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?

Afternoon tea is wonderfully comforting. It’s so nice to bring in a tray with a teapot and a jug of milk and a few cakes and biscuits. It’s the closest thing us Brits have to a ritual. There is an episode of Hancock’s Half Hour that I love where he has the vicar over to high tea. He sort of mocks the whole thing, but in an affectionate way.

Mince and carrots

Liver and onion

Viennetta ice cream!

Saturday tea at SharpeMansions --
Kippers, grilled (whole, on the bone, never kipper fillets) served with thickly sliced farmhouse type bread, generously buttered.
Or floured and fried soft herring roes on buttered toast served with a squeeze of lemon or shake of vinegar.
Finnan haddock poached in milk, served with a couple of poached eggs and, or course, bread and butter.

Yes to the garden salad. (No to salad cream though)

I love round lettuce and it makes great lettuce soup.

Leek and potato soup with old potatoes (not gone off, just not new)

Baked potatoes done for ages in the oven with lots of butter and salt, thick ham or cold beef on the side, and of course a garden side salad

Plastic white bread sandwiches with fairly plastic cheddar and tomatoes, cut into triangles for preference

ploughmans

Victoria sponge with sharp Jam in the middle and sugar on top, cream on the side for posh but very nice as is. NO BUTTERCREAM.

Pineapple upside down cake

Also the rectangular farmhouse fruit cake

Teabread with (thick) butter

Tomato Potato pie (said to rhyme), probably when cash was low - potatoes, tinned tomatoes, grated cheese, pre-browned onions, salt and pepper, tumbled together in the oven)

On a similar note I am quite nostalgic about the endless pasta bakes of my student years - I assume precooked pasta, tinned tomatoes, cheap mozzarella, grated cheddar, tumbled together in the oven

Sharp jam - damson, greengage, quince. I cannot stand jam that isn’t sharp.

On the same note - sharp crumbles, stewed fruit, fruit fool

Golden syrup and butter on white toast or crumpets. Or white bread.

Chicken Kev, ideally in a basket with chips and salad. The exciting pub Sunday lunch of my childhood.

Scone with a relatively restrained amount of butter (unusual for me) and jam (weirdly non sharp industrial jam ok in this case). I like the full thing with cream, but I also like this simple version of a weekday afternoon in the office.

Sharp lemon fridge cheesecake made in a shallow dish with digestive biscuit base that comes up the side

Ginger cake with a proper kick

Lindt chocolate bunnies

Cadburys whole nut. Not the chopped nut substitute, which is so much less good as to be not worth it.

A cup of tea with a slug of whisky. Like sweet tea when in need of serious comfort but better.

Also quite fond of squash, I was entertained to discover recently that in an adult this really bugs some people.

Not a malt vinegar fan though - don’t like beetroot, salad cream, quite a mixed relationship with pickle.

If you are nostalgic about finders crispy pancakes, learn by my mistake and don’t try them.

Is sharp sour ? I'm intrigued

Home made chips deep fried

crinkle chips deep fried

plain scones

Corned beef hash

I spent £4 on salad cream because of this post. Had an old fashioned salad for tea and really enjoyed it! 😁

As a child, I was a disappointment to my family, lol! I was the only one on my mum's side who couldn't stand lardy cake 🤢😂

Tinned fruit with evaporated milk and a slice of white bread and butter to dip in.
Yorkshire salad.
Egg banjos.
A scoop of vanilla ice cream in a glass with cream soda poured over it.
Theses are things from yesteryear that I still eat regularly.

Faggots. Proper faggots with peas. None of this Brains nonsense.

These are impossible to buy now! We tried loads of shops just after Christmas and couldn't find one anywhere!

I occasionally google this, I totally remember it and nobody else does (apart from you now obviously 🤩).

hot banana crunch and hot lemon crunch 🙂🙂🙂 would love them back x

Good list. Yes to ploughman's. Very hard to find these days. And you're so right about the plastic cheese sandwiches. Always a pleasure to find those in one's lunchbox.

Agree with so many of these and wish country pubs would go back to this sort of simple delicious fare rather than all the gastro pub stuff.

A real Ploughman's lunch, with a hunk of home-made bread, big pickled onions, a big wadge of mature cheddar eaten in an olde worlde country pub and washed down with real ale.
Jelly or chocolate blancmange made in a mould. I still have my Gran's jelly mould, must give it a go.
Sliced liver sausage with salad [ round lettuce] on a Saturday eve watching the Generation Game.
Striped flannelette sheets in winter.

I like a proper salad. Lettuce, sliced cucumber and tomatoes, cress and spring onions, with salad cream, a slice of ham or some tinned tuna, and bread and butter.

Yum.

Most of these foods are on our menu here and as for soap, I've never got to grips with shower gel or liquid soap - feels slimy. I can still buy carbolic and red household soap but I must admit my favourite soap is the olive soap from Turkey. Not the neat wee bars they sell for tourist, but the big slabs you find at the markets in the kitchen utensil area

Bothams of Whitby do the most beautiful Brack, served with cheese and seriously the best pot of tea EVER. Luckily they do sell online as Whitby now includes a flight :)

I eat sardines/pilchards etc a lot. Along with kippers - love them. Sardines mashed with vinegar and spread on toast and warmed under the grill - food of the gods

Liver and bacon, corned beef pie, egg and bacon pie, scotch eggs - regulars

Hand cut chips cooked in the chip pan nowadays a rare treat but oh so good. Served with egg and bread and butter. My 50th, hubby said where did I want to go for my birthday meal, and yep I opted for the caff ( cafe) for egg and chips, bread and butter and a mug of builders tea. Its still a treat for me

Our local department store does dishes like stewed beef and onions, deep filled mince and onion pie, stuffed vol u vents and the queue is never ending

Slow cooked beef stew and dumplings are regular here during the winter months

My nan used to make the most beautiful suet pudding, jam, golden syrup, spotted dog - loved them all

Sunday tea was the ham and egg salad - which we still have - or a pint of winkles and a pint of cockles with bread and butter. Sometimes whelks and prawns. All served whole, you used to have to remove the meat from the shell yourself - table was covered in newspaper to contain the mess :)

Paste sandwiches or better still spread thickly on fresh white bloomer from the bakers

Bread pudding - huge big slabs fresh from the oven served with Birds custard , also cold in lunch boxes - right filler upper

High tea - usually fish and chips, bread and butter and a pudding - now probably called "early bird" served around 4-6 in restaurants

Proper faggots with peas and mash and a really rich gravy

I totally agree with the findus crispy pancakes, nostalgia , made me do it, they were binned after the first bite - YUCK. They used to be so good, the savoury mince ones

Prawn cocktail is THE starter in this house at Christmas with home made Marie Rose sauce made with tomato ketchup and jar of Helmans, none of this fancy sun-dried tomato puree and home made mayo :)

Treacle tart ( actually golden syrup ) omg I love that still

Jam and coconut sponge

Macaroni cheese, just proper plain macaroni cheese, maybe a bit of bacon through it

Cheese and potato pie

My mum used to make me and then her grandchildren bolied eggs chopped up with butter and toast on the side when we were toddlers..we loved it!(I do it now for my kids if I over cook their dippy eggs)
So happy someone else mentioned it

Mum used to serve up
Ham egg and chips(this is still one of her fave meals)
Savoury mince and mash
Liver and onions and mash
Eggs,tomato and cheese baked in the oven with milk then served with toast
Potato pie(this was corned beef hash with a pastry top)but she always called it Potato pie
Ham salad(with everything chopped or grated separately on the plate)

I’m saving this thread, best food inspiration I’ve read in ages, thanks all!

@Aaaalrightythen 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.

This. My SIL sneered at me for using these in the 70s while she made “proper” soggy wet lumps poached eggs. Why did I ever throw it away ?

My mum did her version of Welsh Rarebit on Saturday afternoon if Wrestling was on the telly.
Grated cheese stirred into eggs, milk and onions and mustard in a pan. Served on toast and we’d all sit on the sofas watching Big Daddy do a flying drop kick on his opponent’s neck.

But they are v nice with a modern twist as M&S do them with a chocolate coating.

My contribution isn’t food based but an old fashioned thing which was bloody great was work without poxy emails, nonstop online training modules and ten WhatsApp groups!

You’re right! They were so nice.

hot banana crunch and hot lemon crunch 🙂🙂🙂 would love them back

Were they made by pouring hot water on and had some crumble stuff to sprinkle on?