Golden syrup on bread [Was: Botswanian (?) food? Anyone know about?]

[Phred]

When I was 9, we spent a year in Amsterdam. One of the things we
learned how to love were syrup sandwiches. I don't know what the syrup
was except it was very thick and dark. White bread and butter and
syrup. Wonderful! We had a similar snack made with chocolate flakes
instead of syrup.

I grew up with Lyall's golden syrup. Great on toast.........e.

It's the best of the lot! And, as several Poms already mentioned,
golden syrup on white bread and a layer of butter is angel food (and
not just that you'll probably die sooner if you eat too much of it :).

It's also better than sugar on Weet-Bix and similar breakfast cereals.

And I recently made a batch of very acceptable mildly spicey glazed
almonds using Lyle's [sic. (The OP got that wrong.)] as the base.

Cheers, Phred.

[Ophelia]

When I was 9, we spent a year in Amsterdam. One of the things we
learned how to love were syrup sandwiches. I don't know what the
syrup was except it was very thick and dark. White bread and butter
and syrup. Wonderful! We had a similar snack made with chocolate
flakes instead of syrup.

ahh that would be black treacle:)) Have a wee look here:

http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/Specials%20and%20Holidays/Treacle%20Origin%20Uses%20Recipes.htm

[Arri London]

Post by Ophelia

When I was 9, we spent a year in Amsterdam. One of the things we
learned how to love were syrup sandwiches. I don't know what the
syrup was except it was very thick and dark. White bread and butter
and syrup. Wonderful! We had a similar snack made with chocolate
flakes instead of syrup.

http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/Specials%20and%20Holidays/Treacle%20Origin%20Uses%20Recipes.htm

Almost! Dutch keukenstroop is a sugar syrup but made from a mixture of
cane sugar syrup, glucose syrup and melado (mix of sugar and molasses).
It tastes quite different than black treacle, at least to me LOL. Put to
the same uses though I think.

[Doug Weller]

Post by Phred

When I was 9, we spent a year in Amsterdam. One of the things we
learned how to love were syrup sandwiches. I don't know what the syrup
was except it was very thick and dark. White bread and butter and
syrup. Wonderful! We had a similar snack made with chocolate flakes
instead of syrup.

I grew up with Lyall's golden syrup. Great on toast.........e.

It's the best of the lot! And, as several Poms already mentioned,
golden syrup on white bread and a layer of butter is angel food (and
not just that you'll probably die sooner if you eat too much of it :).

[snip]

My kids loved something called Thunder and Lightning.

Wholewheat toast with butter, clotted cream and golden syrup.

(Of course, I loved it too!)
Doug