Store Cupboard Stock - Now And Then

[sunny-dave]

I have just been creating another culinary masterpiece - well .... sort of ...

... actually just bunging together a pasta meal from some minced lamb and "what's in the cupboard".

It occurred to me just how alien my staple ingredients would have been to my Nan - and just how few of hers I would have in my larder.

The lamb, onions and Worcestershire Sauce would have been in both cupboards, but little else.

Now :

Garlic, Olive Oil, Balsamic Vinegar, Passata, Chillis, Penne, Marigold stock powder, Red Wine

Then :

Gravy Browning, Lard, Oxo, Manns Brown Ale (possibly)


What else have we gained or lost?

[gness]

Don't know, Dave.....my store cupboard lives at the takeaway in town.....well not the wine of course.......☺

[Tilly2]

I can't think of anything else we have lost apart from Vesta Chow Mein.....and we never had that anyway. Foreign muck, my mum would have said.

[Mamyalynne]

It's interesting isn't it - in my childhood the Olive Oil was in the medicine cupboard.

Either warmed on a spoon then dripped into your ear for earache or mixed with raspberry vinegar to soothe a sore throat.

[ubasses]

I have trouble keeping the red wine in the storecupboard.

[Tilly2]

Oh, olive oil and raspberry vinegar, I'd forgotten about that, Mamya.

[Mamyalynne]

I have it on optic.

[Mamyalynne]

It worked too Tilly, didn't it?

[sunny-dave]

All I had for a cough was Dr Collis Brown's Compound - I think it had opium in it ...

[Tilly2]

it did, Mamya. I quite liked it. Much more so than, malt and cod liver oil. That was truly disgusting.

[Tilly2]

I used to have hot mustard baths when I was a child.

[Mamyalynne]

Oh Dave - you could peddle that stuff for cash if you knew the right places to go.

Tilly - I loved that too - sorry.

[sunny-dave]

... I remember a hot bread poultice on a boil ...


uuuurrrrrgggghhhhh

[Mamyalynne]

My Gran once made a sugar and soap poultice for a boil on my brothers arm - he still has the crater it left.

[sunny-dave]

I could never quite face a "boil in the bag" meal after that :)

[Mamyalynne]

Yuk!!

[Nibble]

Might have been ok with the olive oil ;-{

[Retrochic]

Watching the programme 'back for dinner' I think, despite the plethora of cookery programmes, the 'normal' household's food intake is a lot less healthy than in the 1950's.