Sam Miguel Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 If I was especially good, I was given the piece of string to suck which had held the joint together. It was such a privelidge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owdlad Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 Sam you don't know the meaning of poor me mother used to use the string to make meat and potato pie....AFTER you had used it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbuck Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 When the milk went sour, Mum would put it into a muslin flour bag and hang it up over the stone kitchen sink and make her own type of cheese.. An elderly Lady told me that you can't do this nowdays, as the milk is different to what it was then. (Something to do with processing) Also She used to skim the cream off the top of the milk and put it into a jar which was shaken with vigour to make a small blob of butter, this was always welcome. The remaining buttermilk was used for baking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbuck Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 My Grandmother lived at Crosshill in Ecclesfield and her son (my uncle harry) used to grow his own tobacco at the rear of the house, also at the rear of the house was a field full of dandilions...One day while visiting my grandmother She gave me a large whicker basket and asked me to gather a baskefull of dandilion flower heads..at the time I thought she'd gone crackers, but I did as she asked...about a month or so later when I visited her again "on my weekly visits "she called me into the kitchen and produced a bottle of some sort of liquid, she poured some into a glass and offered me a drink, it tasted great...she told me it was made from the dandilion heads i'd collected that day"dandilion wine". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiffy Posted May 13, 2004 Author Share Posted May 13, 2004 Oh yes the vase of celery and the cake stand, a three tiered arrangement of various buns and tarts waiting for us, mostly home-made. You know one thing that always baffled me was hearing of relatives/friends that had long since left us who had died of 'consumption'. I always thought it meant they'd eaten or drunk too much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushbaby Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 We knew a woman in Chesterfield who died from "Derbyshire Neck". That conjured up many grotesque images for me...I though it had something to do with the Crooked Spire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxon51 Posted May 15, 2004 Share Posted May 15, 2004 Originally posted by Sam Miguel If I was especially good, I was given the piece of string to suck which had held the joint together. It was such a privelidge. And not a single rat in your back garden had a tail I bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauline Posted May 15, 2004 Share Posted May 15, 2004 i normally have bits of this and that in my freezer,every so often i make a bittza:D ,allways tastes good,also i do,buble n squeak with any meat thats left over:D ,can anyone remenber ECHO, margarine?it was yellow and tasted disgusting:shakes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted May 15, 2004 Share Posted May 15, 2004 isn't this something to do with class, and related to that, cash. People these days are just better off, even if they like to bleat that they aren't. I like carnation milk (condensed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxon51 Posted May 16, 2004 Share Posted May 16, 2004 Originally posted by Sam Miguel If I was especially good, I was given the piece of string to suck which had held the joint together. It was such a privelidge. You mean you got a whole bit of string to yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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