Sunday tea treat

Eenymeeny

Does anyone remember Sunday tea as being different from the rest of the week?

Straight after Sunday 'dinner' was cleared away Mothers would start on a baking marathon for tea. In our house there would be scones, apple tart, jam and lemon curd tarts, probably a sandwich cake or 'fairy cakes' (not muffins as they are called these days!) flapjacks, maybe a custard tart or butterfly cakes. All accompanied by sandwiches and sometimes fruit and jelly! (Egg and tomato mixed together were grandly called 'mock crab') a throwback from the war years I reckon.
Ok, we probably didn't eat all of these but certainly a lot of them, and didn't put any weight on. Now I 'cut down' for a couple of days if I have one scone or cake!
The rest of the week we had normal 'cooked' teas, casseroles, stews, mince and dumplings etc It certainly made Sunday special for us!

PasturesNew

In our house, straight after Sunday lunch mum'd clear the table and the washing up would be done. That was it until tea-time.

For tea we'd have margarine on bread, cold chicken and salad (lettuce/cucumber/tomato).

Mum wasn't a baker .... or any kind of cook really.

For an extra treat, 3-4x a year, we'd have a Birds Trifle.

cyclingyorkie

in winter we'd have crumpets or oatcakes for tea - or a special treat was homemade potato cakes...

All these would be served with lashings of butter.... I can feel my hips expanding at the mere thought....

squeakysue

My best friend used to always have 'teatime' on a Sunday which consisted of tea cakes, cakes biscuits etc, I always used to love being there on sunday evenings! My mum never really done tea time but we did have Sunday roast every week a tradition I do like to continue but it's not always possible!

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Nostalgia time!!! We always had cold meat and salad followed by tinned fruit, jelly and tinned cream or evaporated milk. We live a different life now, almost always have the main meal of the day in the evening, i feel we may have lost something! Cheers Lyn x.

Cheapskate

Golly, yes, so did we! Not always, but often, we'd have dinner (about 12-ish), mum would bake in the afternoon, sometimes Saturday afternoon, and we'd have afternoon tea about 4. If we visited my great-aunt or grandparents, it would be a veritable feast - scones, tarts (big and small), cucumber or egg & cress sandwiches, cold meats, etc. We girls loved it, and were never told "that's enough" - I suppose as it was all home baking it was good stuff, and we were always hungry! As mum and dad had little money, it was a way of filling us up without spending any more than the bus fares!

When my older kids were small we had Sunday dinner about 12 or 1, then a small-scale version of afternoon tea. I want to get back to this - all the washing up's done, then just a few plates and baking tins to do later, and a lighter meal to end the day before bath and getting ready for school or work on Monday - campaign time, to bring back Sunday afternoon teas?

A xo

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Good idea CHEAPSKATE sign me up immediately! Cheers Lyn (who is dribbling!!!)

Bitsy_Beans

I remember having roast chicken at lunchtime and then evening would be spent with chicken sandwiches, a bag of crisps (once a week treat) with Victoria sponge or some other cake. My mum would break out her very best china and we'd sit in the lounge, watch Antiques
Roadshow whilst eating and drinking copious cups of tea. Heavenly really

bargainbetty

We'd have the full Sunday roast with all the trimmings at lunch time, and tea time would be cold meat sarnies, with leftover cold roast spuds. Little bit of salt on the spuds, and I was in heaven. Masses of tea was drunk out of mugs while the family sat around the living room with the sandwich plates on our knees.

No cakes though, but the leftover roasties were better than sweets!

Margaret52129

Yum yum - food always seem to taste better then.

We had a traditional Sunday dinner of roast beef & yorkshire puddings and always with a pudding (rice or steamed suet pudding with custard) around 12.30. As a treat we used to have a small bottle of orange juice delivered by the milkman! Dad went to the pub with his mates till around 2, his dinner was served out and put in oven with a plate over to keep warm. He then inevitably fell asleep afterwards when we young ones were sent out to play (to work up an appetite for tea) or we sat round the TV to watch a film. Tea was usually brown bread and butter and jelly with tinned fruit and evaporated milk.

Mum was a great baker but usually did it through the week (can't remember which day) but we had tons of good wholesome meals with hardly anything out of a tin (baked beans and tinned fruit are the only ones I remember, apart from the evaporated milk). We never put on weight, but then we were always outside playing, and able to roam around for miles and miles without any problems nor mobiles! Strange how we always knew what time we had to be back for tea though!

Great days of freedom!