what is bubble and squeek,toad in the hall,and bangers and mash

How about spotted sugar sponge,too?

Madcatwoman…Thanks for the link…I like the simplicity in the recipes since the less time spent preparing & cooking meals gives me more time to do other things.

On the spotted dick thing…my bad…I read it somewhere from one of the millions of posters here on TDK. I thought the names were quite scary sounding & not sure whether I wanted to know what they were. The sugar sponge name made me think of Angel food cake.

Silly MCW, we make angel cake out of angels……or do we call it Angel Food cake because it tastes so light and heavenly. 😉

Here is a recipe with a photo: http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeid=35342

Yes, ma’am. 🙂

I think the confusion about sugar and sponge arose from one of my posts when I offered steamed syrup sponge and spotted dick to anyone who felt brave enough! Spotted dick is a steamed pudding made with flour, suet and raisins or dates, steamed syrup sponge is a steamed sponge pudding, cooked in a basin, with golden syrup (a bit like treacle, but not golden, not black and without the bitter overtones). In England they are known often as nursery food because they are old-fashioned puddings of the sort prepared by “nanny” in a victorian/edwardian nursery. I posted my recipes for each a while back before KM instituted the chat rooms.

There was a move a while ago in UK to change its name to spotted richard! Honestly, I kid you not. But we Brits just thought that that was too stupid to believe. It’s always been spotted dick, and spotted dick it will remain.

Not a Brit but aren’t bangers some kind of sausage served with mashed potatoes?

Polly’s Mum,

Your story about changing the name of “spotted dick” reminded me of an incident around the turn of the 20th century in my hometown of Athens, GA. The street that separates downtown from the University of Georgia is named Broad (as in “wide”) Street. About 100 years ago, there was a movement by people with nothing better to do who decided to change the name of that road to “Lady Street” because it was felt that (and I quote) “Broad Street is too vulgar.”

Or, to quote the only thing from Stephen King that I ever felt was worth my while: “The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.”