The past is a different country. They do things differently there.

[ozlady]

I did stuffed hearts once. I had a full scale family rebellion on my hands!

[LizzieW]

We must be a very odd family.  OH and I had faggots tonight.  We love stuffed hearts, as did my children when at home.  Strangely, my youngest son, when at Uni, rang and asked me for the recipe for Devilled Kidneys, and the same week, my eldest son in US, sent me an e-mail asking for the same recipe.

Liz

[indiapaleale]

Me Ma came to visit me in about 1987 and we made a pressed tongue....I was dying for a lovely salad with tongue and crusty bread.

The kids were at school while we skinned it and boiled it.....but just as we were stuffing it into a small mixing bowl to be pressed......my (then) 11 year old came bouncing in through the kitchen door!

Yikes....we shoved it into the cupboard so that she wouldn't see the offending offal!

She went away....thank goodness...and we completed the tongue process....with gelatin. It was pressed with a couple of large books and a brick......and when we had it for tea a few days later.....my 11 year old loved the salad with "beef." And never had any idea of the origin of said beef!

I still love tongue.....and all the other yucky bits......

[indiapaleale]

Ankerdine.....

Oh ....you know what?....we were born in the same maternity hospital....Yes...the Ivanhoe!

Good heavens......what a small world!

I was raised in Ward End........and the sweetshop was opposite the Fox and Goose.....and and and.......yes sweets were on the ration until about 1953ish.......I remember making a pig of myself on chocolate for about a week after it came off the ration.....but my favourite was aniseed balls.

Re the coal man......::::

Me dad was a coal merchant.......but before he owned the business he worked hauling coal to the customers in Aston and Balsall Heath........he used to tell us wonderful stories of customers who had their coal delivered in the bath tub......the living room!.....the stairway.

Funny old times!

[Stumped!]

What was the address of the Ivanhoe?
My birth certificate says 19 Sherbourne Road, Acocks Green.
Is it the same place?
Peter

[ridban]

I've really enjoyed reading all the memories that my original post sparked!

Don't half make you feel old, don't it!

fruit-picking 'holiday' in March, Cambridgeshire.

I used to do that as well, Cambridgeshire being the home of Hartley's jam. Also pea picking and potato picking. Does that still happen, or is it all automated now? At the time, it seemed great to have the money.

My son asked me if they had computers when I was young, and then stopped and thought for a minute.....and then he said did they have electricity when you were young?!

Well, yeah, son, they had electricity, but when I think about it, they didn't really have computers like they do now. I had a Commodore Vic 20 which had a 5k ram, which you could upgrade to 40k with an add on cartridge. Imagine!!

How things have changed!

Linda

[Ecneps]

Actually now I come to think about it, it was in Fridaybridge, not March, think we went into March to the pub in the evening although there was a club & "entertainment" at night at the camp - wonder if they still do those 'holidays' 

Barbara

[Gadget]

 

She's rambling again - put it down to our age 

[Ecneps]

I'm only 18 on the inside though  (she dreams......)