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 contributions to this have been south London/Irish but one very happy memory was a Jamaican neighbour minding me before school and being given a heady combination of condensed milk on white bread sandwiches for breakfast. Looking back it sounds awful but at the time it was heavenly.

My grandma used to make 'lupton's pudding'. It was cold stewed Apple topped with oats, grated chocolate and single cream. It was such a treat.

I am another who used to have evaporated milk jelly. The weirdest thing I ever had was rice pudding with bread and butter which my grandma used to server for dessert when I went to visit. We had a bowl of rice pudding each and there was a large pile of buttered bread on a plate in the middle of the table. We would either dip the bread in the rice pudding, or spoon some onto a slice and fold to make a rice pudding sandwich. I used to love it.

My granny used to give us a first course on roast beef dinner night which was a super size Yorkshire pud with onion gravy and a dollop of golden syrup. The second course of roast meat and veg was then served onto the same plate. Think it was a Yorkshire thing, definitely a rations era fill you up before the meat tradition but no idea where golden syrup came into it. I've saved some of the idea and we have left over YPs with ice cream and golden syrup for pudding.

My mum would serve me grated apple with sugar sprinkled on or if I went to her shop after school a mug of milk with a couple of sugar cubes sitting in the bottom. When I was at boarding school Saturday afternoons were a treat of toast with butter and caster sugar. It will come as no surprise to hear that I'm not the slimmest of people now.

My children will probably remember monthly doses of bone broth, I save up all chicken carcasses, bones from joints and freeze then when I've a few roast them in the oven and boil for hours with carrots, celery, onion and pepper corns and they get a giant mug full after school. It's my idea of a health drink but it might just be a slightly greasy memory one day for them.

I loved sosmix, I first tried tartex at my best friends house when I was a teen I loved it, I bought a tube of vegetarian pate from h&b at Xmas and was very disappointed. You can still get beanfeast at sainsburys it still doesn't really agree with me.

Sick on toast! My mother would scramble some eggs and add a tin of tomatoes and chuck it toast. It made the toast soggy and it really looked as though someone had puked over it!

We still have our Yorkshire's first and I have my Grans tins,some smallish single ones and some large ones.I know lots of people say they have left overs for dessert,I have never seen left over Yorkshire pudding.
I remember milk jelly,and whisking it before set into mousse.
I also remember the first time we had garlic sausage and salami and Mum cooking it because she was not sure what to do with it.
Ironically I live in Worcester now so have to buy my Henderson's when visiting relatives in Yorkshire.Both have a place but Henderson's on pastry and in gravy,even on chips is the best.

I remember the little onions in white sauce
So do I!

Once in my life, when pregnant and throwing up all the time, my then-husband decided to make supper. He did French bread pizza and those weirdo onions.

I can remember the vomit now, thirty seven years later.

It was me who was pregnant, not him. In case that wasn't clear.

I have never heard of cabbage water! Sounds yuk but I might try it.

My mum used to make us pizza. It was revolting and had pastry as a base and I think tomato soup and cheese on top.

She was a pretty good cook though. I remember her making fried eggs in cold toast for our packed lunch. It was so embarrassing as everyone else had cheese or ham. But they were delicious 😋

My granny used to give us marmite toast with mashed bananas on the top. I loved it!

@pollysproggle I’m not Scottish but that’s how I do porridge!

Just thought of another. My gran used to make me an edible candle. It was a pineapple ring with a banana standing in it, angelica for the wick, and cold custard poured down the banana to look like melted wax. Lovely.

My mum used to make patty panny with left over roast beef. Dice the beef, onions, potatoes and bacon. Fry and cover in worcester sauce. Best food ever

South west. Yes and big yum to cabbage water won't eat cabbage though yuck bring back savoury rissoles, DM used to cook them in gravy sometimes, delicious. Naners in cus - staple afters. Corn beef hash - bubble and squeak with added meat

To this day my fav sandwiches are cheese with something sweet: jam, honey, lemon curd. Growing up bread, butter and sugar sandwiches were a thing.

Just whitebait covered in flour and grilled was a tea...eyeballs 'n all - yum.

All in all though as most 70s childhoods it was mostly beige. Herbs/spices were a nice decoration in the kitchen that faded over the years and pasta only came out a tin. Rice was something in a pudding.

My "invention" on leaving home at 17 - rice with butter on abd a tin of pilchards in tomato sauce I have a tin pilchards in larder...mmmhmmnn

Oxo cube sandwiches. Butter some bread and crush and oxo cube in it. Delicious.

My granny had an open fire and bread toasted on the embers was to die for.
My OH's mum used to make dogs dinner, it was sausages and tinned tomatoes boiled in the saucepan. It's disgusting but he loves it.

At Christmas or any other times my parents had grown up friends round for drinks us kids were all given a brandy glass with just a shot of grenadine in. I remember feeling so sophisticated drinking it. My sister and I thought it was actual alcohol and tried to get pissed on it aged 9-10ish. We drank an entire bottle and got hysterical, I’m surprised we didn’t fall into a diabetic coma.

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I thought grenadine was alcoholic?

Cheese on plate.
Literally cover half a dinner plate with sliced cheese and stick it under the gri

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This brings back memories too: me and my brother used to have that!

I heard about junket in Enid Blyton's stories.

DM is a very good cook, and I can't really think of anything odd.

But I did have compulsory school lunches for 15 years, so was probably slightly institutionalised by the end! Tinned tuna, with chips and salad, and raspberry yoghurt with two Nice biscuits to dip in would be comfort food.

I love this thread.

Juells, I, too, thought cabbage water was an Irish thing! I'll see your cabbage water and raise you turnip water!! I've never had either, but my Mam and her sisters talk fondly of it.

The egg in a cup with butter and salt was a "googy egg" to us, and we always had it when we were on the mend from a childhood illness. It is basically love in a cup to me! I still have it often as a delicious low-carb snack.

My Dad remembers getting what his mother called "goody" when he was a child in the 50s - it was the bread in hot milk with sugar that other posters have mentioned.

I make coddle occasionally but cheat by browning the sausages and rashers quickly at the beginning. It makes it look more appealing and enhances the flavour.

My Mam is a very good but very plain cook. I didn't taste pasta until the mid-90s when, in a daring move, she tried her hand at spag bol. When we were kids, one of her staple dishes was simply called "minced meat", in prescient manner of modern knobbish menu. It was basically the under-seasoned middle sibling of a meatball and a burger - mince with diced onion rolled in flour and fashioned into largeish rounds, fried in lard in a covered pan on the hob. It was served with her delicious, always smooth and fluffy, mashed potato. I used to put salt and brown sauce on it. So delicious! She still makes it for me sometimes when I'm down home.

I didn't taste Yorkshire puddings until my late 20s! They just weren't a thing for us growing up and I don't remember seeing them in restaurants back then. My first experience of this delight was in Derby when now DH and I went over for a football match. We were hungover and starving and inquired in the first pub we saw whether they did food. The lovely landlady asked us if we'd have a roast dinner, to which we said something like "hell, yeah"! She was doing Sunday lunch for her family in the back and did us two extra plates! Delicious. Such a lovely woman.

@justasking111 @winsinbin
I've just looked up Russian salad it is exactly that! How that ever made its way on to a restaurant table I don't know.

@PippilottaLongstocking
My people!

hey - Sosmix /Tartrex - thanks for mentioning those was trying to describe to DC but couldnt remember what were called...my mum also haunted health food shops.... and beanfeast - one of tehm Iwas allergic too and came out in massive hives/welts .... put me off health food for life :)

@Hreja, I think this is the spread, suma pear and apple spread www.amazon.co.uk/Suma-Pear-Apple-Spread-300g/dp/B01EFZ6WYI/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?keywords=suma+pear+&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1550134177&sr=8-2

I remember sosmix too, I once took some into a cooking class in school when we were making sausage rolls. The loom on the teachers face as I produced my tub of pink powder instead of the pack of sausages wed been told to bring was quite something.

We used to have Ash, thinly sliced potato cooked in a wok in a gravy sauce with onions. Always served with sausages.
Can't find it anywhere but seems simple enough...loved it!