Food you had at your Granny's house

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My Nana was a wonderful woman who brought up three children during the war (well, actually, two of them were evacuated as she lived in London) and she had some weird and wonderful ways with food. She grew all her own vegetables, well into her 80s, and could be quite eccentrically creative with her recipes. Some of her staples that I have never eaten anywhere other than at her house were:

watercress sandwiches (always on brown bread).

tinned mackerel sandwiches (always on white).

stuffed marrow - it was stuffed with minced beef and vegetables and roasted.

sausagemeat and tomato tart - like a sort of working class quiche

strawberry jelly made with evaporated milk instead of water for a proper treat!

My grandad didn't so much as make a cup of tea until his wife died, but then he taught himself to cook and he was really good at it.

My memories are of steamed sponge and suet puddings wrapped in muslin and cooked in the pressure cooker, beef burger sandwiches, golden syrup on toast, milk roll with jam and Carnation, tea in a tea cup and saucer (the tea was made with leaves in a pot, I loved the ceremony of measuring out the leaves and then straining them).

I loved my grandad