Tinned salmon

mummyjane

If they really don't like Salmon could you not swap them with a friend/neighbour for something they do like?

Mrs_Chip

Yup, I hated Sing Something Simple too, but now if I hear it I am immediately take back to childhood and it is strangely comforting .

Sometimes we had cockles, winkles and shrimps, that was a special tea!

We had tinned fruit after, peaches was my favorite, always with either evap milk or tinned cream whipped up. Best of all was if Mum had made a Birds trifle out of a box!

Salmon pie sounds good, will be adding that to my 'Big Oven' recipe box!

anniewoo

Oh that takes me back to my childhood in the 50's,tinned fruit,tinned cream and always bread and butter with it,I've no idea why :rotfl:

And I love salmon fishcakes,I am tempted to make some now.

WeegieWumman

While on holiday as a child in the 50's, I visited houses round the Dublin area. Tinned red salmon along with a salad on a Sunday wasn't uncommon. I liked salad..... I loved tinned red salmon.... but NEVER on the one plate

meritaten

none of us seem to know why we were given bread and butter with our tinned fruit and Evap milk or tinned cream! cant be a regional thing can it? I am from south wales ..........where are all you Tinned fruit with bread and butter eaters from?

Sunnyday

meritaten wrote: »

none of us seem to know why we were given bread and butter with our tinned fruit and Evap milk or tinned cream! cant be a regional thing can it? I am from south wales ..........where are all you Tinned fruit with bread and butter eaters from?

I know where it stems from when i was a nipper lol

We were always skint and whatever meal you had was supplemented with bread and butter to fill you up - regardless of what you were eating.

I remember that a salad was 3 flat lettuce leaves, two slices of tomato and a couple of slices of cucumber with a small tin of chopped ham and pork between 4 of us, lots and lots of bread and butter though:D

Absolutely everything was eaten with it either piled up on a plate in the middle of the table or just the loaf and the butter stood in the middle so that you could butter however many slices that you wanted:o

If you had a day when there was a pudding after a meal the bread and butter was always there just in case:D

SD

DianneB

I'm from the midlands and we had bread and butter with tinned fruit and cream, even at parties, it was to fill you up!!

Blue_Elephant

tanith wrote: »

Our Sunday tea was always salmon sandwiches and jelly and fruit salad and yes with bread and butter.... strange now..

macma wrote: »

wasn;t life simple before ready meals and frozen foods !
we had "regular" meals roast on a Sunday leftovers on a Monday etc
YORKSHIRELASS (I'm a yorkshirelass living in exile in Somerset for the last 40yrs ) I'd go with fish cakes I hate salmon but love the fishcakes,yoghurt not mayo ,hard boiled eggs and peas and spring onions.Homemade breadcrumbs yum

How was tinned Salmon, Jelly (from a packet presumably) and tinned fruit not a ready meal? lol, unless you meant before this stuff existed in which case I misunderstood.

And as for what to do with it, well on reading this thread earlier today before I did my food shop, I bought tinned salmon and bagels and some cream cheese. Some Black pepper and lemon juice later, I was a very happy bunny

Mrs_Chip

Yes, I think that was pretty much standard - bread with everything. I remember one of my favorite things was a slice of white bread covered in 'pea juice' - the liquid from a tin of peas. We never had frozen! And bread and dripping, sprinked with salt - lovely, but would be probably be cause to call in SSs these days!

YORKSHIRELASS

Cant remember having bread with the tinned fruit but I do remember there always being bread on the table with the main course! Tinned fruit cocktail was a bit exotic where I was growing up in the 70s and only for special occasions or Sunday tea at Grans.

Anyhow have spoken to DS2 and school do something called salmon bites which sounds like a fishcake mix but made into a kind of rissole shape. These are really yummy apparently so I am definitely going to try out one of the fishcake recipes. Oh and I have tried to give the tins away but tinned salmon seems a bit out of fashion, unless of course you are Old Style like us!

And what exactly is the difference between Pink and Red Salmon in terms of taste and texture??