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?

My grandmother used to make freshly baked soda bread and current bread. She made butter and jam to go with them and it just sensational. She also had the best irish stew and even though we have the recipe nobody is able to recreate it to the same standard😋. My mam used to make ham and egg salad sandwiches and cheesecake for every funeral and I can't eat either of those things anymore because they just don't measure up to hers! My current simple faves are corned beef from the tin, blackberries straight off the bush and potato soup.

What exactly is Pease Pudding, please? Is it savoury or sweet?

Pease pudding is savoury, it's just split peas cooked and tinned and so thick you can slice it. It's lovely. I make pease pudding and ham sandwiches with piccalilli.

OMG I used to make Melting Moments with my Nanna every Saturday. We used to economise by cutting the glacé cherry halves into quarters.

I've got both my Mam and my Nanna's Bero books.

In the days before I discovered I was allergic to wheat, my Friday treat was often a butterfly bun from the local country market (an Irish thing) - the alternative was 'cheesecakes', latterly called bakewell buns - like English maids of honour - a pastry case, blob of cheese OR apple, topped with almond flavoured sponge cake. Bliss, really freshly baked. They're still available, I pop in sometimes to but marmalade or vegetables and torture myself by smelling the lovely home-baking smells.

otoh, not having a cough after years of having one is bliss.

oh, and I have a teasmaid (bought a second-hand one with my first ever pay packet, I was an odd teenager, and have never been without one since), recently re-discovered the joys of a hot water bottle, and am a dab hand at adapting the recipes in the Be-ro book to Spelt flour.

In a recent online grocery order from Morrisons I bought a tin of Spam – out of sheer curiosity as I hadn’t eaten Spam for a very long time. Getting it out of the tin was like trying to get into Fort Knox. Worth the effort though. I frizzled thin slices for about five mins each side. What a treat. It tasted like bacon as I remembered. A real trip down Memory Lane…..A 200g tin for £3 did me for three meals and good cheap protein as well.

I used to love spam fritters with baked beans for school lunches. We always had grated apple with about five sultanas for pudding afterwards too which was considered a great treat. 😂

Oh yes! I'm going to search and subscribe to that!!! And as for the user name (@SmashedPrawnsInAMilkyBasket I miss that programme so badly!!! The 2nd one got a bit daft, but the first one, hysterical!!!) 😁😁😁

I regularly make butterfly buns for when my dc and dgs visit at the weekend. Dd reported that at the last school fundraiser they sold out long before the many cupcakes on sale

Baked egg custard, in a pyrex, just custard, no pastry (and no nutmeg). Warm and wobbly from the oven.

Egg custard made in a double-boiler, eaten / drunk Georgian style out of a little glass cup, with or without sherry or brandy 'flavouring' as you choose. It was a great way to get extra protein into my elderly invalid mother. She went for 'with' every time!

I bought a tin of cooked ham from Home Bargains just before Christmas. DH spotted it and popped it into basket. It took me right back to my childhood and mum buying a few items of ‘luxury’ goods every week, she kept it all hidden in a box upstairs and a couple of tins of ham was always in the box she brought down on Christmas Eve Morning: Xmas pudding, home made Christmas cake, chocolates, tinned salmon, biscuits, Sherry, Port, jars of mincemeat, sticky dates, nuts, Turkish Delight in a box. Jelly fruit sweets, candy cigarettes, Bassets All Sorts.
She would bake mince pies during the afternoon and treat herself to a sweet Sherry afterwards.
That ham tasted just as I remember it.

Oh no! I'm sorry but that was vile. Mum used to serve with stewed rhubarb 🤢.

I would be offered a digestive biscuit with the rhubarb instead- I just had the biscuit !

Agree with you Shinyapple, we lacked vanilla in those days. My mum's baked custards were vile. And frequently scrambled. Shudder.

A fruit salad as a desert option at every event, banana and custard, tinned peaches, bread and butter pudding, pink custard and chocolate rock cake, putting a coin in the Christmas pudding, jelly and Ice cream, spread sandwiches.

I've eaten gallons of Heinz salad cream in my life and I agree it's gone downhill. I've since bought Aldis version and it's much cheaper and much better.

My ex used to make home made bread which was the food of the gods.

I loved my DGMs stew and ham and pea soup. Somehow she chucked it all in a pan and the end result was always the same and always delicious. And her blackcurrant pie!

Butterscotch tart. We had it for school dinners and my mother got the recipe. It was pastry with a filling of light brown goo.

Seems as if your reaction to that is similar to mine with liver and kidneys, can't understand why people would eat organs that are full of eliminated toxins... but each to their own 😄

Tunnocks Tea Cakes.. I'm eating one now! Yum!!

Tea in a cup and saucer with two plain digestive biscuits for dunking.

Treacle tart!

Haven't had that since Mum used to make it when I was a kid!

A good old fashioned treacle tart. They're a bugger to find in the shops nowadays sadly.

@VampireWeekday yes ! I remember shopping like that with my mum in our small town. Gagging in the butchers. The bloody sawdust on the floor. And she was fond of chitterlings and beef dripping (not I, a presage of becoming vegetarian later perhaps!) Browsing the green grocers and growing toms and things at home. There was no supermarket in 'them days' apart from local Co-Op. And funnily enough I thought of how we would whirl the 'floppy lettuce' madly in a tea towel this morning.
My fave pud was her home made treacle tart but she often did steamed puds too.
Been listening to Tim Spector's series Food for Life on R4, which is fascinating and depressing at the same time.

Yay and snap @ladyluck13 !