Location: Black Country
“Food was a lot healthier back then. Greggs weren’t around, or Maccy D’s. Back then you had what was put in front of you and you had to eat it. If you didn’t eat it, you went hungry. Job done. A treat – have a biscuit – if you were lucky. My two favourite meals were Shepherd’s Pie and Toad in the Hole – either one of them would do me, and if you had them both together, that was even better. There wasn’t really toads in it. It was sausages – I found this out at a later date. I did try eating a toad, but they don’t taste as nice as a sausage! Me Mum did the cooking. She used to do a flan on a Sunday with a sponge base, orange jelly and cream on the top.”
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 75g caster sugar
- 75g self-raising flour
- Grated zest of half an orange
- 135g pack of orange jelly
- Double cream