Coming from the Pit Village of Seghill in Northumberland my Grandma told me about this tradition when I was little ,now 69 and I still remember the traditions of the miners and the villagers. We still have our Annual Gala on the 1st Saturday in June every year ,when the miners all put in 3d a week and then 6d to put into the fund for the Gala so that the bairns (like meself ) could all have a good day. Me Dad had a little book so that he could tally up how much was in the kitty his friend Ronnie another miner would go round the doors collecting the tanners and writing down who had paid and who hadn't. Them that didn't want to pay either coz they didn't have kids or didn't work at the pit in later years would get an ear bashing something on the likes of "Aye but y'ell still gan Ower te the Gala) which shamed them into paying 🤣 Uncle Ronnie was a big man. 💪🏻 Lorna, a miners Daughter and proud of it .❤️
I've never heard of the Yule Doo. I don't remember my grandparents mentioning it and they remembered Victorian times. They came from Scotland and moved to Newcastle. The story about them is fascinating as are the old newspaper cuttings. I wonder what the 'real mountain dew' was like. Nothing like the American Mountain Dew I'll bet. You would NOT get me on that wooden bridge. Just looking at it on screen makes me dizzy. 😵 Oooh. A recipe. Very interesting. Of course you'll make a baker. You just need a little more practice and fine tuning the technique. I was useless at rubbing in the butter into the flour when I first started. I'd say your butter is a little too soft. You want to take it out of the fridge about half an our before you use it. Rub the flour into the butter until it resembles breadcrumbs and then add the milk. The recipe I found uses water instead of milk. You have to 'knock it back' to take the air out of the dough after it has risen. I shall have to try to make one for Xmas. 🎄 Oh! You're cutting into the baby. 😲I can't look! 😎 A little doughy inside? Possibly two reasons for that. The dough should have doubled in size. I left my Apricot & Raisin teabread dough to rise for 1.5 hours. It filled the bowl when it was done. The other reason could be the 'All ovens may vary' that you see in a lot of recipes. My last cake came out like that. We had a Formica table with matching chairs. The chairs were made of steel tubing with the seat covered with matching blue plastic as I remember.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I completely agree with you about the butter and needing to knock the dough back, I'm definitely not a natural baker! I think if I was to do it again I'd follow your advice ☺️ I hope you do give it a go, and I bet it will be fabulous!
@@northeastnostalgic5071 Well I made mine. Strange looking creatures they are. 😁 I forgot all about knocking back the dough. 🙃 My vid should be up on Thursday, although I don't know how I'm going to fit in all the editing.
Stockton is back in county Durham again I don't know why they changed the old boundries, I'm originally from thornaby and that used to be North Yorkshire. Iv never known of mines in Teesside I will have to investigate.
Oh the stories our grandparents could tell us! I think it was quite an old tradition dying out in the 1940s but I think it would be so interesting to find out more as so much has been lost 😔
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Coming from the Pit Village of Seghill in Northumberland my Grandma told me about this tradition when I was little ,now 69 and I still remember the traditions of the miners and the villagers. We still have our Annual Gala on the 1st Saturday in June every year ,when the miners all put in 3d a week and then 6d to put into the fund for the Gala so that the bairns (like meself ) could all have a good day. Me Dad had a little book so that he could tally up how much was in the kitty his friend Ronnie another miner would go round the doors collecting the tanners and writing down who had paid and who hadn't. Them that didn't want to pay either coz they didn't have kids or didn't work at the pit in later years would get an ear bashing something on the likes of "Aye but y'ell still gan Ower te the Gala) which shamed them into paying 🤣 Uncle Ronnie was a big man. 💪🏻 Lorna, a miners Daughter and proud of it .❤️
Thank you for bringing back to life these simpler times.
I think it's nice to add a nostalgic twist to the festivities!🧑🎄✨
Never heard of a yule doo, so thanks for that. I had a giggle at your cooking attempt.
I don't think baking is my forte 😂😂
so fascinating! i never knew this existed - definitely going to try and make one!
I hope you make it better than me!😂 I think if I'd make it flatter it would have cooked through but it was so interesting to do ☺️
Brilliant 😂 very interesting history tradition, even better when you make it 😊 x
I was very curious to see what it was like and now I know!☺️
I've never heard of the Yule Doo. I don't remember my grandparents mentioning it and they remembered Victorian times. They came from Scotland and moved to Newcastle. The story about them is fascinating as are the old newspaper cuttings.
I wonder what the 'real mountain dew' was like. Nothing like the American Mountain Dew I'll bet.
You would NOT get me on that wooden bridge. Just looking at it on screen makes me dizzy. 😵
Oooh. A recipe. Very interesting.
Of course you'll make a baker. You just need a little more practice and fine tuning the technique. I was useless at rubbing in the butter into the flour when I first started. I'd say your butter is a little too soft. You want to take it out of the fridge about half an our before you use it. Rub the flour into the butter until it resembles breadcrumbs and then add the milk. The recipe I found uses water instead of milk. You have to 'knock it back' to take the air out of the dough after it has risen. I shall have to try to make one for Xmas. 🎄
Oh! You're cutting into the baby. 😲I can't look! 😎
A little doughy inside? Possibly two reasons for that. The dough should have doubled in size. I left my Apricot & Raisin teabread dough to rise for 1.5 hours. It filled the bowl when it was done. The other reason could be the 'All ovens may vary' that you see in a lot of recipes. My last cake came out like that.
We had a Formica table with matching chairs. The chairs were made of steel tubing with the seat covered with matching blue plastic as I remember.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I completely agree with you about the butter and needing to knock the dough back, I'm definitely not a natural baker! I think if I was to do it again I'd follow your advice ☺️ I hope you do give it a go, and I bet it will be fabulous!
@@northeastnostalgic5071 Well I made mine. Strange looking creatures they are. 😁 I forgot all about knocking back the dough. 🙃
My vid should be up on Thursday, although I don't know how I'm going to fit in all the editing.
@@northeastnostalgic5071 I've just posted my version. Let me know what you think of it. (I hope you like horror films). 😁😁
Iv never headed of these and I live at Stockton on tees, obviously not a Teesside thing due to no coal mines in the area.
I think there were mines on Teesside and I think Stockton was classed as County Durham at that time so it's possible Yule Doos were popular there!
Stockton is back in county Durham again I don't know why they changed the old boundries, I'm originally from thornaby and that used to be North Yorkshire.
Iv never known of mines in Teesside I will have to investigate.
Toast it in slices or you'll get poorly tum ❤
do you think the Yule Doo is a miners play on words . as in you will do for me
Oh that's a good shout! 🤔 I think you might be right!
Which my grandparents were still alive so I could ask them if they ever had it🥲 they were from seham so presume they might have done it
Oh the stories our grandparents could tell us! I think it was quite an old tradition dying out in the 1940s but I think it would be so interesting to find out more as so much has been lost 😔
My mam is 80 years old & from North Sheilds, i will ask her. Knowing her, she will have the recipe. Good attempt.