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Describe Saturday teatime when you were a child?
Mam would have been baking all day, making all the food for the next week and my sister and I would have been helping her by the time everything was bagged, in the freezer/tupperwares and the kitchen cleaned it would be about four o clock.
Tea was an hour or two later and was a Do It Yourself Kit. Basically, you went into the kitchen and helped yourself to whatever you fancied, usually, sandwiches, cakes, scones, rock cakes, biscuits … basically we ate what we’d just cooked then we’d sit down and watch the footie scores come in.
We bairns would sit quietly and let Dad check off the pools coupon because we knew that Seaside Special, Doctor Who and for Mam, The Generation Game was coming up afterwards.
Ahhh, happy days.
ohh yeah, the wrestling and the snooker. Dad would ‘bribe’ us to be quiet by getting us to pick our favourites. Mine were Big Daddy and Hurricane Higgins.
If we had an egg, my Mum would make a cake on the Radiation Gas cooker.
For tea there was always a clean, starched white damask cloth on the table.
Bread & butter if there was any left from the butter ration (I think it was 2 oz a week for an adult) – otherwise it was Marg; we might have bread and butter with watercress sometimes (which I made into sandwiches), and a slice of the cake.
Ready-sliced bread had not been invented then, by the way.
Rarely my Aunt who worked at the Bristol Aeroplane Company would somehow have “found” iced cakes – probably on the Black Market – we never asked (known now as fondant fancies) and we might have one of those.
Big pot of tea – but only half a teaspoon of sugar because of the rationing. Occasionally, if Mum had been lucky to get some sugar in the summer we might have home-made blackberry jam on bread (but not allowed butter).
No problems with obesity during the War years.
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