Old Finances (back in the day)

Topher

maganan wrote: »

ButterflyBrain - I'm glad you said you had macaroni as a pudding I thought that only happened in my family! I used to really like it. We used to have baked apple too and sometimes as a quick pudding, presumably also to fill us up after a less filling main meal, was jam rolypoly but made with normal pastry

Has anybody got a recipe for Barley Pudding? We used to have it occasionally, It was a lot like rice pudding, but I can't remember if it was pearl Barley, Barley Flakes or something else. I preferred it to Rice pudding, and would love to try & make it again.

squeaky

Topher wrote: »

Has anybody got a recipe for Barley Pudding? We used to have it occasionally, It was a lot like rice pudding, but I can't remember if it was pearl Barley, Barley Flakes or something else. I preferred it to Rice pudding, and would love to try & make it again.

There are a few options here...

google barley pudding


HTH

Butterfly_Brain

Barley Pudding

8 oz (225g) barley
3 oz (75g) currants
3 oz (75g) raisins
1 litre water
Pinch of salt
Caster sugar and single cream to serve

Mix the barley and water in a heavy-based saucepan and bring slowly to the boil. Simmer for one-and-a-half hours, stirring occasionally. Add the currants, raisins and salt and simmer for another 15 minutes. Serve sprinkled with caster sugar and the cream.

alice-mary

Butterfly Brain, many thanks for sharing the recipe:A, I would love to try it but I have a dumish question .... by Barley do you mean Pearl Barley or is there a different kind that I have not seen anywhere? Thankyou in advance,
Alice
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Butterfly_Brain

Yes alice-mary it is pearl barley that you use.
I used to make my own barley water when the kids where small and St Clements juice - fresh drinks with no chemicals added.
Mmmmm talking St Clements juice I have some oranges and lemons that need using up - I think I will make some today.

MissShoes

mmm pearl barley- given me pudding and lunch box ideas- thanks

jackieb

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Saw this on the news this morning about Kays catalogue archive so decided to have a browse - it is interesting, but I thought that there would be more on it
http://www.kaysheritage.org.uk/9148.html

There are old Argos catalogues from the 70s and 80s on Flickr.

Found them - they're from 1976 and 1985.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3589941642/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593028702/

Aarons_mummy

I haven't read the full thread but I wasn't born until 1989 so not a huge amount of time ago but I remember having egg and chips almost every night because my mum had no money for anything else. Christmas we never had much and what we did have was clothes, books for school etc. We had 1 pair of shoes for school and 1 pair of shoes for playing. Most clothes were second hand and passed down and we always had lots of hand knitted cardigans from my gran.

In the winter we wore our winter coat inside to stay warm as my mum couldn't afford to have the heating on. We had a bath every few days and the the water was shared to avoid using more hot water than necessary. We had an 18" tv that we got to watch on a saturday with a treat size bag of sweets. My mum only got rid of it last month! I got a small portable tv in my bedroom when I was about 8 I think and we got to watch it every so often. I remember videos, that's what we watched until I was in high school. We never had the internet at home either. UntilI was 17 and earning my own money I never had a computer with internet access.

It was hard on my mum and dad. When my dad did have a better paid job we had a car and we used to get a McDonalds once a month as a treat.

Obviously it wasn't as bad as what some people had it but in comparison to a LOT of other people in the 90's my parents weren't well off at all.

I totally agree that the expectation nowadays is ridiculous. At 21 I am grateful for anything and everything. My couch was bought second hand for £35, my TV Unit and coffee table were given to me for free, my son's bed was bought in a sale for £15, my bed was bought (new) from a private seller for £150, my lamps and rugs were hand me downs as are quite a few of my kitchen accessories, toaster, smoothie maker, casserole dishes and flour bin, pots and pans etc. A lot of my stuff is second hand but I have no problem with it.

Ideally I want my son to have the same values that I have that that materialistic things although nice are not the be all and end all of life. So far he seems to be happy with second hand and puzzles instead of gadgets and expensive trips but time will tell if it lasts.

notatvstar

OMG! Orange and brown furniture!

<FLASHBACK!...sudder>

My Mum has 1/2 the amazon in photos of me and by sis posing in front of hideous curtains (usually wearing dresses made of suspiciously similar patterned material) and swirly wall paper. I grew up in the Army and so peeps then had 'issue' furniture which was either horrid green or cat-puke orange. Growing up on the 'patch' (i.e. on a military housing estate) meant that there were loads of families in the same boat, and Mothers would share bath nights as in a group of kids from different families would get bathed together and each Mum would take it turn to do it. Unfortunately it's a bit embarrassing to be told in front of a fellow adult you knew as a kid that you used to be bathed together. Especially if the kid grows up to be a bit buff... think Bridget Jones scenario but worse.

tiredwithtwins

30 years ago i was just turning 14 and vaguely remember bits of it!!

i remember the insurance man coming round every week .. . and mum having to go through trouser pockets and her bags to find enough money for the weekly subs!

i also remember the pools man coming round every week ... my dad always had enough for him! think that would be on a tuesday or weds, then we would all have to sit in silence while the football results were announced on the tv. sat morning he would sometimes pop round to the bookies to back some horse too ...

parents also only did one weekly shop, and if we ran out then it was tough. they shopped from a list, which would change weekly depending on what they got from an uncle who had a farm ... they also ran a frozen food shop at some point, so im sure they got some food stuff from there. but there were never biscuits/cakes/crisps on the shopping list.

pocket money (cant remember how much) had to stretch to tuesday night youth club, any magazines, make up etc i wanted and i never got any extra!

clothes were mended/darned, and passed down where possible. my brownie uniform from my younger days had had 6 previous owners!! my mum got a sewing machine from a well off aunty and started making a lot of my clothes ... something i did too until i got into my mid 20s and realised i was wearing clothes from the 70s!!