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.

Actually @winsinbin having read a bit more of this thread, I think you mix the jelly with the evap before you whisk it. That'll teach me to rtft!

packet of jelly dissolved tomake up 1/2 pint allow to cool a bit then add evap. and whisk like crazy. Lush..

We used to pick blackberries, then put them in a bowl and cover liberally with sugar. After a few hours you end up with blackberries in a sweet blackberry sauce, as I suppose the sugar draws the juice out. This was delicious with vanilla ice cream.
My dad loved junket, we used to have it often. My grandmother used to make rice mould with ground rice flavoured with nutmeg, and serve it with stewed plums. I loved it. Wasn't so keen on stewed eel though.
Did anyone get given Virol? It was a malt based supplement and it was foul.

Yes to the malt supplement, it was utterly disgusting! Better than when my mother held me down so her friend could force me to eat a tablespoon of baking powder though.
My mum used to force us to eat stewed blackberries, including all the maggots. If we refused she hit us and told us it was bloody protein so eat it up. She didn't eat them though.
Sometimes I wonder if my parents aren't actually very nice.
I still make the jelly and evaporated milk pudding. Best of all is if you use lemon jelly and add a tin or drained crushed pineapple. Yummmmm!

Corned beef quickie.

It’s kind of a layered thing with cheese sauce and bread crumbs. And shitty corned beef obviously I didnt like it.

Ifyoureallyknowme was there really a need for such a negative comment? I enjoy mn thoroughly and love conversing with people from so many different backgrounds and cultures and experiences and generations. I have not said anything offensive or even hurtful I've loved reading the thread and participating but comments like that are quite off putting and hurtful - there's an opinion for you!

Weirdly I've never had condensed or evaporated milk (except in the form of tablet) either not sure how I've managed that, they've come up a fair bit on the brexit prep threads maybe I'll have to get some in to try.

AutumnCrow, SDTG thank you.

I sometimes make a dessert that is a sort of flan - biscuit base (I use ginger biscuits), and the topping is a can of condensed milk, the same amount of double cream, whisked together, and then you add lime juice or lemon juice to taste - the citrus makes the cream/condensed milk mixture set, when you refrigerate it on the biscuit base).

I tell you all of this because one reason I love making this is scraping out the condensed milk can - I sneak off and make sure dh doesn't get a look-in!

My brother could not eat eggs. So the omeloaf was born. Take paxo sage and onion stuffing. Whisk in eggs, leave for five minutes until it thickens, then fry in a little oil rather like scotch pancakes a tablespoon or so at a time. He wolfed these down. I did the same for my own children who did not like eggs either.

Better than when my mother held me down so her friend could force me to eat a tablespoon of baking powder though.

😧 Why did they do that? Was it baking powder or bread soda (bicarb)? How have you not grown up with all sorts of complexes? 😧

My mother used to make rennet, it was supposedly a sweet pudding 🤮 We hated it, I don't know why she bothered.

So the omeloaf was born.

That sounds strangely delicious, I'm going to try it.

Anyone remember 'roger' or was it just my family? We had it often, sliced potatoes, onions and bacon with milk added, cooked in the oven. I still hanker for it and occasionally make it or a version of it.

Also, similar to the cheese plate from PPs we had 'cheese dip' which I still love. Fry bacon, sausages, remove from pan and add Lancashire cheese and milk, heat and serve all with bread for mopping up...

Why did they do that? Was it baking powder or bread soda (bicarb)? How have you not grown up with all sorts of complexes?

I had spots and the friend was sure that this would cure them. I can't honestly say hand on heart that it was definitely baking powder, it may well have been bicarb. To be honest, I was too busy thinking about how disgusting it was. I forgot to say earlier, but I was about 10 or 11 at the time.
I think I probably did develop a lot of complexes, but fortunately my mother didn't want to have to deal with them so I was sent to boarding school (which was hellish but nobody made me eat raising agents!).

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It's lovely Tilda - but we didn't cll it that - just bacon and potato pudding.

@DontDribbleOnTheCarpet that's awful your mom doing that to you - and I would think she'd taken the advice wrongly anyway - shouldn't she have mixed the bicarb to a paste and put it on the spots? Like the other old remedy of using toothpaste it would dry them out.

I can think of nothing more revolting than a mouthful of dry bicarb (which has a truly horrible taste). You poor thing, DontDribbleOnTheCarpet

Gran used to do ‘savoury mince & rice’ which was basically like a chilli but curry flavoured. It was delicious.

My mum had a series of dishes that involved creamed protein on toast. Basically, some sort of meat (eg mince, dried chipped beef) sauteed with onion and then added to a white sauce, then poured over buttered toast. I think this was a go-to quick dinner.

She also would sometimes make an odd dish my great grandmother invented, salad on top of boiled crushed potatoes with a sort of sweet and sour cream dressing

I loved Viriol. I was forced also to take minadex syrup daily which made me nauseous and the virol was a treat after the snotty looking minadex.
I've no idea what minadex was for even now (but I'm off to google it).

I thought of this thread yesterday evening as I chopped tomatoes up catching all the bits into a bowl, salting it and putting the actual tomatoes to one side and drinking the salty juice, I don't like tomato juice otherwise or mopping up with juice with some white bread crusts- growing up this was a regular treat

Not an actual food but seeing as others have mentioned vitamins and cod liver oil etc, does anyone else remember orange flavoured baby aspirin, Im talking late 70s/ early 80s - my mum stopped buying it as I even as a toddler I could get the childproof cap off and eat them like sweeties, it wasnt until much later (years) she realised that literally, I had been overdosing by eating the "nice" tablets.

She changed from them as I kept eating them to paracetamol tablets, yes the adult ones they could be crushed if needed and there was no wanting to eat them as 4/5 year old me, when needed she put in a syringe with a little water to dissolve and we were restrained to squirt the horrible medicine into the side of our mouths and our mouths held closed until we swallowed however long it took, but as soon as it was down we got something sweet to take the taste away

Mum also had a liking for Vicks vapour rub, she covered us in it as children, feet, chests, steam inhalations, she also would go thru 3-4 pots in a week as she liked the taste of it as well, right up until she died in 2007, she was still eating 3-4 pots a week

Smurfy, without a doubt your dear Mum absolutely definitely wins this thread !!

Tahitiitsamagicalplace Bird's Hot Banana Crunch pudding was very popular in the 80s (they did another flavour too) but was discontinued years ago.

I did find this though! I'm going to try it

Ok, the picture didn't attach and now it won't let me try again. Preview didn't work either!

It was Bird's custard powder make with banana Nesquik milk shake powder mixed together and crushed digestives on top