Dripping Toast.

[BensGrandad]

Does anybody still have dripping on their toast?

I persuaded wife to cook the roast beef in just lard today rather than her usual way and thus had a bowl of beef dripping left which I then had on some toast for my tea just like in my childhood. It was delicious and cheap.

Are there any other old childhood favourites that are coming back to save money. The butchers in London Road said they are selling more cheap cuts of meat, that need longer cooking as people cut back on their spending.

 

[The Large One]

It is, apparently, one of the best fats -or rather, one of the least worst - if fat could ever be good for you, that is.

 

[supaseagull]

I wish the shops would stock sweetbreads again

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I was sustained throughout the holiday period by turkey dripping on toast. It is a hell of a palaver to prepare the ingredients (hours of oven time have to devoted to a lump of poultry), but it is well worth the effort. Mmmm.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

When I worked for a company that had it's head office in Wakefield, at meetings, we were given sandwiches, produced by the local butchers shop, that were spread with dripping rather than butter, regardless of the filling. The locals were much amused at the face pulling induced in their soft bellied southerner colleagues

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My geordie grandmother used to treat her grandchildren to what she called "bread and dip". This involved melting the dripping from a roast dinner in a frying pan and quickly dunking a slice of bread in the hot liquid, before removing it and serving. It wasn't the same as fried bread - where the bread got cooked and changed colour to something approaching brown. Her way of cooking this delicacy merely treated the slice of bread as a sponge. If dripping wasn't available, hot lard was an adequate substitute.

I preferred the dripping version.

 

[BensGrandad]

I am glad that I am not the only perosn who indulges in such delights which are frowned upon by the healthy eating brigade ' all that fat is no good for you' my grandmother always said that if we had dripping toast for breakfast in the winter it would lay ona your chest and prvent chest infections. I fdont know whether she was technically right or not but it seemed to work as I didnt have the chest infections then and yes I did smoke.

 

[glasfryn]

there used to be a caf'e in Beaconsfield road that had stacks of the stuff and I must have consumed a bakery of the stuff the short time I spent on the milk.




just shows how things change I'm a veggie now

 

[Skint Gull]

Sounds f***ing HIDEOUS!


I'm carrying a few extra pounds these days and there's no way even i'd eat a f***ing lard sandwich, you must be a right old chubber

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

I used to have that when I was a (skinny) kid.

I don't have it anymore....and now i'm a fat adult!

 

[supaseagull]

Sounds f***ing HIDEOUS!


I'm carrying a few extra pounds these days and there's no way even i'd eat a f***ing lard sandwich, you must be a right old chubber

You say that, but notice how there was no "obese" society when our parents, grand-parents, etc were all eating this sort of food.

 

[cannedheat]

Sounds f***ing HIDEOUS!

It's worse than that, it's f***ing vomit inducing, I would rather eat marmite and that makes me want to chunda..

 

[binky]

You say that, but notice how there was no "obese" society when our parents, grand-parents, etc were all eating this sort of food.

Yeah. They did all die younger though.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Yeah. They did all die younger though.

Nonsense. My grandmother lived until four days short of her 89th birthday.

 

[skipper734]

Where's the dripping gone though, you roast a joint now and get next to nothing to put in your dripping bowl. My mum had a big bowlful, added too every week. So you had plenty to put on your doorsteps.
Try this with your roast lamb. Make a small suet loaf and put it in with the roast, to fry for the last 20 mins in the juices. Pads out the meat just like Yorkshire puds do. mmmm.

 

[BensGrandad]

Try this with your roast lamb. Make a small suet loaf and put it in with the roast, to fry for the last 20 mins in the juices. Pads out the meat just like Yorkshire puds do. mmmm.

That is another thing that my wife makes is baked suet, similar to a yorkshire but using suet and flour mix instead of just flour and egg. The grandchildren love it.

 

[British Bulldog]

You say that, but notice how there was no "obese" society when our parents, grand-parents, etc were all eating this sort of food.

I'm guessing that was more down to people's life style rather than diet, Back in my parents and grandparents younger days everything was done manually where as these days everything is automatic and done at the push of a button. There never used to be the need for gyms because all that exercise people do now in gyms was done naturally during the course of a normal day.

 

[Woodingdean Gull]

I'm guessing that was more down to people's life style rather than diet, Back in my parents and grandparents younger days everything was done manually where as these days everything is automatic and done at the push of a button. There never used to be the need for gyms because all that exercise people do now in gyms was done naturally during the course of a normal day.

Quite agree. As a kid, I'd often have bread and dripping as it was quite the norm. However, I believe there was much less obesity purely because kids were always outside playing games and working off the excess fat.

There were no such thing as pc's, game boys, nintendos or any form of games console. During school holidays, I'd be outside from dawn to dusk along with all the other kids from where I lived. (And yes, it was Woodingdean).

 

[glasfryn]

Quite agree. As a kid, I'd often have bread and dripping as it was quite the norm. However, I believe there was much less obesity purely because kids were always outside playing games and working off the excess fat.

There were no such thing as pc's, game boys, nintendos or any form of games console. During school holidays, I'd be outside from dawn to dusk along with all the other kids from where I lived. (And yes, it was Woodingdean).

And for your Woodingdean was my Westdene,there always seemed to be more to do then?

 

[Woodingdean Gull]

Couldn't agree more. Where I lived all of the kids just wanted to get out from where they lived and DO things. Whether it was playing football or any other type of game, you were just out, using up energy and burning off fat all of the time. I'm sure it was the same all over, no matter where you lived.