Merthyr Imp
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Anyway, today I had a steak pie (Tesco), mashed potato, mushy peas and gravy (from granules).
Oh, I like to spoil her sometimes. In November we're going for a cuppa and a wagon wheel at Doreen's Café on the A57
Oh my god, that brings back awful memories.Conversely we used to have roast beef every Sunday. It's the other way round these days.
They don't make 'em like me anymore (thankfully).I'm not letting you anywhere near Mrs N. you Casanova!
Interesting about the wines - my dad has an old recipe book of 'country wines' and some of them are interesting to say the least. The two that stick in my mind are parsnip wine and banana wine! I've never tried any of them, sadly. He just makes beer now.Yes, before "mass produced" chicken (1960s?) it was something you rarely had, perhaps only at Christmas. I seem to recall you could buy a boiling fowl or a roasting fowl. I presume the former were old birds, perhaps those were past laying.
LIkewise, I remember there was mutton, I don't remember lamb.
My dad's mam was a cook before she married. In the 1911 census, she was Cook at Branston rectory. She used to make all sorts of wines from vegetables and hedgerow fruits. I seem to think it was a few years (if ever) before they became drinkable. They were drunk from a small glass, perhaps a sherry-type glass, not what you'd think of as a wine glass. I don't think "ordinary people" drank "dinner wine" with a meal in the 50s.
Interesting about the wines - my dad has an old recipe book of 'country wines' and some of them are interesting to say the least. The two that stick in my mind are parsnip wine and banana wine! I've never tried any of them, sadly. He just makes beer now.
We used to have a roast on Sundays. Then on Monday we'd have the left overs ie cold meat with bubble and squeak
Remember the song "Todays Monday" by the Scaffold?
One day it shall be recognised!!Given that your banana chutney is "not widely appreciated" I'd recommend staying away from the banana wine.
One day it shall be recognised!!
I thought Monday was washing day?
I thought Monday was washing day?
He (John Gorman) used to be on Tiswas. The one in the middle - Mike McGear - is a brother of Paul McCartney's.