Trevor S 2,003 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 And.......our cucumbers were the best!..............We grew our own at Radcliffe, a well as a lot more fruit and vegies. It was sold at Grandmas house in Holme Road, West Bridgeford ( she never lost the sales fever from her days on the barrows at the Old Vic and Sneinton. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 I still make the cumber/onion/vinegar/sugar mix for my salad days. SWMBO hates it but she is from Bolton so you can't expect any better, can you Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Simple pleasures are the best, such as: cucumber and onion, potted beef and one of my great 'comfort foods': a boiled egg sandwich. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 I love potted beef but can't get it where I live. I have to make do with very expensive Shippam's beef spread Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 I like my egg sandwiches with a generous helping of cress on them Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Compo, I buy 'potted beef' from the Co-op; assuming you have some still up there? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 We have a Co-op but they don't stock it. Scottish Potted Beef is beef chunks in jelly - yeuch Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 i think any were in nottingham used cucumber and onions in vinigar in the sixties used to play or surport verious darts teams around nottingham and more often than not we would get some in a dish along with the sandwiches in the half break. as for tinned fruit and bread and butter another sunday tea time nottingham thing made it feel that you were more full than just tinned fruit and if you were lucky a bit of cream or evap milk tinned of course. love it or hate it it was ussually what you got for sunday tea if you were posh you got real cream from the milk man Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Bread and Margarine in our house - couldn't afford butter (Cue the four Yorkshire men sketch). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 You had bread! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 You had 'Marj' ? We only 'ad grease from t' axle of t' old s**t cart, full o' flavour it were............................ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Cucumber and onions in vinegar was a favorite of my mum's too - and she grew up in Eastwood. Best if you let the cucumber and onion (with a little pepper) soak in the vinegar overnight! I love 'em on a (tinned) salmon sandwich. Malt vinegar is hard to get over here, and none of the pickle type things works properly (to my taste) with white vinegar! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Yep, cumber & onions at ours, every Saturday evening tea, with Tinned Pink Salmon (Red at Christmas) & salad...................salad at our house consisted of flat lettuce (usually limp, even when fresh!!) tomatoes, pickled beetroot, radishes & celery, not very adventurous but all home grown, except the celery & tinned salmon.................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 We would have sliced hard boiled egg with our salad too - and sometimes watercress. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 We would have sliced hard boiled egg with our salad too - and sometimes watercress. you knew how to live it up at your house!!................... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 I only recently bought an egg/mushroom slicer at Morrisons Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted December 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Cucumber and onion in vinegar, bread spread with cream cheese instead of butter. Yum. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 I remember buying me mum an egg slicer, probably for her birthday - it was a plastic base with slots in it, then a metal frame with wires to slice the egg - sortof like one of those cheese slicer things, but with a lot of wires! She ALWAYS used it! Worked like magic, and it would not surprise me if one of my sister's still uses it! Must be over 50 years old now! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 I have a food slicer - I call it my sharp knife 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 You had 'Marj' ? We only 'ad grease from t' axle of t' old s**t cart, full o' flavour it were............................ You were lucky! We'd ave been glad of a lick of the axle! And you try and tell folk these days and they won't believe you Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 We had to walk 19 mile before we could even see an axle. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 You were lucky. Our dad ate our legs for Christmas dinner one year - we couldn't walk anywhere. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 You had a DAD?????????????? What were they? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Axles? Luxury! We had to drag our carts around without any axles. The resulting friction was the only heating we had. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 You had friction! we could never have imagined that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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