Sunday Tea and Potted Beef
I have spoken of learning to cook at my mothers heel in the kitchen on a Sunday morning to deal with cooking the Sunday roast and also doing the baking for the week. This is how I learned to cook for the best part. Also on a Sunday we had Sunday tea which quite frequently was had around 5pm and usually consisted of some of my mum's home made milk buns with either egg, tinned salmon or potted beef on (potted beef was affectionately known in our family as potted donkey). Never a full bun but a half a bun served open sandwich style. Quite frequently we would have jelly and fruit or jelly and ice cream for pudding. Then there would be pastries like sausage rolls, lemon or jam tarts, and coconut cheesecakes and then finished off with a wedge of sponge. Delicious and mum was an expert cook so the food always had a lot of flavour and her pastry was to die for we were incredibly spoiled in this respect. Oh for the traditions of the past. I would in...