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Dripping and jelly on toast, I am salivating as I type. Just occasionally have it now, but have had plenty of it in my time. Sadly, these days joints of meat are bread for leanness, and seldom yield any real dripping

Julia in Derbyshire

I love American Cream Soda, still buy it now sugar free, and Dandelion and Burdock, too... its lovely looking at all your memories of food, I used to buy penny bags of broken crisps, also spuds in a bag off the fair, full of eyes,but that didnt matter and black peas, we used to go to a temperance shop when we were on holiday in Morecambe, nettle pop, burdock, it was wonderful.
then off to get a dish of welks and cockles with vinegar.....

another memory was picking field mushrooms, we had great big bagfuls, and hazel nuts which mother used to pack in salt and bury the tin in the garden ready for Christmas...damson and apple picking always had to run when the owner saw us. lol

Jean x

Annina.... ha ha ha .... me too.
Deanna X

Julia, I remember the bowl for the ice cream too.
My children loved that, they used to feel as if they had bought "ALL THE MAN'S ICE CREAM".
A Friday treat was, a bottle of lemonade and ice cream. ice cream first and then the lemonade poured on top... it fizzed up , and my little ones loved it. A straw was an absolute MUST.

Marilyn, I always made my pies with a top and bottom pastry, must have learned from my mum.

Annina, I used to do that sweet pie too.
I did it with syrup and breadcrumbs.
My ex MIL taught me that one.
Very nice with custard, although it is years and years since I made one.

Yes, and now I am in need of a nice sweet pud.
Deanna X

Beef Dripping on Hot Toast with plenty of Black pepper on it. Delish.Still do it, the toast infront of an open fire, great.**M**.

I hope you bl"""dy lot know that I have put on a stone just reading this thread!!!!!

Something I did for myself when I was a child was toast on an open fire.
done at the end of a fork, my knuckles used to get hot and red, but it was worth it.

We also had chestnuts done on the fire, had to be careful that we wern't hit by a chestnut flying out of the fire.

The suet steak and kidney pudding sounds great, really brings back memories.

T

I used to love my mums bacon and onion pudding and the cakes and biscuits she used to make were lovely anything she she used to make I always ate and cleared my plate. I also used to love my school dinners. She used to cook her own fish and chips and said she would not use a fish an chip shop but when I was little and used to go to brownies in the 40's if I had a spare penny or 2 would go in and buy a bag of chips but never told my mum.

Margaret

My birthday being in January, we were always away camping. One year we went up the coast to a small town and as we were out of bread we went to the local bakery about 11.30 to buy some, but were told it was still cooking, come back in half an hour. When we finally bought it we went to the beach and hacked off thick hunks of bread (it was impossible to slice as it was still hot) and put butter on it. The butter seemed to melt before it even reached the bread. Glorious! Fancy raving over bread and butter for my birthday, but it was something I have never forgotten.

Huia.

I am in the same age bracket as yourself. There is no wonder we can both remember Derbyshire school dinners so vividly. I can't say that I ever remember having a bad one.
The sweets you mention, I also remember by the same names.
Also, a small bag of sugar and a stick of rhubarb to dip in it.
In very early childhood I remember a family next to us that used to have sugar sandwiches. My mum used to say it would give them worms, but they ate them because they were poor. Well, that being so, they must have been destitute, as I know we were poor
Julia in Derbyshire

Julie, I too was brought up in Derbyshire, I'm willing to bet that all Derbys schools had the same recipies.

I'm 60 and proud of it , and enjoying my retirement.

Sherbert dips, caylie, liquarice wood tiger nuts, the list is endless.

Cocoa powder mixed with sugar in a brown paper bag to take to school.

MaryinSpain

Hock...Yummy.

now I fancy an Irish Dinner Boiled bacon and Cbbage (done in the same water) and potatoes bolied in their jackets.

And I'm supposed to be on a diet! I want to be a well toned Nan with no rolls of fat.

T

Sunday tea, when we bought a pint of fresh shrimps off the man with a handcart and had them with real bread and butter.
Shepherds pie made with minced meat from the joint was much nicer than fresh meat.
We also had fried herrings some times and I loved them. Never seem to see them now.

School cheese tart was always light wasn't iy?

Annina - I too loved that school dinner, but I bet mine was from years before yours.

Julia in Derbyshire

You've brought back more memories now.

The bakers was on my brothers way home from school, so it was his job to collect it. It always arrived with bites out of the corners.

My mum's quick tart was made with syrup poured over coconut on a pastry base.

School cheese tart, Ive never been able to reproduce and It was my fav school meal, next to hot mashed spuds with hot beetroot and hot salad cream.


Now my tummy is rumbling.

I remember cornflake tart. it was made with a light treacle poured on the cornflakes. Gran also used to make us rice krispie cakes which are simple

put rice crispies into a bowl pour melted chocolate over them ...mix, divide mixture into small bun cases and place in fridge till set.

There was also the nobake biscuit cake which was the same idea grind biscuits and pour on melted choc mix together put into a round 7" baking tin and place in fridge.
great for young children

Fave memory food steak and kidney pie mash and cabbage ( I hate cabbage ) but the memory of the cafe we used to go to is fantastic

We used to have TOP & BOTTOM Pie...!

Just the same as you make pasties but in a round dish with pastry on the bottom and on the top !

It went further than pasties.

We had it every Wednesday when my gran came for tea.......Hmmm Lovely

We had something at school made with Puffed Wheat and cocoa.I think it had butter in it too.

I have just had an Orio biscuit and the after-taste made me think of it.

Foreign holidays are in some ways to blame for the demise of the old British meals.

I make the old man buy a loaf from the bakers every week when he goes off on the bus in his wheelchair,it is one of his duties.This rarely gets used up but akes lovely breadcrumbs for Queen of Puddings and the tomato number.It would fill a treacle tart too if I ever made one,which I never will.Eugh!!!!

A bit before my time that one Deanna, but I do know it happened. As children, we always took our own basins and dishes to the chip shop for whatever were having, plus a little jug if we were having gravy. The same in Scotland if we were having scoops of ice cream to take home.
Another thing I remember from childhood regarding food. When Christmas was looming, my mother and her sisters always took their own basin to grandma's, for her to make the Christmas Pudding in for each family. She also made every family a Christmas Cake, and at Christmas, made dozens upon dozens of Mince Pies for each family. Nothing unusual there we thought, just her being matriarchal, and she did work in a bakery making celebration cakes. However, since doing my 'tree' I have found she came from a long line of bakers and master bakers.
Julia in Derbyshire