really old style living?

westcoastscot

oh shall have to look on i-player for the amish programme - sounds really interesting. I stopped preserving in jars when I moved from the island - I have nowhere cool enough to store stuff, so I freeze fruit and make jam as we need it, and make a few pickles, but that's it. I don't want to have loads in the freezer as the electricity supply here is unreliable, so am trying to live seasonably, just having enough in the freezer to tide over really bad weather - I do have ample supplies of tinned/dried goods.
WCS

mardatha

Can I ask anybody who knows - what is welsh rarebit ?? In the wartime book I'm reading, they seem to live on it.
I think not teaching your kids to do things is to deprive them of knowledge that they might one day need. A bit like saying "oh we've got tons of money we don't need to learn how to budget or menu plan or grow veg".... life has a habit of sneaking round and biting you in the bum hasnt it !

jackyann

mardatha wrote: »

Can I ask anybody who knows - what is welsh rarebit ?? In the wartime book I'm reading, they seem to live on it.
I think not teaching your kids to do things is to deprive them of knowledge that they might one day need. A bit like saying "oh we've got tons of money we don't need to learn how to budget or menu plan or grow veg".... life has a habit of sneaking round and biting you in the bum hasnt it !

I totally agree! I suppose that if you have lots of money then it can feel like "playing at being poor" but if done in the right spirit, is an excellent tool for life.

Welsh rarebit (or rabbit) is a delicious cheese-on-toast snack. It has many variations, and is very approximate, here's ours for 2:
4 slices toast, grill on one side, whilst grating left over cheese (people do have their favourites!), mix with either a couple of eggs, or 1 egg & some left-over cream, some people use beer instead, and some add a bit of mustard or Worcester sauce. It needs to be thick, not runny. Pour over uncooked side of toast and pop under the grill until bubbling & brown.
I sometimes serve it with some grilled sliced tomatoes or mushrooms if I have any

mardatha

Ooooh that would be good for using up eggs, I always have too many eggs. TY !

Seakay

I have a recipe for Golden Buck which uses up eggs and is in the rarebit tradition (we seem to only have the Welsh variety left but with many variations, but old books have lots of different recipes with different names eg Kentish Rarebit has apples in)

Golden Rarebit - The Art of British Cooking by Theodora FitzGibbon

4 tablespoons grated cheddar
1oz butter
3 tablespoons dark beer
a pinch of celery salt or salt
cayenne pepper
2 beaten eggs
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon cream or milk
4 rounds of toast

Put the grated cheese in a saucepan with the butter, beer, celery salt and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Heat gently until it begins to melt, then add the beaten eggs and cream. Finally add the Worcestershire sauce. Have the toast ready and pour the mixture over and serve at once.

mardatha

Isn't it funny how I got to my age and never ever had this before ?
Reading todays Telegraph site and the thing with the euro is getting scarey. Please stock up and scrimp harder ladies .

mardatha

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/286281/Starving-Britain
Really old style - in fact to Dickens day

kippers

mardatha wrote: »

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/286281/Starving-Britain
Really old style - in fact to Dickens day

OMG:shocked:

prepareathome

In our local sains yesterday they actually had a collection point for people to put in food as you went in/out to help build up stocks in the nearest food bank as they were saying their stocks are running low as more and more families are using them - the nearest food bank is miles away from here as our area is classed as a wealthy one, although I know many are now unemployed, I live on what we call the poor end at bottom of hill the very edge of the village at top of the hill is all the original village cottages and big massive houses, where even now many still have staff to run them. If anyone by me needed to use the food bank they would have a very long walk as there is one bus that does go down to the area its in, but then still a walk from bus stop and if they needed to use it there would not be money for bus fare. I heard a few people asking the volunteers if they will be opening and outlet in the village ( we are part of the city now, as village was taken in to it just under 100 years ago, but everyone still refers to it as a village and the city as a separate place which is many miles away as well). Its churches that run them and one thing the village is not short of is churches so I wonder if they will consider it.

My heart goes out to all those that have to use a food bank they are wonderful showing how the ordinary people of Britain are good giving. Seeing the collection really brings it home how bad things have become here. Also makes me realise I had better not let to many people know I have my stocks if not will have many knocking on my door and although to me it seems a lot in reality it would say only keep us for a few months and I have to think about my children and their families - one on low wage with two youngsters. I have just told one person by me, the guy who does all the heavy work in garden for me, he has two young teenagers and his wife poor lamb has depression, badly all the time. He does all the gardening work he can to earn money as just asks people to pay him what they can, and as winter is so hard for him have told him if they are stuck he can come and get food from me. He has at long last got an allotment so he is hoping to feed them out of that next year. I don't know if he is on benefits and I do not ask. I just admire him for doing what he can in hard times, he went to college and studied horticulture and just cannot get a job.

I have forgotten about welsh rarebit, not had that in many years as hubby not a great cheese eater, but might do it one night this week for me when I make him one of the meals he enjoys that I do not.

knittingcathy

Have just read through this thread and am loving it, thank to everybody for the ideas that I have got off this thread.

I am a mum to 4 amazing young children and live in Scotland and have just moved into our first house that has a garden I call it a garden it is a small concrete square but I am determined to make it produce fruit and vegetables. I try to live as OS as possible making everything from scratch trying not to go to the shops too often which is hard as we live 2 min walk from a MrA and a MrT but try to shop local were I can. It has taken me longer than I would have liked to go OS as it has taken a long while to persuade OH that this is the way to go. The garden will take a lot of discussion, he has agreed to the planters I want to put in and the hanging baskets but thinks they are for pretty flowers could get intresting lol.

Things are getting hard as prices soar even further that's cheese went up by 20p from last week if it keeps up then nobody is going to be able to afford to eat.