Old fashioned, simple meals.

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Inspired by the Ploughman's lunch thread. What meals do you miss?

I remember my mum making lovely simple dinners when we were little. Or sitting in the pub garden eating chicken in basket.

pinching all the decent ideas for my meal plans

Omg I forgot skate wings in black butter 😱

Oxtail stew

Lobby/Scouse - made it sunday for a change & the weather.

My mum's recipe is diced beef, stock, onion, carrot, potato. Easy as anything, finished it tonight.

This sort of food is not my bag at all. There were many tearful mealtimes during my adolescence as I refused to eat "war" food.

We used to eat sandwiches with hundreds and thousands sprinkled in as a filling.

Liver and bacon, onion gravy peas and mash

Homemade mince beef and onion plate pie with marrow fat peas and mash

Burgers, boiled potatoes and tinned plum tomatoes

Fried egg and homemade chips

Burgers beans and homemade chips

Mince and onion, dumplings and Yorkshire puddings

Pannackelty or however you spell it: corned beef, carrots, onions, potatoes and beef stock cooked in the oven

Mum used to do wonderful meat and potato pie. I’ve tried to recreate this pie but it’s nothing like.

I loved cheese pie as a child at school. All recipes I look for now are called quiche. I know they are similar but they don’t taste the same to me. Anyone have a recipe for cheese pie??

Mum used to make cheese pie but with potatoes and onions. We always had baked beans with it.

Cheese and potato pie with baked beans.
Irish potato cakes.
Quiche Lorraine (I’ve never tasted one as good as my mums).
Steamed syrup pudding
Jam Roly Poly
Rice pudding

Tenred
We were always given hundreds and thousands sandwiches for packed lunches on day trips when I was at school in Holland.
I’d totally forgotten.
I might test them out on the DCs this half term

Anyone reading this and meal planning for next week?

Gammon knuckle with pease pudding (that would be called dhal these days)

Pease pudding is made from split peas, made some myself the other day, boiled up in the stock where I was boiling the ham, obvs! Dahl is lentil and curried. Both fab, but very different.

I still make a lot of these dishes. What I do miss is mutton stew with dumplings (cannot get mutton around here)

As a kid in the 70s we used to have

Liver and bacon, mash, cabbage
Lamb or pork chops, boiled potatoes, gravy and carrots and cabbage
Beef stew with carrots and onions, served with the ubiquitous boiled potatoes
Faggots, gravy, mash and peas
Home made meat pie (with stewing beef) with boiled potatoes and veg
Cheese and potato pie, carrots and cabbage
Cold meat, salad (lettuce, carrot, radish, shallots, tomato) and mash every Monday
Something on toast every Thursday (usually baked beans or cheese), served with salad
Sandwiches (ham, tongue or tinned salmon) every Saturday teatime followed by a home made cake or as a special treat, fresh cream cakes from the local bakers - usually cream buns or cream horns

My dad rented a field with a large veg patch so we had loads of fresh veg, though very little variety. I think it was healthy, Mum home cooked everything and we had lots of fruit too, though again this was seasonal. The field had been an orchard and was full of apple, pear and plum trees. Mum stewed and froze the fruit and we had it all winter. My favourite was stewed apple and blackberry. Mum was a good cook but very old fashioned and conservative in what she’d buy, even for the 70s.

My dad used to make me proper chip pan chips with an organic pork and apple burger (from the farm) and grilled tomato.

Then the next day we’d have chip omelette with the leftover chips from the day before.

Mum used to do a baked thing with thin slices of potato and onion with grated cheese in layers. I still make that- it’s lovely.

Mince and dumplings
Corned beef hash
Kedgeree
Beef stew
Sausage and mash
Egg and chips
Gammon and pineapple.

I still make them all, old classics are delicious.

Ham egg & chips (ham leftover from the weekend roast)
Bubble and squeak with anything
Toastie - just cheese or with beans or ham to be posh!
Corned beef hash - made it last week!! Love it!!
Potato & cheese pie

Tonight, we had sausage, egg, beans and chips (oven ) with a plate of Scottish plain bread and butter and a big enamel pot of tea.

It was pretty great Going to my mum's for mince and tatties later in the week 🤩

(We eat our fair share of spicy, veggie, etc meals, but love a bit of trad - and in this weather...)

DoAs I’m not trying to be facetious, but what is “ Scottish plain bread” ? Is it different to ordinary plain bread ie. soda bread?

@Frosty26827 it's like this

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_loaf

Not like soda bread at all, but sturdier than a normal white sliced (which we call a pain loaf).

Thanks DoAs sounds lovely, especially without the side crusts. I sometimes find ordinary white bread a little bit meh .... ok for a naice ham sandwich, but a bit too flimsy to go with a robust meal. If you know what I mean 😀

To the poster above who asked why people missed these foods - I do because I'd forgotten all about them! I'm so looking forward to making them now 😁

Just remembered angel delight and fish paste sandwiches, wonder if they taste as good now..

Bangers and mash
Fish Pie
Corned beef and jigs, with mustard sauce (jigs was parsnip, carrots and cabbage cooked in the corned beef water) with mashed potatoes
Ham steak with pineapple, with salad and new potatoes
Meatloaf
Steamed fish with a white parsley sauce, with new potatoes, carrots and multiple other veges
Chicken Chausseur
Apricot Chicken
Savoury Chops Casserole
Golden Sausages
Chili Con Carne
Macaroni Cheese

And one I'm happy if I never see again for all eternity - jellied oxes tongue. . .

A slow cooker is great in the winter, just chop up meat/vegetables throw in adding herbs, spices, stock, wine, whatever and let it crack on.

@HelpMeDrRanj- not together I hope! 🤢

I forgot, bubble and squeak with poached eggs.