Everything about Scouse Food totally explained
The word scouse is from the word lobscouse meaning a meat stew which was commonly eaten by seamen. Lobscouse was a dish eaten by seamen throughout Northern Europe, and became popular in seaports such as Liverpool. Shortened to Scouse the name for this meat stew eventually came into common English usage to describe a resident of Liverpool.
As a type of
beef or
lamb stew, scouse is still a popular dish in Liverpool and is a staple of local
pub and cafe menus, although recipes vary greatly and often include ingredients which are inconsistent with the thrifty roots of the dish.
The traditional recipe for Liverpool Scouse consists of a cheap cut of lamb, or in earlier days, mutton (such as breast or forequarter), removed from the bone and browned in a large saucepan, to which are added chopped
onions,
carrots, and water or meat stock, to which are added as many
potatoes as possible. The sauce isn't thickened, and it's usual to serve with preserved
beetroot or
red cabbage and
white bread with
butter. An even more impoverished variety of this dish is 'blind Scouse', which features
no meat. Either recipe should more rightly be considered a potato stew.
Named
Lob Scows, the recipe is popular in
Holyhead and the west of
Anglesey, normally made with beef in the form of braising or stewing steak, potatoes, and any other vegetable available, this recipe was brought by the canal bargies to Stoke-on-Trent where it's called "Lobby" the shortened version of "lobscouse"
In
Norway, which had a long sea-trading association with the Northern English seaports, the dish (known locally as
lapskaus) is virtually a national dish using the weekend's remaining food, usually carrots, potatoes, pork sausages in slices or beef cut small and served with
flatbrød (unleavened bread dating back to Viking days). Under the name
Labskaus, derived from the English lobscouse, the North German version is traditional in the Lower
Elbe region, especially in the port city
Hamburg.
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