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.

Toreador pancakes ? Can’t remember proper name.

Corned beef fried with onions .
Fill pancakes with the corned beef
Put in a Pyrex bowl
Cover with condensed tomato soup and bake for 20 mins . Yum

Porridge was always with gold top milk and golden syrup .

My dad always used to give us 'stuff' which was basically leftovers 🤣

@SchadenfreudePersonified No, i've just googled it and here is the official description lol. We always had it with corned beef.

'Panackelty is a casseroled dish, traditional throughout the northeast of England and especially associated with Sunderland and County Durham consisting of meat and root vegetables left to bake throughout the day in an oven pot on low heat or cooked slowly on a low heat in a pan, hence the name PANacalty.'

@OJZJ No, speak to anyone from any other place in the country and they think you're mad lol (my husband included).

Oh god, I use Campbell’s condensed soup as the “sauce” in my chicken pies. My chicken pies are very popular. DD age 21 thinks that is the only way to make a chicken pie.

I have become the mum that serves weird food from the 70s.

Oh yes, silver top milk. There was always holes in the top of ours when we took it off the step because the bluetits would pierce the lid and drink the cream off the top.

My parents are not cooks so the most creative foods where findus crispy pancakes (late 80s baby!).

Lunch was often a tin of cream of tomato soup with lashings of bread and butter, we would tear the bread into chunks and make almost like a slime consistency, I was bloody lovely.

Also if it snowed soup would be served in a mug always! Followed by rice pudding in a mug too, no idea why!

I was snowed in visiting my parents around 5/6 years ago and my mum made this for dinner, in a mug of course, it was so good 😊

Warburtons toastie with sun pat orange coloured cheese spread, until the cheese goes all plasticky
Digestives with Philadelphia on, sometimes with a slice of apple
Custard creams with hot custard poured on top
Chukkie egg!

Thus thread is lovely and nostalgic- I used to have grandads milk jelly, normal jelly but made with milk rather than water - lovely

Dry weetabix spread with butter and marmite......I used to think that was normal, that everyone had it. But I’m guessing nowadays that I was wrong. Did anyone else have that, or was it just me?

Also primula cheese and chive spread was a treat in our house

@mrsm43s this one?
My grandad bought me the book and I still have it

@pieceofpurplesky I still have mine
"Now call mother"

A cornflake recipe ...

Cowboy toast

Sosmix is sold in Sainsbury's and Morrisons. I mix it with stuffing for Christmas stuffing with veggie Christmas dinner. The same company do a burger mix which we used to have as a veggie faggot with a rich mushroom gravy

We were as poor as church mice, growing up in the late 60's and got a load of these
Condensed milk sandwiches
Sugar butties
Mashed banana butties
Cods roe on toast
Eggie bread
Milk jelly
Sprats
Pobs
Macaroni pudding

I'm type 2 diabetic now. Wonder why?

When we were ill or off our food, we would have 'Oxo Soup', a slice of bread torn up in a bowl, an oxo cube sprinkled over and then covered with boiling water. After a few minutes the bread would absorb the water and then you'd eat it.
Still have it sometimes, it's nicer than it sounds!

Ooh I remember Oxo Soup, we always had it first meal after a tooth extraction (pretty common in those days!)

Oh and I forgot digestives with butter as a 'treat'

Crustaceans - i still eat buttered digestives when pigging out i feel like a snack sometimes

My mum used to make an amazing butterscotch dessert. Everything was mixed together and it'd be put in the fridge to set but by some epicurean magic, the bottom part would have the consistency of a pudding whilst the top half was lighter and more like a mousse.

It wasn't all sweetness and puds though, she used to make us drink fenugreek tea when we were ill and it's the vilest thing I've ever tasted. I can't even have curry that contains fenugreek now!

@Pieceofpurplesky I had that book too! I used to always make the chocolate fudge, which inevitably never set and tasted more of molasses than chocolate, and honeycomb.

We had that book purplesky. Not a healthy recipe in it

This thread is ringing lots of bells:
Cabbage water
Bread and milk in a pudding basin when ill or for supper after having had hair washed
Suet pudding alongside roast meat.

Junket

It’s like time travel - back to my 70s childhood to these foods that would be really unfamiliar to my children today. But they would have been familiar to Edwardian children. There were still vestiges of that Britain in everyday life in the 70s and now they have almost all gone.

And then our 70s classics:

Tinned potatoes
Tinned tomatoes on toast
Breakfast slices (basically reconstituted bacon)
Sandwich spread.

the jammy pear spread thing
Powdered orange juice

Funny how we were half eating processed shit from a packet and half hanging out with the hippies at the health food shop

We had fried banana alongside roast chicken