Further Back in time for Dinner!

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

Just don't give Rochelle a tin-opener again FGS.

Or a knife and a carrot at the same time.

But seriously, I think Rochelle could be dyspraxic and its why she's appears so uncomfortable in the kitchen.

Yes you could be right MrsPeely

Tinned fruit and evaporated milk was the real treat - my mum never did it, but I had it at a friend's house, and ohhhh boy did I love it!

I think Rochelle's knife/tin opener skills aren't helped by the fact that she has to stoop to do things on the kitchen table - it is so much easier to do these things on a surface that is the right height for you - and she is (I believe) taller than the average woman, so is having to stoop even further than I would, to cut things at the kitchen table.

Yes she is tall SDTG I sit down at the kitchen table when preparing stews, veg. etc. Much easier. Though NOT when opening tins ! You need to be a 'weight ' above the tin don't you? Although they are mainly the ring pull type nowadays.

"Tinned fruit and evaporated milk was the real treat"

We used to have that too.

I think mostly with fruit cocktail & a fight for the lonely glace cherry half!
(Well, it seemed like there was only one!)

Just seen last weeks. Aka most missed it in the planner as so much other crap 😂

Good to see ROCHELLE cook this time and tbh she did a good job. The tin openers are hard !!!

Nice to see a bit of fun and dancing and they danced well 😁

Dad is lovely about their cooking

Good to see DEBBIE looking for a new job and @trills may be right about seeing her again and being boss of daughters

Wonder what tonight will bring. Prob watch it next week knowing me 😂😂😂😂😂

Look what I had this week.
Tinned peaches and custard.

Hot custard or cold? Was it nice?

Hot custard, I'm not a heathen.
Twas bloody lovely. I have another tin in the cupboard.

Haha! I'm going to have to give it a try!

Cold custard? Do people really eat that? (Shudders).

Here we go then, 1930s. I don't like the kitchen as much as the 20s, but I love the women's hairstyles.

I don't know if I'd be brave enough to use that pressure cooker!

A bit of a comedown for poor Debbie, back as a part-time cleaner, although following the depression, I suppose you'd be grateful for any work...

Im OBSESSED with this! Giles Coren is honestly one of my Idols - They did something similar ( but way more extreme) in 2008 Called Supersizers Go ... and it was awesome, they did Romans, Normans, French Revolution etc.
Rochelle I really didn't like at first but actually she brings a lot of entertainment to it because she's so blooming useless x

My granny had one of those toasters

Just poured myself some condensed milk inspired by this.

I like cold custard, great with bananas. Have you never had a pot of it from ambrosia?

I adore this programme. Don't the girls look beautiful in their thirties fashions? I suppose it would be a bit harsh to make them bob their hair, as it surely would have been, but they do look swoonsome. And trousers! As they said, such a massive change over only thirty years.

Nope, Mip, I wouldn't eat custard with bananas anyway. Too yellow! One of those small pots of custard you can heat in the microwave, is plenty for DS and I to share with cake or apple tart (although I prefer ice-cream with that), as neither of us like more than a drizzle of it.

Oh Cream, you're missing out. Although I have to admit when whatserface was commenting on stuffing marrows not happening any more my reaction was that we do so maybe my tastes are old fashioned. No brain soup for me though!

Giles is really quite lovely at times.

1936 onwards is chilling.

Tinned custard is great cold.

Very much enjoying more Debbie

When they were tasting the chocolate I was saying "Roald Dahl!"

I love this series and the one they did before. I think it works because they have used a middle class family to focus on, working class life would have been perpetual misery for many.

I'm amused by the idea that even poor families had maids or that the house used isn't realistically big enough for a MC family. Where do you live? In Glasgow many poor families would have been lucky to cram in to a tenement room and kitchen or a single end. I can't think of many houses in Glasgow that existed pre-WWll that housed a typical WC family that wasn't a tiny hovel.

I'm amused by the idea that even poor families had maids or that the house used isn't realistically big enough for a MC family.

A middle class family, especially an upper middle class family like the Robshaws are supposed to be would have had a bigger house in the first decade. The scene where they held their open tea was an obvious sign of that. they would have had a parlour room exclusively reserved for visitors. All of the best furniture, ornaments and drapery would have been on display there. The rooms that the family lived in, like the dining room and certainly small parlour off it, would never have been seen by visitors. If they had only those two rooms, they would have been kept as two rooms, the family would have lived almost exclusively in the smaller room with a smaller dining table and a couple of easy chairs squeezed in. To have had the more livavble set up they had meant that there would have had to be at least one more room to the house kept 'good.'

I was very impressed at Rochelle cooking a really tasty meal using that pressure cooker - I don't think I would have dared go near it!

Damn I missed it tonight. Does anyone know when it's repeated please?