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Toast with butter and sugar and other 'treats'

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Grandmabatty Fri 26-Feb-21 11:20:02

My dd asked me this morning if I was ever fed this as a child and it took me back. My grandmother would give me this, I'm sure thinking it was a treat. I loathed it. Dipping rhubarb in a bag of sugar was another. Dd remembers her grandmother,my mum, giving her toast with butter and sugar. It's just as well I didn't know! I'm assuming it was because during the war and after butter and sugar were in short supply. Did anyone else eat this? Or indeed other unhealthy treats?

nadateturbe Fri 26-Feb-21 15:22:50

Communion cocoa?

When I stayed at my granny's I got a spoonful of malt every day. Delicious. And Granda would go to the corner shop and buy me a chocolate mallow- with jam in the centre and a little bottle of orange juice. (Suki I think)

Grandmabatty Fri 26-Feb-21 15:32:36

I remember the spoonful of malt which followed castor oil to keep me regular! Some interesting treats mentioned.

paddyanne Fri 26-Feb-21 15:35:46

My auntie used to come for a cuppa every morning when I was around a year old.She always brought me a ring doughnut ,right up until I started school..I have to avert my eyes when I see them in a shop lovely dark sugary things that they are .
Another Auntie brought an orange every day...I dont feel the need to avoid them .Strange that .

Grandmabatty Fri 26-Feb-21 16:11:07

Paddyanne I used to go ice skating when younger and the highlight was the warm, freshly made doughnuts!

Blondiescot Fri 26-Feb-21 20:03:42

I never had a particularly sweet tooth as a child, but I can remember a classmate at primary school who regularly had sugar sandwiches for their "playpiece" - the sound of them crunching into it used to set my teeth on edge!

midgey Fri 26-Feb-21 21:02:56

I used to love salt sandwiches. Sugar sandwiches, dripping on toast. My dad's favourite was ‘thunder and lightening’ only ever happened in the summer when there was home made butter and lots of it, syrup and butter mixed together! Oh reminded me....honey and marmite mixed on white bread.....

paddyanne Fri 26-Feb-21 21:39:01

blondie did you offer to swap your playpiece for hers? I quite often swapped my banana sandwich on plain bread for my friends cold toast.I do like a bit of toast buttered when hot and left to go stone cold ...even now

grannyticktock Fri 26-Feb-21 22:38:40

Our treat for Sunday breakfast was soft brown sugar on hot buttered toast. We also liked potato bread lightly toasted and then spread with butter and sugar - we would roll it up into a cone shape and the hot sugary butter would trickle out.
No wonder my teeth are such a mess.

Blondiescot, I had forgotten all about the word "playpiece" for decades, but that's what my ( Scottish) mother called it. She also had a word for the biscuit we took to eat after we had been swimming in the sea or unheated pool - we called this our "chittery bite", as we ate it to stop our teeth "chittering".

Blossoming Fri 26-Feb-21 22:59:08

‘Sugar butties!’ was a euphemistic exclamation. I ever realised they were actually a thing!

Luckylegs Fri 26-Feb-21 23:28:15

We actually called them sugar butty cakies. I don’t know if that was a northern name for them.

Shinamae Fri 26-Feb-21 23:38:25

Eating raw sausages. ?‍♀️?

Lexisgranny Fri 26-Feb-21 23:42:35

I loved condensed milk. We too used to have it swirled on the top of porridge, but if I could get the kitchen to myself I loved it on a heavily buttered piece of fresh bread........bliss!! Funnily enough I don’t think of it now, though I’m sure I saw toffee condensed milk, in a supermarket. I might be hallucinating, I haven’t been in a supermarket for nearly a year.

Kate24 Fri 26-Feb-21 23:51:39

My friends mum would put butter with sugar on top and put it under the grill or in the oven as an after school treat. Wonderful..

Kate24 Fri 26-Feb-21 23:52:30

Oops butter sugar on white bread then grill.

sandwichgeneration Sat 27-Feb-21 10:40:18

My father told me that when he was a child during the 1920s, he used to love butter balls coated with sugar - no bread, just the butter!

henetha Sat 27-Feb-21 10:44:29

I often had sugar sandwiches for tea. And had a spoonful of Cod Liver Oil and Malt every day because I was too thin.

Flakesdayout Sat 27-Feb-21 10:47:11

Sandwichgeneration: I remember my mum giving me butter balls coated with sugar. Could not eat them now. And I remember sugar sandwiches. I still have banana sandwiches at least once a week.

winterwhite Sat 27-Feb-21 10:47:45

I'm reminded now of cinnamon toast that an American friend used to make far more recently. Did that have sugar as well? Probably.
I remember a single mars bar lasted a week, carefully cut into slices by our mother after lunch.
Most children were as thin as rakes in childhood and I think our periods maybe started later? I was a good 14 and don't think that was thought odd.

DC64 Sat 27-Feb-21 10:57:23

My grandad used to have his Yorkshire puddings for dessert with sugar on - maybe a Welsh thing?! ... And my Nan would always make us fried bread from dripping!

readalot Sat 27-Feb-21 10:59:30

We used to have condensed milk in a sandwich and pork fat with a bit of salt on a slice of bread. I loved it but I wouldn't eat it now

HiPpyChick57 Sat 27-Feb-21 10:59:44

Redhead I remember my father dipping bread in the meat juice I used to think it was disgusting. One day while berating him for doing so he said have you actually tried it. Well of course he’d thrown down the challenge which I accepted and then after tasting it and finding it absolutely delicious we used to fight to get there first.?
I don’t do it now as I’m vegan ?

Anneeba Sat 27-Feb-21 11:01:26

White bread, thick butter, white sugar; an absolute favourite treat worthy of skipping and dancing if we could get our mum to say we could have them! My favourite meal, as my mum hated cooking even though she did it with care, was her 'sausage thing'. Sausages were cheap, deskinned, with gently fried onions, tinned tomatoes and lots of Bramley apples from the tree in the garden, cooked slowly in the oven and eaten with either mash or rice. I still make it, but quick fry the sausages to colour the skins and add a splosh of cider and a spoon of mustard, sometimes some dried chilis. Yum!

NotSpaghetti Sat 27-Feb-21 11:02:23

Hot milk on sugary bread for breakfast was an occasional winter treat instead of porridge.
I still like the "wallpaper paste" of hot milk on weetabix I discovered recently!

FannyCornforth Sat 27-Feb-21 11:03:23

I used to love beef dripping on toast at my Nan and Grandad's for Sunday tea. We used to toast the bread on the fire with a toasting fork while watching teatime TV (something like To the Manor Born or All Creatures).
It's probably the only thing I missed when I became vegetarian.
I remember Stork used to have fish oil in it. I wonder if it still does?

grandtanteJE65 Sat 27-Feb-21 11:03:47

We had white bread with butter and brown sugar or even treacle as a treat! Yummy!