O/T When the Boat Comes In

[Exiletyke]

Watching this series 40 odd years after it was first screened & still brilliant
Bella was making something to eat that my mam used to make
& which I haven't seen since I was a kid
It was homebaked bread torn into bits with hot milk poured over it in a basin
Does anyone recall it & what it was called in your family
I know what we called it but just curious to know what anyone else's name for it
It was ok when you'd been billious Roma / SB

[tiggertyke]

Mi Mam used to call it milk pobs. Made when bread was stale, hot milk poured on and sugar luvly.

[Exiletyke]

That's what we called it
Any idea why pobs

[EastStandRed]

We called it pobs. My Mam used to give it to me when I'd had some teeth out at the dentist

[EastStandRed]

Frumt tinternet

"The poorest bread was peasebread, made from a mixture of pea or bean flour and ordinary flour.

It went stale very quickly and the only way to eat it was by soaking it in hot milk or ale.

For poor people, this might have been their only real meal of the day.

So pobs is possibly a shortened form of peasebread."

[Exiletyke]

Thanks for that ESR

By 'ell we were poor


but were we 'appy?

[Hodger1957]

Thanks for that ESR

By 'ell we were poor


but were we 'appy?

In a cracked cup n all.

[EastStandRed]

Thanks for that ESR

By 'ell we were poor


but were we 'appy?

I think as kids we were happy . Don't know about us parents though

[GUNTERYY36]

Watching this series 40 odd years after it was first screened & still brilliant
Bella was making something to eat that my mam used to make
& which I haven't seen since I was a kid
It was homebaked bread torn into bits with hot milk poured over it in a basin
Does anyone recall it & what it was called in your family
I know what we called it but just curious to know what anyone else's name for it
It was ok when you'd been billious Roma / SB

It was enthralling, Exile. Brought to life the way survivors of World War 1 adapted to their new environment back in the north east. Flanders, Ypres, etc. just bad memories. James Bolam at his very best and that's saying something. Can't comment on the new series

[Romared]

POBS at arr house ( pieces of bread soaking ?) Ere yoo arr luv Yull feel betta nar !!
That billiousness will gu sooin
thu dunt kno tha born these days