When I was a wee sprog, like most small children, I was given simple jobs to do.
On Sundays, if Father was going walking/climbing, I was given the job of putting 'dubbin' on his boots. I loved it.
Sunday lunchtimes also involved small jobs. If we were eating Beef, it was my job to mix the Mustard. If we were eating Lamb, it was me who made the Mint Sauce.
The Mint grew in a large patch at the bottom of the garden. I would go down, pick some Nettles or Bracken, and return triumphantly to present it to my Mother, before revealing the actual Mint from behind my back. I continued doing this hilariously funny game for years.
I loved chopping the mint, using a large rounded knife to perform a rocking movement over the Mint to chop it as finely as possible. Then it was just a matter of adding the Vinegar and some Sugar, before filling our glass Mint Sauce Boat.
We ate Roast Lamb last night, hence the sauce. Delicious.
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I found Coleman’s mustard powder on sale again.
Exactly the same glass mint sauce boat as I had, and my mum's too. Mint from down the garden next to the rhubarb being forced under the old enamel bucket. Jimmy Clithero and B.F.P.O. forces favourites on the radio. Perfect Sunday.
Did you also have to clean the chimney and lug the "night soil" bucket to the vegetable plot?
It's the best... but powerful!
Two-way Family Favourites, Billy Cotton's Band Show, Wilfred Pickles. That was our entertainment. It sounds as if we had similar Sundays.
No, I was born in Surrey. You're probably thinking of 'up north'.
Lovely stuff! Reminiscent of my Sundays too.
Sweet memory
WAKEY WAKEY! I had Billy's autograph at one time. No idea what happened to it. I was 'in charge' of the mint garden as a small child so the smell of mint is very nostalgic for me.
What memories! My grandmother used to give me that job too. She had a special gadget for mincing it, it had a handle and contained multiple blades inside an open topped box shaped bit with a turny handle on one side. You'd stuff the mint into the box bit, turn the handle and the chopped mint would fall out of the bottom...gosh, I wonder if they even make those any more? Nowadays, I just bung it all in the food processor.
you got me looking online Cro...here it is, one like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/257461906241?chn=ps&_ul=GB&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&google_free_listing_action=view_item
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