hillsbro Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Remember the ad, the Esso Blee Dooler? LOLYep, remember it well - .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyedges Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Council house on Lowedges in the 1960's. Metal window frames. Condensation streaming down the windows and as others have said ice on the inside of the windows in the winter. Coal fire in the living area. Gas cooker turned on in the kitchen just to get that area warm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smary Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 We used to sit in front of the gas oven to eat breakfast before school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 We used to sit in front of the gas oven to eat breakfast before school You must have been posh , we never had a gas oven or electric or breakfast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontarian1981 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Council house on Lowedges in the 1960's. Metal window frames. Condensation streaming down the windows and as others have said ice on the inside of the windows in the winter. Coal fire in the living area. Gas cooker turned on in the kitchen just to get that area warm. Two freestanding gas rings beside the sink was our cooker, everything else was cooked by the oven in the fireplace and a trivet on the fire itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trastrick Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Two freestanding gas rings beside the sink was our cooker, everything else was cooked by the oven in the fireplace and a trivet on the fire itself. Likewise. Our cooking pots and kettles were always covered in a thick layer black gunk from being on the fire. There was no point in cleaning them, really! Today, I'm proud of my set of cooking pans. All gleaming clean and on display in my kitchen, always convenient and ready for use. I just wish I could replicate the truly wonderful bread, breadcakes, fat cakes, rhubarb pasties, dumpling stews granma could conjure up from that fireplace oven, to feed a large family, but the secret ingredient, lard, seems to have been outlawed these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontarian1981 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Likewise. Our cooking pots and kettles were always covered in a thick layer black gunk from being on the fire. There was no point in cleaning them, really! Today, I'm proud of my set of cooking pans. All gleaming clean and on display in my kitchen, always convenient and ready for use. I just wish I could replicate the truly wonderful bread, breadcakes, fat cakes, rhubarb pasties, dumpling stews granma could conjure up from that fireplace oven, to feed a large family, but the secret ingredient, lard, seems to have been outlawed these days. Lard is alive and kicking but it's called shortening over here. We always have it in but only for pastries, pie crusts etc.I don't put it on my hair anymore. What you were saying about pans, that was where the old saying came from 'the kettle calling the frying pan black":D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 ... that was where the old saying came from 'the kettle calling the frying pan black":DOr as my grandma put it "kettle calling t' frying pan grimy arse".. Bless her - she only ever had a fire oven and gas ring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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