Serving and saving salad

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've never encountered the bizarre 'scoop of mashed potato in a salad' recounted by Anna!

Oh, yes: served using ice-cream scoops (with a gizmo inside the bowl that made sure that nothing stayed stuck in the scoop) a strange substance made up of a grey liquid with lumps of uncooked potato: we used to drown it in "Salad Cream" to avoid getting even a hint of the flavour. In Winter, the salad was replaced by Fish Fingers (complete with bones) and tinned tomatoes.


I hope everyone has finished their lunch.

[Nick Armstrong]

lumps of potato... "Salad Cream"

Well, that's "potato salad" I suppose !!

[Nick Armstrong]

visits to the grandmother on a Sunday featured just that sort of combo. ....

Can't believe I forgot the tin of 'red salmon' (or was it 'pink salmon'?) which was always on the table too.

Not bad if you got a nice chunk but those crunchy vertebrae used to make my stomach turn...

(It woz Ferney's bony fish fingers wot reminded me! )

But them were good days!!

[Anna]

Can't believe I forgot the tin of 'red salmon' (or was it 'pink salmon'?) which was always on the table too. Not bad if you got a nice chunk but those crunchy vertebrae used to make my stomach turn...

Nothing wrong with tinned red salmon mashed up and put in sandwiches ..... but, tinned sardines have crunchy bones as well! We never had such horrors as Ye Olde Oak tinned ham or luncheon meat at home (and I never had school dinners so cannot comment on them), as I recall the protein element we had were either: eggs, grated cheese, smoked fish, soused herrings or rollmops and of course on Mondays in the Summer the remains of the Sunday joint, which was usually beef. We also had, from the Polish deli, giant pickled cucumbers which came either in sweet or sour with some variety of sliced sausage to accompany.

[mangerton]

Oh yes... visits to the grandmother on a Sunday featured just that sort of combo. For clarity, I take it you mean that the meal (not the salad itself) included the jelly...


Buttered white milk loaf from Marks and hot sweet tea accompanied (in many ways, my favourite thing, along with the pork pie and coleslaw)

And then as you say, fruit jelly containing tinned fruit - or sometimes just the tinned strawberries themselves, in their sugary syrup. With 'condensed milk' rather than cream (though sometimes the latter). But the jelly was better than the ghastly tinned fruit salad with slimy sickly juice and cubes of slippery apricot or peach and the odd cherry Put me off for life.

Afterthought: I've never encountered the bizarre 'scoop of mashed potato in a salad' recounted by Anna!

For clarity (and I hope you have all finished your lunch) the jelly and fruit were served (to quote Bernard Cribbins in Fawlty Towers) as an "integral part" of the salad.

I remember milk loaf from M & S. It was cylindrical in shape, so the slices were round.

I also remember a colleague who at canteen lunches would get a scoop of mashed potato added to his soup.

[amateur51]

Further evidence of milk bread ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/oct/26/milk-bread-recipes-dan-lepard

[mangerton]

Further evidence of milk bread ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...pes-dan-lepard

These look delicious. Now that I think about it, some of the recipes for my bread making machine require a small amount of skimmed milk powder. They're quite delicious too.

[amateur51]

These look delicious. Now that I think about it, some of the recipes for my bread making machine require a small amount of skimmed milk powder. They're quite delicious too.

Sounds good, mangerton. There are so many bread recipe variations. Are you happy with your machine? Care to share?

[Anna]

I'll have to have a look in M&S, but I do like a nice crunchy crust on my bread (perhaps, for Sunday High Tea, milk loaf was considered more genteel? Rather like bridge rolls?)

As for tinned fruit, the only ones I recall having at home were peaches (which were amazingly slippery and required chasing around the bowl with a spoon), tinned pineapple and mandarin segments encased in either lime or lemon jelly.

I recall being at a friends when dessert was served and being asked if I wanted cream? OMG, when it arrived it was tinned cream! I think I just about managed to swallow it, whereas evap milk was ok and sometimes we had that on fruit pies, there's a tinned cherry pie mixture which Mum used quite a bit to make a Sunday lunch pie for pud - that was my favourite

Sorry, we have wandered offtopic from salad to fruit and bread!

[Nick Armstrong]

perhaps, for Sunday High Tea, milk loaf was considered more genteel?

Quaite!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But them were good days!!

Made us t'men we are today.

[amateur51]

Made us t'men we are today.

I knew there had to be an eggsplanation

[Anna]

One last memory of afternoon tea (or it high tea?) Did anyone else have elderly Aunts who insisted on enough bread and butter being eaten before you were allowed to have any cake?

[umslopogaas]

Definitely, and not just aunts: my Mum insisted we ate some sandwiches before we could tuck into the chocolate sponge!

[mangerton]

Sounds good, mangerton. There are so many bread recipe variations. Are you happy with your machine? Care to share?

It was a Father's Day present a few years ago. Made by Morphy Richards. It came with a number of different recipes, and I tend to stick with two - one for sandwiches which is very good when sliced thinly - and the other a basic recipe which produces a deliciously crusty loaf, excellent with butter and jam. If there's any left, it also makes excellent toast. The machine has a timer, so you can awaken to the smell of freshly baked bread for breakfast. All in all a Good Thing, and an inspired present from Miss m.