OS Teatime

MikeLB

Mine was Cheesy Beano - Slice of toast, with 2 rashers of bacon, beans on top, grated cheese, Soy Sauce. mmmm

otterspasm

It's fab reading all of these recollections...I started reading this thread last night and got hungry (straight after tea!).
We had meat and three veg type meals as a kid but because my Mum, like lots of others, had to make the money go as far as possible we also had bread and dripping, toast with brawn spread on it and put back under the grill....Yum! Mum also baked a lot.
Now I have my own little one I often do sardines and cheese on toast put back under the grill, he LOVES baked beans and poached egg and toast and marmite is a favourite too (lots of toast figuring here!).
My Dad had an allotment and so we always had fresh fruit and veg and we have one now so we have fruit and veg at every meal even if it's just tomatoes sliced on the side.

Smoked haddock poached and served with bread and butter...MMmmmmmm!

A plate of tomatoes with salt on them....

Lots of things coming back to me now!

Bye for now

memorygirl

Hi Guys

Mothers Day "High Tea" with my wee one as waiter was a roaring success. My mum was so impressed at our OS style spread that she "cleared" out her cupboards when we took her home of all her baking stuff for us to practice with (Sooooo much stuff here that we will eat like kings until summer) - she even dug out a brilliant Bero cookery book that I remember using as a kid. Oh - the memories of licking the wooden spoon etc. Feel like it's Christmas - and the wee one?? well he wants us to have a baking day again next week.

The only problem - well he ate so much bread and butter I'll be lucky if he needs anything else to eat tonight at all. Still enough left over for lunches for us both for a few days.

Thanks for inspiring me to get my pinny out

Memorygirl

Ruby_Pudding

memorygirl wrote:

Mothers Day "High Tea" with my wee one as waiter was a roaring success. My mum was so impressed at our OS style spread that she "cleared" out her cupboards when we took her home of all her baking stuff for us to practice with (Sooooo much stuff here that we will eat like kings until summer) - she even dug out a brilliant Bero cookery book that I remember using as a kid. Oh - the memories of licking the wooden spoon etc. Feel like it's Christmas - and the wee one?? well he wants us to have a baking day again next week.

What a wonderful day you've had - and think of all those fantastic memories you have created for all 3 of you that you'll never forget :happylove

My big memory of tea was my nanna slicing up an orange, arranging it beautifully on a plate and sprinkling it with sugar - this would be served with a HUGE plate of proper unsliced white bread and proper welsh butter and sugary tea served in a proper cup and saucer. It was bliss to eat and such a treat because she lived so far away from us when I was little - mum never really bothered with teas so I always associate them with my nan and granddad. Nan would also make whimberry tart, pikelets and welsh cakes for us but it's the orange and the bread and butter that really stick in my mind to this day.