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

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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.

This thread has just reminded me of a childhood favourite, cheese and onion pie. It was literally mashed potato, onion and cheese, with beans or spaghetti hoops and I used to request it for years for my birthday tea! Probably not that unusual, but it's funny what I loved then (I'd demolish it now to be fair) when my mum and dad are amazing cooks and we had much nicer meals!

My mum used to make vermicelli pudding out of noodles and condensed milk and it had raisins and glace cherries in too.

@PieceOfPurpleSky yes pobs or I think we called it pobbies warm milk , bits of bread and suger it was a dish for when you were poor!y.

I love all the different regional names for the same "peculiar" dishes!

Thanks to this thread I'm doing special pudding tonight of chopped bananas, custard and crushed digestives. It's not a combination I had as a child but sounds nice so will give it a go.

Cabbage water sounds grim.

I don't think my mum gave me anything weird but I used to ask for spaghetti with tomato ketchup which I insisted on eating with chopsticks

As a young teen I liked cracker bread lightly buttered and sprinkled with Kellogg's All-Bran.

I love dipping chips in soup. It's my favourite meal in a cafe.

Mum made very thick custard that set like a blancmange when cold. I loved it, especially with sliced bananas mixed in it.

We often had sprats for dinner, rolled in flour and deep fried, eaten with mounds of bread and butter. They were a larger version of whitebait, the heads were chopped off before cooking.

Generally speaking my mum was a good cook we used to go abroad most years and when we got home she would try her hand and whatever local.dishes revise eaten with varying results, 're crushed biscuits reminds me she used to make her own cheese cakes using crushed digestive biscuits as a base, not sure what she used as the cheese bit cream, creme fraiche maybe, ?topped with fruit.

Does anyone remember "Country store" it was a breakfast muslie the thing in the 80,s really nice and thick.

You can buy Country Store in Waitrose. Every time I see it I hum the song, and I buy it occasionally for old times sake.

Troels I'd forgotten about savoury duck - I loved it too! Were you in Lancashire? I haven't seen it anywhere else ( or indeed anywhere recently!)

Unfortunately I live in the Northwest the nearest Waitrose s about 30 miles away

Tbh, it's a bit sweet for today's palate, and a little bit...floury? So more of a nostalgic treat than something you would choose to eat regularly.

Fermety (not sure how to spell it) was like this sloppy spiced custard type stuff with barley in it and lots of dried fruit. Was always made at Easter, had to eat it with my eyes closed as it looked like sick but was delicious

Quite possible Tawdry it must be 35 years since I have had it,

Fermety (not sure how to spell it)

Frumenty?! Thought that went out in Tudor times!

Our mum was a terrible cook, she used to make frozen salad in the summer. Frozen mixed veg, mixed with mayonnaise and served whilst still frozen. Didn't even realise this wasn't a thing until talking to friends recently and they all just stared at me 😂

@winsinbin - Heinz Russian Salad - how could I have forgotten that? It was a real treat.

I remember Rick Stein making it in one of his programmes - he said he had made it when he was a young chef, and it tasted of absolutely nothing, because he'd been told to dice the veg before cooking them, so all the flavour was left in the water. He did his more up-to-date version by cooking the veg in much bigger pieces and then dicing them - it actually looked nice, and I was tempted to have a go at it.

Suet balls boiled in the water around the meat pudding (until they floated) and then eaten for pudding with sugar and butter

Had something similar, but they were cooked in beef stew and the sugar was brown sugar. Mum is from the East end. She got the recipe from her Mum who was born in the 1800s.

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That's a sop. You can also do it with the fat in the roasting tin after you take a joint out and before you make the gravy.

My mum also did a different cheese on toast, basically put milk in a pan, get some crumbly cheese and crumble it into the milk as it heats then pour over toast.

@Graphista - your corned beef hash sounds very much like my bubble and squeak recipe - leftover roast potatoes and parsnips, leftover sprouts, leftover stuffing, and onions. Finely slice and fry the onions, then chop up the rest fairly small and add to the onions, and fry it until it is all crispy and browned - I make it on the Monday after we've had roast chicken and all the trimmings on a Sunday, and serve it with cold meat, and cold bread sauce for me, or hot gravy for dh, but it would be delicious on its own, or with an egg fried in a well in the middle, right at the end.

@JRMisOdious - my mum used to make casserole with lambs hearts - she left them whole, stuffed the top with packet sage and onion stuffing, and cooked them long and slow with onions, carrots, pearl barley and stock. You got a whole heart on your plate and could do a bit of dissection at the same time as having your meal!! I once got one that had a bit of paper stapled to it (I don't know how mum had missed that, during the preparation)!

My mum used to buy these dehydrated crisps from somewhere (like how prawn crackers come before they're cooked).
A big clear bag of them and she'd put a batch of them in the deep fat fryer.

I think they were bacon flavour and looked like square crisps when cooked but puffy. They were lovely.

I had a simple cook book for kids when I was young and one of the recipes in it was grilled sugar on toast...I loved making and eating that.

"Anyone have volcanoes? Aka sausage, beans and mash with the sausages standing up out of the top of the pile of mashed potatoes, beans being the lava. Loved that!"

I've never ever served sausages and mash ANY other way. Ever. Not once. I assumed it was the norm?

Ground rice pudding served warm with prunes. Even now, my sister and I refer to something interminable as "rice pudding".

Carrot salad- grated carrot with sesame oil and sultanas.
And we ate a lot of goat. People at school were horrified.