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.

pongopig

yup - Macaroni was a standard pudding in our house too. cooked with a knob of butter on top to make a skin.

I think, you use small macaroni though?? or was that just what was for sale in the '70's?

Already mentioned but yes to beaten raw egg, milk and sugar (no brandy though) when poorly, and also Chucky egg - chopped boiled eggs with butter.

My nana used to feed me Savory duck sandwiches. I thought it was actually duck. It came in slices from the butchers. Turns out it was some sort of faggots, pork heart, liver and all sorts of other bits cooked and made into a roll thing they could slice for sandwiches. I loved it. She also gave me Findus savory pancakes and Toast topppers All fully loaded with salt and probably cut a few years off my life. We loved eating junk food together.

As a mean Mum I gave my oldest boys egg noodles with a tin of mushroom soup and a chopped head of broccoli in a casserole dish with cheese on top and baked. They loved it.

Ice cream bread, bascically frozen bread! And a bowl of hot custard with digestive biscuits in it surprisingly 😋

Rice Creamola.

No-one I’ve ever mentioned it to has ever heard of it! It was a powdered milk pudding that was a cross between semolina and custard. It was so delicious.

Macaroni or vermicelli pudding is definitely a thing. A revolting thing, but a thing nonetheless.

My mum was raised in Ireland so bacon and cabbage was a Sunday staple. To make it go further (and I think because she prided herself on actually being English not Irish so had to do things a bit differently ), it was always accompanied by pease pudding. No one seems to eat pease pudding anymore. I loved it but my DC didn't like that or boiled bacon or cabbage. 😢

This one will be outing but when I worked weekends DH used to make the children “peanut butter surprise’ sandwiches. These were peanut butter and butter on white bread sandwiches and the surprise was a layer of Pringles added in. During the week I was a bit of a controlling food freak, all organic, cooked from scratch, good wholesome stuff so to them the peanut butter surprises were like manna from heaven and they still speak of them fondly.

Egg and salad cream (instead of mayo) is common enough. You can get it as a ready made filler.

I make something similar to pp's dad's Tuna Gunk . Pasta, tuna, Marie Rose sauce (aka ketchup and salad cream mixed together), chopped tomatoes, cucumber, black olives, grated cheese and sometimes sweetcorn and spring onion. Dc call it MTP (Mum's Tuna Pasta) and hoover it up.

cold potato sandwiches with salt or salad cream.
celery with salt to dip it in.
hot pork sandwiches with crackling and dripping liberally spread on the bread.

Egg and salad cream

We don't have an ASDA

My Mother used to make this curried mince dish which was kind of sloppy with eggs. We absolutely adored it. I had no idea what it was called, she could not recall it years later. I met up with a new mum at school who was South African, at her house she had made some of this wondrous dish. It was called bobotie.

My Mother used to cut recipes out of magazines, this must have been one of them.

www.africanbites.com/bobotie/

Apple sandwich with sliced apple and surgery give it a crunch.Best on white bread.
Spam and egg plate pie.
Minced beef plate pie with kidneysand meaty gravey.Hendersons relish a must with this.

@BlueMerchant Ebly is a type of bulgar wheat (in France anyway)

Pork pie with vegetable soup poured on it.

I love the cucumber and onion thing and make it a lot, it’s gorgeous on a cheese sandwich.

Just thought of another - a bowl of melted cheese with milk and bread and butter.

My mum's tuna mayo is epic - she adds lemon juice, grated onion, thyme and Bajan yellow pepper (chilli) sauce along with the mayo (or salad cream). She also does a kind of corned beef hash thing with loads of fried onions, served with rice. Mmmmm.

My nan used to mix buttered cubed white bread into our porridge - I loved that!

@El2019 - yes Cremola! My mum made this loads for Sunday pudding - one of my faves.

My mum used to make a risotto by combining uncooked rice, left-over chicken from the Sunday roast, frozen veg, a can of condensed chicken soup, and water; mixing it all in a casserole dish; and chucking it in the oven for a couple of hours. It was boring and flavourless.

But at least it didn't make me sick - unlike the mix of tinned ravioli and tinned mixed veg, which was dished up on one camping holiday

My mum used to make me Cheese and Honey sandwiches

These have remained a staple part of the diet since !

Someone I know used to to cook Sausages in Mill and serve it with a doorstop of bread! ⚂

"we were given a pick me up of beaten raw egg, milk with a drop of Indian brandy" yeugh! Although nutritionally good and brandy was thought to help fever, sore throat etc.

We were lucky if we were sick we got "Chucky eggs" hard boiled eggs mashed with butter & a little salt in a mug. We'd have eaten it all the time but were only allowed it when poorly. Also lucozade in glass bottles wrapped in cellophane to wash it down.

Corn beef hash - corned beef, leftover roast potatoes pan fried, cabbage and beaten egg all mixed up and grilled - sounds awful absolutely lush. One of the few things as a veggie I miss.

"Sosmix. It is an actual food, but no ther bugger seems to have had rhe mis fortune of being fed it. Also tartex, which I did, and do, still like. I struggle to find it though" I loved sosmix been thinking of getting a pack for brexit stockpile but hard to find now. Tartex yeast pâté? Holland and Barrett still do it I think I love it too. So much I cut the tube open when it's almost finished so I can get it all out!

"Also a sort of odd jam thing. It was sweet like jam, but looked like marmite." Also Holland and Barrett? Pure fruit spread?

"Rissoles. Does anywhere still sell them?" Dead easy to make

"My grampa used to make us supper of digestive biscuits spread thickly with salted butter" we used to have rich tea biscuits sandwiched with butter dipped in our tea or hot choc at supper time. I also though we were the only ones had anything like this.

In 20 years dd will be posting about my instant mash + grated cheese + beans stirred into the mash in the jug I made the mash in (less washing up!) that's my lazy tea I invented one knackered Tuesday! 😂

"When I was at university we were having one of those conversations about how many different ways of cooking potatoes there were, as you do. After the standard suggestions of chips, mash, etc., I said 'rosti!', and everyone laughed at me for being posh" when I moved to Germany again as a veggie adult people said I'd struggle - they hadn't accounted for the German "1 million and one ways with a potato" obsession. 😂😂 accompanied by "1 thousand and one ways with asparagus" - safe to say I didn't go hungry!

"I remember years ago a friend from school was over at our house and my mum told her to stay for dinner.
We were having stovies, she had never heard of them and refused to eat them." OMG are u my sibling? Army brat with weegie roots here. Had many a similar experience, basically I spent many "play dates" and sleepovers translating scots English into English English 😂

The fact we ALWAYS had a pudding threw many of my friends too - except one surprised me by not needing all this, turned out her dad was from Forfar!

My mum used to bring a spare case/bag (only cabin size so that's ok right?) "home" with her on our visits to relatives which she then filled with pan loaf, irn bru, square sausage, tattie scones, wotsits (they used to be Scotland only), nougat & oyster ice cream wafers, morning rolls, white pudding, fish (she always maintained English shops didn't sell properly fresh fish unless we were living somewhere so close to the sea you could smell it) all this would be frozen prior to our journey home and packed with ice packs so they'd last the journey, you'd think we starved in England the way my grans went on too as it COULDN'T have been proper food we were getting there 😂😂😂

"No mention of cremola ?" Haha yes! We used to bring tins of Cremola foam home too - much to the bewilderment of our friends.

"Sosmix people - Beanfeast! Even my tough constitution knew about that stuff the next day." Another one I though of adding to stockpile. Turns out almost impossible to get now.

"When anyone had a cold she;d make onion juice. Sliced onion in a sieve with some sugar on." She was ahead of her time! I think I'm right in saying that was a way of drawing out onions natural antibiotic and decongestant parts.

Another who had salad cream instead of mayo with egg mayo

What always makes me smile on these threads is how we have all this lovely fresh "normal" food available now, which we also enjoy - but still have so much affection for and indeed even enjoy older style "junk" "recipes"

For a veggie what's weird is while I never really liked "normal" meat I'm not at all squeamish and I actually enjoyed tongue, oxtail, steak and kidney pudding (and liked the kidney best), faggots, rissoles, shellfish, crab, haggis, pork crackling...

I'm actually a good veggie as in I never knowingly eat any meat (got caught a couple times in early days when it was harder to check in restaurants etc) but there's certain things I remember enjoying from a pure taste aspect.

golden syrup on white buttered bread
luncheon meat sandwiches with loads of pickle
sop which was bread soaked with milk and lots of sugar

Porridge with a dollop of ice cream on top

My mother was an still is an awful cook most everything she cooks is bland and soggy

She was particularly good at making vile pasta bakes where it was horrid and soggy on the inside and burnt on the outside. Her method of doing a roast was also to chuck the meat/potatoes/vegetables in the oven without any seasoning whatsoever and to incinerate them to within an inch of their life. I used to think I hated roasts, now I just realise I hate tough leathery dry meat that takes about 2 days to chew until it's digestible.

She would also make bricks bread at home and very very very dry and tasteless sponges/cakes. Always so dry. It might as well have been sawdust.

A "fancy" meal for my mum would be something like spag bol, aforementioned pasta bake or carbonara, stuff that I will cook on a weekday because it's quick and easy but for her was incredibly taxing.

My dad thankfully is an excellent cook