Comments on: Quick blog before the weekend’s over

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:37:34 +0000

Cobblers–I know the two types. The fruit ones which are like a crumble, and meat dishes. Basically it’s similar to putting a dumpling on top of a casserole/stew. The fruit one, especially peach is very popluar in the States.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:42:49 +0000

coming from Yorkshire, i can confirm that beef cobbler (and other varieties) is definately a northen thing.
I remember asking my grandma why it was called that when I was a kid so I remember well. She said it was because the rounds of pastry/scones on top resembled the ‘cobble stones’ that paved the streets in the industrial north before they were tarmacked.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:21:07 +0000

And having asked my mum about this, she said we often had savoury ones as well, but she had to call them something else to get us to eat them. Apparently we could only accept the fruit ones as being called cobblers, and she called the savoury ones “eberdeenies”. But that was extremely local, lol. ie to my family only, as an eberdeenie is actually a type of roll

By: Charlotte Mullarkey

Charlotte Mullarkey — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:14:24 +0000

Sarah, PLEASE can you ask anna to update her blog?! The last post was on the 3rd of June! Thanks!
Charlotte mu!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:55:12 +0000

Have hardly anything Christmassy on at all – not with kids, work nor just me. Feeling bit unloved ;(

By: Ruth

Ruth — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:54:39 +0000

Never knowlingly eaten a cobbler – must be a northern thing?

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:49:59 +0000

We had them lots as kids, though more often as a pudding, with stewed fruit underneath. And I lived probably about 800 miles north of where you probably mean by Northern!

By: Neil Denham

Neil Denham — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:15:58 +0000

A cobbler makes shoes, why on earth would you cook one?
Never heard of ‘em!

By: Ivonne

Ivonne — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:12:59 +0000

i have no idea what cobblers are, but could be because I grew up in Germany?