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Old 17-04-2014, 17:30
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Whenever we had salad as kids the cucumber had always been soaking in vinegar all day...I don't do it but must admit it was nice!! Mine would be bread sauce..only tend to do it at Christmas but could have it with every roast dinner!!! YUM
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Old 17-04-2014, 17:56
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On the subject of cucs, I must be the only person who peels them. I do it because my Mother always did. Why she did I don't know.
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Old 17-04-2014, 17:59
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On the subject of cucs, I must be the only person who peels them. I do it because my Mother always did. Why she did I don't know.
That is the best thing to do!!! hey ..the queen has cuc butties...it is always peeled...apparently it is the skin that makes it "repeat" on you!!
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Old 17-04-2014, 21:07
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When we were younger we used to have sugar sandwiches. I haven't had one for years, and it seems odd now, but we used to love them!

Whenever we go to my gran's she gives us bread with our lunch, and any time there's mashed potato most of us have mashed potato on bread, which is lovely.

And I've always eaten fried eggs in the same way as my granddad, which I love - eat the egg white first, and then the yolk whole at the end. Not that uncommon, but yummm!
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Old 17-04-2014, 21:11
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We always had pitta bread with chilli con carne or with currys. And pickled jalapeños on top of spaghetti bolognese too.
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Old 17-04-2014, 21:22
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cheese sandwiches dipped in egg and fried (heart attack on a plate) fantastic ! my dad always made them for Saturday lunch whilst mum was working back in the day.
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Old 17-04-2014, 21:27
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Awww mint sauce bought back many happy memories for me.

My Granddad used to grow mint and we'd always make our own mint sauce when we had lamb.

We were very traditional in that we had a Sunday roast almost every Sunday growing up. When I was a teenager I hated it - I was the eldest of 4 - but looking back it was a lovely traditions.

Other than that the only traditions were Christmas... Steak baguettes on Crimbo Eve and the full works on Crimbo day. Turkey with everything in the days after Christmas

My Dad always did pancakes on Shrove Tuesday too.
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Old 18-04-2014, 00:15
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Lots of mint sauce mentions in this thread, love it! When I lived at home, we used to have warm pork pies with mushy peas covered in mint sauce...a practice I continue to this day...much to the disgust of my OH
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Old 18-04-2014, 05:59
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Sunday Tea was always - a small Pyrex dish had a little butter smeared on to it - slices of cheddar cheese round the sides then 2 eggs cracked into the middle - put in the fire oven until cheese melted and eggs cooked - delicious, can taste it now.
Followed by tinned fruit and Carnation milk but if it was at my Grandmas we always had to have bread and butter with it - yuck.
As kids we also had sugar sandwiches and living in the "Rhubarb Triangle" in Yorkshire during rhubarb season we always had sugar in a bit of newspaper for when we went past the sheds and broke off sticks to dip in it. Now I don't even like sugar.
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Old 18-04-2014, 11:14
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When we were younger we used to have sugar sandwiches. I haven't had one for years, and it seems odd now, but we used to love them!

Whenever we go to my gran's she gives us bread with our lunch, and any time there's mashed potato most of us have mashed potato on bread, which is lovely.

And I've always eaten fried eggs in the same way as my granddad, which I love - eat the egg white first, and then the yolk whole at the end. Not that uncommon, but yummm!
The sugar sandwiches reminded me that my Mum used to use up any spare bread by cutting it into small squares which we ate for breakfast with hot milk poured over and sugar on top - it sounds horrid but was quite tasty I think she used to call it Pobs?
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Old 18-04-2014, 12:18
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On the subject of cucs, I must be the only person who peels them. I do it because my Mother always did. Why she did I don't know.
I always peel Cucumber, tastes better that way
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Old 18-04-2014, 13:59
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When we were younger we used to have sugar sandwiches. I haven't had one for years, and it seems odd now, but we used to love them!

Whenever we go to my gran's she gives us bread with our lunch, and any time there's mashed potato most of us have mashed potato on bread, which is lovely.

And I've always eaten fried eggs in the same way as my granddad, which I love - eat the egg white first, and then the yolk whole at the end. Not that uncommon, but yummm!
I remember sugar sarnies! yum! I also make mash sarnies still to this day. I can't help it

Also I LOVE mushed up hot roast potatoes with branston pickle in white bread and butter sarnies. My OH always looks in horror at me and recoils when I try and make him have a bite. It's what I used to eat as a kiddie when we had proper roasts on a sunday.

In fact, we are having roast beef at weekend so I get to have my roast spud sandwich again. w00t!
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Old 18-04-2014, 16:30
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As kids we also had sugar sandwiches and living in the "Rhubarb Triangle" in Yorkshire during rhubarb season we always had sugar in a bit of newspaper for when we went past the sheds and broke off sticks to dip in it. Now I don't even like sugar.
Not from Yorkshire but we too used to dip rhubarb into sugar.

I read in a thread the other day that it was poisonous raw - didn't seem to do us any harm. Maybe the sugar counteracted the poison
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Old 18-04-2014, 16:58
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Not from Yorkshire but we too used to dip rhubarb into sugar.

I read in a thread the other day that it was poisonous raw - didn't seem to do us any harm. Maybe the sugar counteracted the poison
That was me in the other thread. I didn't say it was poisonous raw, just that it was harmful, but having looked it up now, it seems that it's the leaves that are harmful (they are poisonous actually - you can apparently make a home-made pesticide from them!), not the stalks, so I was wrong about that.
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Old 18-04-2014, 22:17
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Mince an tatties every Friday and a Yorkie bar for afters every Thursday (although my mum had a Wispa)! I also used to get a packet of Fruit Gums every wednesday after my mum done the big shop I loved family traditions
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Old 19-04-2014, 21:04
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Mince an tatties every Friday and a Yorkie bar for afters every Thursday (although my mum had a Wispa)! I also used to get a packet of Fruit Gums every wednesday after my mum done the big shop I loved family traditions
Yorkie bar and Fruit Gums...my kind of traditions!

Sounds like sugar sandwiches are more common than I realised! Tempted to try them again one day...

We used to make tuna turnovers sometimes during the holidays with my mum too, and I remember a good few times of making chocolate fudge with her too. Not 'traditions' as such, but definitely things I have memories of doing.
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Old 19-04-2014, 21:49
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My dad love a Frys Creme piece. I never quite got that one but I suppose it's the same as a sugar piece.
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Old 24-04-2014, 04:29
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So many lovely memories have came back to me on this Food Thread.

A proper treat for supper or next day lunch was potato cakes. Potato cakes are made using left up tatties, some flour and egg. The best ones are the ones made from extra mash.
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Old 24-04-2014, 06:51
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we had the same meal, every day of the week - each week when I was a kid

monday was fishcakes and boiled potatoes
tuesday was tinned tuna and chips
wednesday was beans on toast
thursday (hated day!!) was mince and boiled potatoes - just cooked mince, no flavouring at all
friday was the exotic day where we had vesta paella
saturday was roast day, sunday was either (ooh, choice!) cold meat sandwiches or bread and dripping, dependant on which roast we had on saturday

sat/sun lunches were always paste sandwiches.
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Old 24-04-2014, 08:14
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My parents eat (& I ate as a child)...

cold mushy pea sandwiches......salad cream on Sunday lunch (with gravy) ....corned beef fritters.....bacon, tinned tomatoes and chips as a meal......fried eggs with just about anything...I could go on and on.

My kids, when they hear of the types of food I ate as a child (30 years ago) are appalled - what no spag bol? no curry? no pizza?


Oh and after the roast had been cooked on a Saturday ready for the Sunday, on Saturday night my mother would cut potatoes thinly and cook them in the deep meat fat - meat fat that would be added to every week for weeks on end!
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Old 24-04-2014, 08:33
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Sage and onion stuffing with any roast regardless whether it is chicken, pork, lamb, beef or gammon.
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Old 24-04-2014, 08:37
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My dad always insisted on bacon, tinned toms and bread & butter for his Christmas dinner. The rest of us had the usual turkey but bacon & toms was his favourite meal. To this day he has it at least three times a week.
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Old 25-04-2014, 08:52
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We had Yorkshire puds every Sunday no matter what the meat was but always had it first, on it's own with loads of onion gravy - never with the rest of lunch.
Whilst we were eating my mother would put another tray of Yorkshires in the oven which we ate most of the afternoon with home made jam on them. I can taste them now.
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Old 25-04-2014, 18:55
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We have yorkies with every type of roast.


My friends mam did them for dessert drizzled with honey
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Old 29-04-2014, 19:59
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Nothing better than mint sauce and lamb.

Every Saturday night we used to have a fried breakfast for dinner no idea why sausage, bacon, egg, mushrooms, beans and bread.

Roast dinner every Sunday around 3pm with cheese on toast for supper at around 7pm before I went off to bed.

Also mum never cooks Christmas eve as she "spend enough time in the kitchen the next two days" so it is always cod and chips.
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