Water vs Waters -=- why does UK pluralize it? And, which US things are odd to you?

[Emerald87]

Sounds pretty good to me - just maybe poured over something else. Over savoury scone like rolls just doesn't work for me hehe.
Still doesn't equate to gravy though sorry Like minities said, gravy is brown and goes on roast meat

 

[Betrix]

The gravy is white because it is milk gravy. Basically you cook the sausage, add flour to the sausage grease to make a paste and let the flour cook for a while. Then you add milk and cook it for a while til it comes to a boil. It's delicious!

Make the gravy to pour over the biscuits

I like buttermilk biscuits

a pinch of salt
a heaping spoon of baking soda
3 cups of buttermilk
a handful of shortening (I guess it would be like 3/4 of a cup?)
1/8th cup of sugar
Preheat the oven to around 400

Sift the flour to get out the lumpy bits
add dry stuff,then buttermilk ,then shortening
mix it with your hands until the dough starts to pull away from your fingers.
put some dry flour down and then your blob of dough on it to roll dough out (my gram uses a rolling pin but I don't have one so I just use whatever is handy or my hands)
cut out biscuit shapes (I use a tea cup but you could use a cookie cutter or something)
put in the oven for about 20 min or until golden brown on top.

I eat the leftover dough raw or make it into little biscuits that come out really crunchy.

 

[Bookity]

Those biscuits sound good, but you didn't say how much flour!

 

[Betrix]

Those biscuits sound good, but you didn't say how much flour!

I just use a large mixing bowl of flour I guess about 3 or 4 cups ? I don't really measure things

 

[Betrix]

Does the UK have anything like Low Country Boil?

https://blogs.ajc.com/food-and-more/files/2011/04/LCB-spread-300x225.jpg


For 10 people
5 lbs of Snow Crab
3 lbs of large shrimp
3lbs of crawfish
3 lbs of andouille sausage
8 ears of corn (cut in half)
and 5 lbs new potatoes.

Then 2 bags of boil in, some hot sauce, 3 sliced up lemons, and a few beers poured in. Cocktail sauce and lemon butter for dipping

Add the boil bags, lemon halves, beer, and hot sauce to a large pot of water, filled to about half way, and bring to a boil. Once boiling, add the sausage and potatoes if included and cook for roughly 10 minutes. Next, add the corn and crab and cook for another 5-7 minutes. Finally, add the shrimp and crawfish and cook for no more than 3-4 additional minutes.

Remove contents from the pot and lay out on a newspaper-covered picnic table. Serve with cocktail sauce and lemon butter .

 

[Mum21boy1girl]

the biscuits are exactly like scones, but english people dont have gravy on them, they have jam and cream.
i thought biscuits and gravy sounded funny at first too, but i love it. you really have to try it to judge it
since moving to Texas i cant get enough of country gravy, yumm.

 

[Emerald87]

Does the UK have anything like Low Country Boil?

https://blogs.ajc.com/food-and-more/files/2011/04/LCB-spread-300x225.jpg


For 10 people
5 lbs of Snow Crab
3 lbs of large shrimp
3lbs of crawfish
3 lbs of andouille sausage
8 ears of corn (cut in half)
and 5 lbs new potatoes.

Then 2 bags of boil in, some hot sauce, 3 sliced up lemons, and a few beers poured in. Cocktail sauce and lemon butter for dipping

Add the boil bags, lemon halves, beer, and hot sauce to a large pot of water, filled to about half way, and bring to a boil. Once boiling, add the sausage and potatoes if included and cook for roughly 10 minutes. Next, add the corn and crab and cook for another 5-7 minutes. Finally, add the shrimp and crawfish and cook for no more than 3-4 additional minutes.

Remove contents from the pot and lay out on a newspaper-covered picnic table. Serve with cocktail sauce and lemon butter .

LOL "shrimp" - we call those prawns because ours are anything but "shrimpy"/small over here

 

[minties]

Shrimp and prawns are different aren't they? They are here anyway.

 

[Betrix]

I thought prawns where the ones that had pincers/claws ?

And shrimp the smaller ones with no pincers are well shrimp.

 

[Emerald87]

They are? Hrm.... *ponders*

 

[Emerald87]

According to the Victorian Museum:

A shrimp in the USA is a prawn in Australia

Actual "shrimp" in animal terms are too small to eat.

I'm getting hungry now.....

 

[Bean66]

In the UK, we use shrimp for the tiny prawns.

Prawns for anything over tiny without pinchers, they are langoustines.

We do eat shrimp but more commonly prawns or king prawns.

Does that make sense?

 

[Emerald87]

In the UK, we use shrimp for the tiny prawns.

Prawns for anything over tiny without pinchers, they are langoustines.

We do eat shrimp but more commonly prawns or king prawns.

Does that make sense?

Nope. Lol.

Naw, it does

 

[Beankeeper]

I always thought the word chemist came from alchemist (or that chemistry came from alchemy), which was like pre-medical science remedies? I guess pharmacy is more up to date though as that is what pharmacists study.
Also, I wondered if black pudding (and white pudding) was called pudding because of the way it's cooked? Is it steamed like Christmas pudding?

 

[Smudgelicious]

Great thread ! I"m an Aussie who's lived in the UK and spent 6 years living in the US.

I admit I'm really surprised that there is still so much misunderstanding of words between cultures. I thought Pb&j would be obvious ?!

I smoked when I lived in America and I always called them fags, but I think I subconciously knew not to say it in public. Let alone walk up to a stranger and say 'Can I bum a fag ?'

 

[maisie78]

walk up to a stranger and say 'Can I bum a fag ?'

would be worth it to see the look on their face though

 

[anita665]

I smoked when I lived in America and I always called them fags, but I think I subconciously knew not to say it in public. Let alone walk up to a stranger and say 'Can I bum a fag ?'

I have family in Australia and Canada and I'm from the UK. Australians are very similar to Brits. Not much has been lost or changed. In the US & Canada on the other hand they've really muddled things up. Still the same goes for French in France and French in Canada or French Carribean... or Spanish speaking countries.

At least we can usually all muddle along and nobody is bothered by language variations. The French are quite snobbish about it. They don't even like regional dialect, let alone French spoken in another country.

 

[mommy0629]

Not in the UK.

This is UK Jelly! You made it with a mould.

OOHHHH, no wonder you think we're so gross when we eat peanut butter and "jelly"

 

[lemongrass]

Shrimp and prawns are actually different. My husband always gives me hell for calling prawns "shrimp", or shrimp "prawns". I still can't remember which is which. Tasty though!

 

[Mrs.A]

I always thought the word chemist came from alchemist (or that chemistry came from alchemy), which was like pre-medical science remedies? I guess pharmacy is more up to date though as that is what pharmacists study.
Also, I wondered if black pudding (and white pudding) was called pudding because of the way it's cooked? Is it steamed like Christmas pudding?

Dont know why they are called puddings because they aren't sweet. Black pudding is coloured with pigs blood and is very fatty with a very distinctive taste. My DH loves black pudding with his full english breakfast on a Sunday morning.. not to everybody's taste though!