cleegirl Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 the luxury of a coal fire and dripping on toast if i offered that my kids they would have said i was trying to poison them j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borick Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Did you have a toastig fork made out of thick twisted wire, usually manufactured by a relation/friend at work during the night shift. The posh lot had a bought one with a brass galleon on the handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleegirl Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Did you have a toastig fork made out of thick twisted wire, usually manufactured by a relation/friend at work during the night shift. The posh lot had a bought one with a brass galleon on the handle. you are right yes my grandad made ours at british steele but we thought it was posh cos we had one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borick Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 In Germany, most villages have there own little weekly market. Ours is Friday, and now and again I go and buy a freshly baked uncut white loaf and then go to the butchers and buy a tub of pork dripping with crispy onion bits in it, then make a pig of myself at tea time. I alway say to my German partner (she eats it too) "I bet the Queen has never eaten this". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttonmoon Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 I always looked forward to the mutton stew my gran made on sunday it would be cooking most of the day and the smell was lovely cant imagine making a meal of it these days . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borick Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Monday was always my favourite day. The fried up leftovers from Sunday. Those days, if it didn't come out of the frying pan, I didn't eat it! Nowadays I'm not so fussy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarionC Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Dad made our toasting folk too, he also made the best sledges around with lovely steel that didn't need any waxing! Lost my front teeth sledging into the wall on Alfred Road!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borick Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 We went sledging on the "Hilly Fields" at Treeton. Used to 'borrow' the ladder out of next doors' passage. About 20 kids on this ladder. By the time we got to the bottom, there were only about 5 left on. The rest were hanging on a barbed wire fence half way down the hill, because they forgot to duck!!! So much fun and it never cost a penny. Didn't know what money was in those days. Every time I asked for some, me dad said i ant gorenny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbuck Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Did you have a toastig fork made out of thick twisted wire, usually manufactured by a relation/friend at work during the night shift. The posh lot had a bought one with a brass galleon on the handle. We had one with the brass galleon handle, untill the day my Dad made one at work ..It was a unique design with two hooks to hold the slice of bread so it dangled in front of the fire..and when you wanted to toast the other side, all you had to do was twist the handle round 180 degrees and resume toasting.. I thought this was brill', until i saw a program on the the TV about the Ancient Romans and discovered they had invented it about 2 thousand years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARY POPPINS Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 My dad used to put the bread on flat, so that when it was toasted he told me I had an arial on my bread that was the shape of the toasting fork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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