The Beauforts Re: reverse dictionary (was: "Herb - Now Aluminum")

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> -> > Carol, who doesn't know what Eccles cakes are and isn't sure she
> wants to know
> > >
> > 
> > Geoff:
> > Actually, if you can't stand black pudding these are much more more-ish.
> > 
> > Theye are a small cake made with flaky containing raisins. My
> mother's had to be eaten to be believed....
> >
> Carol:
> But do they contain pig's blood? I thought that's what black pudding
> was: blood sausage, and not a pudding in either the American sense (a
> creamy, custardy kind of dessert) or the British sense (a general term
> for dessert).
> 
> A small cake with raisins sounds okay, as long as the cake is made of
> flour, sugar, shortening, eggs, and other standard ingredients.
> 
> Carol, who can't tell from Geoff's description whether the cakes are
> delicious or barely edible

Geoff:
Sorry, the word 'pastry' should have followed 'flaky".

The fact I said they are 'more-ish' answers your last question. Perhaps 
you haven't met the term - it's an English colloquialism for absolutely 
scrumptious.