Sunday tea treat

deborah64

ladymarmalade wrote: »

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!

I remember onion and cucumber in vinegar, mum always used to do that for us, not had it in years,

deborah64

When we were growing up we went through a phase of having afternoon tea, there would be cakes and scones galore, mum was a fantastic baker, and we would sit in the living room watching " how the west was won" oh happy days xx

wondercollie

I started Sunday Teas up again for my lot last summer. Mind that my husband is German, I'm a Scot and we live in Canada.

My sons friends and girlfriends love it. They discovered it by accident by showing up one Sunday around 4ish. So now they bring stuff along because they "know that Mrs. WonderCollie will always feed us".

So I have tea and coffee on the table. Sandwiches(cheese & tomato, assorted meats: jagdwurst, salami, etc), homemade cake and pickles. The extra kids bring stuff. Everything from beer to strudel to dim sum bits and pieces. My "adopted" son who was born in China usually gets his Mum to make sticky rice bundles and brings those. And yes, we've invited him Mum.

So, Sunday Tea in the summer has kind of turned into an open house.

And yes, the best china comes out. One of the girlfriends goes bargain hunting and every so often buys me bits and pieces. I reckon I can serve tea to around 47 people without running out of cups, etc.

anniemf2508

We used to have Sunday lunch at 12 oclock sharp (dad was a farmer so was always ravenous by lunchtime).
Then teatime would be cold buffet, sandwiches, pickled onions, prawn cocktail (made with tinned prawns) and mum would make a pear flan with that strawberry quick jel stuff over the top.

VfM4meplse

wondercollie wrote: »

So, Sunday Tea in the summer has kind of turned into an open house.

How lovely!

I have gone a bit mad with baking recently, restricting cake to a homemade effort once a week as a treat is preferable to eating sweet processed goodies everyday.

BitterAndTwisted

When we were little our Mum used to do her epic week's-worth of baking on a Friday and we'd have an afternoon tea with all sorts of nice cakes and bikkies on Saturday afternoons. That was Mum's chance to break out the good china if we had guests, which was quite often.

On Sundays we'd have the usual roast dinner and always a pudding at about 3pm. Usually because Dad was down at the pub with his chums until then. It also meant that there was no cooked Sunday evening meal, so Mum could go up and have a well-earned nap: we usually had a cold-meat and/or cheese sandwich with some left-over veggies or salady-type accompaniments with pickles and whatnot sometimes prepared by ourselves or Dad if he was sober enough. But there was always a slice of nice home-made cake or something else equally good.

Eenymeeny

I'm thinking that one tin of fruit seemed to 'do' the whole family, regardless of how many family members there were. I suppose that's where the bread and butter came in!
My mother used to do the same with tins of tuna (sandwiches for all!) and those Heinz steamed puddings, it was broken up a bit and everyone got some, with plenty of custard!
I laughed at the 'setting the table' recollection. When we were told to set the table the instructions were a little thing we used to always chant: 'bread, butter, milk, sugar and anything else you fancy' Which meant the jam, lemon curd, golden syrup and anything else that we could spread on bread
Nice memory, thank you.:T

jenster

anniemf2508 wrote: »

We used to have Sunday lunch at 12 oclock sharp (dad was a farmer so was always ravenous by lunchtime).
Then teatime would be cold buffet, sandwiches, pickled onions, prawn cocktail (made with tinned prawns) and mum would make a pear flan with that strawberry quick jel stuff over the top.

I remember having flan with strawberry quick gel in ours LOL but we'd normally have tinned peach halves in ours yum yum

DexterFan_2

Thanks to the OP for starting this, it has brought back very happy memories for me. I was born in the mid 70s and spent a lot of time with both sets of grandparents, Saturday tea (often home-made fish and chips cooked in lard) with my maternal set and Sunday tea with my paternal set.

Sunday tea was always an epic spread of cold meats, (white) bread and butter, salad, pickles etc followed by my Nana's amazing cakes/pies and often the tinned fruit with evaporated milk that seems to be fairly ubiquitous. There was usually trifle on special occasions and despite the fact that she didn't drink my Nana's sherry trifle was lethal and there was no kiddies version!

I was lucky enough to get my Nana's recipe book when she passed away so I occasionally indulge in a bit of nostalgic almond slice baking and like to make them for my dad whenever he visits as he loves them. Another regular was plain fairy cakes (non of this cupcake nonsense) turned upside down and coated in jam and dessicated coconut with a blob of white icing and a glace cherry on top.

It's my Dad's 70th this year so I think I might make a classic Nana-style Sunday tea for him - thanks for the inspiration.

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DEXTERFAN - what a lovely idea for your Dads 70th birthday, I'm sure it will make him very very happy and appreciate that he has a very kind and loving daughter. Cheers Lyn.