Use It – Or Lose It!

My problem is that I am a bit of a ditherer when it comes to decluttering. Particularly over inherited or gifted bits and pieces to which I have sentimental attachment. Like The Two Tiny Tin Jugs which lurk in the cupboard nestling inside the ramekins-which-don’t-stack.

In the early 1970’s, Woman and Home magazine had a Summer Offer – four little jugs for £1 – they maintained such things were ideal ‘for serving your guests individual portions of cream for their coffee or desserts’ So Mum bought two sets, and gave me one of them. I have no idea where hers went, and I only have two left now. I suspect that they got mislaid back in the 80’s when we used them for the Dolls’ Tea Parties. But this week I found a suitable use [so the jugs remain and won’t be going to a Charity Shop just yet]

We were having Dover Sole for Sunday Lunch, and Delia recommends serving with parsley butter and lemon juice. I made a roll of butter before church and put it in the fridge, then sliced it into rounds just before serving [along with MIL’s little butter knife] I did not want to put a large bottle of juice on the table, and had no fresh lemons, so the 3cm high jug was the ideal serving container.

The fish had a lovely delicate flavour, but it was rather fiddly work eating it, and we were left with a plate of bones. Fishbones like this always put me in mind of Hanna Barbera’s Top Cat!

Dover Sole is an extremely rare treat – this was a yellow-stickered bargain. I must find another use for these tiny jugs again before Christmas or they will definitely have to go.