Family meals "We would all eat together as a family at 5 o’clock. It was more like a dinner than a tea. My father was a meat porter so he would start work very early in the morning and finish early. My mother would cook stews. She would also make a roly- poly bacon suet pudding which I didn’t like because I don’t like meat. My mother would serve me meat but I would give it to my brothers or give it to the dog if he was under the table." Jean |
Egg and Beans on Thursdays "My mother would make steak and kidney pudding or as you said a bacon pudding except Thursdays cos Thursdays the money had run out so we would have egg and beans or whatever was available. Sunday was always a roast dinner and that was a day we always had a pudding. Otherwise you didn’t get a pudding or a sweet. If there was any cake available you would have a bit of cake or otherwise you didn’t get it." Frances |