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.

Sosmix was also from Holland & Barrett but haven't seen it for ages.

Loved Ribena with milk - couldn't drink it now - in fact I was horrified when I discovered others drank it made with water! But my best one.... Swimmers anyone? Suet balls boiled in the water around the meat pudding (until they floated) and then eaten for pudding with sugar and butter. Never come across anyone who has heard of these. If you have, please say where you come from as I reckon it must be a (very) regional thing....

We had something that looked like spam but was called "prem". It was pink sliced processed meat. Also "scallops". Not the fishy ones on menus today, but thickish slices of potato dipped in batter and deep fried. They were nice!

I'm struck by the number of recipes involving crushed crisps. Was there a Crisp Marketing Board that churned them out in those days?

Has anyone ever heard of Coddle? It’s a Dublin dish & even a lot of people outside of Dublin have never heard of it. It’s basically a sausage & rasher stew cooked in potato soup with added carrots & potato. Absolutely delish. (Although when I make it I have to chop the sausages up otherwise they look like willies floating in the pot!)

Herja I had sosmix too! And what we called spinach rice which was just raw spinach stirred through hot rice so it wilted with grated cheese. I enjoyed it as a child but doesn't sound very appealing now.

I used to have a mug of beef oxo with a squirt of tom puree and a good splash of Worcester sauce. Delish with a couple of slice of butter bread dipped in.

"egg in the nest" if we were poorly: poached egg in a nest of mashed potato.

Ooh yes we had this! Alternative poorly food: chicken soup with a mashed potato island.

Cheesy dip
Cheese, milk and sliced onions, on a plate, then roasted, for what seemed like hours. Crispy on top, and dippy, deliciousness underneath

We used to have cheese, milk and sliced onions but boiled up. So there was melted cheesy onions floating around in milky cheesy oniony 'soup'. I loved it but my siblings all hated it.

Blatherskite

We need to see the other side of that card!

Herja I had that spread too! It was called pear and Apple spread. Delicious! We used to get it from the local health food shop.

DH talks fondly of Beano - I think it is baked beans with mash on top & grated cheese. I can see the attraction TBH.

@Blatherskite that’s brilliant, you’ve still got the card! I’d completely forgotten it had baked beans in as well! I don’t suppose you could take a picture of the other side and post it, I’d love to have the proper recipe.

Tinned tuna mixed with tomato ketchup and vinegar sandwiches. Still love them to this day.

Tawdry was this health food shop in Brixton by any chance?

If my mum was using/making pastry, I got to have the leftover bits. Often to play with, moreso as a little snack when I was younger!

We always had bread with with our chilli con carne, might be baguettes or garlic bread or failing either of those just buttered white slice bread would do .... was really confused where the bread aspect of chilli con carne was when I had it round a friend's house for the first time... Havent had it anywhere else yet that serves bread with it.

@AutumnCrow I came on to say rissoles! Ours had little bits of what I now know is pearl barley in.

And frozen mousses - Supermousse we’re ok but the best were Chocolate Lovely - solid dark chocolate with a piped rosette of cream in the middle.

Sosmix people - Beanfeast! Even my tough constitution knew about that stuff the next day.

We used to have cheesy eggs. An egg broken onto a metal/enamel plate with crumbled Lancashire cheese in the white all around the yolk, grilled and eaten with fresh bread. It was delicious.

We also used to have egg mayonnaise made with heinz salad cream. I haven't had that for ages....

it's not something I've not heard of, or something I had as a child, but the water from boiled veg is something I regularly drink.

The marmite jam is Sunwheel. I got some in Morrisons quite recently.

sunwheel.co.uk

I loved fairy bread racecardriver! It was always white bread with the crusts cut off. I'd forgotten that, I might try it on DD.

Rissoles

I'm very excited about the rissole interest! I remember them from the 1970s as being chopped up vegstable stuff and a little meat, quite spicy. Shaped and crumbed like a fishcake, but definitely cheap meat in them.

@haverhill Iceland sells Brain's faggots. I've seen them in the cabinet by the till. Lucky you.

Here you go BarkandCheese and DontCallMeCharlotte :)

I've actually got the full set of cards. There are loads of weird recipes in there. All dreamt up by the Meat Council it would seem

@RedTartanLass - my grandad used to make that bread/toast with butter and sugar for my gran, who'd had it as hospital/convalescent food as a little girl (sickly child, diptheria, etc).

same gran used to eat bone marrow, in the days before it was a delicacy in fancy restaurants. she didn't give it to us though, she kept it for herself.

I remember a chocolate version of that hot banana pudding, in the early-mid 80s. it was lovely.