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Pineapple tarts
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Robert Ensor (bob)
master brummie
When I first left school I worked for Owens garage in Rubery but lived in Rednal no bus line so had to walk,
Me mum owned a grocery store and every morning we had the fresh bread delivered, Mothers Pride, Hawley's most morning the bread was still warm, along with the bread we had small tarts and cakes delivered from a company call Powell's ( C. E. Powell ? ),
The little pineapple tarts along with strawberry tarts with fresh cream in little foil pan were a summer time fav.
After making the delivery at mum's his next stop was in Rubery Village and if I was up I could catch a ride, he drove a moggy van with shelves in the whole rear and on all the shelves were those bakers trays full of tarts and fancy little cakes, he would say "get ya self some breakfast son", so every time I rode with him you all know what I chose.
So the best part if we did not sell all the fresh tarts and that we had them for after tea (evening meal ), so when I got home from work I would some times hide a couple of pineapple tarts so I could eat tarts for breakfast and tea.
Me mum owned a grocery store and every morning we had the fresh bread delivered, Mothers Pride, Hawley's most morning the bread was still warm, along with the bread we had small tarts and cakes delivered from a company call Powell's ( C. E. Powell ? ),
The little pineapple tarts along with strawberry tarts with fresh cream in little foil pan were a summer time fav.
After making the delivery at mum's his next stop was in Rubery Village and if I was up I could catch a ride, he drove a moggy van with shelves in the whole rear and on all the shelves were those bakers trays full of tarts and fancy little cakes, he would say "get ya self some breakfast son", so every time I rode with him you all know what I chose.
So the best part if we did not sell all the fresh tarts and that we had them for after tea (evening meal ), so when I got home from work I would some times hide a couple of pineapple tarts so I could eat tarts for breakfast and tea.
Nigel Edwards
Hotcrossman
Pineapple Creams . . . . surely they were Wimbush treats!
Robert Ensor (bob)
master brummie
Thank you Nigel pineapple creams !!, I tried to search for Powells the problem for me I live in the states so all the search engines always want to show US results along with some from England, and never put UK in a search engine in America we have a university here in Kentucky that rules.
Robert Ensor (bob)
master brummie
I wish at times I could drive to Brum, Maryt now your on the trail to use someone else's word "The Games a foot"
Maria Magenta
master brummie
I think I've seen these in Waitrose, but can't be sure. What I have seen there are blackcurrant tarts (Auntie used to buy them from M& S in the 60s and 70s), which were a layer of blackcurrant on the tart base, then a small circle of sponge on top, which was surrounded by butter cream, or some type of cream.
When we visited our Nans house in Manchester in the fifties we always had a black currant tart from a cake shop named Wimbush (I think) they tasted wonderful especially the imitation cream.
Maria Magenta
master brummie
I think we used to buy the pineapple tarts from Wimbush.
That was a weekend treat for us, bought from Wimbush on the 'new' parade in Sheldon. That and yard-long French bread sticks that Dad would rip off a good length and then stuff with butter from one end!
Jeannie
master brummie
Do they still have green sprinkles on top ,my mouth is watering
unfortunately no, just a chocolate drizzle pattern, but they are nice
Lady Penelope
master brummie
JeannetteM
master brummie
Marks and Spencer sell them too, 4 in a box, £2 a box, yummy. It’s hard not to eat the full box in one go
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