working class salads

[Hocus Eye.]

I think fruit in curry goes back to Mrs Beaton, and all she did was collect existing recipes, so it probably comes from the habits of the colonials in the days of the Indian Raj. The Indians gave us kedgeree and bungalows as well. I think next time I make a curry I will put apple into it to see what it tastes like. After all tomatoes are fruit and quite sweet and are the base of many curries.

As for fruit juice as a starter, that has never gone out. Lots of cheaper hotels and restaurants still offer fruit juice as an alternative to a soup starter.

This thread is getting a bit mixed up between its original title of working class salads, and memories of posters' meals that they had when they were young as compared to what they have now. Perhaps they see themselves as being upwardly mobile moving from flat lettuce and quartered tomatoes in their working class past, but now being sophisticated and higher class with their Iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise and black olives on a bed of blah blah.

I read an article on the net today about trying out '70s cooking and the story seemed to be that it was a different world and that it took four hours to prepare a meal because there were no microwave ovens and food processors or ready prepared vegetables. The writer even said that tinned tomatoes were not available in the 70's. She obviously wasn't around then. Tinned tomatoes have been available since the war.

 

[Badger Kitten]

I think fruit in curry goes back to Mrs Beaton, and all she did was collect existing recipes, so it probably comes from the habits of the colonials in the days of the Indian Raj. The Indians gave us kedgeree and bungalows as well. I think next time I make a curry I will put apple into it to see what it tastes like. After all tomatoes are fruit and quite sweet and are the base of many curries.

As for fruit juice as a starter, that has never gone out. Lots of cheaper hotels and restaurants still offer fruit juice as an alternative to a soup starter.

This thread is getting a bit mixed up between its original title of working class salads, and memories of posters' meals that they had when they were young as compared to what they have now. Perhaps they see themselves as being upwardly mobile moving from flat lettuce and quartered tomatoes in their working class past, but now being sophisticated and higher class with their Iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise and black olives on a bed of blah blah.

I read an article on the net today about trying out '70s cooking and the story seemed to be that it was a different world and that it took four hours to prepare a meal because there were no microwave ovens and food processors or ready prepared vegetables. The writer even said that tinned tomatoes were not available in the 70's. She obviously wasn't around then. Tinned tomatoes have been available since the war.

Okay I been and started you another thread

 

[tufty79]

This thread is getting a bit mixed up between its original title of working class salads, and memories of posters' meals that they had when they were young as compared to what they have now.

aye.

Perhaps they see themselves as being upwardly mobile moving from flat lettuce and quartered tomatoes in their working class past, but now being sophisticated and higher class with their Iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise and black olives on a bed of blah blah.

nah

 

[Blagsta]

What's worng with some lemon juice and olive oil? Does it have to be salad cream or mayo? Yuk.

I'm guessing this thread doesn't make much sense if you're not English.

 

[Funky_monks]

My mum makes "winter salad" for Christmas tea every year (to go with the cold turkey, cold ham, cold beef, cold pork, etc): -

A layer each of: -

Grated raw sprouts
Grated carrots
Grated beetroot
And grated cheese on top.

Spoonful on plate, mix with salad cream to taste. Although when I went to university, she did buy some mayonnaise for with it. I thinks it's nice, tbh -- a bit like working class coleslaw.

We had a similar thing but with white cabbage as opposed to sprouts. It didn't have any cheese on it and came with salad cream.

 

[moose]

This thread is getting a bit mixed up between its original title of working class salads, and memories of posters' meals that they had when they were young as compared to what they have now. Perhaps they see themselves as being upwardly mobile moving from flat lettuce and quartered tomatoes in their working class past, but now being sophisticated and higher class with their Iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise and black olives on a bed of blah blah.

My only experience of 'working class' is from when I was a child, because I don't know anyone who would apply the title to themselves these days. And my mother still has salads as described now. she seems impervious to new ingredients

 

[mrsfran]

Working class credential fail.

UNLESS: was it home grown?

Of course it was home-grown! On the windowsill!

 

[rennie]

I'm guessing this thread doesn't make much sense if you're not English.

You've guessed correctly.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

What's worng with some lemon juice and olive oil? Does it have to be salad cream or mayo? Yuk.

You've just reminded me of a family holiday to Italy in the early 1980s where the adults were all deeply suspicious of the bottles of oil and vinegar on restaurant tables. Mum was adventurous enough to try some and pronounced it vile. Everyone else just pulled disgusted faces

 

[Gavin Bl]

You've just reminded me of a family holiday to Italy in the early 1980s where the adults were all deeply suspicious of the bottles of oil and vinegar on restaurant tables. Mum was adventurous enough to try some and pronounced it vile. Everyone else just pulled disgusted faces

Back in about 1992, I mortified an Italian flat mate by telling her that olive oil was 'too tangy' and 'tasted of washing up liquid'.

But I have got proper sophisticated since them, and now I loves it.

 

[mr steev]

I remember hard boiled eggs in salads, sliced with a wire guilotine, and pickled beetroot.

If we had any olive oil it would have been bought from Boots and be kept with the medicines.

 

[Geri]

That's what my mum used to make whenever she said we were having salad. Except we had a boiled egg rather than radish.

We had that too, I only ever ate the egg. I hate salad, although I will force myself to eat lettuce if covered in salad dressing. I can't eat tomatoes (raw) or cucumber though.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

...hard boiled eggs in salads, sliced with a wire guilotine....

I *heart* boiled eggs

 

[tufty79]

I *heart* boiled eggs

they sell these contraptions in the pound shop. i've not seen/had one since visiting me nana..

i'm saving up

 

[ajdown]

I'ma gonna go check out my local pound shop tomorrow, I could use a boiled egg slicer. You can actually pluck the strings in any order and it'll make a tune that sounds vaguely chinese. A friend of mine taught me that one.

 

[tufty79]

99pland and the brixton pound shop have them.
failing that, the shop on the corner opposite electric avenue/shares a corner with electric mansions.

they have them

(assuming your locality from the brixton threads, that is)