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.

Winsinbin
I still sneakily have a slice of this if I've opened a tin of condensed milk lol. Cornmeal (polenta) porridge with butteredd bread to dip in. Hmmmm

My Nan also used to do ‘cheese in a dish’ for lunch sometimes. It was a bit like cheese sauce, but with vinegar, and we just given a spoon to dip in.

I used to go to my nan's for Sunday dinner almost every week ( my mam was an awful cook and her Sunday roast would consist of Bernard Matthews turkey roast the one in plastic, potatoes tinned carrots, peas and salty bistro gravy yuk 🤢)
My nan on the other hand a fantastic cook introduced me to beef dripping, cabbage water and black pudding yummy

Marmite and lettuce sandwiches. It was lots of iceberg lettuce with strong marmite and butter. I remember them as being delicious.

This has also reminded me that if we ever had the audacity to ask my nana what we were having for pudding whilst we were having our main meal, she would say we were having ‘Stare and stand back’. I’ve never heard that phrase since and assumed it was a yorkshire thing (she was born in Sheffield) Never really understood what it was!

My step-mum used to make us a "leftover pie".... think it was a recipe for leftover turkey from Christmas day, but stepmum usually used roast chicken leftovers. It was mixed with a tin of condensed soup (mushroom or celery), pasta, onions and then covered with a layer of breadcrumbs and grated cheese. It was unbelievably good and we always loved it. Bless her, that was her idea of cooking.

My mam also used to make cornedbeef pie and add tinned carrots in the cornedbeef/potatoes filling then make bistro gravy with the potatoes water ( disgustingly salty ) and serve with tinned peas 🤢🤢🤢
I never had gravy after first try and used to cover everything in tomato ketchup so I couldn't taste the pie.
I now realise that mam wasn't a bad cook she just didn't like cooking. She did after all raise 5 daughters 😍

Junket for pudding

Marmite on toast with a sliced banana on top is one of my favourites. I often eat it at work in the morning to the strange stares of my colleagues

I hated corned beef hash as a child but actually love it as an adult (as do the rest of the family bar DD).

Junket - remind me what's in it, MonaChopsis? Isn't it something really unsavoury to do with calves???

OMG genius- I know what you’re talking about! Cucumber in vinegar and sugar. I can smell the fridge opening now, yuk but lovely memories. Also, chicken sandwiches and trifle in a Sunday afternoon watching bullseye.

Junket - basically milk on the way to being cheese! Rennet is added to warmed milk - traditional source of rennet is from calves' stomachs, but it is now also made from plant sources - and separates curds and whey, solidifying the milk.

Cheesy potato pie - basically it was instant mashed potato (own brand, never smash) with grated cheese put in the microwave.

Also “chunks and instant” which was Campbell’s tinned meatballs with instant mash.

We had a lot of instant mash

Oh "top of the milk"

We used to have one gold top and one silver top daily. We took it in turns to have the gold top "top of the milk" on our cereal. Even the silver top had a "top", I think, but not as creamy as the gold.

Silver top, I believe, is the same as today's "full fat". Not sure what the equivalent to gold top is - Jersey milk perhaps? It was really lush, a real treat! Mind you, so was opening the new box of cereal, as there was always a gimmicky treat in it. My favourite was the shrinkies!

I'm thinking these recipes with cheese and milk were quick fondues, and milk and egg and alcohol...egg nog. Their was a method to the madness lol.
I never had tripe as a child however tried it curried as an adult in a restaurant/takeaway in Sparkhill and omg it was heavenly, Ojri I believe. For the life of me can't find any takeaways that deliver it 🤨.

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We had poshed up egg when we were ill... Chopped, Boiled egg(warm) & buttered bread all chopped up in a cup with loads of salt & pepper. No idea why it was posh, just a egg butty in a mug really! Delicious though

When I was a teenager, dsis and I used to get sent to stay with one of mum’s friends for a week in the summer. Generally she was a good cook but on Saturday she would serve ‘Scraps Dinner and Scraps Pudding” - basically she kept all the leftovers from the meals - mains and desserts - during the week, and used them up on Saturday. You got a dollop of everything savoury on one plate, and a bowl with a bit of each leftover pudding with a scoop of ice cream. It was very .... random.

Once we came back by coach, and she made us sandwiches - the day before, we’d had bread and butter spread with various things - basically open faced sandwiches - including jam, chocolate spread, marmite - a mix of savoury and sweet toppings - and she slapped the leftover slices together into sandwiches. Two different sorts of jam? Unusual but nice. Chocolate spread and marmite - not something I would ever expect to catch on.

This is the thread which made me sign back on to MN again after the recent automatic security log-out. Wasn’t bothered about re-setting password as had forgotten old one.

But then a thread about cabbage water came along and I had found my people!

I’ve never met anyone else irl who has been given this. Let alone who appreciates what a treat it was. Unsurprisingly, to the uninitiated, I still get strange looks from friends when trying to explain how brilliantly comforting it is. Loved it with lots of pepper.

Also used to think rosehip syrup was a treat as a kid without realising it was a vit supplement. And we sibs would fight over the burnt end bit of a sunday beef joint as we all thought it was the best bit.

Omg egg in a cup! I'd forgotten that one. Lots of pepper. Yum yum x

I tried reading patiently through the whole thread but got to about page 12 (and all good reading) but now impatient and will post mine

Did anyone else get this? DM used to cut the rind/fat off of bacon, put it in a little dish and microwave it. It would crisp up loads and curl up too, I think we called them ‘crispy curlies’ or ‘crispies’. This was a regular snack I was given until I was about 4 or 5 yo, no idea why it stopped!

Will now go and read the rest of the thread!

Rosehip syrup, I still buy that, lovely drizzled over vanilla ice cream or over strawberries and cream, it tastes of warm summer afternoons.

Campbell's soup and pasta
Bread and milk pudding
Yum x

Yes silver top milk was whole milk but these days it is all homogenised so there is no "top of the milk". Gold top is Jersey milk.

My gran used to give me shredded white cabbage with sugar and vinegar mixed in! I loved it. Kind of sweet and sour!