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In the Scots language and the Northumbrian English dialect, a griddle is referred to as a girdle. The transposition of the sounds is due to linguistic metathesis. Therefore, griddle scones are known as girdle scones.Map[1] ContributorMartin James
In the Scots language and the Northumbrian English dialect, a griddle is referred to as a girdle. The transposition of the sounds is due to linguistic metathesis. Therefore, griddle scones are known as girdle scones.Map[1] ContributorMartin James
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Location (city or town)GreymouthEventPikelets on the Iron Griddle on the coal range.
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Date Created14th August 2021CommentsMarie Hartigan
Griddle
John Rosanowski
My Grannie, born in Scotland, called them girdle pikelets.
Heather Newby
John Rosanowski we did too.. My Grandad came from Whitehaven
John Walker
We always knew as girdle. Hot potato scones fresh off the girdle with hot runny butter. Wish now had taken more notice of what mother cooked.
Wayne Thornton
John Walker Loved Girdled scones haven’t heard of them forvyears
Marjorie Sparks
I have a girdle and make pikelets and girdle scones on it. Yum!
Theresa Gibson
A girdle for me is a ‘tummy supporter’, sort of a corset but kinder, and a griddle was the cast iron contraption for the coal range cook top.
P.S. Apparently my Grandmother was warming her feet in the oven at the time the ‘29 Murchison earthquake struck!
Sheryl Elizabeth Paki
girdle scones my grandma used to make
Marion Robina Hogarth
My Dad , who was Scottish made fabulous girdle scones and delicious potato scones, dripping with butter so yummy
Caroline Crann
Marion Robina Hogarth ...thats funny, so did my dad. it was his "thing" to make the scones.
Lynette Versey
Oh the memories, yes a griddle, lovely pikelets with jam & cream if we were lucky. Scones in the oven, pork ribs that had been put into egg & breadcrumbs & baked in the oven. A warm house in the morning if it had been banked up for the night. So cold in Dunedin in the winter, no insulation etc in those days, not even carpet just mats, those were the days.
Thank you for this memory picture of the good old days. Oh & my mum standing with her back to the fire warming her bum. Ha ha.
Heather Newby
Lynette Versey thats what i used to do,, warm my bum with the back to the fire
Lyn Wilson
My mother was great at girdle scones and pikelets cooked on the coal range - miss those days. Ann Fluerty
Maxine Morgan
My Mum always called it a Girdle. But it certainly made the best pikelets
Maxine Morgan
I believe girdle is a Celtic term and nothing to do with the one that supports the tum. Griddle us an American term for an iron plate for cooking on. So very similar and does the same thing.
Richard Simpson
How refreshing to see Facebook being used to inform and enlighten. Thank you.
Brenda Monk
We always knew it as a girdle. Girdle scones, pikelets, etc. All sides of the family, so common in that era. We always thought the griddle term came from America.
Mary Thornton
Great on electric stove top as well.. griddle scone, pikelets toasting bread,/crumpets etc, etc
Libby Smith
My Mum made girdle scones
Dorothy Wills
Yes I think you are right my Mum always referred to it as a griddle, but then she used to make what she called girdle scones hung over an open fire. There was only my Mother and I she was what is referred to a single mum
Wendy Bruce
We called it a girdle - mum made pikelets & scones on it on a J E Skacklock & Sons Ltd black leaded coal range
Janette Wallbutton
Fond childhood memories seeing this at my Scottish Nan and Pops place.
Allison Andrew
Mum use to make pikelets on a griddle toi
Colleen Byrne
Girdle scones and welsh cakes
Margaret Grant
Oh dear that reminds me so much of my mum best on the girdle .mum had a big one cooked for big numbers i often wonder what ever happened to it..
Faye Yarker
Love your range
Heather Taylor
Reminds me of my childhood Sunday night pikelets and scones with lovely fresh cream and home made jam yum
Lynn Day
Just like my Nana used to make. So delicious. Scottish recipe. Also potato scones .So delicious
BrianJoyce Hassan
must be the scotland conection always girdle at home growing up
Alf Haswell
have girdle at home
Jessica Gilroy
My Nana made them regularly also the delicious Irish potato scones yes laced with dripping butter
Trish Rennie
Just how Mum made them...lashings of homemade blackberry jelly and fresh farm cream
Margaret Standen
My Nana and Mum called them a Girdle Iron. Our family favourite was girdle scones never went past the Great Aunts at Dobson that there wasn’t a morning batch on the go.
Lesley Thomas
my gran made girdle scones, my grandma gridle scones, depends on where you brought up.
Bob Laing
Lesley Thomas
No the two are different
Scones are are different to pikelets
Karen Thomson
Lesley Thomas Was that our shared Grandma Sarah Phoebe? Our Dad your uncle used to say" No one makes girdle scones like my mother did!"xxx
Lesley Thomas
Karen Thomson yes
Barbara Wilson
Pikelets
Lynne Brown
girdle scones probably because of scottish ancestory
Karen Bayne
Always known as girdle scones in our kitchen- now I know why!
· Reply · 36m
Bob Laing
Karen Bayne
But different to picklets
· Reply · 16m
Raewyn Louttit
Oh well Mum
Used
To do them
Nola Gallacher
Great to have this explanation. Often wondered about the pronunciation. Thanks
Rosemary Neame
Yes that takes me back. That's how I learnt to cook them & I am sure it was griddle.
Bob Laing
Heather Newby
That is how I remember it in Ross before electricity some 65 years ago.
Griddle pickles and scones are to die for
Margaret Harrington
My nana would cut a potato in half and rub the girldle with it to stop them sticking
Wendy Dense
Childhood memories of Mum, Nessie Neame, making these.
Wendy Dense
Being Scottish....Girdle Scones.
Gillian O'Callaghan
My mum used "girdle" when it was scones
Alaine Bright
The only “baking” my dad ever did was making pikelets on the griddle on the Rayburn coal range, I’ve never been able to recreate them. They are a special memory.
Gae Galway
My Mum used a griddle just like that one
Caroline Dunlop
My grandmother made girdle scones and Mum made the pikelets.
Barbara Wilson
Whatever you call them they look good!
Stuart McMillan
They will taste great cooked on that wood range
Faye Yarker
Love your range
Alf Haswell
have girdle at home
Nola Gallacher
Great to have this explanation. Often wondered about the pronunciation. Thanks
Gae Galway
My Mum used a griddle just like that one
Cate Hurley
Griddle
Lyla Al-Alawi
Piklets taste so much better off a girdle
Phyllis Aberhart
A griddle a girdle is what held stockings up
Barbara Lyall
When they bubbled you turned them over..
Betty Mccormick
I have one Gae.
Lynnette Walford
Mum had one in Denniston,all seven kids used to line up and wait for the griddle scones and pikelets ,loved them,such a great flavour..
Joy White
Girdle at our place.
Lee-anne O'Loughlin
Ian N Valerie Hilliard Sis, I remember Aunty Lizzie making these on her coal range when I used to stay with her and Uncle Bill. Precious memories.
Ed Dando
Mum was all class on the coal range
Frank ODonnell
I still have a girdle pan
Russell Pattinson
Frank ODonnell so do i have one to
Emily Myrtle Manson
You lucky frank i would love one
Pete Lusk
When a couple were married at Millerton, the mine co blacksmith made them a griddle. I have one here. Just like in pic above.
Anna Hynes
Thanks for clearing the one up. We always called it a girdle. Pickles made on the Shacklock 501
Marie Summer
i got a girdle
Simon Dale Sheehan
Michele Sheehan remember this
Frances Stephen
Yummy
Susan Stewart
Love pikelets.
Emily Myrtle Manson
Lucky you russ,,,i havnt got one
Clarice Hutt
It was a girdle in my day. Mum made potato scones on it, also pikelets.
Paula Jones
Mum made the best girdle scones. I don’t know what happened to the girdle when she passed away.
Maris Taylor
Depends where your originally from to what its called
Joan Dempster
Homewood ranges are built in Whangarei nice stoves
Jeanie Stechman-nee Mann
Girdle to me.
Helen Jackson
Jeanie Stechman-nee Mann A Girdle is an elastic Waist Trainer, or Shaper. A griddle is a flay cooking Hot plate, and is also used to make "griddle Scones'. yummy too.
Betty Mccormick
our mum was english and she always called it a girdle
Jennie McKinnon
Mum made the best pikelets ever on our Coal range and the recipe is the one I use today. Burnt my fingers a few times on that girdle .
Sharlene Nyhon
Yum
Jeannie Preddy
Mum made potato girdle scones, they were delicious! We came from Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland.
Heather Newby
Jeannie Preddy i had a look on the map.. Dads father came from the Lake district and its parallel to Newcastle on Tyne.We also used the word Girdle.
Alison Hutchison
I have griddle iron from my grandma. I make cheese toasties on a gas hob with it. Better than any sammie maker.
Patricia Ellen Johnston
Yes I have one as well.
Maurice O'Flaherty
remember girdle scones at Kerr hut out the moonlight
Anita Lorraine Barltrop
Yum Loved the old coal-range too.
Murry McKendry
Ok for pikelets but too small for white bait patties, only fits one at a time.
Elaine Bolitho
The picture seems to be showing pikelets rather than the girdle scones which start out as a higher firmer piece of scone dough.
Biddy Gray
Girdle scones for sure. Granny's were the best
Betty Juranovich
Biddy Gray yes they knew how to cook on those stoves
Heather Reid
Looking at this makes me feel so warm an cosy. Also thinking of mum cooking on our range
Lynette Versey
Heather Reid this stove has evoked so many memories for me like you Heather. Funny isn’t it how just a picture of something can do that. I smile thinking about it
Sheryl Iraia
This so reminded me of my Scots grandmother
Debs Strathern
Girdle. I still use my grandma's
Shona Ratana
I remember your little Mum cooking on the coal range Heather just like my Mum. I have a girdle and use it sometimes either on stove or BBQ. Works well too?
Wjohn Sweney
My nana, five foot nothing, made delicious gingerbread logs on such a stove. Garston house, Hokitika 1950's
Patricia Cornelius
Yes I can remember my mother cooking pancakes on a wood fire stove.
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Fantastic pic
Tony Becker
Great photo. Not by Jos Divis. Titled "Bathgate Photographs" 1926(?) Kids look grumpy possibly for having to stand still 'for ages'. Older back row less so!
Griddle
John Rosanowski
My Grannie, born in Scotland, called them girdle pikelets.
Heather Newby
John Rosanowski we did too.. My Grandad came from Whitehaven
John Walker
We always knew as girdle. Hot potato scones fresh off the girdle with hot runny butter. Wish now had taken more notice of what mother cooked.
Wayne Thornton
John Walker Loved Girdled scones haven’t heard of them forvyears
Marjorie Sparks
I have a girdle and make pikelets and girdle scones on it. Yum!
Theresa Gibson
A girdle for me is a ‘tummy supporter’, sort of a corset but kinder, and a griddle was the cast iron contraption for the coal range cook top.
P.S. Apparently my Grandmother was warming her feet in the oven at the time the ‘29 Murchison earthquake struck!
Sheryl Elizabeth Paki
girdle scones my grandma used to make
Marion Robina Hogarth
My Dad , who was Scottish made fabulous girdle scones and delicious potato scones, dripping with butter so yummy
Caroline Crann
Marion Robina Hogarth ...thats funny, so did my dad. it was his "thing" to make the scones.
Lynette Versey
Oh the memories, yes a griddle, lovely pikelets with jam & cream if we were lucky. Scones in the oven, pork ribs that had been put into egg & breadcrumbs & baked in the oven. A warm house in the morning if it had been banked up for the night. So cold in Dunedin in the winter, no insulation etc in those days, not even carpet just mats, those were the days.
Thank you for this memory picture of the good old days. Oh & my mum standing with her back to the fire warming her bum. Ha ha.
Heather Newby
Lynette Versey thats what i used to do,, warm my bum with the back to the fire
Lyn Wilson
My mother was great at girdle scones and pikelets cooked on the coal range - miss those days. Ann Fluerty
Maxine Morgan
My Mum always called it a Girdle. But it certainly made the best pikelets
Maxine Morgan
I believe girdle is a Celtic term and nothing to do with the one that supports the tum. Griddle us an American term for an iron plate for cooking on. So very similar and does the same thing.
Richard Simpson
How refreshing to see Facebook being used to inform and enlighten. Thank you.
Brenda Monk
We always knew it as a girdle. Girdle scones, pikelets, etc. All sides of the family, so common in that era. We always thought the griddle term came from America.
Mary Thornton
Great on electric stove top as well.. griddle scone, pikelets toasting bread,/crumpets etc, etc
Libby Smith
My Mum made girdle scones
Dorothy Wills
Yes I think you are right my Mum always referred to it as a griddle, but then she used to make what she called girdle scones hung over an open fire. There was only my Mother and I she was what is referred to a single mum
Wendy Bruce
We called it a girdle - mum made pikelets & scones on it on a J E Skacklock & Sons Ltd black leaded coal range
Janette Wallbutton
Fond childhood memories seeing this at my Scottish Nan and Pops place.
Allison Andrew
Mum use to make pikelets on a griddle toi
Colleen Byrne
Girdle scones and welsh cakes
Margaret Grant
Oh dear that reminds me so much of my mum best on the girdle .mum had a big one cooked for big numbers i often wonder what ever happened to it..
Faye Yarker
Love your range
Heather Taylor
Reminds me of my childhood Sunday night pikelets and scones with lovely fresh cream and home made jam yum
Lynn Day
Just like my Nana used to make. So delicious. Scottish recipe. Also potato scones .So delicious
BrianJoyce Hassan
must be the scotland conection always girdle at home growing up
Alf Haswell
have girdle at home
Jessica Gilroy
My Nana made them regularly also the delicious Irish potato scones yes laced with dripping butter
Trish Rennie
Just how Mum made them...lashings of homemade blackberry jelly and fresh farm cream
Margaret Standen
My Nana and Mum called them a Girdle Iron. Our family favourite was girdle scones never went past the Great Aunts at Dobson that there wasn’t a morning batch on the go.
Lesley Thomas
my gran made girdle scones, my grandma gridle scones, depends on where you brought up.
Bob Laing
Lesley Thomas
No the two are different
Scones are are different to pikelets
Karen Thomson
Lesley Thomas Was that our shared Grandma Sarah Phoebe? Our Dad your uncle used to say" No one makes girdle scones like my mother did!"xxx
Lesley Thomas
Karen Thomson yes
Barbara Wilson
Pikelets
Lynne Brown
girdle scones probably because of scottish ancestory
Karen Bayne
Always known as girdle scones in our kitchen- now I know why!
· Reply · 36m
Bob Laing
Karen Bayne
But different to picklets
· Reply · 16m
Raewyn Louttit
Oh well Mum
Used
To do them
Nola Gallacher
Great to have this explanation. Often wondered about the pronunciation. Thanks
Rosemary Neame
Yes that takes me back. That's how I learnt to cook them & I am sure it was griddle.
Bob Laing
Heather Newby
That is how I remember it in Ross before electricity some 65 years ago.
Griddle pickles and scones are to die for
Margaret Harrington
My nana would cut a potato in half and rub the girldle with it to stop them sticking
Wendy Dense
Childhood memories of Mum, Nessie Neame, making these.
Wendy Dense
Being Scottish....Girdle Scones.
Gillian O'Callaghan
My mum used "girdle" when it was scones
Alaine Bright
The only “baking” my dad ever did was making pikelets on the griddle on the Rayburn coal range, I’ve never been able to recreate them. They are a special memory.
Gae Galway
My Mum used a griddle just like that one
Caroline Dunlop
My grandmother made girdle scones and Mum made the pikelets.
Barbara Wilson
Whatever you call them they look good!
Stuart McMillan
They will taste great cooked on that wood range
Faye Yarker
Love your range
Alf Haswell
have girdle at home
Nola Gallacher
Great to have this explanation. Often wondered about the pronunciation. Thanks
Gae Galway
My Mum used a griddle just like that one
Cate Hurley
Griddle
Lyla Al-Alawi
Piklets taste so much better off a girdle
Phyllis Aberhart
A griddle a girdle is what held stockings up
Barbara Lyall
When they bubbled you turned them over..
Betty Mccormick
I have one Gae.
Lynnette Walford
Mum had one in Denniston,all seven kids used to line up and wait for the griddle scones and pikelets ,loved them,such a great flavour..
Joy White
Girdle at our place.
Lee-anne O'Loughlin
Ian N Valerie Hilliard Sis, I remember Aunty Lizzie making these on her coal range when I used to stay with her and Uncle Bill. Precious memories.
Ed Dando
Mum was all class on the coal range
Frank ODonnell
I still have a girdle pan
Russell Pattinson
Frank ODonnell so do i have one to
Emily Myrtle Manson
You lucky frank i would love one
Pete Lusk
When a couple were married at Millerton, the mine co blacksmith made them a griddle. I have one here. Just like in pic above.
Anna Hynes
Thanks for clearing the one up. We always called it a girdle. Pickles made on the Shacklock 501
Marie Summer
i got a girdle
Simon Dale Sheehan
Michele Sheehan remember this
Frances Stephen
Yummy
Susan Stewart
Love pikelets.
Emily Myrtle Manson
Lucky you russ,,,i havnt got one
Clarice Hutt
It was a girdle in my day. Mum made potato scones on it, also pikelets.
Paula Jones
Mum made the best girdle scones. I don’t know what happened to the girdle when she passed away.
Maris Taylor
Depends where your originally from to what its called
Joan Dempster
Homewood ranges are built in Whangarei nice stoves
Jeanie Stechman-nee Mann
Girdle to me.
Helen Jackson
Jeanie Stechman-nee Mann A Girdle is an elastic Waist Trainer, or Shaper. A griddle is a flay cooking Hot plate, and is also used to make "griddle Scones'. yummy too.
Betty Mccormick
our mum was english and she always called it a girdle
Jennie McKinnon
Mum made the best pikelets ever on our Coal range and the recipe is the one I use today. Burnt my fingers a few times on that girdle .
Sharlene Nyhon
Yum
Jeannie Preddy
Mum made potato girdle scones, they were delicious! We came from Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland.
Heather Newby
Jeannie Preddy i had a look on the map.. Dads father came from the Lake district and its parallel to Newcastle on Tyne.We also used the word Girdle.
Alison Hutchison
I have griddle iron from my grandma. I make cheese toasties on a gas hob with it. Better than any sammie maker.
Patricia Ellen Johnston
Yes I have one as well.
Maurice O'Flaherty
remember girdle scones at Kerr hut out the moonlight
Anita Lorraine Barltrop
Yum Loved the old coal-range too.
Murry McKendry
Ok for pikelets but too small for white bait patties, only fits one at a time.
Elaine Bolitho
The picture seems to be showing pikelets rather than the girdle scones which start out as a higher firmer piece of scone dough.
Biddy Gray
Girdle scones for sure. Granny's were the best
Betty Juranovich
Biddy Gray yes they knew how to cook on those stoves
Heather Reid
Looking at this makes me feel so warm an cosy. Also thinking of mum cooking on our range
Lynette Versey
Heather Reid this stove has evoked so many memories for me like you Heather. Funny isn’t it how just a picture of something can do that. I smile thinking about it
Sheryl Iraia
This so reminded me of my Scots grandmother
Debs Strathern
Girdle. I still use my grandma's
Shona Ratana
I remember your little Mum cooking on the coal range Heather just like my Mum. I have a girdle and use it sometimes either on stove or BBQ. Works well too?
Wjohn Sweney
My nana, five foot nothing, made delicious gingerbread logs on such a stove. Garston house, Hokitika 1950's
Patricia Cornelius
Yes I can remember my mother cooking pancakes on a wood fire stove.
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Fantastic pic
Tony Becker
Great photo. Not by Jos Divis. Titled "Bathgate Photographs" 1926(?) Kids look grumpy possibly for having to stand still 'for ages'. Older back row less so!
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