Sunday tea treat

flowertotmum

O lovely idea cheapskate..sign me up..my granny used to do this every sunday...it was a veritable feast..lovely and yummy..
Right so this sunday guess what i am doing..yep a proper sunday tea with my good china...planning what to have now..
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Fruball

I have been thinking about this for a while and would love to do it but in our house we have evolved to eat our main meal in the evening.

I am going to make it a winter thing every fortnight as the church do a nice family service which isn't too long, and the kids enjoy it. This will fit perfectly around that... So later this year we will be having a late roast dinner, then church, then home for sandwiches, scones and cakes etc

It will create nice memories for the children and I won't be under pressure to get a lunchtime roast on the table every single week

Sorted

Eenymeeny

I'm glad that people like this idea. Maybe because it was a one-off that made it so special? As Bitsy Beans says, crisps were a once in a blue moon treat, as was the pop delivered by the 'pop man' We used to have dandelion and burdock or sarsparilla, or sometimes ice cream soda with Sunday dinner....mmm can you still get those old fashioned flavours? I never look at fizzy drinks these days.
I'd forgotten about the bread and butter with the fruit, jelly and evaporated milk, we always used to get that when we had tea at my Grandmothers. We must have been so difficult to fill up! Although I suppose that we always walked there and back so the calories were soon burnt off!
I reckon a 'cakey tea' is on the cards for us this weekend too...:)

CCP

Whenever I hear the Antiques Roadshow theme tune I start craving toasted English muffins with butter, which is what we usually had for Sunday night tea when I was a kid. Mmm, muffins... :drool:

(Sorry, I haven't had any lunch and I'm hungry now!)

meanmarie

Lovely idea to bring back the Sunday tea...we had 'dinner' at 1with roast ( rarely chicken it was expensive) veg, potatoes, followed by some kind of tart with custard, then around 5 sandwiches, seldom meat, scones, hm cake of some kind which was never rationed. We didn't have tv when I was a child, fizzy drinks were only for Christmas and crisps were a once in a blue moon treat. Wonder why I never felt deprived??

OH won't like it but he can put up...will use the excuse that it is Mossy's birthday next Sunday...he will be six, so will be totally up for cake!

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Kitchenbunny

Oh wow, time for a trip down memory lane! Yep, similar story here - Dad would do roast chicken dinner (sometimes beef or lamb, but rarely pork) and Sunday tea would be cold meats, crusty bread thick with butter, pickled onions, a few crisps, salad, and Bullseye on the TV! If we were good there'd be Bird's trifle (loved Dream Topping and have happy memories of that and the sprinkles!) or tinned fruit cocktail with a bit of evaporated milk.

Would really like to bring that back, but Mr Kitchenbunny isn't a huge trifle fan and as there's just us ... we regularly have cold meat for tea with bread and butter after a Sunday roast though

K xx

lindadykes

We always had a Sunday roast at lunch time, generally followed by a "sweet" (we never called them desserts), sometimes rice pudding or in the summer my mam would send me out to the ice cream man who came just before lunch time with a big pudding basin which was filled for a shilling (5p) and this would be popped in the fridge (no deep freezer then) as our sweet.

Mam always baked after Sunday lunch, generally a savoury pie such as corned beef and potato or bacon and egg along with a sweet pie - apple or tinned cherry pie filling or sometimes a lemon meringue and either a Victoria sandwich cake or a chocolate cake filled with "dream topping" and covered in melted chocolate. The tea always began with tinned fruit, jelly and evaporated milk and my dad always insisted we had to eat a slice of bread and butter with it. There were egg and tomato sandwiches just as Eenymeeny described, where skinned tomatoes were mashed up with hard boiled eggs - these were my favourite sandwiches (my daughters called these "seaside sandwiches" because my mam always took them as a picnic when she took them to the seaside!). There was also cream crackers and cheese too. Tea was usually served at the dining table with the best china on the table, but as a treat we were sometimes allowed to have tea by the fire in the winter - then we would also have toasted tea cakes - Mmmm.

Islandmaid

What a lovely thread...

Sunday tea reminds me of my Grandparents (sadly long gone) massive Sunday roast about 12, then old fashioned green salad ie not chopped salad, Huge lumps of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and whole spring onions, served with tinned salmon, boiled eggs etc an enourmous variety of sandwiches, cakes, biscuits etc and always a pot of tea using the 'best' china

Lord knows how we fitted it all in LOL

Pooky

Sunday teas for us were always Dads famous Cheese on toast, cut into little triangles with a dollop of ketchup in the middle of the plate to "dunk" into. Always on our laps, infront of antique roadshow. Actually come to think of it, it was only my sister and I that ate at tea time on a Sunday. Money wears always tight but that simple tea was the best treat of the week. It was probably the limit of Dads culinary capability too but it was always his job on a Sunday tea time.

We're not cake eaters here so I don't do anything fancy for Sunday tea but it's normally a cold meat sandwich and a proper pot of tea. In the winter it's often toasted bread or crumpets over the open fire, always tastes better that way.

adelight

We used to have quartered sandwiches, cheese & pineapple, jam tarts and tea watching Antiques Roadshow