Scouse...

[juicyjamie18]

In Liverpool we always have Scouse but I dunno how to explain it to my friends who aren't from Liverpool coz they dunno what it is...it must just be a Liverpool thing. Is it called another name anywhere else?

[natalie_1982]

It's like a broth or really soupy stew isn't it? I got a bit of family and some friends up there.

[linlam]

Meat stew is your best bet. Lob Scouse, generally called Scouse, has loads of different recipes, it's a family handed down thing, but it contains meat, Blind scouse,or poor mans scouse has no meat.

Here's an excellent page off different recipes..I wonder which variety you make? I've never made Scouse with minced meat!

http://www.liver poolpictorial.co.uk/recipe2.htm#Lob%20Scouse%201

The Lob Scouse #1 makes interesting reading.

 

[juicyjamie18]

Yeah that's it! Thanks. My Nan makes it with steak and mince and spuds and onions and stuff. Soo cool. So i'll just call it stew to my friends...sounds so obvious now! Doh!

[natalie_1982]

They say "stick a pan o'scouse on" and "it sticks to your ribs - you won't need to eat for a week"

[maxi29]

There's a Welsh stew called 'scws' but I don't know whether that's derived from Liverpool or whether Liverpool took it from Wales.

[NoGood Boyo]

I think you mean "cawl", maxi29. Sounds as if scouse could be its near relative, but for good cawl you obviously needs leeks. Daffodils not an alternative.

[Kay]

Correct Nogoodboyo! I love cawl,where to ru from then? 

[NoGood Boyo]

In a far away county a long time ago....... Originally Caerfyrddin Hwyl NGB

[ermintrude35]

in north wales it's called Lob Scows and the south of wales calles it "cawl".. I know that liverpool was built by mainly the welsh and irish , I dont know if this is how it came about, my mam always made it with lamb and huge chunks of potatoes, and it always tasted better if made the day before it was to be eaten, always eaten with huge slabs of bread and occasionally sprinkled with a bit of local welsh cheese ..though I  know the tradition of eating pickled red cabbage with it is definatly NOT a welsh one..mmm wheres me sosban