Once A Week Kitchen - Parkin

The Once A Week Cookbook is dedicated to helping you cook tasty and healthy meals at a fraction of a cost of buying ready meals from supermarkets, with the taste of traditional home cooked food. For more info visit www.onceaweekkitchen.co.uk

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• parkin
• cooking
• jamie oliver
• gordon ramsey
• gary rhodes
• delia smith
• cheap cooking
• how to cook
• cooking demo

[NinaLuvsFriedChicken]

I love Parkin! my nan makes it all year round

[OnceAWeekKitchen]

@NinaLuvsFriedChicken This recipe came from my mother-in-law's mother, so it is VERY old! :-)

[kokonutbaby1]

wow, thats bound to stop up a few arteries w/all that lard and butter..do they all cook with so much lard over in england? do u all have alot of heart trouble? was curious since many of the recipes call for alot of lard...i know it tastes better but having your chest cracked open is no fun, lol.

[OnceAWeekKitchen]

Yes -I take your point but remember -this recipe is over 100 years old and they didn't bother about such things in those days! This is a seasonal recipe and is traditionally eaten around bonfire night in the uk, November 5th. So you don't normally eat a lot of it. To save on cholesterol you can substitute vegetable fat and margarine if you like.

[OnceAWeekKitchen]

Yourve very welcome :)

Hope you enjoy!

[NinaLuvsFriedChicken]

@kokonutbaby1 -Well im English and ive never used lard in cooking and i dont know many that do except for old people, lard is only used if the recipe is over a certain age where more healthier oils was not accessable..I think right now it's a world epidemic and like the States the UK is doing something about it now (eg schools only serve healthy foods at lunch) and yes takeaways need to be stopped , homecooking is the way forward.

[kokonutbaby1]

@NinaLuvsFriedChicken Not rude, just noticing all the lard use in english cooking & wondering about the heart dz rates in England..Sylvia and I are good friends so chill..and if we do have the highest rates here..where's the statistics as I'd like to see them..also if we do its probably from all the fast food here, which those statistics will change as fast food places use to use lard before the gov't said NO, things are changing.

[NinaLuvsFriedChicken]

@kokonutbaby1 How rude! Like she said it was an old recipe...The united states has the highest rate of heart disease/attacks etc etc actually so please use your brain before you comment :)

[chrs168]

Absolutely love Parkin. Thanks for posting this video.