Did anyone else's mum give them a food nobody you speak to has heard of?

[Rollerbird]

Although with mumsnet I bet others have had 'it:
In my case it's a' treat' of Cabbage Water
Basically when she cooked (boiled) cabbage (which was with a chopped onion, pepper and nutmeg) I could have a cup of the water after (veg stock I suppose)
I did see it as a treat and am drinking some now, remembering her fondly.

My dad Used to make mulligatawny soup which contained "baby mulligs". I loved it. Basically it was a curry soup of leftovers! I was an adult before I realised baby mulligs didn't exist 😉

Dad used to boil tripe in milk and eat it with salt, pepper and vinegar, he also used to love and steak and kidney suet pudding deep fried (made the pastry crispy)!

We used to have the oxo cube in boiling water in a flask when we went sledging.
Yorkshire puddings with dinner on Sunday then afterwards with syrup and ice cream on!

We loved egg-in-a-cup when we were ill. The bread was very thickly buttered and melted by the hot egg.

My grandma, who was a Victorian, creamed butter and sugar together as a cough treatment.

Oh and toasted malt loaf, if you've never had it, try it. Delicious!

Banana, milk and currants - basically chopped banana in a bowl of milk with sugar and currants! Had to be currants, no raisins.
My gran used to make junket - a milk pudding with cows rennet.

Definitely going to try toasted malt loaf!

Deedeee. I got egg in the nest. The egg was raw!!!!

My mum used to make me ham and banana sandwiches, the mixture of gloopy banana and salty ham on white bread is not a good one.

My grandfather was very partial to strawberries mashed up with buttered white bread and sugar. I think it’s one of those things designed to make an expensive ingredient go further from his childhood.

Marcipex Oh yes! Butterballs! I could do with some now actually!

Nanaimo bars, a Canadian treat. They were my absolute favourite as a kid but none of my mates at school knew what I was on about.

My mum and all her siblings still ask for soup and chips if they are poorly- it’s their comfort food.
She used to buy and eat both udder and tripe. Tripe was horrible but udder was nice with lots of vinegar.
“Risotto” was leftover Chinese fried rice or Indian pilau rice with chopped up leftover chicken. I was very surprised when introduced via Jamie Oliver books at University. It’s amazing we survived.
“Yellow spaghetti noodles” aka supernoodles with sweetcorn and leftover chicken were a regular tea.
Smash- I don’t think she’s ever peeled a potato. She was buying it ready done but thanks to Brexit is back on Smash.

My DM is an amazing cook, trad French style so we had lovely food for most meals all fresh stuff and garlicky but when my Stepdad was away she'd make lunch of bowls of spaghetti served with ketchup and grated cheddar then microwaved to melt the cheese!

Oh... And for all the veggie lot I still eat tartex pate in tubes (moan the demise of the onion +pink peppercorn variety) , pear and apple marmite and tempeh.

I like sosmix. And vecon was just like the Knorr stock pots but in a jar. I remember clearly Canadian flavoured water too at health food shops. When I was little my mum gave me bread crust and milk for supper. I loved it and I now know it made what we had go further. My brother wouldn't eat crusts so the off cuts made a snack for me. As a toddler I had birds appeel which was a kind of juice/squash concoction that came as a powder to make up. The health police would have you now for that.

I still make macaroni pudding. Whole milk, thin macaroni, sugar. Proper comfort food!

@Moanger your fishcakes are one of my favourite memories of university. In a breadcake. Heaven. Best fishcakes ever.

We used to have Klops, which can be a meat loaf sort of thing or a large meat ball.

Also sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and a smoked sausage (from the Polish deli) for Saturday lunch.

Brilliant to hear others that had table cream too, I'd forgotten about the maple and walnut one!

Our version of rissoles is tuna mixed into mashed potato, formed into pates and shallow fried.

We also had fried jam or peanut butter sandwiches which were lush. And did anyone have game chips? Basically salted crisps put into the gravy of your roast dinner, delish!

@RiverTam hash is a very very common dish and has many regional variations...

Mine was a shit cook, this however is fab:-

Cheese hot

Potato cubed
Onions chopped
Leeks chopped
Milk
Mature cheese, loads
Cornflour
Salt
Pepper

Cook potato, onions & leeks in a little water

Make a thick cheese sauce and pour over cooked veg, mix in well.

Fantastic with a tiger bread French stick and butter

And did anyone have game chips? Basically salted crisps put into the gravy of your roast dinner, delish!

Yeah, cook used to make them for the Butler to serve.

Two weetabix sandwiched together with vegemite and margarine for an afternoon snack.

Christ almighty to most of these

What I don't understand about the cabbage water... what do you actually do with the cabbage? Wouldn't it be more nutritious to just eat it?

Of course you eat the cabbage.

Korean Army Stew (basically tinned hot dogs, ramen, mushrooms and processed cheese in a spicy broth.)

Turns out it's an actual dish in Korea... I just thought mum was racist tbh.

I had sosmix and the pear paste. We also had the table creams and Birdseye banana/toffee/chocolate hot pud with crumble topping- bloody loved those!
We had a trusty toasty maker for a while and had cheese toasties to start followed by mincemeat toasties to finish (the sweet type in mince pies). They were lovely.
Does anyone remember the apple and custard Ninjja turtles pizzas? They were grim.
My granny used to cook a curry (it was really mild) and serve it will sultanas, sales peanuts, chopped banana, chopped celery and rice. It was actually gorgeous.