Recent content by Perris

steak & kidney pie, and liver & onions, are traditional and still popular here. Some of the glands are delicious - usually marketed as sweetmeats. Brawn (head) and tripe (stomach lining) were popular up t'north in times past; I tried tripe and didn't like it; never tasted brawn, and it's hard to...

I suspect our water board will resist that unless and until they are forced to by the regulator or someone else with authority over them.

ours isn't that, as you guessed, but another post-war quick and dirty material: asbestos cement. Since they are replacing the broken bits with a plastic pipe that fits inside, I was thinking the same thing about replacement. Though of course now it would snag at every repair - and there's loads...

what is orangeburg pipe?

thanks all; lots of good and useful advice here. It is piped from a reservoir at the top of the hill behind us. There was an issue with the reservoir, and once the engineers fixed that and turned the water back on, apparently it caused 9 bursts on the line to us (we were the 9th). Pipes laid in...

Our supply went off on Monday at 8am and was not restored till 2pm Thursday; it was a strong lesson on how dependent we are on this resource. We have a water barrel to collect rain from the shed roof, and it was never more appreciated than over these last few days, but I was wondering if...

do you know Harvey Ussery's book on The small scale poultry flock? He really gets the chickens to work on his patch! I don't implement the same methods as him, but I would still recommend that book to anyone keeping chickens, and especially if you want to utilize their full potential as...

y'all have got me thinking of that lovely old John Denver tune on homegrown tomatoes...

do you know this resource https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/vitamin-c-foods.php ? I find it very useful for this sort of research.

We've been supporting local businesses for years, with all the benefits you outline CC, and I was delighted to find that the Covid lockdowns gave a huge boost to localism right across the UK. Local suppliers of goods and services thrived, and small towns boomed in the urban commuter belts, since...

I've also tried a lot of the edible wild plants round here, and concluded that there is a good reason why most of them are not cultivated - they don't taste very nice or they're not worth the effort of collecting/prepping. I have yet to try the wild parsnip. We are inundated with wild garlic in...

the best mushrooms I've found locally are called Parasol mushrooms. They taste absolutely fantastic, and are impossible to confuse with anything else that grows round here because they are enormous!

Excalibur here too. I don't use it very often, but the results are always well received when I do. A south Korean variety of jerky we've tried is particularly good: https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/yukpo

give brioche a try; I promise you won't regret it

will do - but only if it comes out well of course! ;)