A BREAKFAST FAVORITE....ULSTER FRY!

[Gruntfuttock]

Anyone recollect this delicacy from yesteryear?

It was sold in grocers' shops along with bacon and sausage. It was red/brown in
colour and was sliced on a bacon slicer. It was usually bought in half pounds and
was fried or grilled for serving with a good breakfast.

It was a meat product and it came in blocks wrapped in a plastic film that served as
rind whist it cooked. Once cooked, the "rind" was peeled away before eating!

I'd love to know where I could get some of this once popular product....anyone got
any ideas where it may yet be sold?

Thanks...............

[Oudeis]

It sounds like what is called in Scotland 'Square Sausage'. It comes in a long block about 2 1/2 to 3 inch square. It too is/was wrapped in a plasticky stuff that goes hard and brittle when fried.

http://gordonhamilton.hubpages.com/hub/lorne-sausages

A recipe...

http://www.food.com/recipe/scottish-lorne-sausages-square-breakfast-sausage-389024

[please do not shoot the messenger :)]

[Bernie]

I remember it, if you put it in Google it just brings up details of a full breakfast.

P.S. For sale here 400 grams for £1.25

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Oudeis and Gruntfuttock

This also sounds a bit like a sausage-like product that is sold and served over here in the United States called "scrapple" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple) which similar to the Scottish and Irish meats described is a block of meat not a conventionally "sausage-shaped" delicacy.

Cheers

Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Diane Louise]

Was it Ulster Fry?

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I googled Ulster Fry and it came up with Full Breakfast. But my husband said it was flat in shape and rounded ends and about six inches long. It was sliced in a bacon slicer and called Ulster Fry!

[Marty1]

Oudeis is spot on, tis Commercially Produced Lorne Sausages or a slight variation depending on where you live I would imagine.

[GNASHER]

No Marty he's wrong.Square Sos is as it says,square and made out of sausage meat.Ulster Fry is (___) and a mix of bacon bits and other stuf.It is now called 'Bacon Fry'.I had some for my breakfast last sat/sun with eggs and soda bread.You can get it in the Scotch Beef shop in Woolton Village.I'll be calling in there tomorrow for my weekend supplies.You can get it in The Eat Well in Cathrine St and Taste Bubs on London Rd.

[Marty1]

Yes, it's similar to what Oudeis was talking about though, I've ate it in a home made Ulster Fry but the many I've had in Ulster Cafe's don't normally have it !

* Streaky bacon / bacon rashers
* Sausages (typically the kind referred to in these islands as the "chipolata")
* Black pudding (an Irish sausage containing blood, a grain such as oats or barley, and various spices)
* Eggs
* Potato farl (a potato-based griddle bread, rolled out into a circle and cut into quarters, then baked)
* Soda farl (soda bread baked on the griddle, also in quarters: "farl" is an old word for quarter)

[lindylou]

I used to like Ulster fry. It's oblong shaped with rounded edges, thinly sliced. Our local butchers used to sell it. Not sure if they still do, I haven't bought any for a long time.
You can still get it at some supermarkets at the meat/deli counter, and some high street butchers shops wil probably still sell it.
The stuff I've tasted in recent times doesn't seem to be as nice as the original Ulster Fry we used to get. These days they seem to sell a cheaper version which is an inferior copy of the real thing.

[Marty1]

I'm talking about an Ulster Fried Breakfast, not a bit that you may get with them !:doubt:

[grekko]

Anyone recollect this delicacy from yesteryear?

It was sold in grocers' shops along with bacon and sausage. It was red/brown in
colour and was sliced on a bacon slicer. It was usually bought in half pounds and
was fried or grilled for serving with a good breakfast.

It was a meat product and it came in blocks wrapped in a plastic film that served as
rind whist it cooked. Once cooked, the "rind" was peeled away before eating!

I'd love to know where I could get some of this once popular product....anyone got
any ideas where it may yet be sold?

Thanks...............

I know the stuff you're on about and it aint that square or lorne sausage meat crap, it's a salty ,spiced meat that you have the butcher slice to your required thickness.What you want is available in Birkenhead Market on a few of the butchers stalls , we always knew it as "Irish Fry" but it's the same as you described: flat , possibly an 1" to 2" thick rounded at either end in a redskin. Take a trip to the market, you'll find the stuff there for sure.

http://www.patblood.com/specialoffers.html

[GNASHER]

22742And here it is.I thought the pup had scoffed it all.

[grekko]

That's the stuff:handclap:
you can get here in BOOTLE Mon-Fri:
http://www.patblood.com/factoryshop.html[COLOR="Silver"]

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[Marty1]

Well done GNASHER, thank Christ for that !:handclap:

[hmtmaj]

Love the Ulster Fry, how's about White Pudding ?
Miss that on my brekkie :PDT_Xtremez_42:

Mart

[kevin]

Yes - Ulster Fry was a processed meat served as part of a breakfast. Not too dissimilar to spam. Square sausage is almost like meatloaf (some Scottish friends brought me a few kilos recently - best baked in the oven to render some of the fat). Lorne sausage is square patties of sausage meat but slightly different to square sausage as I understand it.

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Love the Ulster Fry, how's about White Pudding ?
Miss that on my brekkie :PDT_Xtremez_42:

Mart


You can get White pudding at Tesco.

[Doris Mousdale]

Ulster Fry was the brand name for a processed bacon product. The name was stamped on the red skin,it was delicious served with mushrooms, fried eggs and fried bread and tomatoes.Many grocers sold it from their bacon counters.Tasted best about 11 0 Clock on Saturday morning after an early start at the market to get the fresh fruit and vege and flowers to the shop. Saturdays were always busy and you needed a good breakfast to cope with the customers and to fight off the cold.My brother John could knock out perfect breakfasts for all staff on a little Baby Belling kept in the back room of the fruit shop. Once open our shop door never closed even through wind and snow my mother reckoned it kept the fruit and vegetables really fresh.The grocers shop on Cherry Lane/Utting Avenue used to cut it nice and thin and its best grilled rather than fried, it needs to get a bit crispy but not too much. Perfect on a sandwich fits better than bacon, excellent when camping or caravanning.Tomato sauce compulsory.

[Diane Louise]

22742And here it is.I thought the pup had scoffed it all.

Yes that what my husband ate as a kid and it is called Ulster Fry. He said it tasted like spam!

I remember bacon grill out of a tin! Don't know whether the shops still sell it!

[Kev]

I love anything like Spam or whatever its equivalent is these days. Big thick pieces, fried, with beans, egg, sausages & mushrooms.

[kevin]

Yes that what my husband ate as a kid and it is called Ulster Fry. He said it tasted like spam!

I remember bacon grill out of a tin! Don't know whether the shops still sell it!
They do - good fishing bait when you can't get luncheon meat

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Yes that what my husband ate as a kid and it is called Ulster Fry. He said it tasted like spam!

I remember bacon grill out of a tin! Don't know whether the shops still sell it!
They do - good fishing bait when you can't get luncheon meat

[lindylou]

Love the Ulster Fry, how's about White Pudding ?
Miss that on my brekkie :PDT_Xtremez_42:

Mart

Don't think I've seen white pudding, only black pudding. Is there much difference in the taste ?

[Oudeis]

In a fish and chip shop in Scotland much that can be battered and deep fried is on offer, as you know. The staples are (each served with chips, this combo termed 'supper');

Fish (supper)
Black, white, red and haggis puddings.
Also fried for traditional breakfast is fruit pudding, sliced and fried in the usual way.

I am sure anybody could Google away to their hearts content (but eventual detriment?) and discover all these delights lusciously described. Good luck with that. :)

This vegetarian is off for some toast. :)

[kevin]

Don't think I've seen white pudding, only black pudding. Is there much difference in the taste ?
Linda,
If you're in a Tesco have a look for the small plastic wrapped black pudding you can get - probably next to the bacon and sausage. You'll usually see White pudding there as well.

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Tom,
If you make it to the meet, not only will I tell you my drunken Scots story, but also my black pudding story. I might even stretch to the story about Ged, when he was a supervisor on a poultry farm.

[Oudeis]

"...Ged, when he was a supervisor on a poultry farm."

He's bound to eggs-act revenge. ;)

[hmtmaj]

You don't want to hear it.... believe me :PDT_Xtremez_42:

[Oudeis]

You don't want to hear it.... believe me :PDT_Xtremez_42:

You callin' me 'Chicken'?...again ;)

A fowl but on-nest tale?

[Gruntfuttock]

Thanks, to everyone kind enough to contribute here, especially Kev for the useful information on the likely stockist of ULSTER FRY.

I'm sorry that I appeared to 'disappear' after beginning the topic. My internet went down courtesy of British Telecom who, despite the years, have continued to fail miserably in the business they profess to be world leaders.

Again, many thanks to everyone!

[grekko]

Thanks, to everyone kind enough to contribute here, especially Kev for the useful information on the likely stockist of ULSTER FRY.

I'm sorry that I appeared to 'disappear' after beginning the topic. My internet went down courtesy of British Telecom who, despite the years, have continued to fail miserably in the business they profess to be world leaders.

Again, many thanks to everyone!



Don't know about Tesco's , but if you want the genuine article , get down here:
BOOTLE
http://www.patblood.com/factoryshop.html

[Lord Richard G Seddon]

Anyone recollect this delicacy from yesteryear?

It was sold in grocers' shops along with bacon and sausage. It was red/brown in
colour and was sliced on a bacon slicer. It was usually bought in half pounds and
was fried or grilled for serving with a good breakfast.

It was a meat product and it came in blocks wrapped in a plastic film that served as
rind whist it cooked. Once cooked, the "rind" was peeled away before eating!

I'd love to know where I could get some of this once popular product....anyone got
any ideas where it may yet be sold?

Thanks...............

I managed to track this down in Birkenhead market and introduced the supplier to my local market in Bolton. Bolton Market now stocks this. Have a look at the ulster Fry facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ulster-Fry/166884086733960#!/pages/Ulster-Fry-sliced-meat/166884086733960