Further Back in time for Dinner!

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With the Robshaws!! Something to watch on a Tuesday hooray.

True Trills

We all see things differently derxa

I don't think the recipes are daft. It was just trying out the new trends and ideas of the time. In a modern day one, they would be spiralising everything in sight, which would be an alien concept to even the most competent housewife of the 20th Centrury.

A family like the Robshaws were likely to be early adopters, so would have been one of the first to get things like pressure cookers or fitted kitchens.

The really interesting concept is the one of the Robshaws LOOKING BACK if you see what I mean, of course it would seem too much to our generation (esp. the younger ones!)

They are coming from an age of convenience, so it would be a bit like going to live as a poor family in a 3rd world country I suppose.

I haven't seen all of it. I saw the last programme/series and some of this and I thought Rochelle was a bloody good sport and attempted some of the recipes with enthusiasm and a wry sense of humour.

Debbie, with her skills and training, was absolutely needed in the earlier episodes I was thinking. Imagine the disaster of a 'normal' person attempting some of those menus.

I feel so sorry for Rochelle I don't think she values skills like cooking. It's not for the likes of her

I think Rochelle is savvy enough to know she's all fingers and thumbs in the kitchen and its best she does other things. She reminds of a giraffe trying to get up on its feet for the first time - all gangly and going in different directions at once. I have a soft spot for her and when she does put a meal on the table Im happy for her - especially if peeling a potato showed just how much trouble she has with co-ordination. I still think she's dyspraxic to a degree.

I think that Rochelle is fabulous!

If the girls finally get something to do, perhaps she'll have some time to do something for the war effort.

Just love the Robshaws, what lovely neighbours they would be. I was so pleased they were returning for this series, and wasn't disappointed. They seem such a fun, close family.

I agree they are a lovely family. If my lot did this, it would be non-stop moaning about everything!

I haven't noticed Brandon being less happy or Rochelle and Brandon being less close as people mentioned earlier in the thread.

I'm not stalking(!), but did come across this pic.

Doesn't Rochelle look fabulous?

Doesn't Rochelle look fabulous? Yes she does- so much more relaxed. Maybe all this cooking business does genuinely make her panic.

We love this programme. I really like the Robshaws , especially Rochelle. I love the way they all seem to embrace whatever is asked of them. The thing that spoiled programmes like The 1900 House and The Wartime House, for me, was that it was clear that the families in those had been railroaded into the programme in order to satisfy the interest of just one family member. And the moaning - about everything from food, to fashion, to sanitary protection and the lack of cosmetics. I seem to remember that one of them sneaked in some modern shampoo at one point. In contrast, the Robshaws just get on with it, they comment and have a laugh, but they don't whinge.

That's what I love about it too. They just get on.
Although they are only really experiencing the food. I don't think they are actually living the life to the level of no shampoo and tampons.

Good necklace in that picture.

I thought Rochelle looked lovely with her hair the way it was during the WW1 days. It really suited her.

Does anyone else ever wonder how these poor women coped when they had a newborn baby they had to breast feed and hold constantly whilst spending hours preparing meals with no help. Seriously, how would that work?

Well they woulnt hold babies for hours for Starters! Babies in shawls or in prams outside. Drugged up on all sorts to sleep through!

Exactly, wrapped up in a pram and at the bottom of the garden.
With some brandy.

I cried my eyes out this week when WW2 started..........

I think Rochelle is quite jokey about her shite cooking skills. The kids are all brilliant.

Im of an age where we were put in the pram so our mums could get on and get things done. Was never drugged. We just got put down and that was it. I can remember seeing how it was done when my wee sister was born.

@creme cold custard here all the way :)

Hot crumble and cold custard

Bloody awesome :)

I really think ROCHELLE is improving with cooking and can follow recipes well in an old kitchen with weird old fashioned appliance s

Think how fab she would be now in 2017 and cooking at home 😂

Thank you for reminding me of the 1900 House - I love that you can get it on all4.

They do seem to be having a properly shit time, don't they?

I suspect that the Robshaws are not living it all day every day and having to live without shampoo.

Now we just need the BBC to put the Supersizers on iPlayer. They were mostly drunk and playing dress-up.

Someone (perhaps on here) once said "Giles Coren seems like a bit of a cock, but he can't be that bad if Sue Perkins is his friend".

Has anyone read Larkrise To Candleford? Flora Thompson lived in and remembered the 1870s she says that the baby (in the big families) was looked after (maybe it was carried in a shawl ) till it could walk ,then OUT , regardless of the weather etc.

She said that there was one pot full of water hanging over the fire that had all the veg and some meat hanging in it , in nets, depending how poor they were, , they would sometimes eat out of it with forks and that was it.

God yeah The Supersizers was brilliant! Esp Sue of course!