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.

Oh dear I've lead a deprived life.

I think the most "exotic" food we had as kids was corn beef hash 🤔

I'm desperate to try some of these foods......that caveman crunch looks nice 😋

My nana made us drink the water from cabbage with pepper. Lovely.
My grandad made us cheese and onion gravy. It was delicious
Fry onions, grate in white crumbly cheese, when it melted add milk then colour with brown gravy salt.
Served it with sausage and bacon.
No one I have ever spoken to about it has had it.
I have no idea where he got the recipe

Anyone remember Rise ‘n Shine - a packet of concentrated fruit powder which you added water to. We used to have it at breakfast time at weekends - it was day-glo orange!

Hendersons relish a must with this

Hendos is a must with any meal, much better than that Worcestershire rubbish 😉

Rise'n'Shine! I remember it - i think we only had it once. And orange juice in a tall rectangular bottle. Only when ill, but if you were ill, visitors would bring Lucozade, which was wrapped in cellophane, and if you took the empty bottle to a shop, you got money for it.
I also remember Sosmix.

Cheese and onion. It was Cheshire cheese and chopped onion boiler in water. I kid you not.

Utterly vile but she loved it!

Many of the above but my mums super disgusting effort when I didn’t want breakfast (still don’t like breakfast) was very milky coffee, instant of course, blitzed in the blender with egg in it 🤮. To this day I have no idea how she got the egg not to curdle. I hated eggs in those days so imagine my distress when I realised that my sophisticated frothy coffee was egg polluted

Boiled.

Back in the day when mum made her own Yorkshire puddings, she often made one large pudding in a round cake tin and we'd have it for pudding spread with either jam or golden syrup.
We loved it.
We also regularly had lambs hearts, ox tail and liver. Usually on Monday she'd make bubble and squeak with left over veg from Sunday lunch.
She was a great cook, can't really think of anything she made that us kids didn't like.

We used to have cheesy eggs. An egg broken onto a metal/enamel plate with crumbled Lancashire cheese in the white all around the yolk, grilled and eaten with fresh bread. It was delicious

I remember making 'alpine eggs' in cookery at school. An egg broken into a small dish or ramekin and covered in grated cheese and breadcrumbs. Nice.

My dad and granddad would make fried cheese with bacon for breakfast. It would be Cheshire I think, it went all runny and they'd dip bread in.

I wasn't a great cook when my daughter was little....her fave dish was a bowl of tomato soup with a nest of egg noodles in.

My mum made milk jelly - basically just jelly made up with milk or condensed milk rather than water. I remember having it for packed lunches in little Tupperware pots. Don't think I've ever come across anyone else who had it.

She also made a tuna bake thing which was tuna mixed with egg and milk, topped with crisps and baked. I used to love it but then one day it seemed really sloppy and that was it, I couldn't eat tuna any more!

We also had a family recipe called Cassie cake which was a dense shortbread like cake filled with jam. Really lovely. Must get the recipe..

I’ve had milk jelly too!

TheHorse breast of mutton, egged, breadcrumbed, fried.
Saw that on a cooking programme.
Fine dining now
Price of breast of mutton sent sky high

@fourquenelles my mum used to make the bread and milk with sugar thing when we were ill. It was known as 'pobs'

Cold baked beans on hot buttered toast. Grandad called it a Cowboy's Breakfast and everyone I try to explain the tastiness to just gives me A Look.

I had milk jelly!

Herja - Also a sort of odd jam thing. It was sweet like jam, but looked like marmite. I want to say it was pear and either peach or apricot; that I would really like to find again, but I don't have a clue what it's called.

Pear and apple spread. It's still available! (Health food shops like Suma I think)

Milk jelly is amazing.

We used to have the pear/apple spread too. I bought some as an adult and it was too sickly.

A favourite in our house was mashed potato, topped with ketchup and peas, would still eat that actually! Also, lid potatoes a la Milly-Molly-Mandy.

Mum also used to make a "salad" which consisted of a bowl of balsamic vinegar, sliced tomatoes and raw chopped garlic. In was lovely!

Herja I was about to post sosmix! My mum bulk bought it and we all loathed it. It could be shaped. I actually quite liked tartex.

Never thought I had bread and dripping but when my grandparents would have steak, having bread fried in the fat was the best bit of the dinner! My man also drank cabbage water, I don’t think she liked it much but it’s ‘where all the goodness is’

We had sausages, onions and baked beans, with mash on top and then a packet of crisps smashed up and scattered ontop. A friend gave the recipe to my mum, we stopped having it after the crisps caught fire (you put it under the grill!)

Buttered weetabix was a favourite breakfast and we had bread and butter fingers dipped in yoghurt as a snack.

My mum used to make me eggy in a cup; it was just a boiled egg mashed up with a knob of butter (in a cup of course), but I loved it and believed it was a genuine meal that people ate, however as I grew up I found other people had never heard of it.
She would also make me hot weetabix using hot water and sugar rather than milk; this is still my favourite breakfast.

I actually realised recently that these 'meals' obviously came from the fact that we often had little money and DM must have been trying to make the best out of whatever we did have in to eat.

Milk jelly is a go to food for us if someone in the family is ill and can’t eat much. I loved it as a child for desert and haven’t known others have it until this thread