Adams In No Rush To Extend Contracts (&Food chat!)

Now you're talking, St Bede's used to serve us Spam fritters in batter with a hot tomato sauce/gravy for dinner. Lovely.

 

Spam fritters - food of the Gods! My Mum used to cook them in our chip pan, which was also used to cook fried bread. It was full of lard, which was left in and allowed to harden after each use. Any black bits would be scooped out with a slotted spoon. About once a year she would replace the lard, whether it needed it or not.

 

My mum had a frying pan like that, bacon and egg double deckers with the bread dipped in the fat. Paradise.

 

Bloody hell lads! Get it written - the Bradford City cook book.

 

Thread well and truly hijacked now, apologies.

 

Genius Tennesseebantam. Merry Xmas mate.

 

Marvellous

 

In those days the fat from the bacon could cook a full English, not the emulsified stuff they call bacon today, as you say Paradise.

 

You can get that bacon, but you have to go to a butcher's not a supermarket.

 

I thought they all pumped water into bacon to give it extra weight, apart from Keelham Farm I don't know a butchers in Bradford anymore.

 

I think I love your mum...

 

I don’t know if they do this bacon you speak of but there’s a butchers in the shop at Tong Garden centre. Like to load up on mixed grills there in the summer

There was a traditional butchers in Scholes prior to lockdown. Not been up there much recently, mind.

 

Dry-cured bacon is the answer.

But if you don't know a butcher, you'll be paying a lot of money at a premium supermarket for dry cured.

 

I'm liking this jag. No BCFC for bloody ages - so let's talk food. Totally primal. Let's just hope City bring home the bacon in May.

 

Still there,opposite the co -op.

 

There's one opposite Daisy's Kitchen just past Thackley Corner but you're right there are very few about now around Bradford.

 

That brings back fond memories of bread fried in proper bacon fat... Must try that again one day, as I do have a good source of bacon here. Yes, it has to come from a butcher's or a good deli; the supermarket stuff is generally not worth it.

RCB

 

Few things in life better than a fried slice

 

I'm already looking forward to a fried slice - and bubble & squeak, of course, from Christmas dinner leftovers - with our Boxing Day brunch fry-up. You can take the boy out of Essex...