Chesst use your initiative!
Posted: Tuesday, 09 January 2007 |
Seemingly 11 pieces of the Lewis Chess set are normally kept in Edinburgh at the National Museum of Scotland, and another 82 in the British Museum. There's a bit of a fuss now because the Chessmen's King is coming back to the island next year as part of the Highland Year of Culture. Which spoilsport's organised this - just as whitesettler's reminding us all not to be nasty? What's the use of splitting the set and sending us a single piece? Tch. How can anyone have a decent game with that kind of set-up?
Ach well, Chrissie Mary and I can suggest an alternative - Lewis Draughts. This can be played on a big chequered board or a black and white tiled kitchen floor.
First slice and fry some black pudding and white pudding......
Ach well, Chrissie Mary and I can suggest an alternative - Lewis Draughts. This can be played on a big chequered board or a black and white tiled kitchen floor.
First slice and fry some black pudding and white pudding......
Comments
Winner eats all. I hope the black ones are made using fresh blood and not that powdered stuff they have to use here. (The abbatoir can't be bothered to supply the yummy runny stuff.)
Flying Cat from Davy's meat counter
My Auntie Ina's oat cakes are so stiff, we play tiddlewinks with them. She uses 2 tbs of starch to every handful of Lofty Peak.
calumannabel from San Lorenzo Restaurant Fivepenny
What are the ingredients for white pud? # I assume the picture has been "reduced" - and that the squares are the size of large pie pans. Cruise Ship AB Lewis?
mjc from NM
White pudding is made of suet, oatmeal, onions and spices. Similar to the stuffing for cods' heads. Mmm. Mmm. That's made me feel peckish.
Annie B from the usual
Mmmmmmm, that's crappin! (Who's Peckish? Is he in Dickens?)
Flying Cat from Inn Continent
Is it extra to play the game in colour if you play with red pudding?
calumannanbel from Chust Wondering
Don;t remind me of cod's heads, Annie B. My mum still likes fish heads better than fish steaks and fish fillets. That's what comes when one is raised poor: I expect fish heads were a rare delicacy for her (the rest of the fish being out of reach).
mjc from NM,USA
Chrissie M thinks that Peckish might have been a minor character in Great Pud Temptations. Black and white is cheaper than paying out for the colour licence.
Annie B from the ususal
Mjc, I still remember , with relish, the salmon paste my dad made from the fishes head. Cheap! They were free, but the result was delicious. I think we have grown too used to expensively produced food. There is nothing wrong with the dishes which are ancestors made from what we now regard as waste. I have tried some of the more esoteric foods like whale blubber and muggies. How about you?
Hyper-Borean from The cod end
I've made white puddin. out of a real cows stomach or intestine. it was quite good actually. the real horrible one is the curranty puddin we make out of sheep's stomach. when it boils its horrible -completely get out-the-house-quick stuff. we tried one year to make one - made it relatively sucessfully, but borrowed my mum's hotplate and set it on a metal barrel out in the shed. also borrowed her jam pot. set it to boil - after about 15 mins went to check - and it had burst. it was like the magic porridge pot - out and out it poured... endlessly. what a mess. later on one of the dogs came by and lifted his leg on the barrel - but got a electric shock in his private parts - fled the scene and sat in his box and trembled for ages...
scallowawife from shetland
I had no idea liff was so rich and rewarding in Shetland's second city. I particularly like the shocked dog parts bit. It's made my day!
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
Scallo. has not lost her touch, thank heavens. Poor doggie. Hopefully he stuck to the fence posts or the frontyard trees from then on. # About moving, Scallo.: the trick is to get a slow tempo, stop and read a short story when tired, and don't try to do it all in a day. Safety first. # By the way, folks, I think I shall stick to black, blood pudding, slightly moist when I visit. So, be forewarned. # What's "muggies" ? No whale blubber for me: I am New Mexican, not Alaskan (try Moo in the Night: maybe she has some sent from Alanjohn Emporium etc?)
mjc from NM,USA
Does the SSPCA know about scallowawife's shocking escapades with currenty puddings? Should the tabloids be told? Its a good job that mjc isn't an Alsation if that's how dogs get treated in Shetland.
Annie B from the usual
He might be a chihuahua. The parental units have a very rude name for chihuahuas, which can't be printed on a Family Blog. It relates to ears, lying- down bipeds, and the randy nature of 'cuddly' canines......... mjc says he's going to be slightly moist when he visits. Is this a requirement for the Fank?
Flying Cat from by a wally dug
mjc being 'slightly moist' makes me mind on a conversation I overheard yesterday - my friend said, on the phone to someone "yes, her new house is fine,... pause.. she's had the builder in...pause...lookin at her damp patches..." WHAT!?!
scallowawife from havin a lie down
Chihuahua, eh? FC does not quite realize that CATS tremble when they hear my name!! # Anyway, I thought Chihuahua was the name of a desert, and also of some State south of the Rio Seco (ooops! I meant Rio Grande!).# Still no definition of "muggies" - surely not someone who gets mugged? That would be "muggees," isn't that right Herr McCall Smith? Help is on its way?
mjc from NM,USA
A quest to define "muggies" took me to some very odd places that'll be of huge interest to FC and other ailurophiles: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/glossary.html http://www.uli-schmetzer.com/opal.html Prague, Lightning Ridge Australia ... No real success though
Bunchrew Seer from No1 The Crannog
Lookeehere folks, I may be a sweet pud, but I ain't no moist pushover. # Your sweet angel guardians look over you all, but what is this I hear (on 91热爆 "International" tv) about unhealthy invectives on a show called Big Brother? What is the fuss? What is new? When I first got to the UK, there were still signs "Irish need not apply" re: housing. I understand that other immigrants were not mentioned as it was thought they would know better than to apply. Yet, I was rather taken aback by the strange attack (as reported on the 91热爆) on the "sing song" nature of English as spoken by many native Indians: I must admit that my wife and I think that the lilt is very appealing. Far better the the plummy affected stutter characterizing some groups down south. The English of most middle class Indians is so grammatically correct and fluid (yes, I mean "fluid" not "fluent") as to put that of most of the speakers of the lingo in the UK to shame. # Thanks Bunchie, but I don't hop to other websites wantonly (is that the right term? who knows?! perhaps "recklessly" would be better?).
mjc from NM,USA
Forget it Bunchie. I finally found my Oxford A-Z of Food and Drink by Ayto: check "muggety pie", and the mystery is thankfully solved. Anyway, perhaps I should stay away from the culinary specialties of the islands? I do want to live a long, healthy life, after all .... (did I hear someone grab a kitchen knife?).
mjc from NM,USA
A missed opporchancity? If you use two different pastry cutters on the edges of the puddings then the blind or visually challenged can also play Lewis Draughts.
calunannabel from Blunketts Brae Ness
How many people have two DIFFERENT pastry cutters? What sort of posh is that?
Flying Cat from Fanny's Haddock Hoose
for goodness sake FC - just turn it upside down.
scallowawife from rummagin in da kitchen drawer
Scallo.: what kind of recommendation is that? Aren't the pastry cutters in the northern isles the same as everywhere else: symmetrical? But then, maybe not .....
mjc from NM,USA
look mjc - of course they're symmetrical - if you look DOWN on them from above. but if you hold them horizontally - then usually they have a sharp fluted edge to cut with and a smooth edge to press your tender little palm on. shall I proceed with a risk assessment?
scallowawife from referring to a geometry book
No wonder I like my pastry piping hot and ready to eat! As with steak and kidney pie, you don't want to see how your pastry comes about. Tastes better that way, and keeps down the number of visits to the psychiatrist.
mjc from NM,USA
Gosh gosh gosh that scallowawife jist kens aathing!
Flying Cat from someone's drawers but not saying whose
i know its a bit late but i've just read this blog abd i want to say THANKS to all of you who wrote,the tears are just streaming down my face-tears of laughter-maybe on sunday i'll let my son know of this site--
carol.chauveau from france
It's never too late...
Flying Cat from Timestandstillisland
Niseach meanderings. (Niseachs come from Ness - the villages in NW Lewis from South Dell to the Butt.)
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