SINGING HINNIES
The singing hinnie was so called as, when the butter and the cream melted
during the baking,
it sizzled on the hot girdle and was thought to be singing. An old tale is
told of how this large
tea-time scone first became known as a singing hinnie.. a north country
housewife was baking this scone for tea and on repeatedly being asked by her
children if it was ready to eat, her final reply was "No, it's just singing,
hinnies". (Hinnies a Geordie term of endearment for children and loved ones)
Ingredients:
half pound. plain flour
2 ounces butter
2 ounces lard -
1 ounce currants
half teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
milk and sour cream
Method
Rub fat into flour, add other dry ingredients, mix to a soft dough with a
little milk and sour cream. Roll out and bake both sides on a hot girdle.
In order to turn these without breaking into pieces, use something wide
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Giles Scott" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:07 PM
Subject: a singing hinny
> Dear list members,
>
> I have a Bunting question for you--
> does anybody know what "a singing hinny" is?
>
> The phrase comes up in the Bunting issue of Paideuma where JOnathon
> Williams asks Bunting--
> "When's the last time you had a singing hinny? I never have had one yet,
> but I enjoy the name?"
> answer:
> "It's donkey's years."
>
> The phrase then comes up in Tom Pickard's recollections of bunting in the
> same magazine:
> "He has a fine singing voice and sometimes in somber moods can be coaxed
> into singing the old Northumbrian song:
>
> sair fyel'd hinny,
> sair fyeld'd noo
> sair fyel'd hinny
> sin I Kenn'd thou"
>
> Can anybody tell me what a "hinny" is? And is a singing hinny then simply
> Bunting singing the song "hinny" or is there al ot more to it than that?
> The phrase comes up again as the opening to Zukofsky's "A"-15
>
> An
> hinny
> by stallion
> out of
> she ass
>
> though here its easier to see the word acting according to the dictionary
> definition:
> "animal born by mating a female ass and a stallion"
>
> So, come on all you Northumbrians, help out a confused lad from the
> pennines.
>
> Best,
> giles scott
>
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