Which foods are truly "Sheffield"?

[Loubbe 10]

Breadcakes. I know they exist outside Sheff, but they are called weird things like rolls, buns, baps, cobs etc etc. Ask for a breadcake elsewhere they look at you gone out

[valleylad 10]

No it was definitely a proper fishcake. Having lived in a proper fishcake free area for umpteen years I know exactly what I was looking for. Please please tell me where I will be able to find a decent proper fishcake in Sheffield the next time I visit the city.

 

mills chip oyl (pronounced oil) coal pit lane stocksbridge best for miles .

[valleylad 10]

Breadcakes. I know they exist outside Sheff, but they are called weird things like rolls, buns, baps, cobs etc etc. Ask for a breadcake elsewhere they look at you gone out

 

In the stocksbridge area what we would call a bread cake in sheffield is a tea cake and what we call a tea cake is a current tea cake -confused ex sheffielder.The correct term for the fish cake made of slices of fish and potato seems to be the yorkshire fish cake as advertised in a chippy in cleethorpes .

[Loubbe 10]

In the stocksbridge area what we would call a bread cake in sheffield is a tea cake and what we call a tea cake is a current tea cake -confused ex sheffielder.The correct term for the fish cake made of slices of fish and potato seems to be the yorkshire fish cake as advertised in a chippy in cleethorpes .

 

 

Aaah but in Skegness they are referred to as Sheffield Fish Cakes

[Tigerfan 10]

sutherlands potted beef and also theres another potted beef but just cant think of the name even tho i buy both regular and there both made in sheffield.

 

Is my mind playing tricks but was there a firm called hartleys ecclesall road area ??

 

Also

 

Long Gone but Burdalls Gravy Salt and also what about frederichs the legendreary butchers (food to die for ))

[rvdr 10]

is dripping cakes a sheffield food??? mmmmmmmmm

[grinder 10]

Used to love a bowl of ash with Hendo's relish as a kid or a fry up with brown sauce on it..

Edited May 14, 2010 by grinder

[BufferGirl 10]

Love those Oatcakes they sell in Chatsworth farm shop and they are Derbyshire oatcakes. But my Dad, who was brought up near St Mary's Rd in a place called Sheaf Gardens - now just part of a business park in the city centre - used to go to a shop there run by two sisters where they made oatcakes big enough that you just used to buy a couple of slices for the family and take them home, made with herbs apparently. He used to say the next best thing was the Chatsworth ones. In the late '70s / early '80s the chips and tomato sauce served in the old 'bar one' of Sheffield Uni Union on Western Bank were pretty damn unique ( we weren't students, we just used to hang around on the bridge as underage teens and say 'Will you sign me in please' to every passing student).

[anywebsite 10]

No; when you go anywhere else, they give you a fishcake, which for bizarre reasons I've never been able to discover, Sheffielders call a rissole.

 

For equally bizarre reasons, which I've also never been able to discover, a rissole is called a fishcake by Sheffielders. This has led to much confusion in both directions, notably when non-Sheffielders come to Sheffield, ask for a fishcake, get a rissole and complain vociferously.

 

The bizarre reason is that you're wrong. A rissole contains mashed potato & fish (or meat), not sliced. Google it.

[HeadingNorth 11]

The bizarre reason is that you're wrong. A rissole contains mashed potato & fish (or meat), not sliced. Google it.

 

I don't buy rissoles from a search engine; I buy them from a chippy.

[LibertyBell 10]

Batchelors peas ... founded in 1895.

 

The mushy pea was allegedly invented there.

[mrs grissom 10]

Meat and Tater pie ( shortcrust pastry def. not flaky) mushy peas and , it goes without saying, Hendos and gravy.