Back in Time for Dinner

LOL, so did we, shame they were such good quality - it is still on the floor in my workshop.

But we liked them at the time. Fifty years from now our grandchildren's grandchildren will be looking at pictures of the houses of today and wondering how on earth anyone could have put up with the decor.

Utility stuff was of good quality - I wonder how many of those kitchen cabinets are still in daily use?

Utility furniture was made to government orders by some well known names, such as Waring and Gillows and Ercol.

It had to be made strongly, but using less materials than usual. x

Did anyone else have one of these?
Bel cream maker
You combined milk and melted butter and pumped it through from the top receptacle into the bottom, where it became cream, from which I sometimes used to make clotted cream. Just like the real thing!

Shysal I am deeply embarrassed to admit to having owned such an object.

Maybe people thought that Georgian or Victorian furniture was hideous at the time and hilariously old fashioned. Now they are valuable antiques. Is it possible that the furniture featured in this prog could be antiques of the future!

I had a cream maker on my Kenwood Chef - same method just electric!

I've met one of these sometime years ago, it looks familiar.
But the big idea it gives me now, is that I could make goat cream? If it works the same way....
I wanted ice cream last year and I can't drink cow milk - and yes I know I could send for goat cream but the carriage costs more than the cream!
Then I could make my own icecream....

You would need goat's butter as well as milk for the cream maker. Is there such a product available in the shops?

I am sure that our local Tesco sell goat's cream and butter

I can't get goat cream here. Butter, yes.

Goat's cream and butter are more difficult to produce than cow's because the milk is naturally homogenised. It's only recently that they've been available commercially.

I went through a phase of cooking whole chickens in the microwave at the start of the 80's. We used to paint ours with soy sauce to make it look roasted. It took half an hour rather than two hours.

I still use my Bel cream maker. I prefer the "home made" cream to the shop bought variety

The seventies' carpets made me smile, and not just because they brought back memories of the carpet my parents bought in that decade. I have an elderly maiden aunt (83) who lives quite a secluded life, and really has no idea at all of changing fashions. She decided quite recently (well, within the last five years anyway) that she needed to replace her very old lounge carpet. We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw the new one - it was straight out of the seventies! I have a sneaking feeling that some carpet salesman couldn't believe his luck having finally managed to offload a forty-year-old carpet that had been gathering dust in his warehouse. Either that or she's more on the ball than we give her credit for and it's actually the latest 'retro' style