Person:Harriet Seal (1)

From Dee: Ted, my father-in-law told me often his father would bring home toffee or cinder toffee (Yellarman the Irish call it) made by Mrs Harriet Clifford (Fred’s relation, I didn’t realise this was great great grandmother then). She also made walnut toffee in September with fresh walnuts and dairy fudge and treacle toffee, his favourite and my fathers, and sold them from her house and in the local pub on a Saturday after pay night. She would have a half of shandy (a drink made from strong beer like the stronger lagers and lemonade (a lemon flavoured soda), it’s worth trying), which she would drink with a bag of pork scratchings. She would give her grandchildren and children some monies she made to go to the film show the following Saturday. At Christmas time she would make a port and lemon (port and lemonade) or hot toddy of rum, that’s hot buttered spiced rum (butter is blended with brown sugar and spices a small teaspoonful is put into a glass with a measure of rum topped up with hot water), they also did a port toddy the same for cold snowy days. I have some recipes my grandma had from Polly, handed from Harriet for some of her sweets I will have to find them out, and for toffee apples eaten on bonfire night.