Preparedness for when

ALIBOBSY

RAS wrote: »

Carrot roll consisted of grated carrot and oatmeal wrapped in mashed potato and baked "until nicely browned." To be served with well seasoned brwon gravy; where the heck did they think that was going to come from?

I vaguely recall reading they used a small amount of mince with various veggies to cook down and make a gravy they used over lots of stuff, great way to use a small amount of meat and get meaty flavour with various veggies.

Ali x

nuatha

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

Trying to catch up with this thread, but it moves so fast lol.

My Gran was a Yorkshire lass and always maintained you NEVER eat the Ypuds with the meal. They had them with gravy for a starter to fill you up so less meat was needed with the main course and if they didn't have a cooked pudding they often had extra yorkshire puddings sprinkled in sugar or drizzled with honey. She also always had a chunk of cheese with her fruit cake, another seemingly northern habit .

Ali x

A former girlfriend's mum introduced me to Yorkshire Salad with Yorkshires as a starter.

Leftover Yorkshires were often eaten with jam or golden syrup when I was young. If you make large rectangular ones they make stunning beef sandwiches (rolled up around the beef)

Fruitcake, strong cheddar or wensleydale and an apple was my favourite lunch was I was walking or climbing - it was a bad year if we'd run out of Christmas cake before Easter (Gran made half a dozen 10 inch Christmas cakes for home, but wouldn't make any more before November).

elona

DH's auntie had five sons and served individual yorkies as a starter with the deal that the person who could eat most yorkies could then have a bigger portion of meat.

All the boys filled up on the yorkies and gravy then ate less of the expensive meat for a main course.

charlies-aunt

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

My Gran was a Yorkshire lass and always maintained you NEVER eat the Ypuds with the meal. They had them with gravy for a starter to fill you up so less meat was needed with the main course and if they didn't have a cooked pudding they often had extra yorkshire puddings sprinkled in sugar or drizzled with honey. She also always had a chunk of cheese with her fruit cake, another seemingly northern habit .

Ali x

My Mum (another Yorkshire Lass) used to do this too and being a gannet - I would gladly eat a large sized Yorkshire pud with onion gravy as a starter, followed by mini sized ones with the meat course and then another large one with raspberry vinegar or treacle for dessert :rotfl:

We also occasionally had rice pud as the first course - another OS 'filler-upper' from Yorkshire

Cheese with fruitcake or plum bread is wonderful

Not sure if this is a Yorkshire thing or not but we never had salad cream - lettuce was lightly sprinkled with sugar -or- raspberry vinegar sprinkled on a salad.

pineapple

Back on the subject of bras, Pineapple has in her arsenal a little collection of bra extenders. These are great for making bras - which are too tight but otherwise OK - serviceable again. One of the world's greatest inventions!

auntymabel

We sometimes used to have a suet puuding with Sunday dinner. I think it was pastry made with suet. It was cooked in a roasting tin and was lovely with gravy on.

Thriftygifty

auntymabel wrote: »

We sometimes used to have a suet puuding with Sunday dinner. I think it was pastry made with suet. It was cooked in a roasting tin and was lovely with gravy on.

We have suet pudding with Christmas dinner every Christmas it's tradition in our house! Sometimes my Mum will make one with bacon and stuffing in it mmm, also if you make a plain one then put golden syrup and ping it in the microwave it makes a yummy desert and very cheap, we use veg suet to make it though. My Mum boils it in a cloth though to cook it.

mardatha

I love dumplings made with half flour and half Atora, but not done them for ages. The syrup version sounds lovely.
Pineapple where would you get bra extenders? I've got a really nice fitting bra but its too tight across the back.

Say_who?

Hi there everyone. I've been reading for a while and love this thread, I'm delurking because I used to work at Evans fitting bras. The bra measurement system is in practice very much a guideline. In our store we would always take a variety of sizes into a fitting. The important thing is the fitting especially as bras are not as standard as you would think. Sizes vary between brands and very much so between wired and unwired.

If wearing a wired bra the middle part of the bra should rest comfortably on your breastbone if there's a gap between you and this, the bra doesn't fit. Ideally the bra should fit on the middle hooks allowing for variance but in practice it doesn't always work that way. It really is worth spending some time trying different sizes and makes.

The staff who size you in the majority of stores get VERY little training but there's often at least one staff member who's been doing it for years if you ask. Got to go, school run x x

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Thank you Say who? and all the others for bra-related advice. I was a little hestitant about posing my question last night and then I thought, beggar it, they 'know' me well enough by now and I'd bet my last tin of baked beans that the borg-brain of Old Style knows the answers.

:T Because we know everything, collectively, that's worth knowing. Or we know where to find the info.

Will be able to spare a max of 1-1.5 hrs bra-shopping this aft post work, then am heading out with pals for an evening of jollification. I shall have to inform the old parole officer as I'm crossing the county line and don't want my tag ringing off at wherever these things ring off.

If anyone hears screams of rage from southern England in the last two shopping hours of this afternoon, I'd just like to apologise ahead of time.

I heard that there are women who love to shop for clothes. Much in the same way that I've heard of unicorns............:rotfl: