h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*waves a red rose back*

Aw, bless! Considering that all three of the Italics come from the Westerly side of the Pennines, it might be best! We can't be allowing them Yorkshire types to take the credit!



Paully

oh you heard that everyone

I'm bowing to italic preasure

Glad to see that our hands-off, softly-softly approach to getting our own way has been acknowledged!

Paully

Thanks for the clarification on kiel butter, Cal Fortuneswell. I thnk this is what woud be called European Style butter here. As far as I know it isn't different in ingredients than regular butter, it just undergoes more a few more processing steps.



Everyone's clarifications on treacle and Golden Syrup are the best I've seen yet on the subject anywhere, and I comment on almost all recipes in Peer Review. Ausgezeichnet!



Your recipe doesn't just say 'treacle' it says 'Scotch treacle', so I was curious as to what might be different about the Scotch version or Scotch brand of it.



Probably the reason we are in a hurry to bug you about the changes is because we all can tell it's a good article, deserving of a Scout Picking. Do take the time you need!

as far as I'm aware scotch treacle is treacle with whiskey in it, but I can find a definition of it at all

I've started an entry on the History of christmas cake

now shaz has this entry A663617 now what I have and what she has there are completely different.


Does this mean that I now can't do that entry or how does it work

As long as the entry that you're writing avoids the material that Shazz has already included in her entry, you'll be absolutely fine.

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thanks paully

Has anyone else got anything to add?

"Parkin itself is normally made in the West Riding (Under the present County system this area now covers West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire)and Lancashire, and has even been known to be made further north than this"

That seems awfully convoluted. What's wrong with a simple 'north of England'? If you really want to retain the Yorkshire reference you could add something like 'and is particularly associated with Yorkshire'.

And I'd replace 'normally' with 'commonly'.

To be honest that sentance is just west riding and lancashire the extra bit is explaining what west riding is

I know - that's what makes it so convoluted. It would be better as a footnote if you want to include it, but I'd query the importance that you're putting upon the West Riding in this entry.

I'm not putting any importance on west riding, I was asked in this thread to explain what west riding was

"Parkin itself is normally made in the West Riding... ...and Lancashire"

That singles out the WR and suggests that parkin is more likely to made there than any other part of Yorkshire, and it's that assertion that I'm questioning. If parkin is mostly a WR delicacy then fair enough, but if it's just as prevalent in all parts of Yorkshire then we have us a misleading statement, and those are things that we try to keep out of the Edited Guide... not always successfully of course, but we try to catch them before they hit the Front Page - that's the main purpose of PR.

Now I know you've read the size of the area that west riding covers, so I still fail to see what the problem is.

I think you should've thought about that post and how silly it was before you posted it, there is a preview button, I suggest ample use of it.

I'd never really considered Parkin as a northern thing before. My mum made it when we lived in Somerset, and it was always available in my local bakers shop when I was in Hertfordshire. True, its incidence increased when I lived in Yorkshire, but then I wasn't really making an audit of its availability as I don't really like the stuff that much.

Wouldn't it be better to just say it's a northern thing, and include specific regions of the north to a footnote?

it's not a "northern thing" though, go too far north and you don't get it.

Cal - are you okay? Although our paths cross rarely you've always seemed to me to be the very model of an upstanding and decent person/h2g2 Researcher. Compassionate, conciliatory, respectful and an all-round good egg. That's not the person I'm seeing in this thread. Are you going through some problems IRL or has someone hacked your password and it's not really you? I'm serious Cal, are you okay?

Can I suggest that a sentence along the lines of "Parkin is most commonly associated with the Northern English counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire, although it has traditionally also been eaten in many other parts of the UK. Of course today, supermarkets right across the country regularly stock this delicious seasonal cake."

Feel free to edit, amend, change or otherwise hack into something approaching a nice kind of shape!

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