Cooking with Coronation Street

One of our regular readers, Katie, told me about a Sunday Magazine newspaper supplement that she’d kept from the early 1990s. It featured Coronation Street characters and their recipes, with some descriptions of the characters and some quotes as written by the characters. I thought “What a great ideal for a series in Corrieblog!”. Katie had typed it all up and saved it. She kindly went looking for it and sent me a copy of it all. I intend on posting some of the recipes, on a regular basis. I’ll title them all “Cooking with Coronation Street” along with the character and recipe name. Thanks ever so much, Katie! Stay tuned, everyone, Wednesdays will be cookery day here at Corrieblog Towers!

The recipes are all written with UK Imperial weight and liquid measurements. I'll translate a bit where I cant. There are loads of conversion tables on the internet. here’s one of them that seems pretty good and has Imperial, US and Metric conversions. Click on the little picture beside the description to get to a conversion table. Remember, “pt” is “pint”.

Here's a few measurement equivalents for you to keep note of:

2 cups = 1 pint
One half pint = 1 cup
1 cup = 8 ounces (liquid) = one half pound (non-liquid)
1 cup = 250 ml. liquid or 250 grams non liquid
16 ounces = 1 pound for non-liquids

1 pound = 454 grams (or round up to 500)
2.2 pounds = 1 kilogram