really old style living?

prepareathome

Thanks Ginny, mmmmmmmmmm would make some peanut brittle tonight but no salted peanuts in just plain, but think I will make some of the sesame brittle as have them. Tomorrow will nip out and buy some salted peanuts.

Bobbykins

re the onions/cucumber in vinegar - am not sure it is just a midlands thing as we were originally from Lancashire and mum often used to do a bit of sliced onion in vinegar to go with our sunday tea. She prepared it on the day so it wasn't like proper pickles.

When she did onion with cucumber as well she used to call it "bread and butter pickle" and that was put into jars and kept for a while, like pickled onions. Once it was opened though it went soft quite quickly so we had to eat it all up quite quickly - not a hardship as we loved it. Mmmmmmmm, can still taste it now. Nomnomnomnom.

EstherH

My aunty used to do onions in vinegar and I think maybe cucumber too. I live in Lancashire too.

Esther x

inkie

Onions in vinegar used to feature as part of our tea here in Yorkshire

prepareathome

My mum gave us that but sometimes she actually added lettuce to it as well so it was a vinegar salad, it would be made either in the morning of day the day before and put in fridge till used and its something I still do, kids wouldn't eat lettuce plain but made up like this with the cucumber and onions they loved it. Mum came from London ( but we grew up in Scotland), but her parents were Russian, and they pickled everything they can - mum adored pickled cabbage and she told me of the many things her grandmother pickled but neither mum or her mum were cooks, don't mean they couldn't cook, ( never knew her mum) but mum could cook very well, but it wasn't something she enjoyed so apart from cabbage and onions she never pickled anything just did cooking not even much baking and as I enjoyed both I was given plenty of options of enjoying myself

mardatha

Prepared, what a lovely mixed family history you have there, lots of traditions to draw on, thats good

mardatha

Am so enjoying the Bettys Diaries wartime book ! Many thanks to whoever originally mentioned it, naturally I forget who it was .. I love the kindness to neighbours, the looking after the man who was gassed in WW1 and the constant stream of things that are handed in at the back door and bartered. It's not a book to read when you're hungry! All that roast pheasant, pigeon pie, steak & kidney pud, and the constant flow of scones...

paidinchickens

mardatha wrote: »

Am so enjoying the Bettys Diaries wartime book ! Many thanks to whoever originally mentioned it, naturally I forget who it was .. I love the kindness to neighbours, the looking after the man who was gassed in WW1 and the constant stream of things that are handed in at the back door and bartered. It's not a book to read when you're hungry! All that roast pheasant, pigeon pie, steak & kidney pud, and the constant flow of scones...

Pigeon pie When I lived in London there was a little old lady who would walk round picking all the dead pigeons up off the street. Still makes me shiver at the thought.

mardatha

:eek: Nooo! these would be wood pigeons !

westcoastscot

I loved it Mar, very much how we lived on the island :-) I miss that life so much - honestly didn't realise when I moved to the mainland how much money you need to have a decent quality of life. We were very rich, although had little money.

WCS