| Lancashire is non-metropolitan city of historic origin | | | | how much I had enjoyed it; and for some time, |
| in the North West of England. It inherits its name | | | | when ever that special dinner recurred in their |
| from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes | | | | dietary, I was sure to be met by these men, |
| known as the Country of Lancaster. It has a long | | | | with a ‘Master, there's hotpot for dinner |
| and diversified agricultural and industrial history, | | | | today win yo' come?'" |
| which in turn, resulted in a rich culinary heritage. | | | | Lancashire hotpot has its roots in the Lancashire |
| There are numerous traditional dishes of | | | | cotton industry. There is an interesting story |
| Lancashire that are prepared from various | | | | behind this. It is a very simple dish which can be |
| economical ingredients, producing cheap but tasty | | | | cooked quickly with long slow cooking. The female |
| dishes that would keep hard working families | | | | workers working in the mill were used to prepare |
| warm and fed in the cold climate. | | | | the dinner in the morning by placing the Hotpot in |
| Lancashire is the origin of the Lancashire hot pot. | | | | the range ovens and after several hours it would |
| It's a casserole dish conventionally made with | | | | be ready when the family returned home. |
| lamb. The history of this traditional dish is very | | | | There are other traditional dishes in Lancashire |
| interesting and inspired out of necessity. During | | | | that include frumenty, pobs, potato hotpot, nettle |
| the 18th century, it was a kind of perforate, but | | | | porridge, rag pudding any many more. |
| changed into a meat stew in the middle of the | | | | Northcote offers fourteen individual double |
| 19th century. It is also discussed in the novel | | | | bedrooms to enhance your restaurant experience |
| North & South, where Victorian writer | | | | and continues through to Nigel's famous |
| Elisabeth Gaskell described how Mr. Thornton, a | | | | Lancashire breakfasts. Lancashire hotpot is very |
| mill owner, dined on it with his work hands: "I | | | | famous here. |
| never made a better dinner in my life. I told them | | | | |