Your wish is my command. https://jims.ch/product/jacobs-cream-crackers-200g/ Hurry only 4 left.

I've just remembered another suet recipe which my mum used to make:

"Dead man's leg"

I haven't had that since I was a child.

Cannibalism has been outlawed since then. Even for dead people.

Lots of expats here due to there being several large multinationals.
Coop and Monor both have British food sections so I’m not sure why Migros wouldn’t.


I make my own mincemeat for mince pies and mine doesn’t have suet in it so it’s possible to make delicious mincemeat without using suet.

In the UK, but not in the US, well not quite

Definitely available at the Aligro in Rapperswil (in three packs). I'm 90% sure we've bought them from the Coop in Richterswil by the motorway too.

I read that it was always made with mince lamb (or mutton and sometimes offal) and then left to "ferment"

According to this it was mutton or lamb. Later offal and tripe were used and in the 19th century, it was beef.

A tradition in our house at Christmas when I was a kid was a game pie - massive and looking like one of those medieval pies, it contained venison, pheasant, and rabbit.

Or Four and Twenty Blackbirds even?

Time to bring some old recipes back. I recently tried to make a Throdkin...
It did not go well, tasted ok I suppose, and as they say: Practice makes perfect, I will try again. Even if it just for the Tolkeinesque name.

Yum!

Larger Coops sell them - we have found them in Letzipark and Sihlcity, in the international foods area next to Marmite, Branston, custard powder etc. I also see McVitie’s digestives and chocolate digestives in our local one.

I was recently in the grocery store in the basement of Jelmoli on Bahnhofstrasse in central Zurich and was reminded of how many American and British foods they sell that I can't find anywhere else. I even found those tiny marshmallows for hot chocolate. They also had something that looked like brown sugar, though it may have been muscavado (I'm still not quite sure what the difference is exactly).

Muscavado sugar is brown sugar. They've sold it for years in Jemoli for years.

Thanks. I just looked it up to confirm and it says that muscavado is the same as dark brown sugar, but my recipes usually call for light brown sugar (e.g. for chocolate chip cookies). Not sure if they can be used interchangeably.

Excuse me, stop nit-picking - your fingers will be sticky either way...

You can buy light brown sugar - it's just dark brown sugar with less molasses.

I use demerara sugar instead. It depends on the recipe and taste preferences.

Which dish is the most popular for you? Something without which Christmas is not a real Christmas. Shall we have a poll?

Oh yeah, I just love the food department from Jelmoli.. they have stuff you never even heard of from so many places.. It's pricey but it's a treat..
Larger Coop stores have also some more special things worth buying.

Which is available in a standard supermarket in other countries...

Other countries that are a tad out of reach, eh.
A French standard supermarket looks much better than any supermarket here (albeit I've never looked for more "exotic" stuff while in France, I guess was too busy to pick the right terrine and pâtés and cheese )...I agree, I'm not sure about a German one though.

I agree, a standard French hypermarché has more to offer than the usual offenders in Switzerland. However, what should also be considered is the unfair advantage of UK-roundabout technology, which the French have opportunistically adopted along with fresh baguettes, cheese and child slave labour… often affordable wine too….