OS Teatime

Fay

Someone mentioned hot buttered toast, one of my favourite ever treats was toast done infront of the fire and buttered on the hot hearth. Tastes completely different to 'toasted' toast, my boyfriend has never tried this...I think I should introduce him to it!

calleyw

We sometimes at tea time have something simple like beans on toast etc. As we eat properly the rest of the time does not hurt.

But one OS meal we use to have as children on a saturday if money was tight was mash, corned beef, peas and baked beans for my brother who use to mix it all together :eek: Grim or what.

I can't eat corn beef now. Makes me want to be sick.

Sunday tea at my mums house was DIY when we got old enough. We made are own sandwiches and would eat sat in front of the TV. But never during the week had to sit to the table.

And crumpets toasted over an open fire yum yum. No taste like it.

Yours


Calley

thriftlady_2

All this toast talk has reminded me of cinnamon toast.A brilliant teatime treat or emergency pud.

Toast thick white bread on one side.Spread the untoasted side with butter (accept no substitutes!),then sprinkle with sugar quite thickly and finally a dusting of cinnamon.Pop under the grill and toast until the sugar is bubbling and going.

I really must try my kids on this,they deserve a treat after I was so horrible to them this morning

Murtle

Macaroni cheese, Mum would make a huge dish of it and we'd have it cold the next day. I strangely enjoyed this!!

We also had sweetcorn in runny cheese sauce, you had a plate full - literally cause it would run to the edges and you couldn't have more, served with bread. Another one I absolutely adored!!

I'm always thinking of "new and exciting" things to cook, I think I'm going to try a month with more "teas" as I think we eat far to much now anyway!! I used to eat two waffles and half a tin of beans with onions and mushrooms when I was at Uni, that would be a snack for me now.....oops

We also had banana, cream and sugar or banana, milk and sugar. I ate this through Uni and people used to think I was mad.

As kids we also had full fat milk, but the cream on a Sunday (if it was new bottle) would be given to one of us to go in our cereal. We were also sometimes allowed a teaspoon of jam in our cereal on a Sunday.

Saturday was bread and pullit (?) which was a selection of warm things in winter and cold things in summer that you helped yourself to. This was always after a trip to the local market for fresh veg and meat.

Normal food was always meat, potatoe and veg.

aw, why do we have to grow up....?!

memorygirl

Brilliant guys - have been so inspired since this thread kicked off.

No money - and Mothers Day tomorrow. So me and my wee lad (5 an a wee star) have spent a couple of hours in the kitchen making a high tea for my Mum - his Gran tomorrow.

Been into all the nooks and crannies - heres what we have been up to. Deep Breath!!!

2 loaves of bread - 1 for Bread & Butter, 1 for cucumber sarnies.
8 scones - 4 cheese (the rind of cheese was too hard for anything else) and 4 sultana (few left in a packet from Christmas)
1 pot of lentil soup - bit of streaky bacon lurking in the back of the freezer,
some red lentils and some fairly dodgy veg (OK - blitzed up no-one need know exactly how limp they were :rotfl:
1 "cake" of cornbread to dip in the soup - Yum
1 small quiche - with a couple of eggs and the streaky bacon from the soup
1 "world famous MSE OS Malt Loaf" - well its world famous in our house


Been up to the attic for Grandmas Tea Set and cake stand - even found a proper tablecloth and some fabric knapkins. Wee one is making me some paper doilies from copier paper to pretty up the plates.

He's already been a big boy and called his Gran to come to tea tomorrow at 3pm - my present from him is a huge glittery card and he is going to be our "Waiter" at the table tomorrow - Bless!!!

So I'm skint - but today I have probably built some terrific memories with my wee one (just like all the ones we've been sharing on this thread) of warmth and baking an being with Mum. And tomorrow - well 4 generations (like to think that as my Grans crockery is there so will she) will sit down to an old fashioned high tea - that cost me - well nothing really cos I "found" all the stuff in my kitchen.

Happy Mothers Day to every Mum on the thread - and after today, looking at the pile of goodies I actually feel proud to be a Mummy.

Thanks for the inspiration

MemoryGirl

FunkyFairy

That is so touching Memorygirl.

You are so right your son is going to remember that day as a happy childhood memory.

Your mum is going to feel like the queen.

Hope it all goes well

Murtle

memorygirl that is brilliant, what a wonderful thing to do. If you have a camera take a couple of piccies and keep them with your mothers day card so in years to come you can show you him, or keep a menu and recipes so he can see.

x x

mgardner

saving-grace wrote:

We like baked beans on toast with some grated cheese on top and popped in the microwave for a few seconds to melt the cheese.

As a child, we often had sardines on toast at Sunday teatime -followed by tinned fruit and evap milk (I thought the peach halves with evap milk around them were like fried eggs!)

Oh Yum one of my favourite meals but then i was a war baby, lucky to get anything I suppose. My Nannys bread and dripping was to die for.

Lillibet_2

I only really got "tea" if I wasn't well, rest of the time it was a proper dinner 'cos I needed it as I only had a packed lunch at lunch time (apparently). My all time fave is still boiled egg & soilders, closely follwed by french toast, welsh rarebit & toasted muffins or crumpets with marmite. Think Hubby would think it some kind of fad diet if I served this sort of thing up now...too many years of pasta & cous-cous with poached herby fish methinks!!!

memorygirl

Murtle wrote:

memorygirl that is brilliant, what a wonderful thing to do. If you have a camera take a couple of piccies and keep them with your mothers day card so in years to come you can show you him, or keep a menu and recipes so he can see.

x x

What a fabulous idea - off to try and get my camera to talk to my computer. Actually I have a scrapbook made for me by some kids I trained - think I'm going to create a memory book for him. The we can look back at this being skint time - as a time we have positive memories of.

As you can tell by my signature - memory is important in our house.

Memory girl