Sunday tea treat

ladymarmalade

I often used to go to my grandma's for sunday dinner as a child (1990s) and we would always have a Sunday lunch and a proper pudding. Then at tea time we would always have tinned salmon with onion and cucumber that hd been marinating in vinegar sandwiches followed by a choc ice or tinned fruit with carnation milk...every week without fail.

If I was at my parents, it would always be a Sunday lunch for dinner too that would slow cook while we were at church and then in the evenings e always had bacon and mushroom sandwiches...in fact I often used to make them when I was old enough to cook to say than you for my yummy roast dinner!

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EENYMEENIE - I know you can get dandelion and burdock fizzy drinks still and I have occasionally seen the squash type for diluting, am also sure you can get Cream Soda as a fizzy and of course there is Ginger Beer too which is available just about everywhere, for those of a sinful disposition they even do Grown Up Alcoholic Ginger Beer - very potable. Enjoy Cheers Lyn x.

craigywv

Sunday lunch for us was chicken and bread sauce and loads of veg, we didnt know about Yorkshire puds we from Belfast and they were what they ate "over the water" . pudding was a frozen blackcurrant cheese cake and cream. Tea was pancakes toasted ,soda bread toated and melted cheese on top. a big salad, lettuce scallions,beetroot,boiled egg and a choc cake decorated with choc buttons my dads family were Bretheren so when ever we went to grannies everything was cold as in saleds, meats etc as they didnt believe in cooking on a sunday. so after tea it was bath and then the muppet show lol then bed.......aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh the memories.:)

Eenymeeny

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

EENYMEENIE - I know you can get dandelion and burdock fizzy drinks still and I have occasionally seen the squash type for diluting, am also sure you can get Cream Soda as a fizzy and of course there is Ginger Beer too which is available just about everywhere, for those of a sinful disposition they even do Grown Up Alcoholic Ginger Beer - very potable. Enjoy Cheers Lyn x.

Thanks MrsLurcherwalker:) Do you know? When I think about it wasn't there something called Peardrax and Cydrax too? I think that it might have had a little bit of alchohol in and we used to think it was great and pretend to be drunk! (Never did get a taste for the lemonade shandy my brother liked)
Thanks for the memories you've all brought back. I'd forgotten about the cheese and crackers too (sometimes we had cornish wafers) We used to toast the crackers and have them hot with butter on, sounds awful now!
Who would have thought that things which are so easily available now would produce such fond memories?:T

bossymoo

Pooky wrote: »

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.

Ours was cheese on toast too. Usually a chicken dinner at 1.30 followed by cheese on toast, often with sliced tomatoes, or toasted tea cakes or crumpets. Not usually cakes. Don't really remember my mum baking regular, although she did teach us how to...

Boodle

We usually had

• Tinned salmon sandwiches (just flaked no dressing or vinegar added) on Danish bread with hard cold lumps of Lurpack cos it wouldn't spread well on the fragile bread. Or pickled beetroot sandwiches, or pickled beetroot and wensleydale.
• little homemade Bakewell-type tarts or a fruit pie (my fave was tinned bilberries) to eat with a cake fork
• sometimes a sandwich cake, or sultana/choc chip buns, or we went through a phase of "orange flan" which was basically tinned mandarins and orange jelly in a bough sponge case and topped with whipped cream - very of the time!

After a massive late Sunday lunch (piled high on the plate) when dad finally arrived home from the pub, we would still feel obliged to eat what was put out a couple of hours later for tea. I lost a lot of weight when I started working and moved out of home!

Now we sometimes have soup, or something-on-toast that is handheld, or a toasted muffin/crumpet, or sandwiches in quarters. I usually also put out some chopped and/or dried fruit and nuts, occasionally crisps, and either a homemade bake each (so 4 out on the cake plate, rather than the dozen batch when I was a child and we were expected to make a dent in) or bought biccies. Everything is out on the coffee table as we watch TV and on platters rather than individual plates at the table, just like when I was little.

maman

What a lovely thread!

We ALWAYS had a roast at lunchtime on a Sunday. In fact I used to hide the fact that I didn't do one from my mother. Unless we're out we always have our Sunday dinner in the evening now but I often do a roast as I enjoy them.

As a child we always had a pudding, generally something like rice or egg custard or bread and butter pudding that could be cooked alongside the meat. Tea was usually just a quick sandwich or bread & dripping (which I loved) and some tinned fruit (usually sliced peaches) and some Ideal milk or sterilised cream or occasionally ice cream cut from a block.

We invariably did some visiting/had visitors later on Sunday. If my grandparents came (they'd come after evening chapel but we'd done our bit in the morning and Sunday school in the afternoon) we'd have a high tea which was generally cold meat and salad or occasionally some fried poatoes with it.

Other times, we went to my great aunt's. She was an amazing pastry cook (won prizes in shows) and we always had fantastic Victoria sponges and other cakes usually after a ham salad. My great uncle used to cut the bread by hand and he had it off to a fine art, so thin and dainty you could almost see through it. All the best bone china was out and everyone seemed to have a set of cut glass fruit dishes and a serving dish in those days. We children had 'pop' but what really sticks in my mind was my mother. She was a coffee drinker and to please her my aunt would make her a cup of Camp coffee with revolting sterilised milk. My mother loathed it (she was a 'Nescaff' drinker, a fast habit she'd picked up working in London) but was too polite to refuse as it was my father's aunt and she meant well.

Thanks OP. I've really enjoyed my bit of nostalgic indulgence. I keep thinking I should write this down so my own children can know what my childhood was like.

vixtress

Have to have a mock crab sandwich! Now! It must be 25 years since I've even thought of this. Delicious, in white bread of course

meritaten

hmm back in the late fifties/early sixties we lived with Nan and Granch and Sunday dinner/lunch was usually roast beef, lamb or pork with whatever veg mum had boiled to death (took me years to discover that cauli, sprouts and runner beans actually taste nice cooked properly), with loads of rather tasteless gravy.
Tea was usually Tinned fruit (choice of Peaches, Pears or Fruit Cocktail) and Evap milk. oh, and you had to eat a slice of bread and butter with it - now that always puzzled me - even I knew it didnt actually 'go' with fruit!
Unless there were 'Visitors'! Then Nan would make 'Pikelets' (drop scones), Welsh Cakes and Mum would make a pile of Salmon Sandwiches (cut in Triangles not straight across).
I used to love having 'Visitors' - usually they had funny accents (the rellys who visited were usually cousins from Birmingham) and without exception ALL visitors gave me a shilling or two!
I have loved Salmon Sandwiches to this day! I still cannot abide Tinned Fruit with Evap though - even without the obligatory bread and butter!

When we moved out to our new home - we were lucky to get tinned fruit - Mum has never like cooking or food! she used to say we must still be full from dinner! lol - were we heckaslike - us kids were always ready to eat.
I was old enough to do some baking then and I used to make cakes for tea for us kids and dad.
mum sometimes let me make Salmon Sandwiches too! that was my idea of food bliss!

Callie22

I remember going for Sunday teas at my great-grandparents house. Without fail, there would always be an orange jelly with tinned mandarins in it, which my great-grandma would put outside to set. To 'keep it clean' there was always a plate on top with a stone on it There were tinned salmon sandwiches too, and maids-of-honour from the Be-ro book.