Floridablade Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Mekkin do,like cutting old tyers up to repair shoes or clogs. Blackberry picking on Long Lane. Collecting spud peelings to tek to farm to feed 'pigs and get spice for it. stealing bottles from behind the working mens club and taking them back until they got wise and took the labels off. making mint sauce on a sunday or collecting horse raddish which grew wild and making sauce with that. Baking bread in the yorkshire range oven and the most wonderful custard from proper eggs. Chicken at Christmas from a few we kept,nectar. Porridge in the morning and nothing else until 5 pm. Parkin,I can smell it now. A square meal was an OXO cube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 No one has mentioned Pob's, an OXO and plenty of bloody bread to break up and put in the little basin, or you'de get bread and jam, life is so much easier & better today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbang Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 By the way Does anybody remember "Fussils tinned milk" I remember it well, we used to eat it by the spoonfull then if there were any left we spread it on bread. Yummy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
multiparvo1 Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 My husband left school during the war and went to work in a Butcher's shop. They used to have about 2 sheeps head per week and one of his jobs was trimming them. A woman used to buy one every week and he used to trim it for her. Before he split open the head he says he used to remove the eyes with a boning knife, but one week she said 'why don't you leave the eyes in they will see me through the week'. He doesn 't know what she used to do with it. He also remembers the sheeps lites, which were the lungs and liver together which were called 'the pluck'. Thanks for all these lovely and unlovely memories, it's made my day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHS1961 Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Mum and gran used to eat udder (cows) which used to make me gip when it was cooking, the smell was dreadful. Also pigs trotters which were basically a plate of yukky jelly full of little foot bones. Nothing wrong with a pigs trotter, boiled they produce a wonderful stock to use in Pease Pudding or a good broth. Also roast them in herby bread crumbs which is also very tatsty. Largely due to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall I have rediscovered a number of great meals that I grew up with, tripe, lamb stew made with the neck and breast , ox tail and best of all tongue. I bought an old tongue press at auction a couple of years ago and now do my own. All of this food costs next to nothing and my butcher is pleased to find someone who will enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekker Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 pigs trotters, yuk.. dad used to bring em back from town mixed in with other stuff.. the sight put me right off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfish1936 Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Talking of Fussell's condensed milk: they and Nestle's were having a right ding-dong on TV adverts as to which was better; we went on a tour of the factory, where a big vat of condensed milk was being put into tins, and the tins rolled down and picked up a Nestle's label; then a whistle blew, everything stopped, and the Nestle's labels were picked up and replaced with Fussell's; still the same stuff from the same vat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joanl Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 We had a tiled fireplace in our house and a couple of the tiles would now and again fall off. What did my dad use to stick them back on???? Fussils or Nestle's condensed milk, whichever we had in. Did a grand job as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Don't forget the scraps that went with the chips I still ask for lots of scraps now, i crush them in a plastic bag, dip chicken breasts in milk, dip them in the scraps....oven bake 20 min, YUM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Also the times when we all had to get out of the house for the chimney sweep to come, everything got covered in newspapers, no windows or doors open to vent...imagine doing that now ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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