Staffordshire Foods

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antony bradshaw
my mrs makes the best lobby in the world ,

Lynn Kemp
For Sandra HiltonI live in Bucknall and there is still an oatcake shop here.My children live in London now, but my daughter still loves lobby.

kerry
mmmmm lobbys are just the best. im 32 and loved it when mum made them for us. i make them for my children to keep it alive x

jan stanyer
they would not have had it at Sunday lunch, it would have been meat left over from the Sunday roast i.e. dinner. Where has all this Sunday lunch and Christmas lunch stuff come from?

Dom Welsh
Lobby is actually a cognate of Scouse. The dish was brought to the North West of England by German and Dutch sailors who called it 'Labscaus' or 'Lobscouse'. The name has nothing to do with 'lobbing' anything in the pot, duck.

Dianne Spry
My grandad William Robinson who was born in about 1889 used to make lobby for me when I was a very little girl, perhaps four years old in the late 1950s. Enjoying a bowl of lobby made by a much loved grandad calling me 'Duck'and 'little wench' is one of my earliest memories it is a very happy memory.

Sally-Ann DAvis
I make this traditional lobby with fresh ingrediants..but my mother used left overs..and yes its very yummy and nutritional too...the only time i will ever have marmite lol

Chris Barlow
Hooray for lobby. This article makes lobby sound unappetising and gross, but lobby is great meal, although there are numerous ways of preparing it.If you want gross, try "chitterlings" or "hodge", both some kind of offal. My Mum ate used to eat it during the war, she says. She and I both hail from Wolstanton/Maybank. Living in Ontario, Canada now and spreading the word about how great lobby is. Now, how does one make oatcakes?

Nick Woodall
Im only 26 so cant remember bak on the times wen the potties had live poorer lives than elsewhere (not that i no neway).N 2b honest i only found that out this 2nd off this blog.My Nan used make lobby 4 me very regular and i loved it,unfortanly she passed away November 2007 and the secret of the best lobby ever with her.Im havin an attemp 2nite but had ring 4 the ingredents lol.Is there a correct recipie or r they nearly always different?In that case,how do u no u REALLY like lobby?1 mans idea of perfect may b another idea of disgustin.For example i hate mustard but my mother luvs it.I hope mines as me Nans :).

Neil simpson
Winter holds no fears with a bowl of lobby in the offing. Vital to eat with dippy bread. I used to use raw bread but become a buttered dippy convert some thirty years ago.

Sandra Hilton ( nee Pawley)
A group of friends and I (from Stoke as well as Australia and Dorset), have been discussing North Staffs foods, including oatcakes and lobby with friends. We have been swapping recipes and deciding to try them all to see which is the best! I have a pan of lobby on the cooker right now and at least one of our Oz friends is hoping to make the same in the next day or so, with pearl barley and dumplings of course!! I was raised in Bucknall (my Nana had an oatcake shop there years ago) and now live near to Caernarfon North Wales. It's lovely to be able to hear of home.