Toast with butter and sugar and other 'treats'

My mum would butter a slice of bread and dip it butter down in the sugar bowl ? unheard of now and why I've spent so long in the dentist chair!

Beetroot sandwiches were my mother’s speciality! We lived in a seaside town and we used to take them to the beach where they usually ended up with added sand!

I used to love salad cream sandwiches in white bread, My grandmother was the one who gave us bread with butter and sugar but it was never toasted.

We had sugar sandwiches. Treacle sandwiches too, although it was actually golden syrup. I had forgotten the rhubarb dipped in sugar. I was also very fond of cod liver oil and malt. Also Ovaltine, eaten by the spoonful, straight from the tin.

No wonder I needed so many fillings!

A 'piece' of bread & jam here in N.Ireland too. Plus you took your piece to school for lunchtime. My mum made us a cup of orange juice and put it in the freezer and we sat for hours with a spoon digging it out. No need for buying ice lollies of ice cream van, pokie van to us here lol

We would have a dripping sandwich but that was a real treat. After school I would have a ketchup or brown sauce sandwich. My favourite was a big chunk of raw potato dipped in sugar. I also liked nothing more than eating a couple of raw oxo’s they are not the same today.

I remember sugar sandwiches - delicious. Also cocoa mixed with a little milk and sugar, and consumed without adding hot milk to make a proper drink. National Health orange juice was lovely - but the bottle needed a good shake as it was half filled with sugar. When my frst baby arrived in the seventies I used Ostermilk, and the instructions were to add a teaspoon of sugar to the jug. I was horrified, and never did. Sugar featured so much in our lives.

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My mother used to mash together butter and treacle (black treacle to some, but to us just treacle) into a horrible brown goo with bits of yellow butter in. It was her treat, nothing on earth would persuade me to try it. It reminded me of a certain phrase of hers to something she didn't like the look of "Is it to eat, or has it been eaten?"

FarNorth, I used to love the marrow out of beef and lamb.

In 'the old days', you could get special marrow spoons!

Luckylegs

I had bread and butter with sugar all pressed into the butter! Yum! We also dipped rhubarb in sugar and had cocoa and sugar in a bag as sweets. Do you wonder I’ve got a sweet tooth?

Yes, I remember eating all of that as a child, there was never much in the way of pennies for us to buy sweets and like all children we had a sweet tooth.
I don’t eat sweets or chocolate now, and rarely as an adult anyway, even when younger.Where does a sweet tooth go??I imagine it roaming about looking for a suitable home.

DH has never been a fan of wet food i.e. gravy or custard. When he was a boy he always had sugar sprinkled on his Yorkshire Pudding instead of gravy. Occasionally he had golden syrup (known as treacle) instead.

Yorkshire puds were/are always served in the North as a starter to the main course and not with the meat and veg as is common elsewhere.

One favourite snack my Mum gave us was cream crackers, spread with a bit of strawberry jam and topped with a thin slice of cheese - usually Cheshire.

I remember the orange with a sugar cube in the hole and sucking the juice out ! My Mum used to make what we called a mixup ! It was anything sweet and dry like Horlicks, Milo, coconut, cocoa, sugar etc all mixed up and finger- dipping good ! ! She also used to make "war time marzipan" with soya flour etc. Ive got the recipe but havent made it .

I once saw my Gran sucking marrow out of a bone - I don't know if it had been cooked or not.
She was exclaiming how wonderful it was but I found the thought of it revolting.

Yes I remember the sugar on buttered bread and the raw rhubarb dipped in sugar. Another treat was an orange with a hole cut in the top and a sugar cube pushed down inside. You then sucked the juice and flesh of the orange out through the hole. Probably wouldn't work nowadays as the sugar cubes are quick dissolving not hard.

Mum used to give us whipped evaporated milk( from a tin)with sugar stirred into it , spooned over tinned fruit . It was a real treat I haven’t tried tinned milk for years .

HiPpyChick57

Redhead I remember my father dipping bread in the meat juice I used to think it was disgusting. One day while berating him for doing so he said have you actually tried it. Well of course he’d thrown down the challenge which I accepted and then after tasting it and finding it absolutely delicious we used to fight to get there first.?
I don’t do it now as I’m vegan ?

Same here.....dripping left to set in an old cup..spread the dripping with salt and pepper and the jelly was divine....

Shinamae

Eating raw sausages. ?‍♀️?

Yes My 2 brothers and I couldn't wait so hungry, but boy I could not do it now..........

Oh my....I thought this was just my memory..couldn't do it now though....think it was because, we were so hungry, couldn't wait for it to be cooked....

Oh reminded me....honey and marmite mixed on white bread.....

Yuck.

My brother liked marmite and I didn't. I was a bit miffed that he wasn't keen on the marmite & sugar sandwich I made for him, one time.
I had also made a marmalade & sugar sandwich for myself, which was just a bit too sickly.

Raw rhubarb straight from the garden, dirt wiped off under your arm and eaten straightaway, no sugar though. Also raw bacon rind, chewing all the fat off before giving the rest to the birds. Best treat of all was eating raw peas whilst shelling them for dinner.

paddyanne

blondie did you offer to swap your playpiece for hers? I quite often swapped my banana sandwich on plain bread for my friends cold toast.I do like a bit of toast buttered when hot and left to go stone cold ...even now

Oh no, I'd have gone hungry rather than eat sugar on a sandwich! I'd probably have been quite happy with my Marmite sandwich instead.

Here in N.Ireland they put stewed apple inside the potato bread. My dad loved it, toasted with loads of butter melting on it. He also ate a Tunnocks teacake squashed in between 2 slices of buttered bread. Yuk!

I still very occasionally have butter and sugar on toast and possibly my favourite when I make baps, is butter and golden syrup. OH and I always fight to get to the dripping first and we both like to scrape cake mixing bowls.

I have a mouth full of fillings

Grandmabatty I think you are correct, probably to soothe a sore throat. Much as I like butter and sugar, not just on their own!