As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

TudorRose

Athome1 wrote: »

Morning all, another occasional poster here with a question (sort of old style):o

I am doing a 1930s cookery themed 3 day event for a group of teenagers and I'm trying to be as accurate as possible (thank goodness for grannys old cookbooks). Anyway my question is was peanut butter used here in the UK in 1930s? I've done a Google search and it looks like it was just in the USA and I only remember it from about the 1970s onward.

I'm not suggesting anyone on here is old enough to remember personally:rotfl: but perhaps a mum and gran might remember?

Thanks in advance:beer:

I remember eating peanut butter in the 1960's. My Dad loved the stuff as he got a taste for it during the WW11 as it was sent over here from the USA & I think it didn't need coupons.
He told me that he bought it from the local grocers/greengrocers & that it came over in wooden barrels & when you bought it they cut you out a lump (must have been very solid) & wrapped it up in newspaper.

Robson65

Hi All

Just popping in with a link to an article you might be interested in.
Renting things is not something I'd thought of before !

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/disciplines/market-research/as-belts-tighten-will-we-ever-be-able-to-let-it-all-out-again?/3026044.article

Thanks
Robson

Robson65

Another interesting one

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/trends/brands-feeling-the-pinch-need-to-tailor-offers/3026040.article

Robson

PepPop

mardatha wrote: »

I know about the rag& bone man, can remember him from the 50s. But what did the Victorians do with coal dust ?

I just looked it up on Wikipedia and coal dust seems to be used for everything from cement production, agriculture, cosmetics, paint manufacturing you name it's used for it

charlies-aunt :eek: at the battlefield scouring

bertiebots Thanks for the link - gonna watch it later :beer:

grandma Yep I thought that too. It seems to be a knee-jerk reaction, if anything is wrong with you it's because you're overweight.

Catch you all later :wave:

Charis

Carolyntia wrote: »

Coal dust being taken away by a dustman? I'm sorry but I don't see why...it was always dug into the garden at my grannys

This page sheds some light on what the dust men did with the dust - and also on the origins of breeze (brieze) blocks, used in the building industry.

Charis

PepPop wrote: »

charlies-aunt I wish I'd watched that it sounds really interesting. I didn't realise that rag and bone literally meant they took bones... did they mention what for? Love the meaning of hogwash and that the dustbin men took dust. I feel really stupid because I never realised that - although I don't know why I never worked it out by the names

Here's a rather long page about rag and bone men, written in 1851. There's a paragraph near the bottom about the purchase of bones. where it says 'will buy bones of children or any others' it means they bought bones from children... It did make me :eek: when I first read it. It mentions that the (animal) bones were 'ground for manure'.

sammy_kaye18

OMG Just wrote a huge reply and lost the blood lot!

Having a nightmare today

Trying to buy my russell howard tickets that Ive saved for - transfered money yesterday to owens credit card only to be told its not in the account and I cant pay for them - wouldnt mind if it was me and him but have my two best girls counting on me getting these tickets too! :mad:


COOKS!
Have decided to make sausage casserole fro tea with what I can scrape together. Managed to pick up some odds and sods from allotment sellers this morning so now have
- two sausages found looking sorry fro themselves in back of freezer - planning on cooking them and chopping them up
- some sorry looking carrots
- some peas
- some sweetcorn
- some mushrooms
- an onion
any ideas if I can make a suitable casserole from this? I have gravy granules or chicken oxo cubes and flour but thats about it. Plus I have about £2 to my name to last me until tuesday! :eek:

Also raided the reduced section in la coop last night and got

- 2 x big italian style stonebaked pizza (pepperoni) - now frozen for £1.90
- 1 pack of 2 garlic breads for 20p - have cut one into 3 and frozen seperately so Benjamin can have a few slices if I make him pasta and have left one whole
- 1 pack of 5 BIG chicken thighs with skin - planning on chopping up two for chicken curry tomorrow night for Owen, and stuffing one with cheese on Monday night to serve with carrots and new potatoes. (FYI I hate curry and Monday I'm at rugby training)

Also think muffin tins could be a worthy investment as the coop sell 4 fro £1 and Ben and Owen have demolished that easily in one night between them!

Also HV sprung a surprise phonecall on me earlier :mad: and shes coming over Monday for a general visit to see how Holly is - she did say in her phonecall that it was 'just a quick visit' so I am going to get washing/clothes away as best I can between now and Sunday. Then when I get home Sunday night I will have a clean before bed as I will have been out at work for the 7 hours and god knows what state it will be in when I get home. Then when Im home from dropping Ben in school I will try my best to tidy before she arrives at 2pm!

right best go and feed minnie.

x

kidcat

Sammy - often a payment to a credit card doesnt show for 24hrs, if you can access the account online you will be able tos ee the minute it clears.

grandma247

Sammy have you got tinned tomatoes to add to the casserole? if so you are good to go and you can even add some dumplings or plain scones to the top. I add a bit of chilli powder too,just a pinch.

maryb

Just done my own version of extreme couponing - but it's not very extreme I'm afraid. Still, in the circumstances, it's actually quite appropriate to say 'every little helps'

I had a Tesco money off voucher £7 off a £50 spend. So I did my shopping list very carefully in My Supermarket to come as close to £52 as possible. It needed to be more than £50 because I had a voucher for £1.50 off Flora Pro active marge which I buy for DH who has high cholesterol. Also I buy unbagged veg so it's difficult to be exact and you need to err on the side of caution to make sure it's over £50 but I was quite pleased when it came out at £53 give or take. So I used the Flora voucher. Then I used the £7 Tesco voucher AND I also had a £5 Waitrose money off voucher which they accept as well. . That brought it down to just under £40.

And what was even more pleasing was that I really focused on the BOGOFs and special offers - it was quite good this week, they were actually on things I use. Like their cheapo orange juice 61p per carton was on 3 for 2. So that saved another £8 on stuff I would have bought anyway.

So £61 worth of food for just under £40. And I got another till spit for £7 off next time and I still have another £5 Waitrose voucher. Thanks Mr T