Loved to twist the top off a small one and spread some Lurpack and take a bite, makes me think of summer.Bob,just asked the good Lady,she said a Cottage loaf.My favorite was an uncut Tin loaf .2 nice thick slices some cheese and DADDYS SAUCE
Hmmmmmmm who ever said English food was boring.The top of a cottage loaf has to be very burned to be at its tasty best. There is no substitute for this with butter, a decent cheese and pickled onions.
I think you`ll probably find it was the French.Hmmmmmmm who ever said English food was boring.
I miss bread the good gear I grew up eating, Mother's Pride, Hawley's a tin loaf something you could make a real sarnie out of with out it falling apart
The bread we get here if you make a bacon and egg sarnie with HP falls apart you have to use both hands to hold it almost cradling it.
What was the bread called that was round that had a smaller round on top, it also came in a small version and I recall them being on a plough man's .
Have to ask what was the best thing before sliced bread ?
Just had Hovis brown toast... ah it were rite tasty
oldMohawk, oh how I remember those old coal fires.....we had more than one, but only the one in the kitchen and at Christmas in the front room were they ever lit! I remember too the frost on the inside of my bedroom windows and the leaky hot water bottles.One childhood memory I have is of my bedroom which was the smallest in the house. It's window looked out on our quiet road on the Beeches Estate but if I looked out of that window now I would see the M6 Motorway. The room was only 7' x 6' so a single bed took up most of the space.
Very early memories are of being woken up, rushed out of bed and taken to the garden shelter because the air-raid sirens had sounded. A small incendiary bomb did hit the house one night but landed in mom and dad's bedroom and my little bedroom was untouched.
Childhood illnesses in those days usually resulted in being confined to bed for a week or more but when I had Scarlett Fever I spent six weeks generally confined to the room reading 'Just William', 'Worzel Gummidge' books and 'Rupert' annuals. It led to a life long love of reading and I was best reader in the class when I went back to school.
With only coal fires downstairs it was a very cold room and I remember waking up to see the inside of the windows completely covered with white patterned ice. Later in my early teen years I used to plug a one bar electric fire into the light socket and sit with it under the sheets to warm the bed !
I somehow found space to build short wave radios and model aeroplanes in the small room and remember late nights lying in bed listening to amatuer radio folks talking from the other side of the world ... a novelty back in those days.
I had the little bedroom over the stairs too. Unfortunately various items from previous houses hadn't yet found a home and the room also was a store for all those items needed for decorating, like step ladders.One childhood memory I have is of my bedroom which was the smallest in the house.
We still do that with the electric oven now.My nan would light the gas oven and leave the door open to keep warm too.
Leaky caravans too with water running down the inside of the window. At least we had a holiday!Well... My sister says I was a strange child, haha, she says what child likes doing the odd things you did!
I remember ... loving ... cleaning out and laying the coal fire in the back room with the screwed up paper, kindling and the bits of coal, cleaning out mums glass cabinet, placing all the glasses and special coronation cups in to be washed, wiping the shelves etc, I just loved it.
The stove top was another thing I liked cleaning haha, just to stand back and see it sparkling.
The garden was another job I enjoyed I would weed a section of garden at a time, all these things were things i liked doing , it satisfied me to see what I had accomplished.
I think I was a strange child haha
Leaky hot water bottles and frosty windows definitely a memory of mine too...
Thanks for the memories.
Wendy