Milk bottle tops

You can still get Minadex. When my DC were young I used to give it to them too when they had been poorly. Full of iron and vitamins, did the job beautifully.
Virol - lovely, big spoonfuls straight from the jar. My brother & I used to sneak into the larder where it was kept in a huge jar on the tiled floor and steal a few spoonfuls!
My Mum used to say that the orange juice went very well with her gin....

Minadex tasted orangey - nice; Virol yukky! Dad used to bring us orange juice in bed in the morning. Well, the butler went off to the war...

Scott's emulsion. [horror]

Yuk! I'd forgotten about that - disgusting!

What is Scott's emulsion jingl ?

I remember that after having scraped the ice off the bedroom window and hurriedly dressing, finding the milk bottles on the doorstep. The top half had turned to ice and the foil cap was sitting on the top! Winters were colder then!
I always loved milk and used to run home from school in the summer and drink a whole pint straight from the fridge.

Harrigran, it was a thick creamy-white liquid that tasted indescribably horrible, and was supposed to build you up (?!)

If you never encountered it as a child, be glad.

It never had this effect on me!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QNiVjVxgs

Here in NZ, as a child we were given Lanes Emulsion by the spoonful! It was very thick, very white and very vile. Large bottles (like flagons) were kept under the kitchen sink and we kids despised the stuff. Maltexo malt was good though, very drippy off the spoon if you weren't careful.

Was anyone else given Bengers Food drink (revolting) when they were ill? Hated the stuff. A piece of dry toast and water would have been preferable.

Bagitha No, managed to avoid Bengers! Does anyone remember Robaleen (was that how it was spelt?). It was malty, had a special long spoon and was sticky and gorgeous! It was kept on the sideboard and I often sneaked an extra spoonful!

Syrup of Figs - ugh!!!

I had most of those things, Virol, Minadex,cod liver oil and malt, hated them all. Then mum would give me a teaspoon of butter dipped in sugar to take the taste away!! Or, my favourite, condensed milk, yum.
I can't have got much of it as I still have all my own teeth!

Condensed milk - one of my favourites, it still is! It was a treat to be allowed to finish off the tin. For a while it was also available in tubes and we used to take these to school with us sometimes.
Condensed milk sandwiches - anyone else have those. I suppose we were active enough in those days to get away with things like this

yogagran my hubby was only talking yesterday about how he loved condensed milk! he used to take a tin to the pictures with a spoon...apparently he took lid off day or so before to orm a crust!!! (he is a lot older than me ) lol

We used to have sugar butties!

biker - the crust that formed when it had been in the fridge for a day or so (if it got the chance!) - lovely!

biker - the crust that formed when it had been in the fridge for a day or so (if it got the chance!) - lovely!

Sorry - thought the 'pooter had frozen up and pressed the "post" button twice in desperation

I hate condensed milk, but when I had my first baby there was a table on the side of the tin for making babies bottles up, so she was weaned onto condensed milk, and loved it, but it didn`t work for baby number 2, she kept throwing it back at me, so I gave up, never used it again after that.

I still love condensed milk...but try not to buy it!
We used it like jam on bread, lovely.

One Christmas I had a whole tin in my stocking, also a tin of sardines - I ate both of them on Xmas morning, and guess what, I was sick.........

yogagran you are posh if you had a fridge to keep your opened condensed milk in. I did not get a fridge until 1969.

We had a gas fridge on legs, could never understand how a gas fridge could possibly keep things cold

Isn't it wonderful (and typical of us) that a thread that started with milk bottle tops has migrated to fridges? My parents acquired a Rayburn solid fuel cooker in the '50s and had to buy a fridge to keep perishables cold! Said fridge lasted over 40 years.

Yes I remember vile Virol and the cod liver oil both totally disgusting, and something called dinnifords. No idea what that was about. But I also remember collecting rose hips for syrup and picking the young shoots of nettles for nettle soup and young sorrel for 'omelette a le cure' (can't do accents on this thing) mother was French.