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Part 7
As I was saying in my last article that there was not a lot of litter on the streets not like there is today, the reason being that there was not much pre-packed foods like there is now, if you went to a shop for say a quarter pound of biscuits they would be in a square biscuit tin, the shopkeeper would pick them out and put them in a plain white paper bag. Most loose things were sold like this, there were some pre-packed foods but ordinary folk didn’t buy that because it was more expensive. My grandmother used to buy things like dried peas, lentils prunes dried apple rings and stuff like that; all loose. Although there was tinned stuff on the shelves I can’t remember the family buying that kind of thing other than people that could afford it, I can never remember having a tin of beans we just did not have that sort of thing. Sugar was always in short supply like everything else, in the winter time the butter never went very far due to the cold; it didn’t spread very well. One or two of the things my grandmother used to make was a big enamel dish of peas pudding and another dish of sliced beetroot, this would last for a while we would have beetroot and peas pudding sandwiches; but she would also share it with the neighbours. The neighbours would take turns in making things and sharing, people were always passing on recipes that the Food Ministry would put out together with magazines like the Picture Post or some other magazine.Another thing that the neighbours did in the winter time was to get together with a wooden frame and make a clippie mat, any thing that was past all hope of wearing was cut into strips and saved up for this occasion. When the time came somebody would have an old burlap sack that would be stretched on the frame, ready for the progging and poking with the strips of material. There then followed all the gossip about various people in the village, I used to listen to all this talk about who was carrying on with who while their husbands where at war fighting for their country. When the mat was finished it would be trimmed and placed in front of the fire place for us kids to sprawl out on.
As I was saying in my last article that there was not a lot of litter on the streets not like there is today, the reason being that there was not much pre-packed foods like there is now, if you went to a shop for say a quarter pound of biscuits they would be in a square biscuit tin, the shopkeeper would pick them out and put them in a plain white paper bag. Most loose things were sold like this, there were some pre-packed foods but ordinary folk didn’t buy that because it was more expensive. My grandmother used to buy things like dried peas, lentils prunes dried apple rings and stuff like that; all loose. Although there was tinned stuff on the shelves I can’t remember the family buying that kind of thing other than people that could afford it, I can never remember having a tin of beans we just did not have that sort of thing. Sugar was always in short supply like everything else, in the winter time the butter never went very far due to the cold; it didn’t spread very well. One or two of the things my grandmother used to make was a big enamel dish of peas pudding and another dish of sliced beetroot, this would last for a while we would have beetroot and peas pudding sandwiches; but she would also share it with the neighbours. The neighbours would take turns in making things and sharing, people were always passing on recipes that the Food Ministry would put out together with magazines like the Picture Post or some other magazine.Another thing that the neighbours did in the winter time was to get together with a wooden frame and make a clippie mat, any thing that was past all hope of wearing was cut into strips and saved up for this occasion. When the time came somebody would have an old burlap sack that would be stretched on the frame, ready for the progging and poking with the strips of material. There then followed all the gossip about various people in the village, I used to listen to all this talk about who was carrying on with who while their husbands where at war fighting for their country. When the mat was finished it would be trimmed and placed in front of the fire place for us kids to sprawl out on.
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