'salads' your nan used to make...

[trashcanjunkie]

Mine used to do this for my grandad once a week - it would consist of a boiled egg, halved, a massive spring onion or two, some pickled beetroot maybe.... (not entirely sure....) and two slices of corn beef with salad cream on the side.....

DH says his lot also used to have 'salads' like these - he reckons it's 1970's northern thing....

I wish I could remember all of the elements... Did anyone else's family eat these? I bet there are variations on the theme

@Gancanny

She made one with over boiled new potatoes, slices of ham, sweetcorn, grated carrot, sliced hardboiled egg, beetroot, pickled onions, grated cheese, quartered tomatoes, cucumber, sald cream, and spring onions. The potatoes were hot, everything else was cold.

Actuallly. This sounds like a great lunch!

Our school salad had peanuts and raisins in it, but no idea what else, as I loved it and hate cucumber and tomatoes, which were not included.

Remember these salads!
Mum used to make one with a round lettuce not ever iceberg, cucumber, beetroot, toms and spring onion, always served with hot mash and salad cream, boiled eggs and rolled ham slices, bread & butter too.
Actually could eat this now!

@Leimarel yes cubed cheddar cheese! Forgot about that!

We always had cold mash on our salads. My mum still does them for her and my dad. Cold mash was delicious!

Tyneside here too - that's definitely a grandma salad. Mine also used to make a kind of green jelly with cottage cheese and cucumber

My mum was fancy and made a Russian salad using tinned mixed veg and salad cream. I used to love salad for tea, apart from the tomatoes and the "round lettuce" that stuck to the roof of your mouth. We always had it with white sliced bread and butter, only the butter was, invariably, marg.

We had that at school with a scoop of mash. 70s London. You can take yer panzanella and shove it - we’ve got tinned beetroot juice bleeding onto boiled egg

My great aunt made salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, tinned ham, boiled eggs and tinned peaches.

While she was making the salad my dad got sent to the chip shop and we had chips with our salad.

Best Sunday dinner ever

My mum's salad were disgusting - some lettuce my dad had grown which was never washed properly, tomato, cucumber and hard boiled egg.

I love salads now but grew up hating them

I often make myself lunchtime salads consisting of lettuce, spring onion, tomato, cucumber, beetroot, olives, hard boiled egg slices and packet ham. I am in fact a 1970s Nan! [wails]

My in laws still make the same kind of salad when we visit. They're in their early 60s.

Salad dressing made from vinegar and sugar anyone?

80s north east.

Oh yes Pek! Sometimes we’d get given it in white bread sandwiches with a lettuce leaf for greenery. Lots of butter. Proper butter - margarine wasn’t allowed in the house. Mmm, I can taste it now! I wonder if you can still buy Pek?

We used to have celery put into a tall glass with salt to dip it in.
We had salad for Sunday tea followed by Bird's trifle. This was in the 1960s/early 70s.

Funnily enough the only time we ever had chips with school dinners was when we had salad. School salad had beetroot and orange slices in it.

My fil makes salad with lettuce (little gem) large tomato sliced cucumber sliced celery and sugar

Posh lunch for visitors in my Yorkshire family was all of the above but served on separate fancy plates for self service eg a plate of rolled ham, a bowl of small tomatoes, a plate of triangles of buttered sliced bread

I want 80s nan Boxing Day salad now. Cold turkey, mashed potatoes, beetroot, pickled onion, cucumber, tomato with vinegar. Eaten before playing cards in the evening.

Tinned ham with a whole tomato on the side - my gran’s Saturday night special. Mum would have home grown lettuce, halved tomatoes and tinned potato salad. 1960s/ 70s. Salad cream for grown ups...

Oh yes and celery and spring onions served upright in a glass with curled/shredded ends to the spring onions

Errrm I’m a bit confused as most of the versions of salad above are what I’d still class as salad (and regularly make as salad) today.

I think I’m 30 years behind the culinary times. And I’m only 40!

Really basic stuff.
Iceberg lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, spring onions, hard boiled egg, cress, grated carrot, rolled slices of ham, chunks of cheddar and some pickled onions.

Take the cress off and throw on some peppers instead and it's exactly what I have today. A classic that I still love.