Food!

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Tue 15 Oct, 2013 7:38 pm

Home made brawn on homemade bread covered in brown sauce...mmm! Food of the gods for hungry kids.

shutthatdoor · Post by **shutthatdoor** » Wed 16 Oct, 2013 8:19 pm

My mums home made rice pudding with nutmeg and bread and butter pudding with birds custard. wow. Home made bonfire toffee, my Mums first attempt came out like fudge, she was in tears, but everybody loved it, all the kids came back for more and shunned the brittle darker toffee that the older more experienced neighbours had made, so the day was saved.While we are at it, we lived opposite a factory that made wooden legs, before the plastic ones were available, our bonfire was mostly wooden legs that had gone wrong. God help anyone who drove up our street on bonfire night and saw all the legs sticking out of it. The old furniture we were burning then would be worth a fortune on antiques roadshow today.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Wed 16 Oct, 2013 11:46 pm

shutthatdoor wrote: My mums home made rice pudding with nutmeg and bread and butter pudding with birds custard. wow. Home made bonfire toffee, my Mums first attempt came out like fudge, she was in tears, but everybody loved it, all the kids came back for more and shunned the brittle darker toffee that the older more experienced neighbours had made, so the day was saved.While we are at it, we lived opposite a factory that made wooden legs, before the plastic ones were available, our bonfire was mostly wooden legs that had gone wrong. God help anyone who drove up our street on bonfire night and saw all the legs sticking out of it. The old furniture we were burning then would be worth a fortune on antiques roadshow today. There always seemed to be an iron piano frame in the smouldering embers of every fire the morning after Bonfire Night.

shutthatdoor · Post by **shutthatdoor** » Thu 17 Oct, 2013 2:28 pm

True Johnny, and the cast iron bits of beds that the bolt went through, ha ha. Springs form sofas and chairs and door hinges.

majorhoundii · Post by **majorhoundii** » Thu 17 Oct, 2013 7:28 pm

tilly wrote: I remember my mum saying when she was young they used to buy a sheeps head boil it and eat the brains yuk. My gran used to eat roast pigs cheeks - they still had the teeth in. I recall when I worked in Cas. there was a pork butchers called Matthews that used to sell all the bits of pig - cheeks, trotters, chitterlings and something called "pigs bag" - I shudder to think!Speaking of sheep's head my mam asked me to go to the butchers and get one and tell him to leave the eyes in because it had to see us through the week!

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Thu 17 Oct, 2013 7:45 pm

A couple of pints of mussels bought in the fish row of Kirkgate market and eaten while listening to Saturday Night Playhouse on the wireless, no radios in those days. Great days or should I say nights.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 17 Oct, 2013 9:39 pm

Are periwinkles still collected on the east coast, boiled and eaten by taking them out with a pin? As a child in the early 1950s I recall collecting them at Cayton Bay whenever I was there on a caravan holiday. I also recall the fun putting them in a bucket and then spinning the bucket upside down and if done right the periwinkles did not fall out (centrifugal force, but I knew nothing of that then!).

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Thu 17 Oct, 2013 9:55 pm

majorhoundii wrote: tilly wrote: I remember my mum saying when she was young they used to buy a sheeps head boil it and eat the brains yuk. My gran used to eat roast pigs cheeks - they still had the teeth in. I recall when I worked in Cas. there was a pork butchers called Matthews that used to sell all the bits of pig - cheeks, trotters, chitterlings and something called "pigs bag" - I shudder to think!Speaking of sheep's head my mam asked me to go to the butchers and get one and tell him to leave the eyes in because it had to see us through the week! Aren't pigs cheeks the basis of one of Heston Blumenthals culinary masterpieces? How things change, eh?

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Thu 17 Oct, 2013 10:00 pm

I'm having pigs cheeks tonight, without the teeth though.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Thu 17 Oct, 2013 10:12 pm

Leodian wrote: Are periwinkles still collected on the east coast, boiled and eaten by taking them out with a pin? As a child in the early 1950s I recall collecting them at Cayton Bay whenever I was there on a caravan holiday. I also recall the fun putting them in a bucket and then spinning the bucket upside down and if done right the periwinkles did not fall out (centrifugal force, but I knew nothing of that then!). You can certainly buy winkles from the fish stalls along the Foreshore Leo but I couldn't be certain about the safety of collecting and eating your own these days.