Buttery Sugaries

[bobzee]

As the title says - buttery sugaries.

I remember when I was a nipper back in the '80s, whenever I had a sore throat, my dad would give me a wee ball of butter after rolling it around in the sugar bowl.

Can't remember if they actually helped though.

I was wondering if this was something my dad made up to shut us up, or has anyone else heard of them?

Google makes no mention of them.

[wee minxy]

Tiz true...we got that too, it did help at night time just to get you off too sleep, taking your mind off your sore throat

[hungryjoe]

My former wife got them, so the practice had spread as far as Kilmarnock.

I very occasionally got a a piece n sugar. Fucking revolting when I think of it now.

[bobzee]

So my dad wasn't a crazy auld coot then!

I can remember looking forward to them. Gives me the dry boke thinking of it now.

[Springburn Boy]

My former wife got them, so the practice had spread as far as Kilmarnock.

I very occasionally got a a piece n sugar. Fucking revolting when I think of it now.

I used to love a peece'n'sugar wi' thick butter :)!
My Mum used to put a Bread and Sugar Poultice on my chest. Don't know what I had. It was either that or my Mum was jumping about with a driver from Tate and Lyle. Anybody heard of that one?? (the poultice,not the driver bit)

[Doorstop]

I've heard of a soap and sugar poultice for drawing boils to a head, but not bread and sugar.

[big jim]

bread and sugar was called a poor mans doughnut in sprinburn

butter/sugar bals remember my auld granny and nana giving me that when i had a cough when i was a wean

[DickyHart]

bread an sugar we used to get that!!

Also A piece n dip, basically a slice of plain bread dipped in hot lard after a fry up had been made, loved it then, makes me boak thinking about it now.

oghh the poverty!!

tell that to young folk of today and they wont beleive a word of it...

dicky

[draugelis]

Also A piece n dip, basically a slice of plain bread dipped in hot lard after a fry up had been made, loved it then, makes me boak thinking about it now.dicky

Dicky, dipped bread - still a staple for the Sunday morning Draugelis family breakfast! That or eggy bread (or "French Toast" as it's known in the Giffnock G46) - absolute quality!!

[nuttytigger]

I love french toast! i usually have it with mayonaisse or bbq sauce!

[MacotheIsles]

Encountered butter/sugar only once when it was used instead of cream in a sponge cake baked by my mum, and I have to say it was the second most horrendous concoction ever to assault my palate. The very worst was an evil, slimy mixture called Scott's Emulsion which was emulsified codliver oil concentrated 10 billion times. This was administered to all unfortunate waifs and gamins of the 1960s at the onset of Autumn, to stave off respiratory infections.

[HollowHorn]

I used to love a peece'n'sugar wi' thick butter

Aye!
Did anyone else's maw add vinegar to the water when rinsing yir hair to give it a shine? Or was that just my mammy?

[Josef]

Did anyone else's maw add vinegar to the water when rinsing yir hair to give it a shine? Or was that just my mammy?

Shurely 'bleach'?

[Dexter St. Clair]

The very worst was an evil, slimy mixture called Scott's Emulsion which was emulsified codliver oil concentrated 10 billion times. This was administered to all unfortunate waifs and gamins of the 1960s at the onset of Autumn, to stave off respiratory infections.

and you're here today to prove its efficacy. What dosage are you on now? and how's the rickets?

[Lone Groover]

I used to love a peece'n'sugar wi' thick butter

Aye!
Did anyone else's maw add vinegar to the water when rinsing yir hair to give it a shine? Or was that just my mammy?

We used to get the vinegar after the Vosene !

I think the idea was to give the nits nothing to hold onto, never had nits so it might well have been the case !