Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on February 06, 2002 at -1:32:54 from 195.93.32.153:
In Reply to: Some questions about food. posted by Michael on February 05, 2002 at 17:25:56:
Bully beef - yes, tinned corned beef. I can recall elderly relations calling it that.
Rich juicy plum cake - this is any rich fruit cake, just as the Christmas "plum pudding" seldom contains plums.
Seed cake - well, you can still cook it! Shall I dig out my grandmother's recipe and post it? Basically a sponge cake; unlike plum cake it doe not keep well. Very much an item for the traditional English tea table.
Duck eggs - yes, I have. There was a bit of an issue with these because, as I recall, the shell is slightly porous, unlike a hen's egg, so they are more liable to become infected, and there was a scare, which, as so often with food scares, lingers in people's minds.