Old fashioned things which are great

[ODFOx]

The spam thread reminded me that I have had a craving for a salad with hard boiled egg and ham, possibly potato salad or warm new potatoes with butter and salad cream.It isn't chopped up or involving chickpeas and reminds me of cricket teas in the 70s, but it is what I fancy so I might make it for all of us tomorrow.
What else is dated but really 'hits the spot'? I'll throw in a 'Cornishish' pasty made with corned beef instead of real meat.
Anyone?

I still make lemon meringue pie sometimes.

A proper ham sandwich with thick white bread, butter, and the thinnest scraping of English mustard. No mayo, pickles, salad or slop. I boil and roast the hams myself with a honey glaze. So cheap and easy.

Also ham, egg and chips (beans optional)

Macaroni cheese made classically without bacon/ truffle oil/ jalapeños/ mushrooms or anything “dirty”.

I’m not a plain food nut. I like Michelin starred restaurants and Thai, Indian, Vietnamese, and Chinese food and cook it at home but these simple foods are wonderful.

Fruit cake (fruitcake? Is it one word?) — in loaf or bar form.

Or Madeira cake with glacé cherries in it.

Most old desserts - black forest gateau, rum baba, chocolate concrete, pineapple upside down, fruit cobbler, actual hard flapjacks, not gooey.

Pound cake

Yes, why do pubs/restaurants spoil a good mac n cheese with truffle oil etc?!

Artic Roll, such a simple underrated pud.

Oh my god all of these things.

Baking - rock cakes, sultana cake, kisses sandwiched together with jam. A slightly dry Madeira loaf to have with a cup of tea. Proper shepard’s pie made with left over roasted lamb.

Beef spread and beetroot sarnie 😋

Plum loaf, optional butter. Non optional but on the side - a decent portion of good hard cheese and a diced apple that has a sharpness and is crisp. Bonus points if a good cuppa is served.

I often have something like that for tea in summer, and so do most people I know!! There's nothing wrong with good, plain, food.

Sherry trifle.

Chocolate bourbons.

Oh yes, I'll have 2 x fried eggs on toast please. Brown sauce on the side. It's wholemeal toast, mind, not sourdough. A mug of tea with it.

Homemade bread and homemade jam
yorkshire pudding with butter and sugar
non- food related - records.

Toasted teacakes with melted butter
Poached eggs made in the poaching pan with the little poached egg cups you slather with butter and take out rather than the "make a cyclone" wet lumps
Kedgeree
Thin crispy french fries rather than the wedges
Yes to proper ham thickly cut

non food related…my 25 yr old (or older) Hoover upright vacuum which uses a bag! I have a Dyson canister and a shark canister but I hate emptying out the canister! The shark doesn’t even empty properly and I have to pull debris out with my hand. I love that bag in the Hoover…when it’s full throw it away and put on a new one.

Butter dishes with proper butter

I'm going on a mini-break into rural Victoria with my dog soon and always stop halfway to admire the view and have some scoff. Hard-boiled eggs always, and I'm inspired by the simplicity of @LightDrizzle's ham sandwich, as I have some left over from Christmas in the freezer.

An old-style Sunday breakfast is what my late DH called train smash: tinned tomatoes on toast topped by a poached egg. HP sauce essential.

I have a relatively new Hoover (not upright) which has a bag. I did have a Shark and another Hoover which were bagless and hated them. So easy just to whip out the bag and throw it away, and the bagless ones needed emptying far more often.

A sloppy fried egg sandwich between two heavily buttered slices of cheap white bread. Tomato sauce optional!

Ooh. Lincolnshire Plum Loaf and a good wodge of vintage Lincolnshire Poacher.

Someone mention beef spread. My pack up had Shipham’s chicken spread on the regular. I suspect there was very little chicken in it!

And I now have a craving for Coronation Chicken.

And things in jars makes me also think of Heinz Sandwich spread, or “vomit in a jar” as it was known in our house.

And a Vesta Chicken Supreme or a Beef Chow Mein!

Rich and fruity lardy cake, two hundred calories in every gobful.

Sandwich Spread 😍Used to love that stuff. And also the Shiphams potted meats.

I would love that ham salad right now @ODFOx! Pretty sure my Nan used to make them like that, which would have been mid to late 1980s.

We had prawn cocktail on Christmas day, I so enjoyed it!

Also had home made eve's pudding with custard this week, yum!

I have seen there is an ice-cream now available called 'Butterscotch Angel Delight', another old favourite of mine.