tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post4431732337364006273..comments2024-03-28T23:25:07.821+00:00Comments on Jean's Knitting: Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-32552097323415921902019-11-12T19:12:30.739+00:002019-11-12T19:12:30.739+00:00You will think me an utter heretic, but neither my...You will think me an utter heretic, but neither my husband nor I can abide the taste or the smell of roasting lamb. He made me promise never to cook it if/when we got married. It was a promise easily made and kept to this day. One less thing to argue about;)!FuguesStateKnitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14271842690827237203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-55996321438526642602019-11-09T21:12:54.896+00:002019-11-09T21:12:54.896+00:00My mother used mutton to make her very excellent c...My mother used mutton to make her very excellent curry; it had to be ordered from the butcher (an old-fashioned one with sawdust on the floor, and you paid the cashier who sat in a little office in the corner, or more likely 'put it in the book'). I'm glad you got out; I never feel like going out; left to me own devices I would stay inside, but always feel better for a slow mooch around the block to the corner shop.KirstenMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04460530603998948689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-1784754795867706092019-11-09T16:42:04.357+00:002019-11-09T16:42:04.357+00:00It is always interesting when a topic reflects lif...It is always interesting when a topic reflects life. We have a new local yarn store and I wanted to buy something to be supportive. I purchased the 21 Color Slouch Hat Kit by Blue Skies Fibers. It is turning out to be a fun knit.<br />Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08627928144398775810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-79993167510348850852019-11-09T14:58:19.974+00:002019-11-09T14:58:19.974+00:00Thanks Shandy, for reminding me of the New Zealand...Thanks Shandy, for reminding me of the New Zealand thing. I should have thought - inWWII my father ws posted to Canada, nd travelled Liverpool to Halifax in a New Zealand meat carrier They must have turned the chillers off!. He came back on the newly built Queen Elizabeth.jeanfromcornwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10062674591619616456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-50636931334110382742019-11-09T14:46:38.376+00:002019-11-09T14:46:38.376+00:00I love what I learn here, Jean. Hogg, hogget, new...I love what I learn here, Jean. Hogg, hogget, new words and now I'll look when I buy lamb at the farmer's market. I did find, my hat, thank you. I know this is a time of year people need hats, but people are so busy with other knitting. The hat drives should happen in May, when small knitting projects may be wanted. I always forget until now, of course. Happy to hear the exercise helped. Can you walk a circuit on your own, or do you need the motivation of the trainer?Mary Louhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05588244535423212079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-74402978102313188872019-11-09T10:30:28.976+00:002019-11-09T10:30:28.976+00:00Ruth Goodman does not reveal how mutton came to be...Ruth Goodman does not reveal how mutton came to be superceded by lamb - perhaps it happened during the 20th century? She does mention the arrival of frozen New Zealand lamb by the end of the 1800s, although her main point is that the bulk of the population ate an inadequate diet of white bread and potatoes, rarely seeing any form of meat. Cost-effective meat production would lead to fattening lambs within the year with only some reaching even hogg age if they were not to be kept as breeding stock. I don't know what happens to ewes culled from flocks as barren or too old for further breeding. I don't myself like the strong taste of Herdwick, for example. It does always surprise me how expensive lamb is, given how many sheep one sees in the fields.shandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17372329387935318023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-57500912823019170362019-11-08T19:57:52.633+00:002019-11-08T19:57:52.633+00:00We get mutton, and hogget, which is between lamb a...We get mutton, and hogget, which is between lamb and mutton, from a farm north of Lincoln, where they breed and rear their own beef lamb and pork. They have their own butcher shop, and the meat is top quality - they can't say organic etc but it is all produced in the old fashioned way. Mutton, strictly speaking is over two years old, and I am taking a guess that food rationing in WWII made it more important to get it into the food supply than grow it on for very little increase in the size of the carcase. Afterwards people seemed to have lost thir taste for it - it is a strong flavour. OH loves his monthly mutton chop, but he will not trim his whiskers to match!jeanfromcornwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10062674591619616456noreply@blogger.com