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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:14 pm
by englishangel
ben ashton wrote:make toast on a bbq, takes about 10 seconds a side!
2 hours after you have lit the **** thing.

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:03 pm
by gemmygemmerson
good point. or you can just use a series of tea candles and hold the bread over them using tongs.

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:14 pm
by J.R.
TOAST !

I was thinking whilst laying in bed this morning, as one does.........

Did any of you more Senior posters ever enjoy something that today would be frowned upon by the Health P.C. Brigade.

My father introduced me to toast and dripping around 1951.

A cold winters evening sitting by the open fire on a Sunday before going to bed. Thick slices of bread, toasted on the fire, then coated with dripping collected earlier from the Sunday roast, with a sprinkling of salt !

I haven't had that for yonks !

LUVVERLEY !

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:53 pm
by sejintenej
J.R. wrote:My father introduced me to toast and dripping around 1951.

Thick slices of bread, toasted on the fire, then coated with dripping collected earlier from the Sunday roast, with a sprinkling of salt !

I haven't had that for yonks !

LUVVERLEY !
Yeuch. I got taken out one night in Frankfurt (when I was working there) and given to eat with my beer thick chunks of bread covered in inches of fat/dripping. Makes me feel sick even thinking about it.

JR - you are welcome to mine!

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:33 pm
by englishangel
We used to have bread and dripping for morning break at Hertford. On Mondays following roast beef.

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:23 pm
by gemmygemmerson
I dare to think what Gillian McKeith would think of that. Sounds ghastly and calorie ridden. Practically a heart attack on bread.

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:35 pm
by midget
J.R. wrote:TOAST !

I was thinking whilst laying in bed this morning, as one does.........

Did any of you more Senior posters ever enjoy something that today would be frowned upon by the Health P.C. Brigade.

My father introduced me to toast and dripping around 1951.

A cold winters evening sitting by the open fire on a Sunday before going to bed. Thick slices of bread, toasted on the fire, then coated with dripping collected earlier from the Sunday roast, with a sprinkling of salt !

I haven't had that for yonks !

Yes oh yes!

LUVVERLEY !

Huh!

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:10 pm
by Angela Woodford
gemmygemmerson wrote:I dare to think what Gillian McKeith would think of that. Sounds ghastly and calorie ridden. Practically a heart attack on bread.
"Dr" Gillian McKeith is a television bully. We had bread and dripping at Hertford, see previous post from Mary and there is little evidence of any of us Hertford girls suffering from consequential heart attacks...

"Dripping" was a major part of Fifties food (sorry, previous reminiscences) but there was nothing like the obesity crisis there is today!

Bring it on! With lots of salt!

Munch

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:45 am
by Richard Ruck
J.R. wrote:Did any of you more Senior posters ever enjoy something that today would be frowned upon by the Health P.C. Brigade.
How senior do you have to be? This was part of Sunday evening with my grandparents in th '60s. Very nice!

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:03 am
by J.R.
Richard Ruck wrote:
J.R. wrote:Did any of you more Senior posters ever enjoy something that today would be frowned upon by the Health P.C. Brigade.
How senior do you have to be? This was part of Sunday evening with my grandparents in th '60s. Very nice!
........... but as stated by previous posters, now considered by the Nanny State people as non-healthy, UNFORTUNATELY !!

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:13 am
by DavebytheSea
englishangel wrote:My son likes cold toast, so puts it in the FRIDGE for a minute before buttering.

If he didn't look exactly like my Dad and brother I would have doubts about his parentage.
Would it be open to doubt, then, Mary?

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:51 am
by Great Plum
I quite like toast and dripping!

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:53 pm
by J.R.
Great Plum wrote:I quite like toast and dripping!
Isn't that a line from a song ??

OH NO....

Thats, 'I like toast and Jam !'

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:54 pm
by Vonny
On the subject of toast - wholemeal bread (or "dark bread" as my youngest calls it :roll: )is far more difficult to butter than plain white bread.