Childhood & Sentimental memories

vivaladiva

Butter and Sugar for coughs/sore throats - I got honey and vinegar! Now the weird bit - I actually liked it.
I do remember having luncheon meat with salad (lettuce, cucumber and tomato maybe with a picked onion and a bit of beetroot). I'm not sure to this day if it was posher than Spam or not as good.

MRSMCAWBER

Hello

I guess i got of lightly....i only had bread and butter inflicted on me at 1 grandmas..:D ....

My mum used to make everything from scratch to make the most of what little money they had... but we always had full bellies (over full in my case.. greedy little moo:o )... and even now at the ripe age of 36 i cook a lot of things that my mum did..and still does sometimes.... she is still the greatest cook out there:T
homemade bread...still warm with cheese and fresh boiled beetroot:p

savoury meat roll....left over beef(i use mince now), a couple of sausages,
leftover mash...mix it all together with some cooked onion and make a giant swiss roll affair with shortcrust pastry.....wang it in the oven and it is stunning.... especially with home soaked mushy peas.....mmmm

stuffed breast of lamb
breast of lamb stew - made using the bones.....

OOOOHHHH you have me started now... christmas....
the day before xmas eve mum used to make :-
6 doz mincepies
6 doz jam tarts
6 doz lemoncurd tarts
6 doz bakewells
6 doz butter tartlets....that i recently found the recipe for in a bero book:j
and they never made it to boxing day ... that was mainly my dad and 1 brother though....after taking poorley my dads weight never moved from 10st7 and boy could he eat:rotfl: ....every weekend mum used to make an 8" round rich boiled fruit cake...that dad would have eaten before bed time with far to many cups of tea ...inbetween dinner and pudding and his tea:eek:

I think thats why i still mace my own mincemeat, xmas puddings and xmas cake.... it takes me back to being a kid:j

rockie4

Sugar butties!!!!
Mashed banana with top of the milk if you weren't feeling well, indian brandee for tummy ache :eek: it was years before I could drink the 'real' stuff.
We never had puds, only if we had visitors and then it was tinned fruit with carnation milk and ..........bread and marge.
Going to gran's and having proper butter on the bread which was cut paper thin.
Going to the grocer's every week with Mum and getting the sugar in blue paper parcels and everything weighed out for you...then up to the bakers for a cake!
Ah! those were the days.......:T

suep

We used to have 'magic banana' for pudding, it was chopped banana sprinkled with sugar and hundeds and thousands.
My Mum still has a slice of bread and butter with her dinner every night followed by bread and jam and a slice of cake, and she wonders why she can't lose weight LOL

Gingham_Ribbon

Eating rhubarb fresh from the garden, raw, dipped in a cone of sugar made out of a twisted piece of paper.

Using my granny's dress making chalk to make a beds grid and using an old empty tin of shoe polish as a peever.

Eating turnip raw fresh from the garden and picking and shelling peas to eat was the sweetest treat ever.

Soup'n'puddin' night. Bowl of hearty scotch broth and eve's pudding to finish with as a cheap meal night.

Making dollies out of clothes pegs.

Taking 10p down to the wee shop for a page of 'scraps' to play with and swap.

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there gingham ribbon

Im going to have to ask..what are a beds grid and a peever oooh and what are scraps?:o

The rhubarb with sugar i used to get from grandma

And even now, fresh pod peas never make it into the house

stefejb

mmmmmm

free crackling from the chippy
condensed milk sandwiches
10p mixture from the sweet shop
buying sweets in quarters from big jars
spam fritters - eeeeeeeew
dream topping and tip top
watch out watch out there's a humphrey about!
the monthly trip to bejams (i think that's iceland now)
owning the first microwave on the street - my mum would put the food in, clear the kitchen of innocent bystanders, press the button and run like crazy as she was so scared of it
Huge cans of beer - party 7?
Peanuts and raisins in curry - what was that all about?
Taking the pop bottles to the shop for the deposit and then climbing over the shop wall to nick more bottles to take back
apple scrumping
spangles
four fruit salads for a penny

...... those were the days

Gingham_Ribbon

Beds is the Scots word for hopscotch and the peever is the thing you throw down onto the squares.

Scraps are an old fashioned toy - I haven't seen them for years. They're just paper pictures - I seem to remember lots of flowers, cherubs, angels and kittens. We had 'scrap books' and swapped doubles with friends. I'll try to find a picture.

Gingham_Ribbon

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gypsyroseloz

I was born & bred in Scotland.

I remember the Bon Accord juice man in his black & orange truck.

10p mixes, red laces, fish & chips, flying saucers,etc.

Waiting outside the phonebox whilst my mum rang my gran, we didnt have a phone!
Scratching ice off the INSIDE of my bedroom window in winter!:eek:

I remember my older friend having a red Sony walkman & Billy Joel tape for her Birthday!! How cool was that...we all sat around on the grass with our ears to hers just so we could get a listen!!!:rotfl:

Long, HOT, summers!!!!!! Playing in the paddling pool nearly all day! Couldnt do that today!

I can see this thread is going to become addictive!:D