I was talking to my mother the other day and she was telling me how after the war and with food being rationed, how parents wanted to "fatten their children up and treat them," when more food became available.
One of the things my mother remembered eating was sugar sandwiches. Bread was buttered and sugar sprinkled over it. She also remembers eating sandwiches of bread and butter with condensed milk spread over the buttered bread.
Once bananas became available, they would mash up a banana, sprinkle sugar over it and pour condensed or Carnation milk over it. They would also mash up bananas to put in sandwiches as well.
Jam sandwiches were a staple, as my Nana made jam, bramble jelly was my favourite.
Every night before she went to bed as a child, my Nana would crumble an OXO cube into a bowl, pour boiling water over it, mix it up and crumble in a slice of bread and my mam would eat that before bed.
I had never heard of sugar sandwiches, as we were never given them.
Is this something you have heard of?
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I remember friends eating sugar sandwiches though I was never given them. I also remember my mother eating condensed milk straight from the tin.
Yes, my Mom remembers them but it was brown sugar or perhaps white sugar with cinnamon on toasted bread. Condensed milk must have tasted good. Hugs, Elaine
On Mondays in the 1950s mum always did the washing. I would sit on the back door step and watch her putting the sheets through the mangle. I was given a slice of bread, spread with margarine and a spoonful of sugar. A special treat was a sandwich with Fussell's condensed milk (F was cheaper than Nestle)
Yes I've heard of then, never had one though
We had a bowl of cubed bread and hot milk with a sprinkle of sugar for breakfast or if we were poorly. Breakfast cereal was expensive.
Lots of bread and homemade jam, without butter, large batches of plain scones, or pancakes. Frugal, filling food for tea because we had cooked school dinners as our main meal.
We had toast with cinnamon sugar and butter.
Yup, been there and eaten all of the above - I'm almost 80 and enjoyed these as treats (not meals) on occasions when a little girl. England, of course, don't know if anyone from other lands would do this. Elaine with memories
Yes, in the 50’s and 60’s sugar butties were the norm. I’m from the industrial midlands. We had condensed milk sandwiches too. Weaning babies were given a little mashed up banana and sugar.
Margaret (UK)
I haven't heard of sugar sandwiches or condensed milk bread. We did have the cinnamon sugar toast as a treat once in a while. My Mom was from the southern U.S., and she would take a glass of milk or buttermilk(bleck) and crumble cornbread in it to eat with a spoon.
I grew up eating brown sugar sandwiches. We lived in an old farmhouse and the only heat upstairs was through a hole in the floor. My room was above the kitchen and when I couldn't sleep my mom would pass a brown sugar sandwich through the hole. Of course I didn't brush my teeth after eating it.
My Great Granny used to give me brown sauce sandwiches with a sprinkle of salt and I was born in the 1950's. Xx
I am 84 yrs, and remember eating sugar sandwiches in England. My father would often have bread and milk. The school lunch was finished with jam tart and custard, and, as I remember it was more tart than the jam and custard.
My Dad would make himself sugar sandwiches.
Oh yes, I live in the Netherlands born in 1955 third of eight children and in my early years on a Saturday when my dad was home not at work he sometimes made us a slice of buttered Swedish white bread sprinkled with brown or white sugar. What a weekend treat!
I can recall eating banana sandwiches with added sugar and jam sandwiches were popular too.
All the best Jan
Yes. I have heard of them. My mother remembers eating them after the war.
She also told me that the first time they saw super, it was in a huge bag, her and her siblings sat down with a spoon each and just ate until they were all sick.
These days you definitely wouldn’t allow that. My arteries are screaming even while typing this
I grew up in 1970s in rural Northern Ireland and regularly remember traditional Mother’s Pride Plain loaf as it was called spread with butter and then dipped in sugar to form a crust on the butter. That and regularly golden syrup sandwiches which are still my favourite treat to this day at 52 years of age!
While I never had a sugar sandwich I can remember some other people talking about them.
God bless.
Hmmm...interesting, but I'm more familiar with stories about before the war ended, when rationing required making cake with uh "creative" ingredients aka "war cake."
We use to get brown sugar, mix in some cinnamon, and then toast it. We absolutely loved it, and with 6 kids we had to get creative for treats/desserts.
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