Old fashioned things which are great

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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?

Bovril on toast is still my go-to (only with butter)

YY butterfly cakes. So good.

Banana butties.

Doorstop toast with best butter

It has lost something, tastes of stale oil and acid (Heinz).

Yesssss!
Dripping for me.

Geese? Like an actual Goose? The bird?

Homemade lemon curd- it improves so many things:
on hot buttered white toast
on cold buttered white toast
on crumpets
with scones and clotted cream
on vanilla ice cream
on hot puddings
with stewed apple and custard
in a pavlova
with strawberries
with cake and custard
with plain yoghurt
by itself on a big spoon

Oh yes! Or jam sponge. And suet dumplings and beef casserole

Butterscotch Angel Delight is not complete without sliced banana!

@newnamethanks Lidl salad cream is much nicer than Heinz, who should be ashamed of themselves.

@Wewalkthewalk that's it!! Thanks so much will be making it again soon. Is the bacon raw or part cooked?

Hot water bottles

Milk and More deliver mine now.

@Aaaalrightythen ·

Toasted teacakes with melted butter

That is my treat at the marks and Spencer cafe!!!

I miss mum's rockcakes and her home made Lemon Meringue pie which is not half as sweet as shop bought.

@motleymop

Yes to caraway seed cake and butterfly cakes. Far superior to bloody cupcakes!

@newnamethanks

My late dad would agree with you re syrup sponge/suet pudding!

As a child of the seventies, this thread is pure joy for me.

I’d like to recommend a YouTube channel, The Backyard Chef. He’s a guy who looks in his sixties from the north of England, who recreates lots of these old dishes, including all the school puddings we’ve been talking about. A couple of days go he made chocolate concrete and pink custard. I think you’d all enjoy it.

Corned beef is real meat!!!!

It's macaroni cheese!!!! We are not a state of America (yet!)
Down with mac and cheese. Enough!!!!
Sorry @Isometimeswonder , nothing personal. I just hate such creeping Americanisms (and of course if you are American, you are excused!)

Home made baked rice pudding that came out with a brown top & you could scrape the hard brown edge off the dish as an extra treat.
Yes, I make that boiled fruit cake from my Farmhouse Kitchen book, really easy Christmas cake that doesn’t have to be made weeks in advance.

Vesta Paella that came dried in a cardboard box. They did other varieties but that was my favourite.
Did you watch that TV programme a few weeks ago, The Seventies Supermarket? A brilliant walk down memory lane, really noticeable how crowded town centre streets were with shoppers. And so many of the young people who tried the stuff we used to buy loved them!

I used to make this in cookery lessons at school. Sometimes it had mushrooms in it as well. Most important was the made from scratch flakey pastry. I have not made my own pastry for decades.

Yes I agree but isn’t mac n cheese just cheese sprinkled over macaroni and put under the grill, where as, macaroni cheese is macaroni in a proper cheese roux sauce, sprinkled with cheese and baked.

I shall refer to my new toy .. my Be-ro book. I think it has a Ginger Parkin recipe.

Yes, I have my mother’s Be-Ro book but sadly the Parkin is dull. Melting moments were the treat of my childhood!