Everyone eats melba toast when they're ill

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When I was young if I ever had a day off school poorly, mum would make me homemade melba toast by cutting the crusts off some bread, toasting it, then slicing it in half horizontally (like making two thinner slices) then grill it with what had been the inside of the toast slice up so it curled up.

I thought, until yesterday, that this was a perfectly standard off-ill delicacy and offered to make some for DH if he had a bad reaction to his vaccine. He was perplexed by the concept and consultation with a wider group suggests this was not as common a practice as I had been led to believe.

So two questions for you all:

1. Is homemade melba toast something that for you goes hand in hand with a day off ill?
2. If not did your parents/carers have any special recipes reserved for the suffering?!

When I was a child, we had a GP who always used to say aspirin and marmite on toast would see you right after minor illnesses. My mum still swears by them. But always Lucozade too (sipped only), and then Heinz tomato soup if you could keep down a slice of marmite on toast.

YYY to Irish egg/butter in a mug too, though that was put into service at other times too.

Lucozade and plain Jacobs water biscuits or cream crackers after a sickness bug.
Icecream for tonsillitis.

Heinz tomato soup for all illnesses

Oh and hot ribena

@334bu

Red lemonade new one on me. However, up here in Scotland we call lemonade " ginger" no matter its colour

Think that's a Glasgow thing rather than a Scotland thing

We don't

Red cola used to be sold by the juice van. Can't remember the name but when I was wee it used to come round twice a week

@mathanxiety

YYY to Irish egg/butter in a mug too, though that was put into service at other times too.

I wonder if that's why Americans seem to eat their boiled eggs like that-the massive Irish immigration?

Re the mashed egg in a cup. I quite often have a breakfast of porridge, egg in a cup and bread and butter for my tea. Especially in the winter.

That could explain why it's almost impossible to buy egg cups in the States.

To be fair, boiled eggs served hot are not really a part of the American culinary repertoire. They eat omelettes, scrambled eggs, eggs benedict, and cold hardboiled eggs in deviled eggs, egg salad, and as part of other salads/ sandwiches.

Eggs chopped up in a cup!!!!

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