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Stitcher
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Was ours the only household where we sometimes had treacle in our cup of tea because we had'nt got any sugar.
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Lynda Harvey
Brummie Born and Bred
I never drank tea. I don't even like it much now. In those days we used camp coffee out of a bottle.
Lynda
Lynda
motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
Trevor, we never had that but had golden syrup in cocoa which made it a too sickly for me - I never liked it. We always had some horrible sacherine tablets in tea if the sugar ran out. The only good thing about 'em was they went off like depth charges when you dropped em in. Somebody told me they came from coaltar thats why the tea tasted so bad afterwards!
Mike
Louisa
master brummie
I can remember having carnation milk in tea when we had no sugar or milk available and having it on jelly on Sundays sickly sweet in tea but smashing on jelly.
Do you remember Camp coffee, I think you can still get it but I thought that was awful, but felt so grown up drinking it.
Best thing I liked from the 50's to eat was a doorstep piece of bread spread with dripping from Thompsons on Aston Cross and a big mug of rowntrees cocoa for supper while sitting in front of the coal fire listening to the radio, everything in the world seemed cosy and right.
Second favourite was a sandwich spread with best Anchor butter and either a banana or hartleys jam on it.
Louisa
Do you remember Camp coffee, I think you can still get it but I thought that was awful, but felt so grown up drinking it.
Best thing I liked from the 50's to eat was a doorstep piece of bread spread with dripping from Thompsons on Aston Cross and a big mug of rowntrees cocoa for supper while sitting in front of the coal fire listening to the radio, everything in the world seemed cosy and right.
Second favourite was a sandwich spread with best Anchor butter and either a banana or hartleys jam on it.
Louisa
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Stitcher
Guest
I remember all of those, camp coffee. treacle, carnation milk and saccharine. I am so glad ours was not the only family like that. Treacle made the tea almost black.
How about pork dripping, or lard on pieces or when it was avaliable sugar on bread and marge!!
How about pork dripping, or lard on pieces or when it was avaliable sugar on bread and marge!!
S
Stitcher
Guest
Wendy, my teddy is just what I feel like doing to myself sometimes. I like him because he never asks for anything, never complains and he never laughs at me. I really think Maggieuk is the root of my troubles.
S
Stitcher
Guest
Yes I remember that as well, and mom made bannana cake with parsnips.
We must have been happy because we laughed a lot.
We must have been happy because we laughed a lot.
Mike Fisher
Billesley Boy
nothing quite like a condensed milk sandwich
Ray Barrett
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN R.I.P.
We had condensed milk in our tea.It's still used for tea in Malaya,but their tea is so good,it's better black.
Condensed Milk - 'hokey cokey' we called it. (God knows why; for I don't!) You knew where you were with a tin of condensed milk - no 'floaters' or gobs of sour cream if the milk had gone off. I tried it in my tea quite recently; clearly tastes change, it was vile! I still enjoy the occasional cup of Camp Coffee though, and it is lovely when served chilled. Even my teenage daughter drinks it; it's a sort of 'comfort' drink when she's feeling under the weather.
Arkrite
master brummie
Many people think " Camp" no longer available because supermarkets dont place it with the real coffee. I suppose being a chicory essence they place it with food flavourings.Must say I have not had it for quite a while.
When I was a kid in the fifties I do remember having Golden Syrup as a sweetener but mostly on porridge. Its very sweet taste never did hide the burnt flavour of my Moms horrible porridge. It was the same with the charred discs of batter called pancakes.
I loved sterilised milk in my tea but only my Gran used it . Had some weak insipid stuff marked lemon curd on the jar the other day. It was not as good as I remember Moorhouses version of the stuff.
Back to drinks I have reverted to Cocoa after many years of Drinking Chocolate which now tastes to sweet. I mix it with coffee creamer powder and add boiling water.
When I was a kid in the fifties I do remember having Golden Syrup as a sweetener but mostly on porridge. Its very sweet taste never did hide the burnt flavour of my Moms horrible porridge. It was the same with the charred discs of batter called pancakes.
I loved sterilised milk in my tea but only my Gran used it . Had some weak insipid stuff marked lemon curd on the jar the other day. It was not as good as I remember Moorhouses version of the stuff.
Back to drinks I have reverted to Cocoa after many years of Drinking Chocolate which now tastes to sweet. I mix it with coffee creamer powder and add boiling water.
maggieuk
The Fairybrain of Brum
I remember that so well it was horrible ..Hated it in tea
Stitch ya should have had more ..sweeten ya up a bit
S
Stitcher
Guest
Maggie, what does a man have to do to stop you being so hateful. I always try to be nice to you but, oh I don't know. Tommy, my wife and I will take you out for a slap up meal if you get her sectioned and put away.
My appologies to other members for this.
Did any of you have to drink the water the cabbage was boiled in??
My appologies to other members for this.
Did any of you have to drink the water the cabbage was boiled in??
Ray Barrett
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN R.I.P.
I still drink cabbage water...with lots of pepper in it.
Louisa
master brummie
My mother used to make gravy with our cabbage water with a pinch of gravy salt, an oxo and some cornflour.
I can remember being given the cabbage stalks to eat after the green bits were put in the sucepan to cook.
On washdays I used to get a piece of bread with apple slices sprinkled with sugar for being good and looking after my siblings while the work was being done.
Louisa
I can remember being given the cabbage stalks to eat after the green bits were put in the sucepan to cook.
On washdays I used to get a piece of bread with apple slices sprinkled with sugar for being good and looking after my siblings while the work was being done.
Louisa
S
Stitcher
Guest
Every time someone adds to this, it brings back more memories. Cabbage stalks, ug and gravy made with oxo uuggh. On the other hand, if you are old now, you probably had all these delicacies and today people are being told they will die very young because their eating habits are killing them.
Ray Barrett
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN R.I.P.
Hey Stitch,
I still use cabbage stalks,put them in the freezer until we have a stew,chop them up and throw them in the pot...lubberly jubberly.
I still use cabbage stalks,put them in the freezer until we have a stew,chop them up and throw them in the pot...lubberly jubberly.
S
Stitcher
Guest
Us too Ray. How about sprout stalks. Cut them into two inch pieces and take the outer hard skinn off by standing a piece on a firm surface and cutting a sliver off the outside edge. do this all the way round then cut the stalk into matchsticks. Once the outside is removed they cook quite quickly.
Lard sandwiches and salt - yum-yum! Ok, not so good as proper 'beef dripping' but still neat.
We had porridge every single morning until I was eight years old.....and I don't mean the creamy, sweet variety either, it was grey sludge flavoured with salt. I developed such an antipathy to the stuff that I couldn't swallow it...I chewed at it until it disintegrated and/or died a natural death! Then one day my stomach rebelled, and I suffered my first ever experience of 'projectile vomit' - as did everyone else in the kitchen that morning! My mother was not best pleased, but I didn't have to eat it again, so it was worth it. I rediscovered porridge just a few years ago...but mine IS creamy and sweet!
Graham
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Only the other day I 'blanched' the green leaves from a cauliflower and put them in the freezer, I use them in all sorts of dishes, bubble and squeak, oriental wok fries ETC.
S
Stitcher
Guest
Graham, we do that as well. My friends think I am a miser but it is not about money is it. I do still enjoy plenty of these things members have posted including Camp Coffee.
A
AnyaDarr
Guest
I hardly dare to tell Sticher that my father was an immigrant into this country in 1948 being an Armenian from Palestine and my mother was the typical English Rose with a voice like Celia Johnson. (No one speaks like that anymore!)
He used to get his relatives to bring over huge bags of 'proper' ground coffee sometimes with cadomon seeds in, that made a really strong brew. Lots of sugar and black and thick. Also big boxes of crystalised fruit, piataschio nuts and turkish delight. My friends used to think this was very strange and exotic and now you can buy them everywhere. He wanted Olive Oil to make his salads as he was a very good cook but was most perplexed when you could only buy it in the chemist for medical purposes and as for garlic, he had to go to Harrods or Selfridges Food Hall to get it and it cost a fortune!
He used to get his relatives to bring over huge bags of 'proper' ground coffee sometimes with cadomon seeds in, that made a really strong brew. Lots of sugar and black and thick. Also big boxes of crystalised fruit, piataschio nuts and turkish delight. My friends used to think this was very strange and exotic and now you can buy them everywhere. He wanted Olive Oil to make his salads as he was a very good cook but was most perplexed when you could only buy it in the chemist for medical purposes and as for garlic, he had to go to Harrods or Selfridges Food Hall to get it and it cost a fortune!
S
Stitcher
Guest
Hello Darr, you will never know what you missed by having all that good food. Ha Ha
I was taught how to make indian tea with the cardomon pods and several powders years ago. Although mine is not as good as what The Raj Doot restaurant serves, it is quite nice and is a pleasant change to normal tea.
I was taught how to make indian tea with the cardomon pods and several powders years ago. Although mine is not as good as what The Raj Doot restaurant serves, it is quite nice and is a pleasant change to normal tea.
