Having some mates over from Germany and also places in the UK
we are having a riding week in the lake district .
Last year we went to the Germans locality and they served us up with lots of different local food .
So as I am tour guide and chef I am looking for easy to cook recipes that are typical of the lake district
also Puddings any suggestions welcome
Cumberland sausage?
Proper fish and chips
Bury black pudding
Eccles / Chorley cakes
Kendal mint cake
Edit: grasmere gingerbread
You're gonna struggle if you stick exclusively to the Lakes.
The above are NW specialities.
TBH though, none of it is really worth shouting about.
Wilfs rarebit,staveley followed by carrot cake.mmmmmmmmm
Sticky Toffee Pudding 🙂
Damsons (in stuff)
Fantastic sausages from The Cumbrian Pig Company (Ulverston Market usually on either a Thursday or Saturday... or his house up Old Hall Road in Ulverston)
Loads of good meat around the area these days - Yew Tree Farm just outside Coniston is good for Mutton/Hogget quite often. Tebay Services also offer some good stuff. There seems to be a lot of rare breed stuff available too now throughout the county.
Fresh trout, local saltmarsh lamb, pickled samphire, sticky toffee puds from the shop in Cartmel, best chips ever at the Old Dungeon Gill, Morecambe bay potted shrimp, Jennings / Yates beers...
My lakeland food normally consists of what you can make on a Trangia though!
Low Sizergh Barn, just south of Kendal, does a good line in Cumbrian stuff, but it's not cheap. Cumberland Sausage is definitely your best call, Woodall's of Waberthwaite is generally considered to be the best. Sticky Toffee Pudding from Cartmel, Grasmere gingerbread, Herdwick mutton stew, all possibilities.
Oh, and Geoffj - fish and chips is actually Jewish in origin. Odd fact, but there you go...
grasmere gingerbread
cumberland sausage
oh, and that fish that's unique to the lakes.
Get them to catch their own arctic char if they dont catch anything no tea. 😆
Oh, and Geoffj - fish and chips is actually Jewish in origin. Odd fact, but there you go...
Welll, you learn something new every day! I thought it was a 19th century invention to feed hungry mill workers.
Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding..........That's what they're coming for!
Or battered fish n chips............mushy peas
The best Fish n Chips I've had in the Lakes was in the centre of Keswick. Presume they still used lard (rather than veg oil) or some thing, but they were fab. Also, Cumberland sausage with Yorkshire puddings and onion gravy would be a winner IMO.
As a last resort, if you can't be arsed sourcing authentic stuff in the Lakes, there's a local products farm shop type thing at one of the service stations up the M6, can't recall where tho (above j36, below Penrith) and it's probably premium priced, Westmorland SS or something.
There's a very good cheese shop in Cartmel.
If you're in N Lakes pop into Cranston's Cumbrian Food Hall in Penrith which has local produce and also a cafe.
[url= http://www.wilfs-cafe.co.uk/ ]Wilf's Cafe[/url] at Stavely also V good.
And when we're in that neck of the woods we like to take our kids to the [url= http://www.abbottlodgejerseyicecream.co.uk/ ]Ice Cream Farm[/url] near Penrith - also open to adults.
menu so far
sat. curry pudding yet to be decided
sunday. scotish steaks. provided by my bro who works in an abotoir up there
monday. roast beef. again scotish
tuesday thinking lamb shanks
got the rest of the week to cover next.
some good tips above thanks
more ideas. ta
we are staying near pooley bridge. somthe penrith one sound good
Will you be doing all that on a Trangia stove? 😀
Ha no chance. meals for 14
will have full kitchen stuff plus large gas BBQ
[url= http://www.lucysofambleside.co.uk/localfoodandtraditions02.html ]Puddings in the Lake District?[/url]
Gotta be Lucy's in Ambleside. Proper jam roly-poly and custard style stuff. Luvverly. Save you cooking one day too...
Try the Butchers in Keswick on Station Street, really very good.
i'd say with out a doubt, you have to serve Heardwick lamb of some sort. Try Joe & Hazel Relph in Borrowdale to buy meat, they aslo do awesome Heardwick burgers for the BBQ? you could make a nice Lamb Henry/Jennings?
For fish? Trout for sure, Boothes in Windermere or Keswick will have it.
the foodie shop at Rhegged has loads of local meats and cheeses also, very nice too. 😀
and you have plenty of BEER to choose from, i'd go for either Snek Lifter or the Chocolate Stout from the Last Drop Inn in Cockermouth.
Tebay services will provide all you need.
Tebay services is only a slightly better motorway service station. Admirable for that alone, it really is. But I'm always perplexed that people see it as a destination in its own right.
Oh, and Geoffj - fish and chips is actually Jewish in origin. Odd fact, but there you go...
Welll, you learn something new every day! I thought it was a 19th century invention to feed hungry mill workers.
The chipshop cooking ranges were the invention. Fish and potatoes had already been invented. As businesses they were common were ever there was a large hungry manual workforce. It also helped that the North West grows really good potatoes. It was the business that manual workers - coal miners and millworkers would retire into, a business that you could run as a pension once you were too knackered for the coal face.
Mostly covered the obvious ones
Cumberland sausage
Local lamb
Fish
Kendal Mint cake
Sticky Toffee Pudding - first created at Sharrow Bay restaurant Ullswater
Grasmere gingerbread
Jennings beer
Less obvious
Damsons (grown in the Lyth (?) Valley west of Kendal)
With that in mind try the nearby Mason Arms at Cartmell Fell for a great feed and special beers.
Good to see the chippy rec's as my experience is that Lakes F&C are not that great
Finally teach them the Lakes own language (yan, tyan, thethera, lethera, dick - 1,2,3,4,5 etc!!)
Tebay services is only a slightly better motorway service station. Admirable for that alone, it really is. But I'm always perplexed that people see it as a destination in its own right.
Um.... not really. The farm shop there is good and has a decent range of quality local stuff from around the area. Not cheap obviously but that stuff isn't cheap anywhere. Also tends to be fairly convenient for many people.
pies. And more pies.
Cranstons food hall just off junc 40 at Penrith, also Mr Vikki's curry (market stall at Keswick on a sat) and his pickles/sauces etc available from Cranstons, King Naga and Banana Habernaro being particularly good. For beer, the Old crown at Hesket newmarket or the Bitter end at Cockermouth