Nottingham 'Haute Cuisine'

[rob237 89]

Childhood Food and Drink

1) Not Pikelets or Crumpets, but Pyclets:

"....Leigh's Gold Medal Pyclets. The rest of the world calls them crumpets.The batter is baked in a hoop on a hot griddle oven. This creates a flat circular disc, pale with a brown base and slightly golden top. Like oatcakes, they can be used for savoury or a sweet. They are toasted and buttered. It is a texture thing.There is a crisp surface where it is toasted and a soft and open texture into which the butter melts. Very succulent if you spread lashings of butter over them. Very nice with scrambled egg and salmon, marmite, cheese and jam. As a snack or as a main meal. Leigh's still sell their pyclets through independent bakers....."

2) That Famous Cheese:

"...In the mid 18th century, Barton [in Fabis] was becoming noted for the number of its dairies, and the cheese they produced. The Harrison family specialised in Colwick cheese, which they sold with their fruit and vegetables in Nottingham on Wednesdays and Saturdays. As well as sharing a stall in the Market Square, they supplied eminent local businesses including the Black Boy Hotel and King's Grocery Shop in Friar Lane. In 1928, they moved into the Central Market, and continued selling there until it closed.

Along with some other local traditions, cheese making has not continued in the village, and to the best of our knowledge, Colwick cheese has disappeared too. It is still well remembered by older residents, who recall it being similar to Brie in appearance and consistency, although to them far superior in taste!..."

3) My dog wouldn't eat them:

My dog wouldn't eat them....but as a pie addict, of many years standing, I endured 6 months in mourning at the closure of LA Sanderson's Bulwell pie factory.

Delivered daily to chippies around Nottingham and North Notts in their bright red van, complete with a large gravy vat to lubricate the eating process...

Cheers

Robt P.

[Limey 242]

There was a butchers at the corner of Shakespear Street and College Street in Long Eaton that sold faggots! You took your own bowl and would receive the number you required - plus gravy! We didn't get them very often but I remember them being delicious!

[katyjay 5,090]

My aunt worked at the pyclet factory. It was a seasonal job, who'dathunk there was a pyclet season? Kinda like grouse!

I remember Colwick cheese, if I was in town of a Sat when a teen, I had to go and get one from the old Central Market. It had a kind of crust to it [not like pastr!] that crinkled as you cut into it. We didn't have a fridge so we kept it in the meat safe, but you had to eat it within a day or two, or it was 'off'.

[katyjay 5,090]

I don't know if this is 'Nottingham' or not, but who remembers as a kid, having to eat bread and butter with a dish of tinned fruit and Carnation cream? You just couldn't get out of it, if you had the fruit you had to have the bread. I guess it was to fill us up. My husband's household was the same, and when we first got married, we ate our fruit without the bread. Heaven.

[Limey 242]

I don't know if this is 'Nottingham' or not, but who remembers as a kid, having to eat bread and butter with a dish of tinned fruit and Carnation cream? You just couldn't get out of it, if you had the fruit you had to have the bread. I guess it was to fill us up. My husband's household was the same, and when we first got married, we ate our fruit without the bread. Heaven.

Yep - I remember the canned fruit with bread and butter. On "special" days it was Hovis! We had ours with canned evaporated milk - which I never liked, so I just had the fruit. I still can't stand the taste of evaporated milk, and tea made with it is just plain terrible!

I think many of these "oddities" are left-over from WWII when a little food had to go a long way.

I kinda liked the fruit with bread and butter - I used to dip the bread into the syrup after I had eaten the fruit!

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

That was what we had for Sunday tea Katy!

Worrabaht narna sandwiches??

Or condensed milk sandwiches?

Wheatabix buttered and sugared?

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

Dinner, egg, bacon, sausage, chips and tomatoes with dry bread to dip in the tomato juice.

[katyjay 5,090]

With our tinned tomatoes we sometimes put sausages, or bacon, or liver with it and make a meal of it. [or all 3 if we're feeling frisky!] We also like tinned tomatoes on toast. Also beans on toast, we still eat that here. Hub sprinkles curry powder on his. The yanks don't know what they're missing. When you mention B on T they turn up their noses.

[rob237 89]

My time warp continues....

Most of the 'menu's' listed above remain, in one form or another, as my staple diet!

Returned online to read John's tinned tomatoes/dry bread post having

eaten...guess what...for my tea.

Unsure how I should feel about still eating 50's style.

Lacking a tin of American dried egg powder, washed down with Scott's Emulsion....

Cheers

Robt P.

[katyjay 5,090]

Yes, I ate butter and jam Weetabix, and nana sarnies too [still do if truth be told]

A friend at work used to eat orange segments in her sandwich. I know sugar sandwiched and cond. milk sandwiches were still very popular in the 50's. My dad loved peanut butter and marmalade in the same sandwich. On Sunday mornings, when mussels were in season, he'd cook them and bacon for his and my mam's breakfast. He'd thicken the mussel juice to pour over the plate. Yuk. My mum used to send me to the top shops on Broxtowe Lane for chitterlings [or chicklings I thought they were called] for her tea. I remember she put vinegar on them. Another yuk.

[Limey 242]

Wooo Hooo - 'nana sandwiches with sugar on them! I also loved crisp (Smiths) sandwiches, or cold potato sandwiches with salad cream on them!

Course, nowt beats a good chip butty! We came across two old boys in a local restaurant trying to teach the barmaid what chip butties were - it was hilarious!

[mick2me 3,033]

ANYTHING on a sandwich.

Pork Pie Sandwich,

Meat Pie Chips & Gravy Sandwich.

Fried Egg, Chips and Mash, with Ketchup in the egg yolk.

And the best of all... Uncooked cake mix

[lynmee 38]

On Saturdays,after watching Tommy Lawton and Jackie Sewell down the lane we used to have mussels too and when in season Bluebuttons with them.

Lynmee

[plantfit 7,569]

Ayup Lynmee,

Me dad used to love Bluies, he would have them with bacon for Saturday tea. I would go to a few spots I knew whilst out shooting, ( no you don't have to shoot them) and drop them off for him. The folks out here in Lincolnshire have never heard of them, but I know quite a lot of places near to me where to get them, so if they do become popular out here I could make a few bob.

Rog

[lynmee 38]

Hi Rog,if you know where Blueies are you con make a lot more than a few bob,they work out about 5or6£ a pound.

Lynmee

[katyjay 5,090]

I too loved chip butties, and fried egg sandwich. Also egg and chips you can't beat, especially dipping your chips in the egg yolk. I used to have a soft boiled egg with 'soldiers' too.

Nobody's mentioned drinks yet. I loved dandelion and burdock, and cream soda.

[Bip 88]

Drank gallons of Dandelion and burdock, American Cream soda, lime and lemon all from the Corona van that use to deliver to most peoples houses around where I once lived also there was the Redferns van too and no doubt others I don’t at the moment recall……Still like D&B but hate American Cream soda now…I wander why.

Bip.

[Bip 88]

Has anyone mentioned Spam fritters I use to have them for me breakfast at work with a piece of black pudding fried and a side order of fried bread dripping with lard..

Bip.

[Frank 13]

Spam fritters mmmmm.

You can still get fried spam sarnies up towards Manchester and all around there and I admit to indulging now and again when I'm up that way (for breakfast).

What about Camp coffee and condensed milk in your flask - it doesn't go off like proper milk does.

Me dad used to have tripe and onions ....yuk

And I used to love cow heal sarnies .... lovely thick clear jelly with pieces of meat spread real thick on home made bread, made in the oven next to the fire.

Anyone remember having your grannie put a hot paltice on the boil on yer neck? never did find out what was in the paltice

[radfordred 6,284]

Has anyone mentioned Spam fritters I use to have them for me breakfast at work with a piece of black pudding fried and a side order of fried bread dripping with lard..

Bip.

That's now on Thursdays Den .

I remember when the old fellow was a bit flush we used to get a leg of liver .

[katyjay 5,090]

I could never stand the smell of tripe and onions cooking. My mam liked brawn but it wasn't for me. I did like haslet in sandwiches though.

[bazza 71]

My brother in law used to bring us bluebuttons from Wollaton park golf course when he worked there.Also on the menu was venison or deers liver whenever the gamekeeper needed to shoot a buck or two.

YUUUUUUMO!!!!

Scouse buttys with HP sauce was always welcome.You could put chips on with it to make it even better.

Baz

[Stan 386]

...sterilised milk,in odd shaped bottles-had an aunt who never had anything other than sterlised milk-yuk !!! in tea yuk!!!

As for bananas I remember as a very young boy seeing them being loaded into store(complete with HUGE spiders) at Carlton road in about 1946/7 and wondering what on earth they were.

[katyjay 5,090]

As a teen, a treat for tea was soft roes on toast. I couldn't eat the hard roes though, too 'bitty'. Who remembers pobs, bread in milk, usually if you weren't feeling too good and not eating.

[Trafalger 1]

Shortly after the last world war and before sweets came of ration (probably 1949//50) confectionery was limited to a brown paper bag with sugar in the bottom in which you dipped a stick of fresh rhubarb. This was sucked until the rhubarb shedded into strings. Delicious at the time but I don't think I could fancy it now.