, History, Traditions & Customs Foods of the British Isles

Important dates in December to celebrate the traditions and customs of the British Isles

Dec. 21st. Winter Solstice, (see page 2.)

Dec. 25th. Christmas Day

Dec. 26th. Boxing Day, / St. Stephen’s Day: In Dear Readers: Britain ‘Christmas Box’ was a name for giving a In this issue we celebrate a number of special Christmas present. Boxing Day was a day off for occasions: “the Winter Solstice”, “Christmas Day”, servants and when they received a ‘Christmas Box’ “Boxing Day / St. Stephen’s Day”, “New Years Eve”, from the master. ‘Boxing day’ would have been “Hogmanay ()” “Little Christmas ()”. named after the ‘Christmas box’ of money or gifts All these events are opportunities to share the which employers used to give to servants and wealth of the fine foods that are the Heritage, tradesmen. History, Traditions & Customs of the British Isles. A box to collect money for the poor was placed Many other nations go to great lengths to in Churches on Christmas day. The money would be share their nations customs and foods with others. distributed the day after. ‘Boxing day’ would have been named after this custom. As many dishes and menu items got their start in the British Isles and when transported to other Dec. 31st. New Years Eve countries were adapted as a dish created in their “Hogmanay” (Scotland) new home land. Jan. 1st. New Years Day The British Isles Historic Society has now been Jan 6th. “Little Christmas” (Ireland) in existence for a full year. We have held two British Isles Heritage Festivals and published newsletters featuring the foods, entertainment and history of the British Isles. We hope we have been successful in attaining some of the purposes of the society. (See page 2. ) seen as a significant time of year in many cultures, and has been marked by festivals and rituals. It marked the symbolic death and rebirth of the Sun. The seasonal significance of the winter solstice is in the reversal of the gradual lengthening of nights and shortening of days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice The Winter Solstice The purposes of December 21st. 2020 The British Isles The winter solstice, hiemal solstice or hibernal Historic Society solstice, also known as midwinter, occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt away from To do research and record Historic sites, the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each locations, names and landmarks that were founded hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that by the immigrants from the British Isles. hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the To dedicate the preserving, collecting, shortest period of daylight and longest night of the researching, and interpreting of historical year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum information. elevation in the sky. At the pole, there is continuous darkness or twilight around the winter solstice. Its To disseminate information about the history opposite is the summer solstice. Also the Tropic of of the community through exhibits, educational Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn depending on the programs and publications based on the Society’s hemispheres winter solstice the sun goes 90 degrees research. below the horizon at solar midnight to the nadir. To create ways to help future generations The winter solstice occurs during the understand their heritage. hemisphere's winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, To hold festivals and events related to the this is the December solstice (December 21st. 2020, British Isles. 10:03) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the To circulate newsletters and other materials on June solstice (usually 20 or 21 June). Although the historic sites and landmarks. Including British Isles winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term Heritage, History, Traditions & Customs sometimes refers to the day on which it occurs. Other names are "midwinter", the "extreme of To work with British and Celtic organizations as winter" (Dongzhi), or the "shortest day". a public relations media. Traditionally, in many temperate regions, the winter solstice is seen as the middle of winter, but today in NOTICE: some countries and calendars, it is seen as the For copies of back issues of the British Isles beginning of winter. In meteorology, winter is Historic Society Newsletters on the Welsh, Irish, reckoned as beginning about three weeks before the Scottish, Manx, Cornish, and English in B.C. go to the winter solstice. Royal Society of St. George, U.K. website: https:// Since prehistory, the winter solstice has been rssg.org.uk/branches/overseas/americas/canada/ A Melton Mowbray or Pie A is a traditional English pie, served either at room temperature or cold. It consists of a filling of roughly chopped pork and pork fat, surrounded by a layer of jellied pork stock in a hot water crust . It is normally eaten as a snack or with a salad. The Melton Mowbray pork pie is named after Melton Mowbray, a town in Leicestershire While it is sometimes claimed that Melton pies became popular among fox hunters in the area in the late eighteenth century, it has also been stated Jacket Potatoes, that the association of the pork pie trade with known in some parts of the Melton originated around 1831 as a sideline in a United Kingdom (though not small baker and confectioners' shop in the town, generally Scotland) as jacket owned by Edward Adcock. , is a type of potato dish. When well cooked, a baked potato has a fluffy The "gala pie" is a variety of pork pie where interior and a crisp skin. It may be served with fillings the filling includes a proportion of chicken and a and condiments such as butter, cheese, sour cream, hard-boiled egg (also gravy, baked beans and even or corned known as a Grosvenor . pie). Gala pies are often baked in long, loaf-type A baked potato is sometimes called a jacket tins, with multiple eggs potato in the United Kingdom. The baked potato has arranged along the been popular in the UK for many years. In the centre. mid-19th century, jacket potatoes were sold on the streets by hawkers during the autumn and winter Scotch Pies months. In London, it was estimated that some 10 History tells that the Scotch tons of baked potatoes were sold each day by this pie was originating in Scotland, method. Common jacket potato fillings (or although popular all over the "toppings") in the United Kingdom include grated United Kingdom, perhaps by his unique flavor added cheddar cheese, baked beans, mayonnaise, chili to the easiness to take it, eat it and go. The Scotch con carne and chicken and . pie is a small double-crust filled with ground beef, Baked potatoes are often eaten on Guy Fawkes spices, topped with a soft crust and baked. Night; traditionally they were often baked in the On 1st. Dec. 1135 ’s King glowing embers of a bonfire. Henry I died. He had fallen ill seven days As part of the upsurge for more healthy fast earlier after eating too many lampreys. food, the jacket potato has again taken to the streets He was 66, and had ruled for 35 years. of the UK both in mobile units / street vendors and restaurants. Trivia Anna Maria Russell, Duchess of Bedford (3 September 1783 – 3 July What makes those that have a heritage 1857) was a lifelong friend of Queen from the British Isles, Unique Victoria, whom she served as a Lady of the Bedchamber between 1837 and Teatime in Great Britain 1841. She was also the originator of Afternoon tea: is a light the British meal "afternoon tea." meal typically eaten between 3.30 pm and 5 pm. Observance Robert Fortune (Born: of the custom originated amongst the wealthy social September 16, 1812 Kelloe, classes in England in the 1840s, as the time of dinner Berwickshire, Scotland Died: April 13, moved later. Anna Maria, Duchess of Bedford, is 1880 (aged 67) was a Scottish botanist, widely credited with inventing afternoon tea in plant hunter and traveler, best known England as a late-afternoon meal whilst visiting for introducing around 250 new Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire. ornamental plants, mainly from China, but also Japan, into the gardens of Britain, Australia, and the Cream Tea: This snack is associated with the USA. He also played a role in the development of the West Country, i.e. , , Dorset and tea industry in India in the 19th century. Somerset. It usually consists of , clotted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fortune cream, strawberry jam, plus, of course, tea to drink. Some venues will provide butter instead of clotted Empire The cream. In some areas, this is commonly referred to biscuit was originally known as as Devonshire Tea. the "Linzer biscuit", and later as High Tea: is a name for the evening meal, the "Deutsch biscuit". With the usually associated with the working class, and is outbreak of the First World War typically eaten between 5 pm and 7 pm. This was it was renamed: in England to , in also sometimes called a "meat-tea" in the past. In Scotland to Belgian biscuit because Belgium had just most of the United Kingdom (namely, the North of been invaded, but in it remains England, North and South , the English known as the German biscuit or biscuit bun. In Midlands, Scotland, and some rural and working Scotland the name now varies depending on the class areas of Northern Ireland) people traditionally region, with the North-east typically calling it a call their midday meal dinner and their evening meal double and the West an Empire biscuit. tea (served around 6 pm), whereas the upper social In Northern Ireland it is commonly found with a jam classes would call the midday meal lunch or and coconut topping. It is also known as the "Belgian luncheon and the evening meal (served after 7 pm) biscuit", due to being topped in a similar way to a dinner (if formal) or supper Belgian bun, which is made of pastry or dough. There (if informal) also exists a biscuit similar to the Jammie Dodger which is referred to as a Linzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea biscuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Empire_biscuit Bacon Wiltshire Bacon

Everyone loves Bacon / The Wiltshire cure is a Rashers so why are there traditional English technique for differences? curing bacon and . The technique originated in the 18th century in Calne, Irish Bacon/Rashers Wiltshire; it was developed by the Harris family. This type is also known as Originally it was a dry cure method that involved “English bacon.” It’s another type applying to the meat for 10–14 days. The of similar to Canadian Wiltshire cure has been a wet cure, soaking the meat bacon, but with a layer of fat around the outer edge in brine for 4–5 days, since the First World War. of the slices. Rashers are a staple of the traditional European Back Bacon Irish . Original Canadian back bacon less the peameal. Also Rindless Irish Peameal is a traditional, Bacon. popular variety of bacon in the Toronto region of Canada. It’s made from pork loin like regular Canadian bacon but unique: It’s wet-cured in a salty brine, then rolled in crushed, dried yellow peas or (more commonly today) in cornmeal. Also called Canadian Back bacon Cumberland Streaky Bacon A local specialty of for the past 500 years, This one should sound takes its familiar—it’s English style bacon name from the Cumberland made from , cured in salt Pig—a hardy breed that could and spices and then smoked. Varieties are created withstand the harsh weather of by the type of wood smoke (like hickory, pecan or winters. Rather than divided into links as with most apple) and added flavorings like maple or black sausage, the Cumberland is a continuous coil of pepper. about 50cm (21 in). Traditionally the meat content Ayrshire Bacon was very high at 85-98%, but mass production has lowered it to around 45% in some cases. The original Ayrshire bacon is made by version was also mixed with more spices—a the wet cure method much the consequence of the influx of spices into Britain same as Wiltshire Bacon a cure during the 18th century. developed in the 1840s, the main difference being the specially fed somewhat fatter On 24 Dec. 1508 London Scottish Large White pigs are completely boned houses receive piped water again, before being immersed in the cure. for the first time in over a thousand years, since the Romans left town! Lorne or Square Sausage Other by Gloucester sausage – made from Gloucester The , also Region: Old Spot pork, which has known as square sausage, slice Ireland a high fat content. or flat, is a Traditional Scottish sausage, but isn’t Black actually a sausage since it isn’t Manchester sausage – encased in a skin or is cylindrical. Usually made Dubliner, made with prepared using pork, from minced meat, rusk, and spices. It is Guinness white pepper, mace, nut- commonplace in traditional Scottish . It is meg, , sage and thought that the sausage is named after the region of Lorne in Argyll; 'Lorne Sausage' have been found United Kingdom Marylebone sausage – a in recipes as early as 1896. . traditional London Cheeses from the It was granted Protected sausage made British Isles Geographical Indicator of with mace, ginger and Origin status in May 2013 sage The British Cheese by The European Board states that "there Commission. are over 1800 named – pork, British cheeses produced in the UK. The more : United and lemon popular are: Kingdom, Yorkshire sausage – white  Stilton Cheese Beef sausage pepper, mace,

 Cheddar Cheese Black pudding and cayenne  Cheshire Cheese Scottish Glamorgan sausage  Cornish Yarg Hog's pudding Lorne sausage  Durham Blue Cheese Pork sausage  Stilton Cheese Pork and leek (Welsh) Welsh  Wensleydale Cheese Glamorgan sausage  Cornish Brie Snorkers Dragon sausage - . A  Cornish Blue Cheese Stonner pork, leek and chilli sausage.  Irish Dubliner Cheese White pudding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ On 2 Dec.1697 English List_of_sausages#United_Kingdo m Sir Christopher Wren’s Cumberland sausage St Paul’s Cathedral is opened in London. Braughing sausage Cumberland sausage Traditional English Dishes :A traditional English trifle has layers of fruit, cream, and to People were asked to identified traditional make an eye-catching . dishes that are characteristic of English food. While known for hearty dishes of and , people in England enjoy a variety of foods. Full English Breakfast: This : This light dish is aptly named the “full English and airy bread is a true staple in breakfast.” Enjoy a full platter for the most important meal of the day, with Natalia Van Doninck . bacon, sausage, eggs, beans, toast, mushrooms, and : This classic combination of tomatoes. Called Ulster Fry-up in Ireland breaded fish and fried potatoes has been made popular around the world, but it originated in Eng- The following were all covered in earlier newsletters, land. : Yorkshire pudding is made English : English all the tastier by adding sausages to the batter and pancakes are a thin serving it with gravy. comparable to the French crêpe. They and Kidney Pie: Steak and kidney pie are traditionally rolled up and eaten is a known British comfort food. It is a traditional with sugar and lemon. pastry crust filled with kidney, chunks of steak, and Shepherd’s Pie: Made with gravy. lamb and topped with mashed : In this dish, a hard-boiled egg is potatoes, shepherd’s pie is a hearty traditionally wrapped in sausage and coated in dish that is popular throughout the breadcrumbs before being cooked. United Kingdom. Made with beef called a Cottage Lancashire Hot Pot: Lancashire hot pot is a Pie. casserole of meat and vegetables topped with sliced Black Pudding: Black pudding potatoes.

is actually a sausage made with https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/traditional-english-food/ , pork fat, , and congealed blood it is delicious. On 17 Dec. 1778 Sir Humphrey White Pudding: White pudding, Davy, Cornish chemist who oatmeal pudding or mealy pudding (in invented the safety Scotland) is a meat dish popular in lamp for miners. Scotland, Ireland, Northumberland. Discovered a whole White pudding is broadly similar to bunch of ‘ium’s’ black pudding, but does not include blood. Modern including sodium, barium, magnesium, recipes consist of or fat, oatmeal or , potassium and strontium, also proved breadcrumbs and in some cases pork and pork , diamond is just another form of carbon filled into a natural or cellulose . Every Sunday thousands of British families sit down together to eat a veritable feast of roasted You might see this on offer meat served with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, in a pub or cafe. Simply put, vegetables and other accompaniments. It is a bangers are sausages, and mash tradition with a long pedigree, so read on... is potato that's been boiled and How it all began: then mashed up (usually with butter). The sausage THE SUNDAY ROAST used in bangers and mash can be made of pork or beef with apple or tomato seasoning; often a In medieval times the village serfs served the Lincolnshire, or Cumberland sausage is used. squire for six days a week. Sundays however were a The dish is usually served with a rich onion day of rest, and after the morning church service, gravy. Although sometimes stated that the term serfs would assemble in a field and practice their "bangers" has its origins in World War II, the term battle techniques. was actually in use at least as far back as 1919. They were rewarded with mugs of ale and a feast of oxen roasted on a spit. Nowadays: The tradition has survived because Bubble and squeak the meat can be put in the oven to roast before the (sometimes just called bubble) is family goes to church and be ready to eat when they a traditional English dish made return. with the shallow-fried leftover vegetables from a Sunday roast dinner. The chief ingredients are Typical meats for are joints of beef, potato and cabbage, but carrots, peas, brussels pork, lamb or a whole chicken. More rarely duck, sprouts, and other vegetables can be added. It is goose, gammon, turkey or are eaten. The usually served with cold meat from the Sunday roast, more popular roasts are often served with and pickles, but you can eat it on its own. traditional accompaniments, these are: The cold chopped vegetables (and cold - served with Yorkshire pudding; chopped meat if used) are fried in a pan together and horseradish sauce or English as relishes. with mashed potato until the mixture is well-cooked and browned. Roast pork - served with crackling (the crispy skin of the pork) and sage and onion stuffing; apple - A British Tradition got it’s start in sauce and English mustard as relishes chop houses in London. However in the past steaks Roast lamb - served with sage and onion were so British that our elite troops were referred to stuffing and mint sauce as a relish as beefeaters, you can still see them in their traditional costume at the Tower of London. The Roast chicken - served with pigs in blankets, term Porterhouse for a special large kind of steak chipolata sausages and stuffing, and bread sauce or cuts from British pubs where a special brand of dark cranberry sauce or redcurrant jelly beer, Porter beer, was served, and where a snack Any self respecting Sunday roast should be consisted of a steak some 2 lbs (about 900 grams) by served with a gravy made from the meat juices. weight - a single portion for a single man. Pubs will serve it as “The Carvery” foodculture.html THE HUMBLE - LONDON — The YES THAT'S OURS TOO! , the breakfast pastry, Where would British be means “crescent” in without the cheese sandwich or French. But don’t tell bacon butty? The origin of the that to the British. sandwich is as British as it could be. The name refers Tesco, Britain’s largest supermarket chain and a bellwether of sorts for popular tastes, is dispensing to the Earl of Sandwich who lived 1718 to 1792. The with the traditional curved pastry as of Friday and British have always been keen on betting and instead will sell only straight ones. The company gambling, but the Earl of Sandwich overdid it even offered a decidedly British rationale: It is easier to by our standards. During his gambling days, taking spread jam on the straight variety. The banishing of meals was considered by him as highly unwelcome the crescent-shaped croissant spurred no shortage interruptions. He therefore invented a kind of meal of dismay on both sides of the English Channel. not requiring him to exchange the gambling table for is a the dining table: . https://www.learnenglish.de/culture/ of steak coated in patê and then rolled in pastry. It is Other terms depending on the kind of generally agreed that the dish sandwich it can be called Sarnie. If on a bun can be was created in celebration of called bap or butty. (Note see issue 11-20c Page 14, the first Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, and Bit of Trivia for other variations) his victory at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18 1815. Henri Charpentier claims to ... Such an iconic character needed have accidentally invented Crêpes immortalizing, so (naturally) they Suzette in 1895 when he was a 14- named a pastry ensconced beef dish year-old assistant waiter at the after him. Maitre at Monte Carlo’s Café de Paris. In his www.gordonramsayrestaurants.com/ autobiography, “Life à la Henri”, he recalls serving inspiration/why-the-history-of-beef-wellington the Prince of Wales, the future History of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom: “It was quite by accident The history of pound cake dates as I worked in front of a chafing back to the 1700’s and was an English dish that the cordials caught fire. I creation. The traditional pound cake thought it was ruined. The Prince started with a pound of butter, a pound of flour, a and his friends were waiting. How pound of sugar and a pound of cracked open eggs. could I begin all over?” First Recorded Celebration of Charpentier served the dish anyway, and the prince Christmas, December 24, 336 loved it so much that he requested it be named for a young woman who was in attendance. Thus, one of Although Christmas celebrations started in the most popular in the world was born. the early 300s, the first celebration of Christmas that we have recorded evidence

for occurred in Rome on December 24th in A.D. 336. Steak and Kidney John, King of England, born pie, a traditional British on 24 Dec. 1167, was the son dish consisting of diced of Henry II of England and Eleanor of steak, onion, and kidney— Aquitaine. He was King of typically from a lamb or England from 6 April 1199, until his pig—cooked in a brown gravy, flavoured with death. He became King of England after the death of Worcestershire sauce and black pepper, and then his brother Richard I (Richard the Lionheart). His wrapped in a pastry and baked. Mushrooms and repressive policies and excessive taxation brought bacon are sometimes included, and various ales, him into conflict with his barons, and he was forced notably stout, can be added to the gravy. Steak and to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. kidney pie dates to the 19th century and is counted Strawberry among Britain’s national dishes. https://www.britannica.com/topic/steak-and-kidney-pie In the UK, the term shortcake Other popular British pies are Steak and refers to a biscuit similar to Guinness. Scots love Killie Pies, Scotch pies and shortbread. They are generally less Scotch . The Irish dense and more crunchy and dry love Steak and Irish Stout than shortbread. The first pies and the Cornish have strawberry shortcake recipe appeared in an English their Cornish . cookbook as early as 1588, according to Driscoll's berry growers. By 1850, strawberry shortcake was a well-known biscuit and fruit dessert served hot with A Tart is an butter and sweetened cream. They later appeared in English confection consisting of a a recipe book in 1594, and later featured in shell beneath Shakespeare's play “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” layers of jam, , and a topping of flaked almonds. It is a variant of the An is a small, Bakewell pudding, closely associated with the town round pie, similar to a , of Bakewell in Derbyshire. filled with currants and made from with butter, sometimes Bakewell pudding is an topped with demerara sugar. The word cake has English dessert consisting of a generally since narrowed in meaning to , flaky pastry base with a layer of except this example and other specific foods like a sieved jam and topped with a barm cake, after the creation of an Eccles cake. The filling made of egg and . Eccles cake is named after the English town of Eccles, Sir Robert Watson-Watt,Born: 1892, which is in the historic county of Lancashire and in British inventor. He is considered the inventor of the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester. Radar (1935), although others had also done research on it. He was the first to create a working system. RADAR is an acronym for "RAdio Detection And Ranging." Died December 5, 1973 Joseph Rudyard Vindaloo is a British- Kipling, Born: 30 December Indian curry dish with meat 1865, Malabar Hill, Bombay (mostly lamb or chicken, Presidency, British India, Died: but sometimes also pork) in 18 January 1936 (aged 70) a sharper-than-sharp sauce Fitzrovia, London, England. with pieces of potato. Once English author and poet, most vindaloo made its way to Great Britain, it was once of whose works are concerned again subject to some enthusiastic adjustments. This with India where he was born. Among his books for time, however, the changes were based on a children are the Just So Stories and perhaps his most misunderstanding of the name. In Hindi, ‘aloo’ famous The Jungle Book. means potato, so chefs from Pakistan and Bangladesh who had made their way to England to Rudyard Kipling in Vancouver. It’s not widely seek their fortunes were convinced that the humble known, but three or four chunks of land in spud was an obligatory ingredient. Metropolitan Vancouver were once owned by the famous English writer, Rudyard Kipling. Tayto Crisps When Kipling first visited Vancouver in June Joseph 'Spud' Murphy and his 1889, (during a tour of North America), he was, at employee Seamus Burke produced the 23, just beginning to be famous. When next he came world's first seasoned crisps: around in April 1892, he was very much more Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar. well-known. (And 15 years after that, on his third Companies worldwide sought to visit, October 5, 1907, he was the most famous buy the rights to Tayto's technique. author in the world.) Tayto was established by Joe ‘Spud’ Murphy in 1954 at a time when most crisps were imported from the Shortbread, This UK and were unflavoured bar the small blue bag of buttery biscuit was first salt included in each bag to enhance the flavour. mentioned in a Scottish print Spotting a niche in the Irish market, Joe Murphy set recipe in 1736 and is now up his own crisp factory. Credited with inventing the one of the country's favourite treats. While you can first ever Cheese & Onion flavoured crisps, the brand eat shortbread in Scotland at any time of year, it is name Tayto has now become synonymous with most often associated with Christmas and Hogmanay crisps across Ireland. Production of the Cheese & (New Year's Eve). If you're looking for a gift to bring Onion flavour crisps started in a factory on Moore back to your family, there's nothing better than a tin Street, Dublin, where after being packed by hand in of Scottish shortbread. waxed greaseproof paper, the crisps were delivered John Wycliffeborn. circa 1330 to the retailer in an airtight tin, to help maintain their freshness. English religious reformer. He directed the first English translation of the Bible (1382). In 1415, the Sir Isaac Newton, Born December 25, 1642 Roman Catholic Church declared him a heretic, banned English mathematician, philosopher, astronomer. He his writings, and declared his remains were to be discovered the three laws of motion, the law of removed from sacred ground. Died December 31, 1384 gravity, and invented calculus. d. 1727 Guinness Irish couple of tbsps. of flour with and sour Ingredients: cream before serving. • 1L of Guinness Original Serve with a loaf of Irish Soda Draft or Extra Stout (2 Bread. 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• 2 lbs. Diced Beef or NOTE: Although is generally made with Lamb, cut into 1” pieces lamb, potatoes, carrots, and parsley, purists

• 2 Medium Carrots Diced maintain that it should be made with stronger-flavored mutton and only potatoes, onions, • 2 Celery Diced and water. • 3 Large Parsnip or Potatoes Diced V.G.H. Thrift Store • 4 cups Beef Stock DON”T THROW IT OUT • 2 tsp. Fresh and Rosemary Thanks to the members of the British Isles • Salt and Pepper to taste Community for their donations to the Vancouver General Hospital Thrift Store. • 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce The funds from your re-saleable household • 1 Med. Onion or Leek Diced items, collectables, etc. has resulted in • Button Mushrooms equipment that is helping saving the lives of

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The beef or lamb in a sealable bag c/w one (1) can of Guinness, salt, pepper, Worcestershire, Thyme and Rosemary over night. Shaking the bag a few times to well coat all pieces of meat. Method: Sautee the onion and Stir Fry the Beef in a

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