Panacalti

Recipe Story

My father grew up in the 1930's in freezing cold Sunderland in the North West of the country. With three brothers to feed my grandmother had to find filling and substantial food on a budget.
She made this recipe in huge quantities and its filling, tasty warming comfort food. The boys used to walk to Seaburn to collect coal off the beach for the fire and then walk all the way home again - wanting food as soon as they arrived !
There are fights all over the area as to the "correct" way of making it, but legend says thats its really a concotion of what was left over from Sunday thrown together to feed everyone Monday.
This is my grandmothers version of this recipe, handed down to my father who cooked it for us. I still make it for my two teenage sons when they have been playing rugby or something muddy and want an instant plate of sustinance when they walk through the door.
The ingrediants are few but the taste hits the spot on a cold winter afternoon when you just want a hot bath, a fire and a bowl of Panacalti!