OS Teatime

Louisepp

One of our favs, is my kids favs.

It was the first thing that they learnt to cook too. 2 slices of toast, 1/2 tin of really hot chopped toms smothered with grated cheese, which melts over the hot toast.

Linda32

I surpose it would have to be tinned fruit salad and carnation milk.

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Fish paste sarnies and a slice of seeded cake It was revolting ,but very filling.
My poor old Mum didn't have much spare cash back in those days, but she had to spread it over three hungry children. She never ever sat down to eat with us as she always said she wanted to wait for Dad to come home .This I always thought to be untrue as she never seemed to sit and eat with him either .
She did make us 'stovies ' sometime though which I loved, and cheese on toast which she made but mixing the cheese and milk and a bit of mustard in a pan and pouring it over slices of toast when melted

lindadykes

Ah "proper tea" was what we always called a Sunday tea when I was a child When my kids were young they referred to it as a "picky tea" as all the items were put in the centre of the table and they could "pick" what they wanted. When I was young the "proper tea" always began with tinned fruit and evapourated milk. The only thing that I didn't like however was that my dad always insisted that this had to be eaten with a slice of bread and butter to "dip in the juice and help fill you up"! After that though we could pretty much pick what we wanted from the selection on the table. There was usually bread and butter, jam, some sort of sandwich cut into dainty little quarters, usually either PEK chopped pork or if money was tight egg and tomato (the eggs were boiled until the yolks were almost set, just a little soft in the very centre, these would be mashed with tomatoes that had had the skins removed by soaking in boiling water and were my favourites) a savoury plate pie with a filling of either tinned mince or corned beef and potato, or ham and egg, a fruit pie and a homemade cake. I loved these teas, the thought of them brings back very fond memories.

headchef

lindadykes - we're obviusly meeting minds tonight!

I remember those sort of teas - homemade cakes and bread & butter with jam, tinned fruit and Ideal milk! Our dad wasn't the stern one - it was mum; we had to start with bread and butter to 'fill us up'. I think this was because her own mother had 5 hungry children to feed and one cake, if they had one, wouldn't have gone far!

emr_2

When my dad was working late, my mum would sometimes make french toast and in the winter we'd sit and eat it round the fire with tomato ketchup or brown sauce, and of course salt. dead unhealthy, but yummy.

Frugal_Fox

Bring back sunday tea....

We love...
egg and soldiers
picky tea - pie, sandwiches, salad and cake
eggy bread
toast and beans/fish/cheese...
cheese scones

but our all time favourite is potato cakes.... hot with butter and cheese - if theres any left over... fab in front of our log burner and watching Antiques Roadshow!

apple_mint

There was always a plate piled high with bread and butter on my Mum's table - and it was definately there to fill us up as there were six of us. Tinned peaches and tinned milk was a staple until the apple tree bore fruit and then it was apple pie and tinned milk. We kept hens so there were a lot of scrambled eggs on toast meals.

When times were really tough, it was pancakes with oxo poured over. I've never been able to eat that since!

In my Gran's house, tea time was a proper tea time. A little salad on the plate, salmon sandwhiches, tinned fruit and that thick tinned cream you put sugar in (yummy) followed by cake and fairy cakes.

Ronankfan

I remember proper sunday tea - bread and butter, cakes, tinned fruit cocktail and evaporated milk (those were the days) - i must make an effort to do it for my kids (wonder what they will think of it)

Queenie

Rachie_B wrote:

potato waffles with fried egg lol

whats junket ?!

Junket is a pudding made with milk, double cream, a bit of sugar, spice and rennet to make it set. There is a recipe for it in The New Paupers Cookbook by Jocasta Innes and Kate Harris (ISBN 0-09-175434-8 )