Old-fashioned foods which should make a comeback

[BarbaraVineFan]

I am just making a cheese and potato pie for lunch, which I last ate circa 1988. It's basically mashed potatoes mixed with an egg and a fuck load of cheese, more cheese on top and then baked in the oven. Bloody lovely, relatively cheap and filling.

Which other old-fashioned foods do you make /have you made recently which you think should make a comeback?

With holes for eggs to be broken into it, wonderful but easy to make, even though corned beef has become pretty expensive now.

Try farm shops and garden centres for fruit creams. Bought some for Christmas Eve yesterday

I have not eaten junket for over 40 years, would love to have some.

Another thing that's very easy to make, my grandchildren have spent many an hour making it here.

I always start by weighing the eggs for all sandwich cake mixtures. Just weigh the eggs in their shells then use the same weight for sugar, butter and flour.
If you make chocolate cake mix up a paste of a tablespoon of cocoa powder with a teaspoon or two or of warm water and mix into the rest without reducing the flour.

That's not blancmange, that's milk jelly. Blancmange is more like flavoured thick custard made with custard powder.

My mum used to make us a strawberry blancmange in a mould in the shape of a rabbit and then serve it on a bed of mashed up green jellly which was meant to represent grass! I thought it was amazing when I was little

@BarbaraVineFan I still make stovies using the left overs of the sunday beef joint. grandkids love it and it is warming for the winter. also it means the beef lasts two days meals instead of only one. fried onions first using some of the drippings in the pot before adding peeled and chopped potatoes. then the chopped up beef and the gravy, mmm we also still make baked rice. i love the skin

Dim probs! It’s honestly ffantastig and the staff are just lovely. I’ve been to the Cardiff and Swansea ones - they’re both great, but the Swansea set up is nicer. If the person I have a crush on - entirely different thread - returns my affections then I’m going to suggest trying out Neath with him!

Thry sell brains faggots in aldi, freezer section. Very occasionally I'll buy them, but only I like them.

You can still buy semolina in all the major supermarkets, I saw it there the other day in fact

I have has them from Amazon in the past, Scoffed them in about 2 days

You can find this in Indian supermarkets

Our pub does faggots and mash. So tasty !!😋 😋 😋

Years ago I worked in a school right next door to a large supermarket. One lunch time a staff member came into the staff room and presented a teacher with a tin of semolina. The teacher was Australian and in her class one of the children had been talking about semolina pudding. The teacher was really confused and thought she was trying to say salmonella. She had no idea that semolina pudding was something you could buy.

One of my grandmothers used to make the most amazing gooseberry fool. She grew the gooseberries too. I dream about it sometimes
The other grandmother made us Thunder and Lightening. Bread with clotted cream and then golden syrup drizzled across the top

My DM would do half an avocado with baby prawns and a bit of lettuce drizzled with vinagrette as a starter for a posh dinner..and she always made a Dundee cake at Christmas. i remember her having to slice the almonds in half for the topping because whole ones were too heavy and sank into the mix and they didnt sell halved ones.

Avocado! Get you!

Home bargains is the only shop I can find these now.

Being sent to the shop for a small block of ice cream wrapped in newspaper to stop it melting too quickly and some wafers, all eaten as soon as possible because there was no fridge available! We were considered very posh when we got a fridge in the mid 50s, Vimto lollies made me very popular!

Spam fritters!

Stuffed cabbage. Only had it once but it was lovely. Must have been about 1970. Closest I can get to it is going to the local Polish shop and getting cabbage rolls - which are also really nice. First had those at a friend's bridal shower about 1977.

you hollow out a BIG core. plug the bottom with butter. add brown sugar and sultanas, not currants which are the devil's work, more brown sugar then another huge plug of butter. Serve with custard or icecream

Try M&S - they do a lovely one.

You have just reminded me......there is a Facebook page called 'the bero cookbook' that has a lot of the old cookbooks in the files section

My mum used to make the filling for them from chicken and Campbell's Condensed Mushroom Soup. The height of sophistication (along with a cheese and pineapple hedgehog - you put pieces of cheese and tinned pineapple onto cocktail sticks and then stuck them into half a grapefruit. If you really wanted to show how with the space age you were, you covered the grapefruit with silver foil and substituted the pineapple for silver skin onions).