Black Puddings

Hi Keith , I was born and lived for the best part of twenty years on the lower reaches of Pendle Hill . We used to go out most weekends with a Musket , or was that a can of colt 45 , looking for black pudding birds, or was that just birds in general, the mind plays tricks when you`ve had a few.. Anyway, Im sure we bagged a few . I think I got the spelling right on that one. John you can do anything with a black pudding , boil it grill it , fry it or just eat it as it is . Or heres another one , wrap it in streaky bacon and cook it till the bacon is cripy,, Very tasty.:D:D:D

Treacle mines, ginger beer streams, black pudding birds, haggis hunting: great post and fun. K.

Keith, that was an eye opener about the black pudding bird, but I am interested in the Treacle Mines. Like so many I was always under the impression that treacle came from tins on the supermarket shelf, much in the same manner as milk comes from cardboard cartons.
Most forms of mining are fraught with danger, the risk of rock fall or a cave in, so what are the inherent dangers in mining Treacle? Does the treacle come in a solid form to be rendered down, or is it in a liquid form similar to crude oil? The best treacle is I know very dark which suggests to me it never see sthe light of day at any time. How did treacle mining start, and if it is mined why is it so sweet?
I look forward to you informed reply.:eek:

The elephant is a dainty bird, it flies from bough to bough.
It makes it's nest in a Rhubarb Tree and Whistle like a cow !

Bit like:

One fine day in the middle of the night,
two dead men got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.

Only line I recall at mo - anyone remember the rest or more of similar ? K.

NO COMMENTS ON : ginger beer streams then ?

If cow rymes with bow, then cough should ryme with bough, but it rymes with boff.

An elephant is a dainty bird,
It flies from leaf to leaf;
It makes its nest in a strawberry plant,
And whistles through its teeth.

We kid you not Daze. there are treacle mines all over U K , from Cornwall to Scotland.
The pic of a pub in Thurrock proves it.;)
Mike

one fine night in the middle of the day
the tank caught fire and the water ran away
the blind man saw it the deaf man heard it
the lame ran to fetch the fire engine
the fire engine came had no wheels on
pulled by two dead donkeys
ran over a dead cat and half killed it
and set the fire out with parrafin

john the main problem with the treackle mines was that being glutinous if you were caught in a flow(good old flo) you had to get out fast before it set or live on cornish pasties givn to you by th other miners, who would rush off to get help. cheers. alf:D:D

The treacle mining industry in Cornwall owes much to the county's unique geology. Millions of years ago seismic changes in the earth's crust resulted in hydrocarbons or fossil fuels such as coal metamorphosising into complex carbohydrates which in turn broke down giving rise to substantial deposits of sugars such as treacle and molasses. During the late 18th. and early 19th. century treacle was mined extensively throughout the county and Cornish treacle was said to be among the finest in the world, with treacle puddings forming an essential part of the traditional Cornish diet. The extraction of treacle was a highly skilled operation requiring stamina and teamwork. Miners however were poorly paid and worked in sticky and often very perilous conditions. Underground deposits of treacle were often under considerable pressure and many brave Cornishmen met an untimely death after inadvertently tapping into hitherto undiscovered reserves. This was in fact the origin of the saying ' to come to a sticky end '. During the latter part of the 19th. century the bottom fell out of the market as treacle prices slumped due in no small part to the importation of cheaper cane sugar and sugar beet from the West Indies. Faced with starvation, many miners and their families left to seek their fortune in the Golden Syrup fields of Kenya and Tanganyika.

Hi Wilky.
How long will it be called "Black" pudding.One of the
Councils in Wales,I think its Radnorshire,have just
banned the pudding Spotted Dick from its menu's
as being offensive,its now on the menu as Spotted
Richard.How long before Faggots,become Sexualy
Unsettled Meatballs,or all Tarts become Flans,or
Black Pudding becomes Ethnic Minority Pudding,or
Cod Balls become Fish Spheres.Another example of
Politicaly Correct busybodies going overboard.

Dave Willliams(R583900)