'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

Yes I remember vividly! Can even remember the oval glass dish with the different partitions in it which my nana used to serve salad in. Memories! Tasted amazing!

Omg yes! lettuce tomato onion egg cucumber and radishes 🤣
with cooked meat, pork pie/quiche and boiled potatoes and buttered muffins

Lettuce
Cucumber slices
Tomato sliced
Pickled onions
And...
Jersey royals boiled in their skin.
Salad cream & salt. Hot.
Bloody loovly.

@Butterer my mum aged 50 odd still makes that as salad 🤣

Oh yes. My granny used to do a tea plate with a slice of ham, a couple of small boiled potatoes, two or three leaves from a round lettuce. Couple of slices of cucumber and half a tomato when we stayed at hers.

We would sneak off for chips later on.
My mum did the same but more it and a boiled egg and ALWAYS salad cream. I loved salad cream.

Yes and with the rolled up ham and a tomato cut in half with loads of salt on

I’m craving a Nan salad now omg

More of it

Butterer

We had lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes as standard, usually with quartered boiled eggs, plus slices of ham, corned beef or chicken.

Pickled onions/silverskins, and beetroot- straight sliced, never crinkle cut.

Sometimes chunks of orange cheddar and always lots of salad cream. This was in the 80's/90's and Up North.

SNAP

i love these types of salads!

now i want to go see my nan.

Actually drooling here. But what the hell is a 'round' lettuce? I mean, as opposed to an iceberg, little gem, etc.

Yes yes to Pek!! And next to it on the plate would be a massive scoop of pease pudding from the butchers - a proper Newcastle salad mmm ooh I'd love that right now, with a quarter of a Gregg's scottie to make sandwiches out of the salad.

We'd also always have beetroot, boiled eggs and home grown lettuce and tomatoes. A proper 1980s salad - lush.

we used to have those salads out a tin with some tinned ham with the jelly on, pickled onion and beetroot, maybe an egg or bit of lettuce if you were lucky! I remember quite liking it!

Midlands in the 70’s+80’s it was a tomato cut in a zig zag, unchopped lettuce leaves, rolled up ham, chunks of cheddar, salad cream and silver skin pickled onions, cucumber And spring onions (whole) -divine!

They were heinz tinned salads, cucumber, vegetable and potato - yum!

Thanks @Butterer. I see what you mean. But icebergs are round too

Just had never heard a lettuce actually described as 'round' - thought it might be some regional quirk!

@muckyplucky we need to show you a picture and you’ll see I’m sure!!

Exactly the same here, 1960s and 70s up north.
My mum's mum added the slices of orange which my brother and I thought were the height of sophistication. Her salads were presented on a large circular platter with all the elements everyone else has named radiating out from a tin of Prince's salmon, still in the shape of the tin. My brother and I used to have the treat of crunching the tinned salmon bones.

Cold rice, raisins and peas. There must have been more to it than that but I remember picking the raisins out. My gran is actually a good cook!

Celery stick in a vase

Yep. With a buttered batch or a couple of slices of bread.

None of the things touched on the plate