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Liverpool Echo
National
Gary Stewart

Scouse recipe quiz: are you authentically Liverpool or Brooklyn Beckham?

Brooklyn Beckham has found himself at the centre of two foodie controversies in the last couple of days.

Firstly he was told off for using too much expensive truffle in his tagliatelle during a cost of living crisis. Then he put his foot in a classic recipe trap when he put together a bowl of Scouse as a way of showing he could also make cheap food.

Apart from being the son of a Manchester Utd legend, and therefore hardly an automatic favourite of anyone who supports Liverpool FC, his choice of ingredients left a lot of people annoyed. What goes into a Scouse is difficult even for people from Liverpool to agree on. Take this quiz and see if you're on the right or wrong side of history.

Click here to take our Scouse ingredients quiz.

How did you score? Better than Brooklyn hopefully. Despite Scouse originally being a dish created to use up leftovers people have strong opinions about what should and should not be in it. Brooklyn drew criticism for using beef steak instead of cheaper stewing beef (many people say lamb is acceptable or even preferable depending on how your nan made it), using non-traditional white cabbage in his recipe and missing out onions and swede.

He said he intentionally dropped onions as his wife does not like them. Potatoes and carrots were present and correct. We'd add brown sauce or red cabbage on top but Brooklyn was silent on this point.

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