New BBC2 Back in time for dinner

thriftwizard

7roland8 wrote: »

Thriftwizard - never thought of that. Just found info here - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/02/teabags-biodegradeable makes me want to go back to packet tea - or else open the bags!

MTSTM, 7roland8's link is one amongst many - I first picked up the info over on the SHTF thread, I think - but I've also seen it on a well-known gardening site.

moneyistooshorttomention

Thanks.

Time to do a bit more reading up on growing lemongrass then.

Certainly found already its possible, to some extent, to grow lemonbalm and peppermint and make your own tea with them.

Pollycat

thriftwizard wrote: »

My Mum would have no truck with teabags until very recently; she & Dad lived in Sri Lanka for most of the 1950s, and she "knew" that teabags were made with the sweepings from the tea factory floor!

Yep.

We did a tour of Sri Lanka about 20 years ago and visited a tea plantation and they told us this.

PlymouthMaid

Loved the programme but really enjoying reading about everybody's memories especially Jackie's wonderful writing. I was born in 1962 so the 70's will be my memories - there was definitely a lot of Angel delight and also Homepride sauces and lemon meringue pie from a packet. I also remember the blackouts when Mum had to cook over a camping gaz burner for 5 of us

The 50's kitchen took me right back to staying at my lovely Nan's house which even in 1970 hadn't changed a great deal although she had a small fridge and a twin tub washing machine.

Farway

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Thanks.

Time to do a bit more reading up on growing lemongrass then.

Certainly found already its possible, to some extent, to grow lemonbalm and peppermint and make your own tea with them.

lemon balm is dead easy, and will just self seed and and grow

peppermint, same, but grow in a large pot or it will take over your garden

Farway

JackieO wrote: »

Enterprising lot back in the 1950s we all knew the value of a shilling lemonade bottle of Tizer bottles you got 3d on when returned to the pop-shop or if you were lucky and found beer bottles you got cash on those as well.

6d was enough to get you into the cinema so most London children I knew had eagle eyes always on the look out for empty bottles.

You never walked past a phone box without checking to see if there was any cash to come back from pressing button 'B' or looking to see if any had been dropped or left in the little cash holder at the front of the phone box :):)
we were all canny little devils in those days

Sounds like you lot missed trick or two Jackie, we used to crawl into the pub back garden, take the empty beer bottles, trot round to same pub off licence and get the cash back, recycling before the word was invented

And the cinema, did you never send one in for 6d, then he would open the fire door and the rest of you would get in for nothing? {no alarms on doors in those far off days]

Maybe we were a bit more canny in Middlesex

Butterfly_Brain

7roland8 wrote: »

Gosh we never saw teabags in 60s.


Our 'innovation' was a red clear plastic caddy on the wall and you could press a button to get one spoon full out at a time - now that was modern!!

From Tea Infusion Association:
It was Tetley in 1953 that drove the introduction of tea bags in Britain, but other companies soon caught up.
In the early 1960s, tea bags made up less than 3 per cent of the British market, but this has been growing steadily ever since.
By 2007 tea bags made up a phenomenal 96 per cent of the British market.

OMG! my Mum had one of those but hers was blue and I still have her silver tea strainer, she always used leaf tea in the 60's she also had a big brown glazed tea pot.

Butterfly_Brain

JackieO I remember saturday morning pictures with a B movie and a main flick, then we would go home for lunch and then up to Porchester baths for a couple of hours swimming then back home for Doctor Who ..................
HappyDays

Kantankrus_Mare

Looking forward to the next programme in the series as being born in 66, I was a child of the seventies.

Might be quite a revelation on what I may have missed out on food wise as all I can remember eating was roast beef on a Sunday and Haddock and chips always on a Friday, (my dad was a fish filleter).

The rest of the time, all I can remember is egg and chips.

My mam never was really interested in cooking and it probably explains why Im not fussed about chips .

Didnt have quite the same effect on my brother as he has been known to leave a restaurant as they didnt do chips!

Butterfly_Brain

Omg she has my first cooker and I also still have a set of those scales an onion keeper and a chicken egg keeper.

Can't believe that Rochelle is a teacher!

Laughing my socks off at the fried dinner, and once again gammon on the menu for a Jewish family.

Oh oh trouble with a can opener again

She is griping about using a typewriter now!

Automatic washing machine? In the early seventies most people had a twin tub