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When we were little and my mum made her famous trifle at Christmas (which is still famous to this day as it was the only thing she taught me to 'cook' and friends and family LOVE it!!), - me and my brother were allowed to fight over who had the skin off the top of the custard and the blancmange which had to be discarded ...... OOhhh - the joys of life !!

Dea x

I think you have spelt that right Ja....x !

Posh pudding for us on a sunday tea-time when 'old' people sometimes came to visit was that fruit salad stuff out of a tin with carnation cream on it!

The 'oldies' always wanted a slice of bread and butter to eat with it ... UUUrrrghhhh !!!!!!!!!

Dea x

Yes please Gins.........

Yep, where's there food......there's Dea!




You beat me to it Dea...I was going to say I remember Sunday teas with tinned fruit salad, with evap plus bread and butter........no idea why. I suppose the bread and butter filled you up...????

Tinned salmon sandwiches were the creme de la creme! Chicken was a luxury. I also remember jellied veal which I loved. Once, my mum asked me to buy some on the way home from school. She was not at all pleased when I presented her with a fraction of what she needed.....I had been nibbling at it all the way back.....oops.

Yes Cynthia - tinned salmon sandwiches !!

I don't remember jellied veal really but I do remember that 'tongue' thingy - That was a bit jellied (I think it was Ox tongue) - DOUBLE Yuuukkk !!!!!!!!!!

Also, we had what we called in Lancashire - 'Savoury Ducks' but here in Leicestershire they are called faggots !!! - They were quite nice!

Dea x

I mentioned the tinned fruit and carnation milk on FB and sunday night at the London Palladium. We did'nt have bread with it, that must be a northern thing

Oh yeah salmon and cuecumber sarnies...then tuna was invented


ja...x

I still take salmon and cucumber sandwiches to work for lunch! Do have the salmon mashed with some hollandaise sauce, though.

For some reason MC - we used to mash the salmon and mix it with vinegar ???

Hollandaise sauce sounds much better but I don't think we knew what that was back then.

Dea x

I dont remember mayo as a child only salad cream...maybe my mum did'nt buy it?
HID has tuna sandwiches every now and again he has to share it with the cat though

Yeah mixing it with a bit of vinegar sounds right too Dea

ja...x

Well, 'here I are' Ginns - just in time!! - I have brought you some flowers as a 'thank-you' !

You didn't answer so I brought you some apple sauce just in case !!

GOSH, - that smells lovely !!!!!

I am at the table now - knife and fork at the ready................. I can wait no longer!!!!!............... Serve it up now PLEASE ......................

OOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhh Yuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm !!!

Dea x

Gins

Know ours is here by the fire --- but did not want Dea to know ---and we wanted extra -- proper pork scratching

On Sundays we had red salmon sarnies -- with butter -- we only had butter at the weekends --- we were not allowed marg --so we had dry bread all week --- we also had trifle -- and tin fruit with carnation ---

And Mum always made great oval meat plates of jam tart and rock cakes -- supposedly to last the week

For pudding after Sunday lunch we always always had rice pudding -- and stewed fruit and custard

I hate rice pudding even now

Renes

I love rice pudding told HID to get some pudding rice in the week now.

I always remember when I visted my nan she would always give me a boiled egg with real bread not the sliced mothers pride stuff followed by rice pudding which was normally over cooked so it stuck to your ribs

ja...x

Jax

Thats exactly how my Mum cooked it -----------horrible ----- liked the crispy bit

on top though ---- the skin

Mashed with vinegar...that's right Dea....ooops sorry, didn't realise you had your mouth full.


I used to make a lot of rice puddings at one stage and they were popular with my family.....especially the skin was burnt! We don't have puddings very often these days.



Oh and Dea.......don't like to say this whilst you are eating, but my OH still likes tongue sandwiches......soz.



bother......dropped some crackling down me front........arrghh.

Cynthia - don't want to know about your personal life when I've got a mouthful of stuffing!!!

Lol, Lol, Lol

ja...x

Dont remember having any roasts on a Sunday..Mother was a always "too busy"milking,feeding pigs,dogs cats,chickens,baby brother ,making hay,weeding veg or some other thing,normally with all of us as labourers..Dinner was often Sausage and mash...Roast was for Christmas. Day..
But we did get a lot of tinned fruit and evap...

...Roast was for Christmas. Day..

I ditto that Fans !!!

We woz VERY poor !!!!!!!!!

Tin bath in the back kitchen and all !!

Dea Xxx

I have to say - Ginns's meal was VERY lovely !!!

LOTS of crackling and thank goodness she didn't do pudding as I am SSSoooo 'stuffed' !!!

Many thanks Ginns !!!!!!!

Dea Xxx

OOOppps - I have hiccupps now !! -,............hic..........hic..........hic

Dea Xxx

Roast chicken we had most weeks not always on a sunday though, must have been wednesday as I quite often took chicken sandwiches to school on a thursday, when I went for swimming lessons when I was about 10.

Never had pork because dad did'nt like it then, lamb was quite popular on a sunday and monday it would be cold lamb mash and veg never liked that meal so dry

ja...x