Hot pot hot spot proved hot to trot

Broadway Pantry,Broadway, Fulwood
A Lancashire hot pot was special of the dayA Lancashire hot pot was special of the day
A Lancashire hot pot was special of the day

It started with a hot pursuit, literally.

Just as we were set to speed off with our lunch we were flagged down by a frantic woman.

We’d ‘stolen’ two cheese-filled baked spuds.

You might wonder how we couldn’t distinguish two fluffy potatoes from a ham and egg butty by weight – but you didn’t see the young blonde amply filling our barmcake.

It was without doubt as heavy a piece of lunch as you need.

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Not mine, but I am a covetous man. For the sandwich, not the lady.

I needn’t have worried. My Lancashire hot spot, the special of the day, was special.

A thick and buttery crust, vegetables and chunks of melting beef in a rich, thick sauce, topped with lashings of red cabbage.

If this is what fed the county’s industrial revolution, then it was as important as the cotton, railways and waterways.

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What those hoary hands of old will never have fed upon was a quiche and salad but had such a dainty dinner been required then the Broadway Pantry has a value offering.

For £2 the salad was excellent with a crisp potato salad and the tastiest of pasta twirls. The quiche was a wee bit limp although marks are awarded for using real cuts of ham and not processed meat in the mix.

The syndicate member who was awarded the remaining - and legitimate - baked potato, was suitably impressed. Not the biggest example of spud, but perfectly cooked, with crispiness to the skin and a light, fluffy interior.

There was plenty of cheese on top - half of which had melted into that creamy state of loveliness when it starts to stretch off the fork and misbehave. Definitely a hit.

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A further diner was handed an ham and egg barm which he later claimed was of a quality likely to please the King of Kings – God – himself.

The bread was soft as a sigh, the ham hand-carved and plentiful, and the huge blob of egg was terrific.

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