09-09-2005, 05:51 PM
Ok so my Welsh hubby is dying for a "farmhouse cake". I've looked and looked and can't find any. He says there are raisons or currants in it......Help!!
09-09-2005, 05:51 PM
09-09-2005, 06:29 PM
09-10-2005, 07:49 AM
Thank you!! I had searched using yahoo lol.
09-12-2005, 03:17 PM
Hey Jodie! You have a Welsh hubby there?? LOL.. this is the first time for me to hear anything of a Welsh person on any of the boards I go on. Does he speak the language of heaven? Where are you?
On the farmhouse cake thing, I've never heard of this as being a Welsh cake. I'm thinking maybe he was talking about "bara brith", which is a kind of currant bread.
On the farmhouse cake thing, I've never heard of this as being a Welsh cake. I'm thinking maybe he was talking about "bara brith", which is a kind of currant bread.
09-12-2005, 04:06 PM
Celticana @ Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:17 pm Wrote:
Hey Jodie! You have a Welsh hubby there?? LOL.. this is the first time for me to hear anything of a Welsh person on any of the boards I go on. Does he speak the language of heaven? Where are you?
On the farmhouse cake thing, I've never heard of this as being a Welsh cake. I'm thinking maybe he was talking about "bara brith", which is a kind of currant bread.
On the farmhouse cake thing, I've never heard of this as being a Welsh cake. I'm thinking maybe he was talking about "bara brith", which is a kind of currant bread.
Just for fun I looked it up. It is different:
http://www.red4.co.uk/Recipes/bara-brith.htm
Three quarters of a pound of lard or butter sounds good to me. I thought for a minute it was going to be a version of Lardy Cake, also good but not good for you.
09-12-2005, 07:09 PM
I can look in one of the gazillion cook books we have..
HI JODY! (christina... shhh) D
HI JODY! (christina... shhh) D
09-12-2005, 10:03 PM
Celticana @ Mon 12 Sep, 2005 4:17 pm Wrote:
Hey Jodie! You have a Welsh hubby there?? LOL.. this is the first time for me to hear anything of a Welsh person on any of the boards I go on.
There are a few knocking around here. more Scots, but you can't have everything.....
09-13-2005, 03:10 PM
allright then, two choruses of "Sospan Vach" and that's plenty.
09-13-2005, 10:46 PM
LOL.. let's just make that the first line.. and that would be "Sospan Fach" (no "v" in the Welsh alphabet. wink )
"Mae bys Meri Ann wedi brifo a Dafydd y gwas ddim yn iach". enough..?
How about this then - I used to live near that village with the incredibly long name
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll.Llantysiliogogogoch! lol
The spellchecker didn't like that one either. mrgreen
"Mae bys Meri Ann wedi brifo a Dafydd y gwas ddim yn iach". enough..?
How about this then - I used to live near that village with the incredibly long name
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll.Llantysiliogogogoch! lol
The spellchecker didn't like that one either. mrgreen
09-13-2005, 11:33 PM
Celticana @ Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:46 pm Wrote:
LOL.. let's just make that the first line.. and that would be "Sospan Fach" (no "v" in the Welsh alphabet. :wink: )
"Mae bys Meri Ann wedi brifo a Dafydd y gwas ddim yn iach". enough..?
How about this then - I used to live near that village with the incredibly long name:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll.Llantysiliogogogoch! :lol:
The spellchecker didn't like that one either. :mrgreen:
"Mae bys Meri Ann wedi brifo a Dafydd y gwas ddim yn iach". enough..?
How about this then - I used to live near that village with the incredibly long name:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll.Llantysiliogogogoch! :lol:
The spellchecker didn't like that one either. :mrgreen:
If you google it, it shows up with v and f. I worked in the Wirral for a while and we had two german students as interns. They found that they could get along quite well with speakers of Welsh and, of course, a v in German sounds like an f, so I deduced it was V. You must be wrong.
The name of your village points up another similarity of Welsh with German; taking the spaces out of a sentence and calling it a word. I remember a red mill and a white something by the mill but senility creeps in and I can remember no more of it. Perhaps a swan.
When we were little kids we used to sing;
I'm the man who came from Scotland
shooting peas at a nanny goat's bottom
As I got older, we learned different words, but I don't want to get flagged.
Oy, I got to go to bed, G'night all.
09-13-2005, 11:59 PM
*chuckles*.. Google speaks the language of heaven now? The one entry with a "v" that turned up for me was actually on a German site.