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So we don't take over Daniels thread meet me on the 'Owl' Deb

Deb - CANNOT sleep! Is doing me head in!!!!!! AARRGGHH!! What time is it there? xx

Bec - What ARE you doing up at this time of night (quick calculation 2.55am)?

*jots down recipe so she can make it for Daniel* lol

Scouse Recipe INGREDIENTS Serves 4-6 people Half a Pound of Stewing Steak Half a Pound of Lambs Breast A Large Onion 1lb of Carrots 5lb of Potatoes 2 Oxo Cubes 2 Teaspoons of Vegatable Oil Worcester Sauce Salt and Pepper Water HOW TO COOK Takes 4 hours of slow cooking Cut the meat into large cubes and fry in the vegatable oil until lightly browned all over. You may wish to add some Worcester Sauce at this point for added flavour. Transfer the meat to a large saucepan and add the onion that should have been chopped into large chunks. Follow this by chopping the carrot into medallions and place this on the meat. Peel and then Finely dice 1lb of the potatoes and place on top of the carrots. Fill the pan with cold water until it is half full. Break up the Oxo cubes and sprinkle into the water. Add salt and pepper for seasoning. Let the pan simmer gently, stirring occasionally. The large pieces of onion will start to break up and the potato will become soft and will make the final sauce thick. Simmer for a total of two hours, then add the remaining potatoes that should have been peeled and roughly chopped, along with a few splashes of Worcester Sauce. Then simmer for another two hours. Serve piping hot with red cabbage, beetroot, pickled onions and crusty bread.

HISTORY Scouse was brought to Liverpool by Northern European sailors, it was originally called Labskause. This was finally shortened to Skause and over time the spelling changed to the more Anglicised version we have today, Scouse. The people who ate Scouse were all generally sailors and their families and eventually all sailors within Liverpool were referred to as Scousers. Time has now taken its turn and everyone from the region of Liverpool is known as a Scouser. Scouse holds a place in the heart of most Liverpudlian's as the taste of their hometown and is still regulary eaten today by a great number of families, including my own. There are records showing that it was also served to the inmates of the Birkenhead workshouse way back in 1864. The recipe was much simpler then than today's refined version but was predominatly the same staple ingredients - meat, vegatables and potatoes. Scouse can be ready made and kept for up to 2 days. Keep it covered in a refrigerator and reheat in a saucepan. Most people prefer the added depth of flavour that reheating adds. Blind scouse was a variation on the recipe and was eaten by the poorer people as it was cheaper to make because it did not contain meat

dan not curley whirley pieces .pleeeeease tell me it's not thatxxxxxxxxx(((:

Never heard of scouse Daniel. What is it made of? Mau

Jess, Hope you don't mind me calling you Jess....did the lob scouse at your local have meat in it? When money was not so tight we had lob scouse with meat in it. It was a very thick stew with most of the liquid boiled off. My grandmother told me it was called lob scouse because you could 'lob' it into the dish without spilling any liquid! You could stand your spoon up in it, it was so thick. Beryl x

Use dto be house special at our local - with crusty bread. landlord was a northerner

Jess and Gray, Lob scouse was just the vegetables...no meat. That was usually a Wednesday night tea/dinner as my Grandad got paid on a Thursday. Beryl x

That's if your from the 19th century :-)

Thought the proper name was Lob Scouse- or is that different?

Always have been chaps. Now, I'm off to Hoylake to play golf with my middle class chums. Ah blast. It's too dark :-)

Some say our Birkenhead monks took soup across on their boats in the olden times so we invented scouse if that's true :-) Alas we'll never know.

My nan makes it with chooped bits of potato, carrot, beef/lamb. I add the beetroot as some don't like it. Basically it all goes in a pan and simmers for about 3 hours and then eat it.

Like Gray I don't know the true receipe but it's like a stew meat, potato's, veg, gravy

does the cook know what you are messing around with???

Daniel, That will make you feela lot better. There is nothing like your Nan's scouse. Bec....If you haven't eaten scouse....you haven't lived! lol Beryl x

Someone that comes from Liverpool I thought ??? ;O)