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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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.
Originally Posted by Teddybleads:
“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.”
“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!!
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 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!
We always had pitta bread with chilli con carne or with currys. And pickled jalapeņos on top of spaghetti bolognese too.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Originally Posted by Smithy1204:
“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!”
“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?
Originally Posted by Teddybleads:
“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.”
“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
Originally Posted by Smithy1204:
“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!”
“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!
Originally Posted by jazzyjazzy:
“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.”
“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
Originally Posted by degsyhufc:
“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”
“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.
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
I loved family traditions
Originally Posted by petral_gal:
“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 ”
“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.
My dad love a Frys Creme piece. I never quite got that one but I suppose it's the same as a sugar piece.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
Sage and onion stuffing with any roast regardless whether it is chicken, pork, lamb, beef or gammon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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