Food!

[headingleylad]

Yorkshire Pudding with Sage and Onion mixture in the puddings with lashings of thick gravy.Cheese, tomato and Egg boiled together in a pan and eaten on toast.Finney Haddock (Smoked) boiled in milk.Left over meat minced and made into rissoles with onions and boiled potaoes and fried, better than any McDonalds!Sago Pudding, you dont see it any more.Sausage Rolls made with proper Sausage meat.Fish and chips fried in dripping, not oil.Sweet Mincemeat Roly Poly baked in the oven. I remember when I was a kid, my mother opened a tin of fruit and found a dead spider in it, my Father sent the tin back to the manufacturer, and about 3 weeks later a large box of food came back from the manufacturer, and in it was packet soup, packets of dehydrated meals, that my Mother had not seen before or had never purchased before. We tried all these foods which I did not enjoy and still dont. You cant beat home made food!

[majorhoundii]

I remember eating tripe. Unless you put vinegar and pepper on it didn't taste of anything. It was supposed to be very good for you though.I also remember the pea and pie shop, at the bottom of King Street in Morley. I wonder if there are any left in Leeds? My mother had some funny ideas - we'd have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, and, wait for it, 'ash on erm Ash Wednesday. She was from Hemsworth, perhaps that explains it!We also saved the fat from the Sunday joint - we called it "mucky fat"I also remember when I started work I had to fetch the pies from Greens on Queen Street in Morley on Saturday mornings. They were just out of the oven at 10 o' clock, and were still warm, I used to go on a bike and balance the two carrier bags on the handlebars in order to keep the pies upright, to avoid losing the gravy. Greens are long gone. Thirty years ago they had four shops in Morley and declined to a market stall and then disappeared entirely. The pork and stand pies were to die for. You had to reserve one at Christmas.

[shutthatdoor]

From being 16 to 19 years old, I worked in a Pork Butchers in Armley. It was one of those places that bragged about using every part of a pig "from the oink to the tail". And they did!The butchery prepared all the meat products and the bakery side prepared all the pastry to wrap around it in various guises. From the standard pork pie and stand & long pies to cornish pasties, sausage rolls, meat pies etc. On a friday afternoon we would prepare pressed pig cheek, tongue, trotters, chitterlings etc. for the Saturday morning customers who followed this weekly established sales ritual. At Christmas we fulfilled all the orders and sales for stand pies and long pies. All hand raised on wooden moulds with hot pastry. The Christmas queues would go out of the shop, 100 yards down the road and around the corner onto Theaker Lane. We always worked at least 16 hour days in the week and a half up to Christmas.This was just before the age of supermarkets getting into mass meat sales. I seem to remember most of our customers seemed to be older, but bearing in mind my tender age at the time, everyone seemed older. I suppose the point is; I can still tell a well made pie, pork or other. There are not that many about with mass production today.

[skippy]

tilly wrote: Hunslet Sue wrote: Instant Whip and tinned fruit salad for pudding on a Sunday night after our big sunday lunch. Hi Hunslet Sue how far are you going back if you don't mind me asking.What part of Hunslet do you come from? hi sue, I have brilliant memories of hunslet, I lived on low road our house looked onto the billiard hall I lived in that house till I was 9 years old then we got a house in pepper st. next to my gran & granddad. I have wonderfull memories of all the dinners and teas my mum and gran made. we were all poor in those days but we were all healthy. those days in hunslet were the best of my childhood.

[raveydavey]

Touched on earlier, but dripping and bread, aka drip bread.Dripping could be had in two varieties - the posh stuff with the white fat separated on top of a layer of the delicious brown jelly, or 'mucky' where it was all mixed up together.'Mucky' dripping was best, spread thick on white bread and generously sprinkled with salt. Saxa table salt for added authenticity. If you were lucky there might be a bit of meat off the joint in the dripping for an bit of extra flavour.Would give the modern nutritionist a heart attack, but tasted blooming lovely.Lots of pubs would put big plates drip bread on the bar on a Sunday lunchtime, along with quartered pork pies or cocktail sausages to put the masses on until Sunday dinner was ready at home. Another tradition that has all but vanished.

[tilly]

skippy wrote: tilly wrote: Hunslet Sue wrote: Instant Whip and tinned fruit salad for pudding on a Sunday night after our big sunday lunch. Hi Hunslet Sue how far are you going back if you don't mind me asking.What part of Hunslet do you come from? hi sue, I have brilliant memories of hunslet, I lived on low road our house looked onto the billiard hall I lived in that house till I was 9 years old then we got a house in pepper st. next to my gran & granddad. I have wonderfull memories of all the dinners and teas my mum and gran made. we were all poor in those days but we were all healthy. those days in hunslet were the best of my childhood. Hi skippy I lived at the back of The Hunslet Engine Company just off Pearson Street in fact the Engine Company wall was at the top of our street it was the same in all the streets off Pearson Street. Factorys were all around us not so now all long gone.I often ask myself why have we lost all of this industry I would love to know the answer could it be lack of investment if so in my eyes that'is a crime its no wonder there are no jobs for so many people now. Hunslet was a place known all over the world for it products, a place to be proud to have been brought up in.

[simonm]

School dinner Chocolate pudding with green mint custard Mmmmmmmmmmm

[EYRIE]

Our school chocolate pud came with pink custard and it tasted like ordinary custard. Does anyone remember sausage pie or parsnip chips from school dinners? Urgh!

[BarFly]

My nursery school served beetroot with everything. You'd have bubble and squeak with beetroot, or fish and chips with beetroot... etc,Oddly, I still quite like beetroot but I wonder who from "The Beetroot Board" paid off the school to use so much.    

[EYRIE]

What on earth was the tomato gravy they served with spam fritters??