If you have an old photo which would illustrate
this page, I would very much appreciate a copy.
Pat Cryer
As washing took all day, my mother couldn't do any significant cooking. For
dinner [lunch] when we came home from school, we always had cold meat from the
previous day's Sunday roast, served with bubble and squeak which was fried mashed
up cold vegetables, again from Sunday's dinner. We ate these with mustard pickle
that one of us children had to go and buy from the shop at the shop at the end
of the road. We had to take our own basin. It was sold from large jars and cost
1 or 2 pennies.
When we children came home at the end of the afternoon, tea,
as it was called, was simple and the same every day, washdays included: bread
and jam or bread and dripping and a slice of cake if any was left from the Sunday
baking.
This website Join me in the 1900s is also known as
Join me in the 1900's and is ©
Pat Cryer.
