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?

And @diddl ! Craving now....

Beef dripping on hot toast with salt and pepper. Yummmm........

Cheese on toast
Lemon curd or jam tarts
Lemon meringue
Black Forest Gateau. Cheap, frozen, preferably.
Apple strudel. See above.
Beef spread sandwiches.
Chip butties
I also share the love for a Bero book.

Absolutely off topic but your name is fab. I rarely hear anyone talking about or referencing the sheer genius that is Nighty Night!!

Coburg cakes

I got a teasmade for my mum a couple of Christmas's ago. It reminded me of staying with my Gran (mum's mum) who had one and always let me use it.
Think Swan make them.

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There was something on the radio the other day whilst I was at work about how to make the perfect cup of tea. One woman claims she's found the best way and that is to heat the milk up so it doesn't curdle and then add in salt to take away the bitterness of the leaves. I think I'll stick to the good old fashioned way of pouring boiling hot water over a teabag and adding cold milk afterwards. Oh and definitely eliminate the salt.

I often add salt to my tea, having found that since Covid tea bags are not as good. They seem to be more bitter. After my second cup I am awake enough to notice the bitterness, and salt does help.

I first tried it when I began low carb and had a permanent salt taste in my mouth, was told to add salt. It helped, so added it to tea which improved it somewhat.

So if your Yorkshire Gold is bitter, add some salt.

Toast that is crisp and crunchy.

Pop up toasters seem to make it sweat and therefore soft. I like it to make a crunching sound when I butter it. If I have time I use the Heston oven grill which takes a while but makes perfectly crisp toast. For some reason the regular grill doesn't, maybe not hot and dry enough.

And toast made on a toasting fork in the open coal fire.

Eggs that don't have huge red blobs in them when cracked, like in the old days. Bleeuurgghhh...

I crack them into a white bowl and spoon the bits out. I don't know if all eggs are like it, or just Clarence Court which I no longer buy after a particularly vomit inducing incident, and all brands of organic eggs.

I had that at Christmas. Mum made the custard with oat milk as I became intolerant last year to milk. Made my Christmas since I missed out on the cheese and chocolate

Edited- replied to the wrong post

My local cake shop does a roaring trade in old fashioned cakes
She makes cornflake tart, chocolate concrete and school cake and you can even get pink custard to go with it

This thread reminds me of when I spent ages making a fruit tea loaf and took it to work
One of the managers was very reserved and rarely spoke, she came to find me and I was "oh god what have I done" and she said "that's the only cake I've tasted in years that is like the one my gran used to make for me"
It was so lovely

Grabbed some photos
Jam dots, cornflake cake, school cake

Prawn cocktail

Lux soap
Vosene

Sunday tea - cheese and tomato sandwiches on white bread with salad cream watching Black Beauty or Follifoot

Rentaghost

Sindy
Girls World

Spangles
Holly Hobby

Evaporated milk

Constance Carroll lip gloss- just taken me right back to 1978
My Pierrot duvet popped into my head

And pea wet...scraps too - yum

I bought a box of them on a whim in Aldi one day recently.. they were demolished 😋Always remind me of my Nanas after school

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.

I need one of these in my life, I love poached eggs but I fail miserably every time, so thanks for the tip @Andthereyougo & @Aaaalrightythen

There is a garden centre near me that has a proper sweet shop in it, toffee in travs, boiled sweets in jars and licorice sticks.

Proper ones, not black plasticy looking things, the actual twig (and sometimes root) of the plant.

For those of you pining for a ploughman's, it was invented by the milk marketing board. Well the name was, eating bread and cheese probably dates back to the day when whoever invented bread and whoever invented cheese met.

I remember those kind of "cheesecakes", but they had a blob of jam in them. I haven't had one for years (I'm in NZ), but can remember when I was young trying to tell my late DM that they weren't cheesecakes.

The ones I was stumbling to describe had jam too - I was so determined to stress that they had no cheese in them that I ended up writing cheese instead of jam. Go figure.

I'd been reading the recipe for the English 'maids of honour' which actually do have a little cheese in the cake mixture, and my brain was clearly melting down,.

PS the way to have non-soggy poached egg if you don't have a poacher is to put the egg on a folded sheet of kitchen paper after you remove it from the water (with a slotted spoon of course) - fold paper in two, place egg nearer one end, give it a few seconds to dry, flip it over to the other end of the folded paper so the top surface dries, then onto your toast.

Add butter to taste.

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I did wonder - cheese sounded like an odd thing to be in them! I'm craving one right now 😀