Sugar-butter?

For some reason I just remembered something I used to love when I was a kid, and I was wondering whether anyone else on Earth was dumb enough to have enjoyed it, too. I used to butter a slice of bread and then sprinkle sugar on the butter. That and a chocolate soda made with U-Bet chocolate syrup, milk and seltzer water (in a siphon bottle delivered by the case along with the syrup) made for my very favorite thing to eat at home.

Lots of butter on a slice of very fresh white bread, a liberal sprinkle of sugar, fold it in half = heaven....... when I was a kid many.  many years ago.  I don't think I have done that in 50 years.  Hmm...Maybe I'll give it a try.

standard wheat bread
lightly buttered
liberally covered with 50/50 mixture of cinnamon and sugar
bake for a few mins
 
waa laa - that childhood breakfast delight, cinnamon toast
 

I loved butter and sugar sandwiches, one of my older brothers would eat about six a day...In senior year college he stood 6' 6", 265lbs, all muscle....I wonder if I ate more of them....?????

Real Seltzer!  Those were the days.
 
I added chocolate sprinkles (Hagels)  to your butter sandwich instead of the sugar and enjoyed it that way.  Learned that from a girl from Holland.

I always did it on toast, with powdered sugar.  It makes icing.

TJ Jackson


standard wheat bread
lightly buttered
liberally covered with 50/50 mixture of cinnamon and sugar
bake for a few mins

waa laa - that childhood breakfast delight, cinnamon toast

Well, for me it ws never breakfast. I used to have it as close to dinner as possible so as to not have any room for dinner when my mother was cooking.

 
Yes, I remember doing that, except it was margerine, I think.  (Also the cinnamon toast thing, too)

Oh yeah...a childhood favorite of mine!

So funny! Haven't had that in years. My grandmother used to make that for me when I'd visit in the summer, only she would put a couple of fresh slices of tomato from her garden on it as well. Try it. You won't be disappointed I promise.

You guys were rich-----we spread butter so thin you could see through it and sugar was doled out one grain at a time. 

A friend who I've known since I was 4, spread lard on some soft white bread and then dosed that with the sugar. He did have open heart when he was 48.
It must have been the white bread.
I was always told that was what oreo cookies used to be filled with.

I had butter bread and chocolate milk really often as breakfast when I was a kid.  I wonder if the sugar step is a Yankee thing? 

I don't know. I had it with sugar while visiting relatives in Hattiesburg, too.

  I used to eat those when I was a kid living in Dodge City, KS.  Except we used bacon fat and sugar on home made white bread that Granny made. The best!!!
 
  David O.
 
 

Our grandma made these for us kids in the 50's, but on saltine crackers.  Spread on the butter, sprinkle on the sugar, shake off the excess and goodbye.

Butter & Sugar sandwhiches were a mainstay of childhood in my area of the MS Delta. In the winter butter was kept out in a covered dish so it would spread easily on the bread. Summer it would melt, so it was kept in the refrigerator and tore the bread.

Michael Hoffman


For some reason I just remembered something I used to love when I was a kid, and I was wondering whether anyone else on Earth was dumb enough to have enjoyed it, too. I used to butter a slice of bread and then sprinkle sugar on the butter. That and a chocolate soda made with U-Bet chocolate syrup, milk and seltzer water (in a siphon bottle delivered by the case along with the syrup) made for my very favorite thing to eat at home.

Odd that you posted this - I have a coworker from Iowa that just yesterday mentioned that her children like only butter and sugar on their pancakes or waffles- no syrup. 

I think I remember reading  that George and Martha used to have this for breakfast, did they have a son named Michael ???????????.........Bill

Butter and sugar on pancakes, waffles and french toast was my preference as a kid and it still tastes better than syrup to me!

Mr. Hoffman,
 
That was the favoured snack of my middle sister when she was a kid, but see butter and sugar, I could understand, she would also take crisco shortening and lots of sugar and eat that. Gross.

Well, one of my secret (well, not any longer) things is a slice of rye bread slathered with schmaltz.

I have never tried schmaltz.
I have considered making my own..am curious about the flavour.

analei


I have never tried schmaltz.
I have considered making my own..am curious about the flavour.

Tastes like chicken.

Now....there's a memory that needs to be re-created tomorrow morning!.and perhaps with a tiny addition of cinnamon.  Thanks for the idea!

Cinnamon Sugar on toast with some cocoa.  Very good.

Like this using brown sugar. And lots of butter.

Michael Hoffman


Well, one of my secret (well, not any longer) things is a slice of rye bread slathered with schmaltz.

My Mom talks about her grandmother saving goose fat to slather on rye bread along with a sprinkle of salt.

Yep..  butter with white or brown sugar, sometimes cinnamon sugar.. My kids eat it too.  Yummm.

Yall beat me to it. Butter, sugar, cinnamon. Mmm. On bread or saltines is all Ok w/ me. Even on a kinda crispy flour tortilla here is Texas is just fine.
Joe