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| Iceboy53 Quote | Reply | | Can you Remember posted on: 3/31/2007 10:46:22 AM can you remember when your mum or your grandma used to wear those turbin style head scarf things and scrubbed the steps? when you used to have a cold shelf in the pantry and things never went off..if cheese had green on it..you jus cut it off and ate the rest...what can you remember. |
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porkpiebaby
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replied on: 3/31/2007 2:29:00 PM I still cut the mould off my cheese if I need cheese! Mind you, I won't eat anything else out of date! I still have a cold stone in the pantry, but it now houses bits and bobs! |
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suzard
Researcher Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 3/31/2007 3:20:11 PM by suzard |
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replied on: 3/31/2007 3:19:22 PM The cold stone in the pantry was called the "thrawl" -remember the meat safe? No fridges, meat was kept in a kind of wooden cupboard with a mesh door -so the flies kept off it. Also we had mesh umbrella type contraptions which were used to cover cakes etc in the pantry -you can still buy them today-along with cotton doilies weighted down with beads to cover the milk jug -you can still buy them too-but back then Mum used to crochet them. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 3/31/2007 8:53:25 PM (A stone slab or shelf used to keep food cool in a pantry or larder in the days before refrigeration was domestically available. Example: He placed the side of beef on the thrawl this term was used mainly in Yorkshire & Derbyshire.) aup suzard...spot with the name...never ever heard of it...we did have a cupboard,well a small one for the meats with a wire door..what those shoe cleaner you had outside the back door a metal stand cemented into the ground.. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 3/31/2007 8:54:14 PM was there any best before dates back then ?? can't remember seeing any.. |
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suzard
Researcher Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 4/1/2007 12:55:49 PM by suzard |
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replied on: 4/1/2007 12:52:26 PM The "shoe cleaner" outside the back door was called a "boot scraper" - you can still buy them -considered quite trendy nowadays!!!! Ice, the small cupboard for meats was the "meat safe" I don't recall any "best before " dates - in more recent years I think first was introduced the date things were made, then "best before", then "use by" |
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WesleyLees
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replied on: 4/2/2007 11:37:32 AM "Sell by" dates? "Best by" dates. What nonsense is all that. A million years of evolution has taught us that if it smells ok and tastes ok, it is ok. "Sell by" dates cause more food wastage as perfectly good food is discarded unecessarily. Wesley Lees, RGOM [registered grumpy old man] |
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suzard
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replied on: 4/2/2007 12:03:04 PM Quite agree with you ,Wesley. The best before date on tins really annoys me. Sureley the idea of having "tinned stuff" was to have it as a "stand by" to use whenever necessary -even if its 10 years after purchase. Remeber fetching bread from the corner shop - and it was still warm when the baker off loaded it. If you bought wrapped bread it was always in greaseproof paper -not sweaty plastic |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 4/2/2007 9:29:49 PM from what i can gather about this best before date is,most foods can last up to and above a year (except eggs)...but we keep fresh foods different now..such as cheese which is mostly refrigerated along with milk and meats..it was kept in small quantities in the past but now they store in bulk making the refrigeration of such products easier.but i have this slight feeling that the use by date was introduced when we joined the europe/common market. |
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WesleyLees
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replied on: 4/3/2007 3:14:35 PM Reading about bread in greaseproof wax paper reminded me of the time when I was in the sixth form and used to do a night shift at the Wonderloaf factory at Watnall. One of the jobs I did was looking after the loaf slicing and wrapping machine. Bread would be loaded into the slicing machine,the onward to the wrapping machine. As the wax paper wrapped loaf left the machine, it passed along two hot plates which melted the wax on the end of the loaf, sealing it. Occasionally this did not seal properly, so the loaf was just put back on the conveyor belt between the slicer and wrapper to get another wrapping which usually did the trick. AS I went on a break, I told a new lad what to do. When I came back, I found he had been putting loaves to be rewrapped back onto the conveyor to be both resliced and wrapped. Pity the poor housewife who opened the loaf to find a mixture of breadcrumbs and shredded paper!! Wesley |
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germanrockstar
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replied on: 4/15/2007 7:57:38 PM Can you remember when people had a parlour in the house and no-one ever went in it? It had the best furniture and was kept in pristine condition too. Also gas lights in my grandparents house at Marlpool - terrible for reading, and no lights at all upstairs, a torch was used at night. And no bathroom, toilet up the yard. A copper in the kitchen for boiling the clothes on a Monday (wash day). Old blokes all smoked pipes - where have all the pipe smokers gone? |
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annancliffe
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replied on: 4/16/2007 8:12:56 AM My grandparents only used their parlour at Christmas time. I remember they had their best three piece suite and lovely cabinet with glasses. There was a fire too which was only lit on this special occasion. Ann Marie |
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WesleyLees
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replied on: 4/16/2007 12:58:47 PM We had a parlour in both the houses I lived in when I was a lad, a bit like a mauseleum, nobody seldom went there. It was where the piano was kept and there was a plant on the table in the bay window, probably an aspadistra. It was used for "visitors", when the best china cups came out, with one of those two tiered cake plates. Wesley |
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Volksman
Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 4/16/2007 3:51:29 PM by Iceboy53 |
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replied on: 4/16/2007 2:53:32 PM Aah the Parlour….. It was when you got a bit older that the Parlour came into its own in terms of usefulness. One of my girlfriend’s parents would let us go into the parlour “to be on our own”, (Edited) don't want to go down that road thank you.. |
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suzard
Researcher Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 4/17/2007 12:54:58 AM by suzard |
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replied on: 4/17/2007 12:52:33 AM The parlour was also the place where a deceased member of the family "lay in state" in the coffin awaiting the funeral!...and being allowed in there for the viewing of the body before he/she was "screwed down" I found the parlour very spooky. I also remember it as being a place where adults went to talk in whispers about things which children had no business knowing ... but I did like the smell of the Johnsons Lavender Wax furniture polish which wafted out of there every Friday. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 4/17/2007 9:02:13 AM i always remember the parlour as a cold place taboo to use unless there was a family gathering or christmas...we had a piano in ours and my mom and aunts always played a tune whilst the fire roared away in winter...lovely. |
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