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Cumbrians, please can you help me to make my husband happy?

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NewAndImprovedNorks · 15/08/2020 22:04

DH is Cumbrian and remembers his Granny making him something called lentil mold...that he tells me is more delicious than it sounds (not hard).
He assures me it is a regional speciality. I am from Essex, we ate food, you know chops and egg and things.

Apparently it is cooked lentils, mashed potato and something something something. You mix it all together, press it in a mold of some sort (details vague) and then fry the cold slices.
Doesn’t that sound DELIGHTFUL.

We have been married for 32 years and he speaks longingly of this every year or so, and I have now cracked and said I will eat a slice if he makes it, but he can’t find the recipe.

Does this ring any bells at all? Thank you

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CoRhona · 16/08/2020 01:01

Disclaimer - not from Cumbria so may be way off the mark but is this the sort of thing he means?

www.google.com/amp/s/invegetableswetrust.com/2013/02/03/spicy-lentil-and-oat-burgers/amp/

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CoRhona · 16/08/2020 01:05
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Tr1skel1on · 16/08/2020 01:19

I can't do a link for some reason. Google thinly spread lentil loaf. Obscure recipe but it's brilliant, but it uses breadcrumbs instead of mashed potatoes.

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IncrediblySadToo · 16/08/2020 01:24

As a vegetarian it sounds great! Unfortunately I'm also a low carber, so I really couldn't eat it, but I'm hanging around to see if you get a recipe!! (And put it in my 'off the wagon' recipe pile!!

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DramaAlpaca · 16/08/2020 01:26

My family on both sides are Cumbrian, one lot from the south of the county and the other from the west, and we go back many generations. I've never heard of this delight, I'm afraid.

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InTropicalTrumpsLand · 16/08/2020 01:36

Not Cumbrian (not even British), but could it be something like this?



Except, instead of rolled in a ball, molded flat-ish? Also, any chance his parents/siblings remember it?
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BlankTimes · 16/08/2020 02:20

I'd substitute the same quantity of mashed potatoes for the quantity of rice in this recipe, it can't be that far off his granny's recipe I wouldn't have thought.

www.easycheesyvegetarian.com/very-veggie-lentil-bake/

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ItchyScratch · 16/08/2020 07:50

I’m a Cumbrian and I have never heard of this ever.
I think he has dreamt it Confused

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VictoriaBun · 16/08/2020 07:55

Just tell him it must of been something his gran made up and make him at tattie pot instead !

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NoSquirrels · 16/08/2020 07:59

He assures me it is a regional speciality.

And yet cannot find evidence of it on the internet? I am afraid it would be a Granny Specialty not a Cumbrian Specialty.

British regional food isn’t big on lentils - Cumbrian specialties would be like lamb-based, for example.

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TheDoctorDances · 16/08/2020 08:05

It sounds similar to pease pudding:

www.northernsoul.me.uk/pease-pudding/

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Wetoopere · 16/08/2020 08:05

Cumbrian and never heard of it.

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FinnyStory · 16/08/2020 08:12

Is it definitely lentils? Lentils don't really feature in traditional English food, could it be split peas, something similar to pease pudding? How much did child DH know about the actual production, or is he assuming ingredients because of the result/texture?

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Roystonv · 16/08/2020 08:14

Same here and agree about the lamb and lentils by another poster. Pease pudding sounds your best bet.

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How2Help · 16/08/2020 08:40

It can’t be pease pudding - he said it was delicious and speaks of it longingly.

Envy Grin

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TheDoctorDances · 16/08/2020 08:40

Lentils featured heavily in WWI recipes, it could have been a throwback to rationing. Maybe have a look at some wartime cookbooks?

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JustLookingThanks · 16/08/2020 08:52

Hi I wondered if it could be Lent not lentil so I did a little research.
First link explains the origin, second a recipe. The recipe could easily have had potato in to thicken it. Fingers crossed it's the one. It's served fried with eggs and bacon!
www.medieval-recipes.com/easter-ledge-pudding/
fabulousfusionfood.blogspot.com/2019/04/easter-ledge-pudding-recipe.html?m=1

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NewAndImprovedNorks · 16/08/2020 15:12

You lot are bloody brilliant!

Yes, the lentils in Cumbria didn’t seem COMPLETELY authentic, so I will see if he thinks it might be pease instead.
Thank you so much, will report back

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NewAndImprovedNorks · 16/08/2020 15:13

@How2Help

It can’t be pease pudding - he said it was delicious and speaks of it longingly.

Envy Grin

Proper giggled at that.
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NewAndImprovedNorks · 16/08/2020 15:15

@NoSquirrels

He assures me it is a regional speciality.

And yet cannot find evidence of it on the internet? I am afraid it would be a Granny Specialty not a Cumbrian Specialty.

British regional food isn’t big on lentils - Cumbrian specialties would be like lamb-based, for example.

You might be right about the ‘Granny Speciality’
He idolised his Granny because she let him help in the kitchen and made cakes and generally fed him up.
She made another dish called ‘bilberry grunt’ that was basically layers of bilberries / blueberries and suet pastry cooked like a steamed pudding. I did make that once and it was delicious, but SO stodgy, especially with a dollop of thick custard.

He was overjoyed
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bookgirl1982 · 16/08/2020 15:24

This is the sort of query they love on the radio 4 programme "the kitchen cabinet" - worth a tweet or email to them!

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BuffaloCauliflower · 16/08/2020 15:28

That pudding sounds delicious, as does the fried lentil mash cakes. I’m sure I can make something up with that!

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BobbinThreadbare123 · 16/08/2020 15:50

You need the stodgy puds up 'ere. It's cold and rains a lot. Gotta have owt to stick to your ribs.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 16/08/2020 15:57

With dh it’s rissoles, I’ve tried and failed. Fuck it.

I knew a man whose fave childhood amnesia recipe was braised stuffed heart. Vom.

If they wanted to eat it that badly they’d cook it themselves?.

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StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 16/08/2020 16:11

Rissoles ! I forgot them, my mum used to mix sausage meat leftover mash and a bit of corned beef with onion and shape into rounds and fry, she called these rissoles, we loved them.
Anyone out there from Darlington who can remember the stall in the indoor market that remembers ‘ savouries’ delicious oniony corned beefy stuff really well cooked and slapped into a bread bun ... bloody lush. Me and my best mate went for one every saturday lunchtime after the pub 😁

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