Orange-juice-and-cream

[catwithcreamy.livejournal.com]

Anyone come up with the perfect proportions for this yet?

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[jackmerlin.livejournal.com]

I always thought this sounded most peculiar. Maybe I should try it. Did children really drink this or is it a Marlow invention? I can't imagine today's Fruitshoot-drinking children thinking much of it!

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

I always wondered if they might have meant tinned evaporated milk, rather than fresh dairy produce. We certainly used to refer to that as cream in the seventies, and would specify if we meant 'real' cream.

Though I haven't tried orange-juice-and-evaporated-milk either!

[catwithcreamy.livejournal.com]

Hadn't thought of that - also maybe the top of the milk perhaps?

[hooloovoo_42]

I always thought it sounded dire. But then, I always ate my tinned fruit & cream separately, as I don't like juice contaminating my cream. Real fruit & cream is a whole other thing and is yummy.

[catwithcreamy.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, absolutely! I hated that curdling too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've mixed orange juice and milk for a quick cold "milkshake" in the office in summer (because I loath milk alone) and it was a nice drink. Cream would be a lot richer but I'd drink it!

[antfan.livejournal.com]

I used to drink ribena mixed with milk instead of water as a child. Yeuch! I really liked it though. Never tried an orange juice version. OK I'm off to look in the fridge...

[catwithcreamy.livejournal.com]

Gosh, yeuch indeed! I just can't imagine the mixture of citrussy and dairy - not my thing at all.

[joyeuce]

One of the very-expensive-coffee-stands-in-stations (AMT?) does an orange milkshake they call a Valenciana, which is rather nice and tastes as I imagine orange-juice-and-cream might.

[catwithcreamy.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'll look out for it and give it a try!

Apart from OJ+cream, though, I don't think there's really enough unusual or interesting material for a Marlow/Forest recipe book, do you? All pretty standard post-war fare, as far as I'm aware. (Am in procrastination mode at home...)

[jackmerlin.livejournal.com]

Yes all the food in the AF books sounds very much of the 40s, even in those supposedly set in the seventies. When did people stop eating bread and dripping? Or sugar sandwiches?

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Old-fashioned, yes, but I wouldn't think the 40s, exactly -- there'd have been rationing then. When bread-and-dripping came up on Girlsown once, seems to me several people said they still ate it, but that's some time ago and I may have forgotten the details.

Orange sherbet and vanilla ice cream is a classic combination in the US, so I always thought of orange-juice-and-cream as being something like that. But I never could figure out how the cream didn't curdle from the acid in the orange juice.

[joyeuce]

I ate bread-and-butter-and-brown-sugar as a child (1980s)!

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, bread & dripping.

My dad used to eat it regularly well into the nineties.

[jackmerlin.livejournal.com]

There are certain things I always loved about the Marlows' food - the big breakfasts with everyone sitting down together helping themselves to bacon; Patrick's cook rustling up warm scones because Nicola had come unexpectedly; big "elevenses"; the tea laid on for the Dodds; yum yum.

[catwithcreamy.livejournal.com]

I know, me too! Especially the scrummy tea that Nicola and Patrick have!

The last time I cooked roast beef it crossed my mind to collect the dripping, after having read Rose Prince on making food go further, but somehow it didn't materialise in any great quantity. Maybe we have less fatty cuts nowadays?

[antfan.livejournal.com]

And don't forget the double decker chocolate cake or whatever it was at the Copper Kettle. As eaten by Nicola and Miranda. Yum yum.

[tootooticky.livejournal.com]

And the kedgeree after cubbing in Attic Term...

[lizzzar.livejournal.com]

I've never had orange juice and cream, and it doesn't
sound very good to me. I wonder if it is some kind of hold over from
rationing. Boodle's Orange Fool is very yummy, though, and I
can quite see Patrick and the Marlows enjoying it.

[tabithabun.livejournal.com]

Ham sandwiches, gooseberries and tinned tomato juice for Nicola and Patrick's picnic lunch in Falconer's Lure. No plastic bottles of water or tins of fizz in those days. I always wonder if the gooseberries needed sugar or if Mrs Bertie had done the necessary.

I love the rivalry between Nellie and Mrs Bertie and the idea of Nellie's swank with sponge cake. How does she manage to produce a batch of scones in "nothing like half an hour"? And cookies too, if I remember rightly.

[jackmerlin.livejournal.com]

I used to wonder about the gooseberries until a couple of summers ago I went to a pick-your-own on a hot day and picked gooseberries off the bushes and ate them straight away - they were so warm and plump and bursting with sweetness. I think they were a sort of dessert gooseberry that can be eaten raw, which must have been what Nicola and Patrick had.
I think the scones could have been drop scones that you do on a hot griddle so wouldn't take an experienced cook long to make.