Did oyu see that the NY times printed an article about a new sort of food? A sausage roll!

[BrendaandEddie]

WHO KNEW the Yanks didn't have them!?
APparently we eat them on Boxing day, ..servants... something... Downton shit crap.

BUT THEY DONT HAVE THEM

I have biscuits and gravy on my 'to cook' list. I will make them this winter.

Real buttermilk is a by-product of making butter. Most buttermilk in the US (don't know about the UK) is cultured, so yes, fake buttermilk. I use cultured when I can't get the real thing.

I don't know much about flour in the UK. This is the favored biscuit making flour in the Southern US:

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/white-lily-flour_n_3347963.html
I don't know what the UK equivalent or close equivalent would be.

Sorry I can't help with the grits. I hate grits.

I do like scones by way. As long as they are pronounced correctly. I am the only person in the US who rhymes scone with gone.

Did you know that clotted cream is a protected thing and cannot be made outside Cornwall?

This means that, as I understand it, you cannot get clotted cream in the US. There are no decent cream teas to be had in the states.

Seneca - christmas mince pies haven't generally contained meat since the 18th century.

They often contain suet though, which is shredded animal fat - yum. (although very few do now)

I think that would be Cornish clotted cream is protected, as you can get jersey clotted cream.

You can buy clotted cream in the US, but it is really expensive and hard to find. And I agree cream teas are wonderful.

I had a tea party for some friends a couple of years ago and I used whipped cream. Not the same but that was all I could come up with, although there are directions on the web for making it at home.

I just read that in the US clotted cream would qualify as butter due to the fat content.

I remember going to KFC when it first opened on Oxford St in the 80's and they used to do 'biscuits' as a side. I used to love them. They stopped doing them after a couple of years. Annoyingly I have been to the US about 4 times since then and never thought of trying them again.

No, clotted cream is not limited to Cornwall, you can get it in Devon too. Now, I heard that the reason that you can't get it in the US is that it has to be made from unpasteurised milk (although saying that makes me doubt- how come pregnant women aren't warned off it then?).

I used to work with American student tour groups, and had a couple of characters spend their entire tour plotting how they could start their own small clotted cream manufactory in the US without falling foul of the law. I believe the plot hinged on a lady of their acquaintance who owned a cow....

Prawn cocktail crisps used to fill them with awe and wonder, too .

No helpful grits suggestions yet then? Perhaps if I mix them with epoxy, and use them as wood filler?

To contradict my previous post, it appears that you can make clotted cream from pasteurised milk/ cream, it just mustn't be ultra pasteurised. Which is an American thing, evidently........

(I am now determined to make my own CC next time I see lots of double cream in the reduced fridge)

www.cupcakeproject.com/2009/09/clotted-cream-recipe-making-clotted.html

I'm struggling to think of anything I ate in the US that I'm gagging for the UK to sell, whereas there are lots of things here I'd miss if I lived in the US.

Clotted cream is readily available where I am. There are 3 places I know that sell it and while it's expensive, I don't know think it's that much more than what it costs in the UK.

Being pregnant with #3 I plan to have a party to celebrate that we are having #3, kinda like a baby shower minus the gifts! I've already told DH it's going to be afternoon team with proper scones and clotted cream. Based on this he thinks it's a girl and that I'm nuts.

The only thing that I really miss when in the UK is not being able to get cream for my coffee in restaurants instead of milk.

My Devon auntie used to make her own clotted cream every day....

She was very fat (but happy).

(I am now determined to make my own CC next time I see lots of double cream in the reduced fridge)
I agree. No idea what I'd do with it, have lots of cream teas I guess.

The only thing that I really miss when in the UK is not being able to get cream for my coffee in restaurants instead of milk.
I missed being able to get milk for my tea when I was there.

I have never come across a restaurant in the US that did not have milk. They have to have it to cook with after all. You just ask for milk instead of cream when you order tea. I do it frequently. The main problem though is to get a decent cup of tea.

I got refused milk for my tea in a cafe in Baker Street. It turns out it was a Jewish place selling salt beef and stuff and they don't do milk on the premises. I was bemused.

As long as they are pronounced correctly. I am the only person in the US who rhymes scone with gone.

Nu-uh. I do! :)

My grocery sells clotted cream, but I've never had it. How do you use it? Is it sweetened?

My grocery sells clotted cream, but I've never had it. How do you use it? Is it sweetened?

Depending on where you live it's either scone, butter (if you are a lard arse like me) jam then clotted cream; or scone, butter, clotted cream, jam.
You just spread it on. It's not sweetened but it doesn't need it. It's naturally sweeter than cream.

I know there's a controversy about whether the cream or the jam comes first; the consistency is like butter so to me it's easier to put the cream on first then the jam. It is soooo good, steff, you need to get some.

Or scone, clotted cream (in the place of butter) and jam. Someone will say scone, jam then cream, but they are wrong because the slippery jam impedes cream loading.

X-post with Seneca.

I think the same, cream is like butter so goes on first.

My American sil loved cream when she was in England.

You can still get fruit polos btw (mentioned up thread).

Only, not in the packet form like you're used to. They sell them in bags, individually wrapped. I had some last week. You can get them in Poundland for example.