I was wondering if you still get those yummy fishcakes. The ones with two slices of potato with fish in the middle, and how much are fish and chips now.

That was supposed to read fishcakes

I know people who won't go in Chip shops that don't sell 'proper' fishcakes :lol:

I think Fish n Chips is around £4 now, but it's been a while since I had any


hmm fishcake butty with plenty of vinegar :love:

I don't know the cost of fish & chips today, but in the late 30's I was the errand lad for my parents & friends who stayed in the Lane Top WMC all day on bank holidays. I think the fish was 2d & the chips 1d. My memory may not be correct, I'm sure someone will say so if I'm wrong.

Glen the only fish cake you will get if you ask for "chips and cake" in Sheffield is the one you describe 2 slices of potato with varying amounts of fish in between battered and deep fryed, these are not to be confused with the rissole which is mashed potato and shredded fish mixed together shaped into small flat circle with a coating of breadcrumbs. I suppose when you were in Sheffield they used to fry the chips and fish in beef dripping the proper way, now they just boil them in vegetable oil for a while, they don`t even look brown like the old days.

That's right, john65 - proper fishcakes have two slices of potato with fish in the middle. In my experience they are hard to get outside South Yorkshire. Most chip shops in North Lincs. sell rissoles and call them fishcakes. But there is one place in Lincoln that sells proper fishcakes - but they call them fritters.

Funny lot in Lincoln...;)

That's right, john65 - proper fishcakes have two slices of potato with fish in the middle. In my experience they are hard to get outside South Yorkshire. Most chip shops in North Lincs. sell rissoles and call them fishcakes. But there is one place in Lincoln that sells proper fishcakes - but they call them fritters.

Funny lot in Lincoln...;)

up here theyre a strange lot too
our local chippy its
fishcakes = patties
rissoles = fishcakes
hmmmm
:confused::help::huh::loopy::rant::hihi:

I was wondering if you still get those yummy fishcakes. The ones with two slices of potato with fish in the middle, and how much are fish and chips now.

hi glen where i live in worksop they are called fish scallops but they are not like the ones i remember from a fish shop call enzers in a "posh" area of sheffield called grimesthorpe alas now both long gone:(:(

There was someone on here who knew a sheffield couple who have a chipshop in Hamilton. which is the next city to ours. So we've been a few times now, and if you ask they will make the fishcakes for you. Which reminds me we've told friend's we'll take them, they're originally from Manchester, and never heard of them. So we had better ring them ahead of time and order them:thumbsup:

Lol nothing finer than a "proppa fishcake"!

In more recent years you are now able to buy the "proppa fishcake" in Skegness and Ingoldmells.....you have to ask for a YORKSHIRE Fishcake.. if you ask for a fishcake..ya gets a rissole!!

Never been to a chippy in other towns...is it only in Yorkshire (apart from towns mentioned above) that you get a proppa fishcake??? How far across Yorkshire does this wonderful piece of food exist??

I suppose when you were in Sheffield they used to fry the chips and fish in beef dripping the proper way, now they just boil them in vegetable oil for a while, they don`t even look brown like the old days.

I'm told there's a chippie at Crookes, near the Grindstone (?) that sells chips cooked in dripping. Not tried 'em myself, but they come highly recommended. I think the place is only open for a couple of hours at tea-time, though.....

That's right, john65 - proper fishcakes have two slices of potato with fish in the middle. In my experience they are hard to get outside South Yorkshire. Most chip shops in North Lincs. sell rissoles and call them fishcakes. But there is one place in Lincoln that sells proper fishcakes - but they call them fritters.

Funny lot in Lincoln...;)

Whereabouts in Lincoln?

Lol nothing finer than a "proppa fishcake"!

In more recent years you are now able to buy the "proppa fishcake" in Skegness and Ingoldmells.....you have to ask for a YORKSHIRE Fishcake.. if you ask for a fishcake..ya gets a rissole!!

Never been to a chippy in other towns...is it only in Yorkshire (apart from towns mentioned above) that you get a proppa fishcake??? How far across Yorkshire does this wonderful piece of food exist??
Place opposite the miners welfare in Skeg do 'em. Will deep fry anything saw 'em deep fry a pizza once came out the same way it went in but deep fried very strange.

That's right, john65 - proper fishcakes have two slices of potato with fish in the middle. In my experience they are hard to get outside South Yorkshire. Most chip shops in North Lincs. sell rissoles and call them fishcakes. But there is one place in Lincoln that sells proper fishcakes - but they call them fritters.

Funny lot in Lincoln...;)

Nearest place I know to Lincolnshire which sells proper fishcakes "Yorkshire Fishcakes" I think they call them is on the old A57 near to Tesco in Worksop.

Do tell who sells something like in Lincoln.

Whereabouts in Lincoln?

I don't know exactly (it was a place we called at on our way home from Bardney in July/Aug. last year) but it must have been somewhere in the Monks Road / Greetwell Road area.

I don't know exactly (it was a place we called at on our way home from Bardney in July/Aug. last year) but it must have been somewhere in the Monks Road / Greetwell Road area.

I'll have a look next time I'm up that way.

There was someone on here who knew a sheffield couple who have a chipshop in Hamilton. which is the next city to ours. So we've been a few times now, and if you ask they will make the fishcakes for you. Which reminds me we've told friend's we'll take them, they're originally from Manchester, and never heard of them. So we had better ring them ahead of time and order them:thumbsup:

I do love my fish &chips had a good supply in London Ont,But just moved to Kingsville what I do believe is the fish & chip capitol of Canada looking forward to many happy hours of hunting &taste testing

There is a chip shop in mablethorpe on the main drag that sell "Sheffield fish cakes", the propper ones that is

I'm told there's a chippie at Crookes, near the Grindstone (?) that sells chips cooked in dripping. Not tried 'em myself, but they come highly recommended. I think the place is only open for a couple of hours at tea-time, though.....

Yep, it's a proper old-school chippy called Broomheads - dinner and tea only! Mind you, it's years since I lived round there so I'd be interested to know if it's still there.

Chip shops in Bradford still mostly seem to use dripping. They're so much nicer, it's ridiculous!

Nearest place I know to Lincolnshire which sells proper fishcakes "Yorkshire Fishcakes" I think they call them is on the old A57 near to Tesco in Worksop.

Do tell who sells something like in Lincoln.

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i am sure they sell them in chipally- skegness--linc.
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In the 60s we went to live in Darlington for a while and couldn't get proper fishcakes anywhere. My mother talked to the local chippy and they invited her behind the counter to make some. They then started selling them, but don't think it passed on to other chippies.

hi glen where i live in worksop they are called fish scallops but they are not like the ones i remember from a fish shop call enzers in a "posh" area of sheffield called grimesthorpe alas now both long gone:(:(

Hi Susan I too used to live in Worksop,first in Lincoln st then in Cheapside.We used to go to the fish and chip shop and ask for one of each, at first i was confused thinking i would get one of everything they sold but it was fish and chips.ah memories:thumbsup:

HELLO AGAIN sUSAN i ALSO LIVED IN pITSMOOR NEAR THE FISH SHOP IN gRIMESTHORPE RD.(mY COMPUTER IS DOING FUNNY THINGS).I SOMETIMES MAKE THE FISH CAKES MYSELF BY JUST MAKING A POTATO SANDWICH WITH FISH IN IT,mY KIDS LOVED THEM.

HELLO AGAIN sUSAN i ALSO LIVED IN pITSMOOR NEAR THE FISH SHOP IN gRIMESTHORPE RD.(mY COMPUTER IS DOING FUNNY THINGS).I SOMETIMES MAKE THE FISH CAKES MYSELF BY JUST MAKING A POTATO SANDWICH WITH FISH IN IT,mY KIDS LOVED THEM.

Hint: Take off your 'Caps Lock'. :)

Hint: Take off your 'Caps Lock'. :)

THANKS FOR THAT.hOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR FISH CAKES MMM

Yep, it's a proper old-school chippy called Broomheads - dinner and tea only! Mind you, it's years since I lived round there so I'd be interested to know if it's still there.

Chip shops in Bradford still mostly seem to use dripping. They're so much nicer, it's ridiculous!

It's certainly still there, I drove past it the other day - however, can't vouch for it, not managed to try it yet.... :)

I remember the fishcakes, they are definately still part of Sheffield life. When I was growing up. chips, cake and scraps with plenty of salt and vinegar on, mmmmm delicious.

we still cook in beef dripping, and sell loads of proper fish cakes

I just came back from Icmeler in Turkey and found a Fish and Chip shop owned by a lady from Barnsley who sold brilliant Fishcakes. Even though we were all inclusive and the food was excellent I still frequented this chippy twice for lovely chips and cake bread and butter and an ice cold Efes beer.....mmmmmm

Had some friends over from Coventry a while ago and to save time feeding them when they arrived I went to the chippy on Manor Lane.I got them chips & cake.I couldn't believe the reaction to the fishcakes.They thought they were fantastic and had never seen anything like them before.Just so glad I live in Sheffield!!!!!

It's nice to know that we Sheffielder's are still educating the "out of Townies" in the eating of what is probably one of the best foods in the world !!!!

I was wondering if you still get those yummy fishcakes. The ones with two slices of potato with fish in the middle, and how much are fish and chips now.

I could just eat one right now.!! Plenty of salt & vinegar on.!:thumbsup:

I kinow this is an old thread but !

I'd been out of the country for about 25 years and had a stop over in Blackpool on route to a Ski trip in Italy.

First order of the day was to find a Chip Shop, and once in one I asked "whats a fishcake"

The guy promptly replied "It's not a Yorkshire fish cake if that's what you mean"

Guess I hadn't lost as much of my accent as I thought :-)

It's certainly still there, I drove past it the other day - however, can't vouch for it, not managed to try it yet.... :)

still there now and thriving , best chip oil round there for miles !!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had them in Beccles a few years ago while on holiday on the broads .

Sadly my mum passed away in 2008 but up to then whenever we visited her at the weekend she always used to treat us to Fish and Chips from The Admiral chippie on Burley Moor Road.(at the end of the parade of shops near the Burley pub)

They sold the infamous Sheffield Fish Cakes - whether they still do or not I don't know but both my daughters (raised in Leicestershire) both fell in love with them and even if they didn't come with us sometimes they insisted I take them back a Sheffield Fish Cake - they reckoned even warmed up in a red hot oven they were still better than anything that was offered by the local shops.

So....try The Admiral - even without the fishcakes I remember it being one hell of a chippie. I think they opened a second shop 'Admiral 2' in Mosborough

That's right, john65 - proper fishcakes have two slices of potato with fish in the middle. In my experience they are hard to get outside South Yorkshire. Most chip shops in North Lincs. sell rissoles and call them fishcakes. But there is one place in Lincoln that sells proper fishcakes - but they call them fritters.

Funny lot in Lincoln...;)

Farthest away I ever saw them was Bulawayo Rhodesia in the 70's a Greek chip shop called them 'Yorkshire Spitfires':huh:

Tha can still get get Sheffield fishcakes in most places in Yorkshire. Off to Bridlington soon and they have them there. Have to say though I don't like salt and vinegar but OH does:D

still get yorkshire fishcakes in most of south yorkshire.just returned from GOA in india and explained yorkshire fishcakes to the owner of a small restaurant in candolim called The Pavillion and he made us some and they were excellent.might have started a new indian food eh

Fishcakes?

Did somebody mention fishcakes??? Ohhh dont start me off about fishcakes!!!!

Ok, I live in Leicestersire and here they dont have fishcakes-- ok they DO have fishcakes but if you ask for one you get a bloody RISSOLE!!!!!!

I was in a chippy in Leicester a few years ago, Rat-bottomed after a night on the Stella and asked for a bag of chips and a fish cake AND THEY GAVE ME A RISSOLE!!!

I said `Thats a bloody rissole` and the bird behind the counter said `Whats a rissole?` and I said `Thats a bloody rissole you silly southern sod and she said `No thats a fishcake, I dont know what a rissole is` and I said `THATS A RISSOLE SO NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ONE IS SO GET ME A FISHCAKE!` AND SHE SAID `THATS A BLOODY FISHCAKE NOW GET OUT BEFORE I STUFF IT UP YOUR BUM BUM` AND...

I left cos she was bigger than me.

So dont start me off about fishcakes or I`ll start ranting.

N stuff.

They make them to order at Linfords in Market Deeping, South Lincolnshire.
Delicious at £1 each and plenty of fish in the middle.

Same problem here Jabberwocky i live in the W/Midlands if it's not bad enough trying to understand the YOW YOW language also try asking for SCRAPS with your fish & chips I gave up a long time ago trying to get a SHEFFIELD FISHCAKE and not a RISSOLE and getting HENDERSON'S on your meat & tatty pie well i dont think i have to explain that to you do I . Do we all live in the same country or what i remember a Chippy on the Cliff near to where the Don Vally is to-day which put a secret ingredient in their FISHCAKES some sort of spicy pepper i think they were the BEST EVER :huh: .




Did somebody mention fishcakes??? Ohh dont start me off about fishcakes!!!!

Ok, I live in Leicestershire and here they dont have fishcakes-- ok they DO have fishcakes but if you ask for one you get a bloody RISSOLE!!!!!!

I was in a chippy in Leicester a few years ago, Rat-bottomed after a night on the Stella and asked for a bag of chips and a fish cake AND THEY GAVE ME A RISSOLE!!!

I said `That's a bloody rissole` and the bird behind the counter said `Whats a rissole?` and I said `That's a bloody rissole you silly southern sod and she said `No that's a fishcake, I dont know what a rissole is` and I said `THATS A RISSOLE SO NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ONE IS SO GET ME A FISHCAKE!` AND SHE SAID `THATS A BLOODY FISHCAKE NOW GET OUT BEFORE I STUFF IT UP YOUR BUM BUM` AND...

I left cos she was bigger than me.

So dont start me off about fishcakes or I`ll start ranting.

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They make them to order at Linfords in Market Deeping, South Lincolnshire.
Delicious at £1 each and plenty of fish in the middle.

I now live just the other side of Stamford which is not a million miles from Mkt Deeping and occasionally we have been known to drive there just for Lindfords fish and chips which are incredible BUT I never knew they did a Sheffield Fishcake - just wait till my girls find out that they have been living just a few miles from where they can get them from!!

I live in Barnsley and cannot get a Sheffield fishcake, they only do rissoles which they call fishcakes!

And 'the right of the old school called Chippy Broomheads - only dinner and tea! Mind you, over the years I lived there so I would be interested to know if it's still there ...

And 'the right of the old school called Chippy Broomheads - only dinner and tea! Mind you, over the years I lived there so I would be interested to know if it's still there ...
yes it is .

Remember when they used to write on the chip shop windows in something that goes white? probably windowleen, Well I was in my local chippie one night when somebody had been messing about rubbing some of the writing off. A man asked for chips and a pissole. The woman behind the counter said " That P is supposed to be an R". "OK" said the man "Chips and an Rsole". :D

All this talk of Sheffield fishcakes is making me bloody hungry...

Haven't had one in years. There used to be a chippy on Valley Road that sold damn good fishcakes but their chips were a tad disappointing, however. The nearest Parisian equivalent to a fishcake is a rather poor imitation of the maligned "rissole" mentioned above.
But... recently they've started to sell real fish fingers here, under the "Capitaine Igloo" brand, and they are very good, I would say 99% like the real item. So, it's now possible to make fish finger butties as my mate Neil used to make them - recipe;
two slices of white bread;
three fish fingers;
one slice of that plastic-like cheese;
one slice of tomato;
a generous blob of Hellmans' mayonnaise (also available here, imported)
(Salad cream is much better, but unobtainable here)

I was wondering if you still get those yummy fishcakes. The ones with two slices of potato with fish in the middle, and how much are fish and chips now.

theyre known as "Yorkshire Fishcakes" :)

they are known as "Yorkshire Fishcakes" :)

Not to the folks from Sheffield it's only outside Sheffield that they are called Yorkshire cakes it's like calling Hendersons Relish Yorkshire Relish :gag: .

Not to the folks from Sheffield it's only outside Sheffield that they are called Yorkshire cakes it's like calling Hendersons Relish Yorkshire Relish :gag: .

thats what i mean!! lol :)

Drive around the USA and you'll see signs outside certain places advertising fish and chips, the fish is quite often edible but the chips are actually french fries which are usually frozen and thrown into hot oil.

Nathans do nice chips though and their sausage is not bad.

We go to Canada, St. Andrews in New Brunswick every year for two months to escape the Florida heat and Fish and Chips are advertised but I've tried them all and they're awful, be warned.

There was a little place which looked an ideal spot for an English food place and I was very tempted to buy it and make proper fish and chips, Sheffield pancakes and high teas with a proper cuppa in a teapot with scones,etc. home made jam and marmalade.

It turned out it belonged to the Council and me not being Canadian it was a no,no.

Around the Jacksonville area down to St. Augustine Florida there are many people who came from Menorca and some have food shops. I went into one and asked why they don't sell MAHONAISE which is the real stuff.

It was a sauce made by a French chef to celebrate their victory over us when they chucked us out of the best natural harbour in the Med, Mahon. A place I know well.

We go to Canada, St. Andrews in New Brunswick every year for two months to escape the Florida heat and Fish and Chips are advertised but I've tried them all and they're awful, be warned.

There was a little place which looked an ideal spot for an English food place and I was very tempted to buy it and make proper fish and chips, Sheffield pancakes and high teas with a proper cuppa in a teapot with scones,etc. home made jam and marmalade.

It turned out it belonged to the Council and me not being Canadian it was a no,no.

Don't need no fish and chips when you're in New Brunswick!

They got their own specialities, lobster rolls, chowder, and when I was there a few years ago you could get a fresh whole steamed lobster from the dock for less than the price a large pizza!

That's right, john65 - proper fishcakes have two slices of potato with fish in the middle. In my experience they are hard to get outside South Yorkshire. Most chip shops in North Lincs. sell rissoles and call them fishcakes. But there is one place in Lincoln that sells proper fishcakes - but they call them fritters.

Funny lot in Lincoln...;)

I live now in kirkham lancashire,the local chippie has just changed hands and started to sell 'proper fishcakes' first time ive had one t'other night since 1975!!Guess where t'fryer comes from?

Don't need no fish and chips when you're in New Brunswick!

They got their own specialities, lobster rolls, chowder, and when I was there a few years ago you could get a fresh whole steamed lobster from the dock for less than the price a large pizza!

I know and the Haddock is fresh. I bought two 2Lb lobsters over on Grand Mannan island for 4 Canadian. The fish chowder is wonderful but as I say the fish and chips are nothing like the Sheffield ones I bought when I lived there.

Which dock are you talking about, St John?

I was wondering if you still get those yummy fishcakes. The ones with two slices of potato with fish in the middle, and how much are fish and chips now.

yes at norwood chip shop at the top of herries road i cant drive past without getting one delicious steve belk:)

You sure can still get those yummy fish cakes, had a few when we were over there last Christmas !! I am coming back to live in Sheffield in a few months time after nearly 30 years in Oz. "Sheffield fish cakes" is just one of the incentives for me to return. My Auusie born husband is a huge fan of them as well.

Last time I was in Handsworth, the fish and chip shop in Handsworth Road (S13) did them

I know and the Haddock is fresh. I bought two 2Lb lobsters over on Grand Mannan island for 4 Canadian. The fish chowder is wonderful but as I say the fish and chips are nothing like the Sheffield ones I bought when I lived there.

Which dock are you talking about, St John?

In New Brunswick the dockside lobster shack was in Alma (I think) and in Nova Scotia we used to pick them up at the town dock in Stellarton (New Glasgow)

Since eating lobster there, I have never ordered it again here in Toronto, something about freshness or shipping.

But I'll never forget those fishcakes in Sheffield. When I was a kid I used to remind myself of the order by singing "three and a fishcake - three times".

A weird connection here.

I was in northern New Brunswick with my son, and we stopped at a roadstand for burgers, mile s from anywhere. I heard this distinctive noise coming from out back that I hadn't heard since I was a kid. I asked the young girl serving what it was. She took me through the kitchen and there it was!!

An old iron potato rumbler, which I used to work beside at our local chip shop when I was a kid.

The rumbler grated off the peel and we used to pick out the eyes with a small knife before they went under the chopper.

How that old machine ever got up there would be an interesting story, but it was like hearing a familiar song for the first time in 60 years or so.

Chip shops in Castleton and Bakewell sell them. Yummy.

Let's not forget, in Sheffield it's not 'fish and chips' , it's 'chips'n'fish'

If I was particularly hungry and feeling a bit flush it used to be 'chips fish'n'a caake wi scraps' and maybe a bottle of Tizer or dandelion and burdock. Ate the lot including the fish skin. Used to stay skinny then:(

hi glen where i live in worksop they are called fish scallops but they are not like the ones i remember from a fish shop call enzers in a "posh" area of sheffield called grimesthorpe alas now both long gone:(:(

Hi Susan 827, we used to get our fiscakes from the chippy on Botham St too, didn't know it was Enzers. Did you live on Margate Drive by any chance.

Best fishcakes we ever had came from the chippy at manor top ( City Rd) just down from roundabout, think it was Butlers but not sure. Loadsa fish in between two large potato slices in lovely crispy golden batter, they made fantastic sandwiches on a breadcake

These are the only fishcakes you can get in sheffield that are called fishcakes. the other kind are risoles..

These are the only fishcakes you can get in sheffield that are called fishcakes. the other kind are risoles..

When we were kids we used to call those "pissholes"

I live in Derbyshire here they are called Yorkshire fishcakes