Found this wonderful site today - My granddad used to have many ditties and poems that he would tell us and i would love to finish one about bread and dripping that he used to recite to us. it goes like this

On Monday we have bread and dripping
On Tuesday we have dripping and bread
On Wednesday and Thursday we have toast and dripping, but thats only dripping and bread ..........

it goes on with the other days of the week but i cant bring it to mind!

Thanks

That brings back memories.....mum brought us up on the stuff.
Just occasionally I buy dripping...but it ain't the same as mums was.

Welcome to the forum Nellie :wave:
My Mam always had dripping handy, just in case anyone fanied it on some bread.
We had a snobby neighbour who informed us, down south (where she was from) they didn't eat dripping! :shocked:

The dripping was even better on a Jewitt's loaf which had just come out of their oven at their School Road (Crookes) bakery!

I still love bread and dripping, probably that is why my cholesterol is sky high!!!:gag:

Yeah but - which is the best dripping? Beef or Pork?

I preferred Beef - more flavour I thought.

Yes beef is best, but either will do.

I like both -maybe beef has the edge - got to have a slight sprinkle of salt too on thick doorstep of bread. My dad was a butcher in Wath on Dearne - 'Palfremans' does anyone remember? Anyone finish the ryhmme?

Beef dripping on my mothers home made breadcakes with the brown from the bottom of the pot & salt.You could cross the Sahara on one of those.

I don't know which as the edge in taste ,but beef is very hard to spread pork is much is much softer & spreadable(if thats a word)so i'm going to give pork the thumbs up

Yes you are right - beef best on toast. Like mostly the jelly and about a third the fat. Pork can be very tasty especially from a large piece of pork.

Talking of pork can you remember the hot pork sandwiches with crackling from Freidrichs in the Wicker.

If we're talking Hot Roast Pork sarnies - King's on Dixon Lane - Best £2 you could spend in a lunch hour - and they's put dripping on your breadcake if you ask!

bread and dripping - sounds disgusting

bread and dripping - sounds disgusting
I bet you have never had it so how do you know.It is lovely.

bread and dripping - sounds disgusting

So do you:loopy: If you have never had bread and dripping you have never lived:rant:

Talking of pork can you remember the hot pork sandwiches with crackling from Freidrichs in the Wicker.
YES,YES,YES.

YES,YES,YES.

I thought you might.

mmmmm with salt and mucky fat

We used to hang around a house in Grant Road everytime the mother was bmaking oven bread cakes.

She would put the large bread cakes on the window sill to cool down and that smell was memorable.

If we hung about long enough she would cut us a fresh slice each and spead it with dripping.

The dripping would melt into the holes in the warm cakes and I can still taste them in my memory now.

Happy Days

We had pork dripping more than beef but beef was better flavoured and with a smear of Bovril on top it was heaven. We called it bread drip and bov.

If you have'nt tasted Beef dripping,with all the bottoms on a crust of home made bread, a sprinking of salt, boy ,you have'nt lived,you just have'nt lived But sad to say you can't by a piece of beef,with all the lovely fat on it,to stick in a fire oven on the old Yorkshire range Boy oh boy ,that made good dripping with all brown gravy. And then to have a thick crust of bread, made in a fire oven ,that was living I feel sorry for the younger generation,you haven't tasted good grub like we old 'uns have

"Mucky Drip and Salt" food of the Gods indeed.

bread and dripping - sounds disgusting

how very very sad if i ever go into a church iwill say a prayer for you

Hi Lazyherbert
That is a perfect description. Are you sure you did not live at our house?
Don't forget a nice mug of tea to wash it down.
And of course, the bread was tosted on the fire.
Margaret

If you have'nt tasted Beef dripping,with all the bottoms on a crust of home made bread, a sprinking of salt, boy ,you have'nt lived,you just have'nt lived But sad to say you can't by a piece of beef,with all the lovely fat on it,to stick in a fire oven on the old Yorkshire range Boy oh boy ,that made good dripping with all brown gravy. And then to have a thick crust of bread, made in a fire oven ,that was living I feel sorry for the younger generation,you haven't tasted good grub like we old 'uns have

Milted, you shouldn't be allowed to write something like that. I'm drooling all over the keyboard.

how very very sad if i ever go into a church iwill say a prayer for you

Say one for me too then flyer, will you? There are many dishes that I miss living over here: pork pies, hot meat pies like were available in the pubs, real back bacon, pickled cabbage and big pickled onions, jam sponge with custard, and the list goes on. I even enjoy black pudding when I visit the old sod (as in the country, not the person).

But I hated bread and dripping while I was growing up. Wasn't fond of fried bread either.

Just a matter of taste.:gag::gag:

bread and dripping - sounds disgusting
Thats what the rest of our family say..But the wife and I still enjoy a crust of bread spread with any sort of dripping..And since we bought the "George Forman" we have an endless supply from the dripping tray at the front.

Welcome to the forum Nellie :wave:
My Mam always had dripping handy, just in case anyone fanied it on some bread.
We had a snobby neighbour who informed us, down south (where she was from) they didn't eat dripping! :shocked:

Well she was talking rubbish, both my family and my wife's family had bread and dripping........with salt and pepper,delicious.
Don't know if posh families did though, we weren't.

rogGI have lived in Pennsylvania USA for almost fifty years and still miss a lot of the foods from home.There is an import shop I can get things from but, no meat products are allowed in the USA.
You live in one of my most favorite s places on earth, but must admit driving on the Confederation Bridge scares the daylights out of me.
Margaret

rogGI have lived in Pennsylvania USA for almost fifty years and still miss a lot of the foods from home.There is an import shop I can get things from but, no meat products are allowed in the USA.
You live in one of my most favorite s places on earth, but must admit driving on the Confederation Bridge scares the daylights out of me.
Margaret

No problem on the bridge margaret as long as you don't go over when the winds are high. But I always prefer the ferry in summertime anyway. Nice and relaxing.

I just thought of a couple of other dishes from home that I miss a lot: meat and potato pie which my grandma used to make with a nice biscuity crust on it and steak and kidney pie. Folk over here turn their noses up at the "kidney" part of S & K pie, because the kidneys are used to make urine. What a lot of nonsense. The cooking gets rid of any miniscule amounts of that. We can get some English packaged foods at a specialty store in Halifax, which is a 4 hour drive from where I live. A guy from Nottingham opened a fruit/ veg and British import store and has become a millionaire as a result.

Talking of pork can you remember the hot pork sandwiches with crackling from Freidrichs in the Wicker.

I can remember those. I couldnt walk past the place without buying a couple- I tried to ignore it but that smell of cooking pork....irrisistable.

Bread and dripping, toast and dripping, generous sprinkling of oxo cube finished with salt and pepper, drool

I still get pork dripping from my local Polish pork butcher on Abbeydale Road.

One of the quickest ways to having a heart attack but admittedly they were delicious,not had one in years due to being health concious.

What`s the rhyme go like though? I`ve not heard it before

Mum always used beef dripping for cooking chips, and pork dripping for sarnis. Always had a smear of marmite on too.

At the time it was heaven on earth, now I only have mucky dripping on a pork sarni, or to add flavour to roast potato's whilst cooking ....... home made mucky dripping just can't be beat :D

Bread and drippin :love: we kept our drippin in a stone jar until it was set, then you'd get some of the nice jelly on the bottom , if you were lucky, nearly as good as egg and chips.....can't recall even seing a salad in those days, the rabbits got all the lettuce :hihi:

I am member of an Ex-Servicemans organisation and at our monthly meetings sandwiches with various fillings are served but one of our members is a retired butcher and when it is his turn to provide the refreshments he always supplies a load of bread and dripping which is always consumed first,and you have to get in quick!!!
Some years ago one of my late uncles, a Sheffielder born and bred had a very high engineering position in the Ford Motor Company when cars were made in UK!,he earned plenty of dosh, and he and my aunt lived in Leamington Spa,in those days very snooty,quite often when eating at some posh restaurant he would enquire if they had any bread and dripping, and you can imagine the looks he got from the waiters, but very often he also got his bread and dripping, and when my Mum and Dad went to visit them they always took six or seven bottles of another Sheffield speciality Hendersons Relish, unobtainable in those days in the posh shops of Royal Leamington Spa

I am member of an Ex-Servicemans organisation and at our monthly meetings sandwiches with various fillings are served but one of our members is a retired butcher and when it is his turn to provide the refreshments he always supplies a load of bread and dripping which is always consumed first,and you have to get in quick!!!
Some years ago one of my late uncles, a Sheffielder born and bred had a very high engineering position in the Ford Motor Company when cars were made in UK!,he earned plenty of dosh, and he and my aunt lived in Leamington Spa,in those days very snooty,quite often when eating at some posh restaurant he would enquire if they had any bread and dripping, and you can imagine the looks he got from the waiters, but very often he also got his bread and dripping, and when my Mum and Dad went to visit them they always took six or seven bottles of another Sheffield speciality Hendersons Relish, unobtainable in those days in the posh shops of Royal Leamington Spa

The Ex Servicemens organisation couldn't be the establishment on city rd by any chance could it?

Sorry not my branch

rogG
Good for him- Being a millionaire and living in PEI now that is Heaven on Earth.
You are right about the ferry. Is it Point Pleasant Lighthouse on the left as the Island comes into view? The beach cafe near it serves delicious chowder.
Am visually impaired now but memory serves me well.
Must admit there are dishes I have learned to love in the USA too.
Margaret

rogGI have lived in Pennsylvania USA for almost fifty years and still miss a lot of the foods from home.There is an import shop I can get things from but, no meat products are allowed in the USA.
You live in one of my most favorite s places on earth, but must admit driving on the Confederation Bridge scares the daylights out of me.
Margaret

Wainy, I get some meat products from the English shop here in Ct, sausages and pork pies, all frozen I must say and not the best, but they are imported from England, the owner a Brit flys over and gets them herself, also I've brought back some sausage & bacon myself over the years, not legally of course.

I cant have had bread and dripping for over 30 years, this thread has set me off craving crusty bread, dripping especially the brown bit with salt on mmmmmmmm

I cant have had bread and dripping for over 30 years, this thread has set me off craving crusty bread, dripping especially the brown bit with salt on mmmmmmmm

I know what you mean I dont think I have had any since being very young it was a special treat in our house!!!

By the way my OH is from down south and he says he had it when he was young.

With lumps of jelly, which you have to bite round so you can save the best bit until last!

rogG
Good for him- Being a millionaire and living in PEI now that is Heaven on Earth.
You are right about the ferry. Is it Point Pleasant Lighthouse on the left as the Island comes into view? The beach cafe near it serves delicious chowder.
Am visually impaired now but memory serves me well.
Must admit there are dishes I have learned to love in the USA too.
Margaret

Point Prim just outside of Charlottetown is what you're probably thinking of Wainy. It does have a little cafe there which serves delicious seafood chowder. One winter we drove up there to watch a bunch of seals out on the ice.

I don't know whether everyone else on the site is laying on the graphic descriptions of bread & dripping to turn the stomachs of folk like me who find it a hideous concoction but you're all welcome to it ...yuk. :gag::gag:

Poppins
Run to the store and stock up.
Two weeks ago I called to order from my supplier and she told me that the Ministry of Agriculture Rep had just been and confiscated all the meat products in their warehouse. Even Oxo's.
They told her that because of Foot and Mouth disease and Mad Cow the US was not allowing importation of meat products from Uk.
Ridiculous, if cooked products are okay for UK residents to eat why are they not okay for us?
Guess I must try to smuggle them in next trip I make.
Margaret

Had mucky dripping and marmite on thick sliced white bread this morning for breakfast. In fact, I've had it everyday this week!
Trying not to think about cholestorol. Usually buy it from Crawshaws or Funks but like to keep my own from roasting pork. Grew up with it and not done me any harm.:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Wainy, I get some meat products from the English shop here in Ct, sausages and pork pies, all frozen I must say and not the best, but they are imported from England, the owner a Brit flys over and gets them herself, also I've brought back some sausage & bacon myself over the years, not legally of course.I just got back from 3 weeks in Ireland last night. Irish sausage, bacon, black and white pudding every day. Pure heaven! But believe it or not, I was glad to come home to some pancakes and maple syrup with streaky Oscar Meyer bacon. It makes tasty dripping too.

Told the wife about this thread on the way home from work yesterday. Needless to say we had to stop at brook bakery on the way for a dripping breadcake :)

even now at 220 i still steal a bit when the wife not looking,good job i do most of the cooking

I like both -maybe beef has the edge - got to have a slight sprinkle of salt too on thick doorstep of bread. My dad was a butcher in Wath on Dearne - 'Palfremans' does anyone remember? Anyone finish the ryhmme?

Was he related to the Palfremans that had the farm at Wath? I can't remember the butcher but I went spud picking on the farm.
Round about 1954,hard work for 5 bob a day. :D

Yep bread and beef dripping was a staple in our house in Page Hall in the '60's.. yum!

Yes beef is best, but either will do.

Don't forget the salt and the brown jelly from the bottom of the bowl. Yum Yum.

No wonder Muslims think we're the infidel. Give 'em some of that dripping. Anybody tried Goosefat? It's a good substitute if you cant get the real 'stuff'.

Bread and dripping will always remind me of my grandma in Oughtibridge. It was always bread and dripping but we would get so jealous because she would always make herself a sugar sandwich, spread thick with butter and a layer of sugar.

For the best dripping in sheff 6 go to F.FUNKS MIDDLEWOOD ROAD one of the only propper pork butchers left in sheffield.the sausage is fantastic

Mrs P always gets me a tub from the cooked meats stall in the market, and always asks for a "mucky" one.
I have it for breakfast almost every weekday. Fry-up at weekends.
Beautiful, and keeps you going 'till lunchtime.:D

a dripping sandwich wot a classic and if we didn't have any of that, then it was bread and jam

Or bread and marge... or even just dry bread was a treat when we were hungry between meals. Kids now would love that, eh?

Ever had banana sandwiches sprinkled with sugar ? couldn't eat those now :gag: oH! and bread and treacle

wainy, yer that brown jelly and like you said ,and a mug of tea to swill it down.
when my family didnt have the dripping in, untill mum went to shops she gave us
marge/sugar, on bread some off the things we had,--marmite--lental`s spread,
that was the orange and green lentals.
boil in pan till soft then mash untillthick, spread over bread/butter, cor yum yum.
but i think beef was best, but pork for spreading. off to market in morning get
mi dripping. let me tell you what we did in the older days,--if your doors were
squeaking put some dripping on your inges. we ues to hold onto door handle`s
lift yer feet up, and it was fun having rides backwards/forwards, and take it in turns.
hi, good days we never got fed up . thanks to the dripping---bye.

Welcome to the forum Nellie :wave:
My Mam always had dripping handy, just in case anyone fanied it on some bread.
We had a snobby neighbour who informed us, down south (where she was from) they didn't eat dripping! :shocked:

did u ever dip your bread in the roasting dish when it was cooking brings back a load of old memories

did u ever dip your bread in the roasting tin when it was cooking good old days

For all those that don't like bread and dripping, they can always have bread and "same"

Brian1941
They sure are good memories to carry with us aren.t they Brian. Margaret

Talking of pork can you remember the hot pork sandwiches with crackling from Freidrichs in the Wicker.

No, but I can remember hot beef or pork breadcakes dipped in fat from a shop on Button Lane down the moor. It's a long time ago though.

Strange that nobody has used the term 'bread and scrape'. Used to hear that all the time when I was a kid.

has anyone finished the ryme yet, i grew up on bread and dripping still have it now and then but my husband and kids think its disgusting,

There's one thing, it's got to be better than Marmite.

(Anything's better than Marmite)

Just checked the fridge and YESSS. Mrs P has fetched a tub of dripping in for me from the market......excellent......:D:thumbsup::clap:

The Poem continues:- On Friday we went to the landlord to ask for a change
So he said
On Saturday morning without any doubt you'll get dripping without any bread!

YES,YES,YES.

:P yes yes yes :P:P:P

did u ever dip your bread in the roasting dish when it was cooking brings back a load of old memories

yes yes yes:P

There's one thing, it's got to be better than Marmite.

(Anything's better than Marmite)

Just checked the fridge and YESSS. Mrs P has fetched a tub of dripping in for me from the market......excellent......:D:thumbsup::clap:

When I was a kid we used to have bread, dripping and marmite for breakfast every day. On white bread. With a strong cup of coffee. If it was really cold, we'd sometimes get a dram of whiskey or brandy in the coffee at weekends if we were lucky. How times have changed!

I used to have dripping on thick uncut toast from the sandwich shop when I worked at Record Tools. Set you up for the day that did.:)

I still do have it for breakfast (except weekends when it's a fry-up)
Got to keep those cholesterol levels up !!!!
:thumbsup:

:O omg beef dripping with (as we would say ) the black bits on thick uncut bread mmmmmmm lovely,and if you have never tried it you havent lived :))

do's any 1 ever remember having " pobs" as a kid? Thats plain white bread broken up and put into a cup of tea ..well thats the way we had it omg what memories :-) No its not horrible its quite tasty lol

Ever had banana sandwiches sprinkled with sugar ? couldn't eat those now :gag: oH! and bread and treacle

Oh I love those Banana sarnys , even today as a adult I have 1 .........do's any 1 ever remember having " pobs" as a kid? Thats plain white bread broken up and put into a cup of tea ..well thats the way we had it omg what memories :-) No its not horrible its quite tasty lol

I used to have dripping on thick uncut toast from the sandwich shop when I worked at Record Tools. Set you up for the day that did.:)

The wonderful ladies at Brown Bayleys Steelworks canteen in Attercliffe used to look after myself and the rest of the poverty stricken apprentices in the 1960,s.A slice of bread and dripping was 1d.Crusts were 2 for 1d,but they always gave us more than we paid for.It was years before I could afford bacon and egg sandwiches !!!

yvydeepcar thanks for finishing the ryhme - i have only just got back after a long time away from the thread thanks v much!!!

Oh and Peterdo it was the Palfremans who had farm in Wath that had shop. My father was Jack Fareham he was manager there and a very good butcher - made his own dripping in the upstairs rooms. Also made the most amazing pork pies i used to love to eat them hot and the jelly would run down my chin! I didt ever do spud picking but did plenty of tea making and washing up huge tins and trays! happy days!!

I used to like the brown in the bottom of the dish.

my wife introduced dripping on toast to my 5 year old grandaughter a few weeks ago
she thinks its brill.she took some home for her mum

when i had my elderst son i had a craving for bread and dripping i couldnt get enough of it .Funnily enough he hates the stuff .My daughter-in-law adds a bit of oxo to the brown juice before it sets.i had never heard of doing that but must admit it makes the jelly more tastier than ever

When I left school in 1962 I worked in the record department at Wilson Pecks and at morning break time I was sent for a shipping order of dripping breadcakes from a shop on Leopold Street. I can't remember the name of the bread shop but they were the best dripping breadcakes I have ever had and I still enjoy my bread and dripping to this day.

Wish people would stop bumping this thread, it makes my mouth water and I get cravings everytime I read it. :):)

Hi Live in Australia now and as you can guess not many have heard of bread and dripping except the poms .We cooked roast pork last week and at the end of the night i said to my Daughter can i have the left over from the roasting tin,she said what for, then i replied that i was thinking of doing a roast again tomorrow.I was longing to get home that night for pork dripping on a piece of bread.I hadnt had it for years and enjoyed it so much i had another slice:love::love: