Question of the day: Saturday September 14

[mani]

Hello everyone and happy weekend!

My mum was a very busy woman, but I do remember it was a great treat to have homemade waffles, rasberry jam and icecream on a Sunday night.

Maybe you remember the lamb roast or an apple pie from long (or not so long) ago....

What were the special treats from your childhood?

 

[jcat]

My father would make chocolate fudge two or three times a year. My mouth waters when I think of it. It was better than anything you could buy.

 

[andrya]

Mmmmm, a warm Vimto float!

We can't even get Vimto over here, but l just loved it as a child. The fizzy kind more than the flat.

 

[cassiopea]

There are many, but first came to mind was the Finnish Pulla bread that we would make during the Christmas season. It is a sweet dessert bread that is in the shape of a braid, and is sprinkled with sugar.

Honourable mention: Hot maple syrup, poured over clean white snow to create a soft gooeyness, where we would then eat it! *Happy Sigh!*

 

 

[peaches08]

Homemade strawberry ice cream.

 

[mani]

 
There are many, but first came to mind was the Finnish Pulla bread that we would make during the Christmas season. It is a sweet dessert bread that is in the shape of a braid, and is sprinkled with sugar.

Honourable mention: Hot maple syrup, poured over clean white snow to create a soft gooeyness, where we would then eat it! *Happy Sigh!*

 

The Pulla bread sounds wonderful, but I'm absolutely in love with the snow recipe. 

 

[Winchester]

Mom made the best hot milk sponge cake around with a perfectly chocolate chocolate frosting.

 

[mani]

 
Mom made the best hot milk sponge cake around with a perfectly chocolate chocolate frosting.

I wondered when you were going to chime in, Winchester... 

I thought there'd be a longer list, but hot milk sponge cake says it all, really.

 

[cheylink]

  How sad is this................my favorite birthday dinner when I was a kid was hamburger helper

. I had divorced absentee parents even when they were around till they left for good in my teens.......

 

[swampwitch]

I don't really have anything except sometimes I used to ride my bike around, collecting bottles and cans and cash them in to buy a popsicle. That was nice to eat in the Texas heat! When my sister was still at home she made us birthday cakes and those were wonderful. She left for college when I was 7 so there weren't too many, but I remember each one. (My parents completely forgot my 12th birthday that was pretty rough.)

 

[sugarsandz]

My grandma's biscuits and gravy and her chocolate cream pies were rare since she lived in Kentucky and we lived in Alaska but they were my favorite.

 

[mani]

It's always difficult to ask these kinds of questions as we all have different childhood experiences, some not so wonderful.. 

Mine wasn't great by any stretch of the imagination, and I know these things can stir stuff up. 

I think it's great that those of us with less than ideal experiences can still share something positive, and I thank you for that...

 

[Winchester]

 
I wondered when you were going to chime in, Winchester... 

I thought there'd be a longer list, but hot milk sponge cake says it all, really.

My mom was a good cook, but it was mostly meat-and-potatoes types of things because that was all Dad wanted and would eat. She never really had a chance to do much in the way of cooking; she worked and didn't have a lot of time. And we didn't have a lot of money at times either. I remember coming home from school sometimes and dinner was hot rice with milk and sugar. Or macaroni with milk. Or eggs with fried potatoes. And nothing else. I'm not complaining.....honest, I'm not. We didn't starve and we were never hungry. But there were times when dinner wasn't that great.

Had it not been for Rick's mother, I wouldn't be able to cook a thing. She took me under her wing and taught me everything she knew. (I think she was afraid that if she didn't teach me how to cook, her son would starve to death!)