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:confused: what treats did you get when you were ill as a child, do you still use them now?

mine was, my mum used to make me my pobbies, for those who dont know what they are its, & dont go ugh, its good// take 2 slices bread with butter on, slice into cubes,place in a pan with milk, boil for about 8 mins, add some suger (to taste), simmer for about 3 mins then serve , mmmm i love um & it always makes me feel better. has anyone else any weird (truthfull)favorite remadies they remember?

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Eee, I remember when...

Yeah, I remember pobbies. My mum used to make me pobbies when i had my tonsils removed when I was about four years old, because solid food was too painful to swallow.

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I had forgotten about them mez, used to have them all the time for supper when i was a nipper.

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We called them Poms.......

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A good slap round ear lugs,an told stop being so bloody soft! no to be truthful kids wer"nt as ill in them days like they are in this modern world.worst thing that happened to me as a sprog was when i was about 8 or 9 year old and i caught my privates in my zip and all the neighbours came round to have a look......:o me dad said they might have to send for the fire brigade?

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ha ha ha ha ha ............ best laugh all day:rofl38: sorry staggers

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Your lucky Staggers! I had mine pinned to the nappy with a "SAFETY PIN" how bads that. 12 months later my baby sitter set fire to it with a Ronson Lighter, she's still alive and well and lives in church still. I kid you not.

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nearly forgot this one,when i was younger i lived over bridge street and one night my elder brother and sister babysat whilst mam and dad went round to commercial,i got sent to bed so i put electric blanket on!i was soon snug as a bug in a rug and went to sleep.The next thing i knew all this shouting and commotion ,the bedroom full of smoke and my brother dragging me out of bed me still half asleep climed back in under the smouldering blankets.Next thing my sister comes running in with a pan of water not satisfied with burning me to death she wanted to electricute me as well!

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Ooooh, my favourite treat was gripe water. The proper stuff with some alcohol content, not the alcohol free rubbish that kids have to suffer now. I used to fake tummy ache so that my mum would give me a spoonful. I loved it, which probably explains a lot..:drunk:

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Mum always made her own egg nog in winter. We were often sent to school with on an egg cup full. We used to 'forget' something upstairs so we could refill the eggcup before she came back down :)

Recipie if anyone wants it

6 egg yolks
1 tin Nestle Sweetened Milk(NOT condensed)
1 1/2 refills of the tin above of sherry
1/2 tin whiskey or brandy whichever you prefer.

Whip or blend together.

Ian

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Pobbies....yeeeuk, Mum used to make them for us and she would put nutmeg on the top......I hated them.....I have an aversion to milk. If I was ill I used to love tomato soup and soggy chips floating in the soup. I was once really ill with quinsy and I really fancied grapes......we were very poor and NEVER ever had grapes, anyway Ma went out and bought a bag of green grapes that cost her something like 5 bob, and I couldn't eat them because my throat was so swollen.

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I also had Pobbies, but never knew what the mixture was called until now.

I remember having mash potatoe with a raw egg mixed in, yummy.

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My Grandma use to make Pobbies...I loved 'em.

Funny thing though, she use to make them with miky tea.

Bread squares, sugar, and pour milky tea over them..................................Luverly..... ..........

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we used to have oxo in a cup with crisps in on a friday night as a treat, dont think i could now.

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"Andrews"that fizzy stomach powder you mix with water.Used to love the stuff.Havent seen it for a bit.Is it still available?

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I think I have seen it in Asda.

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My Auntie used to have Oxo with Milk in and she would butter a crust and dip it in..... this was her elevenses......she said it gave her strength to carry on with her cleaning up.

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Never liked pobbies - thought they were yucky. We used to have mashed potato with eggs beaten into it, we called it "Brookin" - luscious, it was.

Does anyone remember barley pudding? It was made with barley kernels, and tasted absolutely wonderful - like rice pudding but richer and creamier. If anyone knows where I can get barley kernels and has a recipe, I would be so grateful.

And can you remember how long it took to spend 3d at the sweetshop?......

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Glad I found this - no one I know has ever heard of "pobbies". My mother used to make beef stew when I was little and she would always say, "do you want pobbies"? By this she meant did I want a lot of bread mushed up in it - I always said yes - mmmmmmmmm delicious!!

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ya dont know many "educated" people then KDEITRICK? pobbies are what us classy gits were brought up on.;):D

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My mum used to make Home made crisps..........they are lovely and miles more crispier than packeted crisps!!!

She also made Potatoe cakes............hmmmmmm loads of butter!!!

And home made onion curry, poured over roasted potatoes!! That was a proper winter warmer and I still make that now for my own family!! :D

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sod off slinks ya got me slavering now.;)

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If I put that down my neck......I would need your Aunt to clean up :p

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VIROL - I have VERY early memories of my dummy being dipped in it -yummy

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well i asked my granny for a fag and she told me to have a biscuit in stead so now you all nowe why i smoke a lot and eat biscuits as well.

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grated cheese milk and onion
smashing

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Gosh, reminded me of cheese, soaked in milk in a small pie tin (not deep one) ..just put under grill and eat with toast, loved this, sometimes egg was dropped in. Of course, was cooking cheese .. can you get this now, perhaps under another name ? lovely and stringy as you ate it .. :D

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ah the memories of pobbies, my grandad used to make me those when i was ickle....

our treat when we where kids was on a friday night, mum would take us to the shop and buy us crisps and a can of pop to sit infront of the telly and watch the A-team, and we only ever went to the chippy in the summer holidays on the way back from Blackpool, nowadays kids live off the chippy

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Hey staggers, tell us about the night you went to the 'Langs' for your tea, the night you broke the world record for power supping.

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i have some here ian lol i'll fetch you some up tomorrow, but why andrews? its not pop, i always knew you where weird ;)

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My great gran used to make this for me when I was little. She always dropped an egg in the middle of it. She used to use lancashire cheese so that it went really stringy, with bread and butter soldiers to dip in, it was a treat for when we were ill, it always made me feel better.

Haven't had it in years.

At home my parents didn't have a lot of money when we were growing up, but they always made sure that we got fish and chips for tea on friday's and on Saturdays if we had all been good, we would get a scoop of ice cream in a glass topped up with lemonade.

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Dont overdose - its a laxative too :eek:

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An expensive laxative :)

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My mum would give us this when we had stomache ache, i used to love the way it fizzed when it mixed with the water, we had to drink it while it was still fizzing. I used to drink it down in one and give a big shudder afterwards as I always thought it tasted vile.

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Yeh cant say it tastes nice either lol.

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Why is it stuff thats meant to make you feel better always tates vile?

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Never heard ov cheese wi egg in till we moved to accy. We had cheese in thoven. Lancashire cheese crumbled into a dish with milk poured over top. It was cooked on a high heat for about half an hour. Some times tomato or onion were added.
It was eaten with loads of bread to dip in it or toast. Mmmm loverly.
Mick cant stand it says it stinks. But he wont even try it. When our eldest had just started eating solids he said. " Your not going to feed her that."
When we used to have pobies it was just 2 slices of bread broken up in a bowl sugar on top and then hot milk added.

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My mum had to go over to northern ireland - granny had died and left us kids in the caring hands of dad. Every night he made us mashed spuds and 2 boiled eggs with runny yokes cut up on the top of it - mum was away for a week was I ever so glad to get mum back!!!! Didnt like it - used to just eat the mashed spuds and leave the egg white!!! lol He could only make fried fish, that and fried spuds and bacon and egg. We got the fried spuds and bacon and egg on sunday but the rest of the time we got mashed spuds & egg.

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My mum used to go round the corner to Britcliffe's selling-out shop and buy a bottle of lemonade and a brick of ice cream. She'd pour the lemonade out, plonk the brick into it and we'd eat the resultant gooey mess as it slowly melted.

...I wonder if their son, Peter, ever had it?

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My sister used to treat me when out shopping with her - ginger beer and ice cream in it or dandelion & burdock (fizzy) with ice cream or fizzy vimto with ice cream. It was the stall in accy market hall or if we went to blackburn or bury but mainly at accrington. Might have to sweet talk her into taking me out again!!! lol

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i dont think peters ever had it
we use to buy a tablet ? of jelly and
tear of chunks and chew on it blackcurrant jelly sweets

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ummmmm i used to love cubed bread with oxo over em ... yummy
when ever i was ill my mum always tried to do a pan full of broth or spud pie my two fav meals of all time and always made me feel better ..

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When I was suffering from tonsillitis as a child, which was quite often until my tonsils were removed, my mum would warm some milk, add a small nob of butter and a spoonful of pure honey. Whilst the milk was heating up she would soak a cloth in either meths or vinegar and wrap it around my throat. It never worked but the milk and honey tasted great.

My all time favourite snack was and still is a couple of slices of buttered toast liberally spread with jam, preferably strawberry jam, with slices of a good quality sharp Cheddar cheese on top. It’s almost a meal in itself.

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We had oxo pobbies too!,,,
I think i must have been mad as a child ,I pretended to be ill so that i could have some Fennings Fever Cure ,,i loved it...:eek:

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I remember that too -it had an aniseed flavour

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If I was poorly I always got chicken soup followed by lucozade.

I remember Andrews Liver Salts, and a bit weird, I remember liking them.

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i must be weird too, i liked andrews.:)also loved California Syrup Of Figs.lol

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That's what I got when poorly Gayle. Always chicken soup

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Pennys just dropped with me lol paris has been making chicken soup today, no idea why?? just realised were having grandaughter overnight sat n shes got a bad cold.:rofl38: