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 thought everyone was using bar soap these days!

Cheese and pineapple on a stick

Snowballs

Most of the 'recipes' have changed, though. I think it's the original soaps people are hankering after.

I make my own as I love soap so much.

*LightDrizzle · Today 00:43

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.

What hams do you buy @LightDrizzle ? I would love to do my own but never know which is the best diy one*

ditto! I couldn’t get over the ham on our Yorkshire weekend, now back at home wondering how slices of wet pink slime dare to be sold in tesco. Yik.

have tried cooking my own and it weren’t good, too salty for a start. Would LOVE to know how to do good ham please!

I agree with real lettuce, also fresh spinach that isn't baby spinach, where did that go.
Potatoes that had flavour and weren't just floury vehicles for other things.

@canina I buy a gammon and follow https://www.nigella.com/recipes/slow-cooked-black-treacle-ham

It was delicious at Christmas.

Not food-related, but porters at railway stations. They'd rush up as you arrived and load your luggage on to their trolley, take you to your train and stow your suitcases safely aboard.

Fish paste! If I was an entrepreneur I'd get right on to rebranding fish paste. Needs a better name, for a start.

I make mine with a tin of sardines, butter, lemon juice, parsley. Bloody lovely and cheap.

@canina
Any gammon with the skin on from Co-op or other supermarkets. It doesn’Honey glazed hamt have to be fancy. You simmer it first then take the skin (but not the fat) off and glaze it before you roast it. I use the stick it has simmered in to make divine pea & ham soup and add the bits that fall off the ham as you carve it. I use a Hairy Biker recipe or the Ramsay one, not sure the Ramsay one is worth the small extra effort.
I’ll try to link to the recipes. Pea & ham soup
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/traditional_honey-glazed_52289

My mother used to mash sardines with vinegar and pepper and make sandwiches with hand sliced white bread, real bread, not soya laden crud.

Fish paste sandwiches and celery for Sunday tea.

Food had to go a long way in those days.

I remember my Granny boiling hams - she'd bring it to the boil and then discard the water and repeat a couple of times to get rid of the salt.

Smoked haddock poached in milk and served with pepper and a dollop of butter and mashed potatoes.

Yes to the egg in the cup. I still eat it now and my youngest loves it! My nan used to make me it when I was unwell

Also like corn beef hash, syrup sponge pudding, rice pudding with jam, Jam rolly polly, pineapple and evaporated milk, butterscotch angel delight.
Heinze tomato soup with white bread
Fry up with fried bread, not toast
Tinned fruit flan with the jelly over it
Macaroni cheese with just with white sauce and strong cheese..no bacon or anything else
Pilchards in tomato sauce mashed up with the bones on a salad
Lardy cake
Birds trifle mix. I still make it at Xmas.. with fresh cream as I hate dream topping still
Those little frozen chocolate round mousse things with thr cardboard lid
Space invaders crisps and clear coke
Nerd sweets
Ham made into a bear face

Were they Goblin puddings?

I've had salmon paste on toast for my lunch off the back off this thread.

So do I. We all love it!

'Proper' soap wasn't made with palm oil, it was lye and animal fats. I never feel as clean as I did before they changed it, seems to stay on my skin.

Ours was soaked in water to reduce the salt. Then boiled mercilessly by my mother who boiled everything until it shrunk.

Her shortcrust pasty was always brittle because she managed to melt the butter by sheer force when rubbing it in. Softest pastry I ever had.

@ODFOx you had me at "cricket club teas", I used to help make them as a teenager in the 70s. My favourite components were the egg & cress sandwiches, sausages on sticks, buttered white bread with strawberry jam, home made cakes inc fruit scone with cream & jam & all washed down with cups of tea from a big tea pot. Ahh thanks for that memory.

Also beef dripping. I wasn't allowed it as a child as it was kept for my Dad, but did keep it when I left home and started cooking. Don't get it now as there is never any fat on meat.

When in a pub..Just an ordinary G&T, in a normal sized glass with one small chunk of ice and a slice of lemon.

Not in a goldfish bowl filled with 3 shovelfuls of ice and a fruit salad. And no to weird flavour gin. And definitely not lemonade. And only plain tonic. And definitely no straw or umbrellas! 😫

Sausage and egg pie. Made with proper sausages from the butcher, all meat and herby. Skins were removed, mixed with eggs and put in pastry. It was a very solid pie.

I don't know why sausages were used, maybe no sausagemeat was available then, or it wasn't as good as the actual sausages. They were exceptional. No added crap.

That’s why I always get Miele vacuums…fantastic vacuum cleaners….a bag that’s easy to remove, brilliant suction and no faffing about with blockages!

I say ‘always’ as if they break…they don’t -I just had to leave one behind when I moved house.

Mmmm I love lemon meringue pie.

I've had my Be-Ro cookery book for decades - proper stuff in there.

@ThisAintNoPartyThisAintNoDisco argh goldfish bowls make me irrationally angry. My arm is also magnetically drawn to them and I knock them over. I have been known to make the barman take all the crap out and pour it in an ordinary glass.

Bone handled butter knives are an old fashioned thing of loveliness. I have all of my grandmothers.