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?

My MiL makes "cheese pie" as described in the OP every Thursday, and has done for about 50 years.

You can get them in Iceland

I take it you mean poached as in, transportation to the Colonies, not simmered gently in water...

And yes, when our DC were young, we ate a lot of beef stew (with dumplings and possibly beans), steamed puddings, mince cooked in 101 creative ways.

We were seriously skint when I was in my teens and DM would produce fantastic tasty meals from cheap cuts and whatever was in season.

The Campbells soup recipe book was great, it introduced me to beef olives as a recall.
Campbells cream of chicken condensed soup, made up with half white wine and some chopped up mushrooms added and a dusting of paprika or cayenne got me out of a few tight corners.

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Now I know that lemon puffs are still available, I'm off to search them out. I still mourn Cremola Foam, nectar of my childhood, now discontinued. 😪

I make Dundee cake every November!

Scouse stew always reminds me of my Gran whenever we visited she always had a pan on.

Vesta Risotto is sadly missed in this household

Sainsburys ! I'd never had it so gave it a try... beautiful. Made with whole milk, brown sugar and splash of vanilla. I served it with a swirl of cream and a sprinkle of brown sugar

Was just thinking about this!

More than likely taste buds, I think. I used to hate the jelly in a pork pie but now it's one of my favourite parts. I also couldn't see the point of avocados but now I love them.

My mum used to make awesome dumplings (as in stodgy British dumplings cooked in a stew, not steamed Chinese dumplings). I don't think I've had a dumpling since she died - I don't know of anyone else who still makes them.

I’m only on page three and still reading…

You can get blancmange in most supermarkets in the home baking aisles, near the custard. It used to be in a box with one of each flavour but it’s now in a small pink packet in individual flavours.

In the same aisle you can get semolina in a blue box

Back to reading/drooling 😂

Oooh, baked apples! I used to love them.

with currants, jam, crumble on the top! So delicious! Reminds me of my school days. And my mother 😍

My mother and every woman in the extended family took great pride in their own versions of tattie soup. Ours was the best, of course. A huge vat of the stuff would be made at the skint end of the week, and we all thought of it as a great favourite. I'm not sure I could reproduce it in vegan form to suit the whole household.

DH likes the occasional baked apple, but I do the prep while he's not looking, so that he doesn't twig that I smuggle butter and sugar in with the dried fruit. You have to do these things properly.

Vesta Chicken Supreme
Cheese and Tomato pot noodles
Toast Toppers

I used to love those tinned puddings by Heinz, not sure why they stopped making them, they were very popular.

It's back
https://mrmacsweets.com/products/creamola-foam-sweetener-free?variant=44861758734655

If you mean Trex you can (hopefully) get in Waitrose, no-one else stocks it.

My mum cooked everything in it - roasts - meat and potatoes, anything that needed frying.

I find it better than oil which seems to upset me - plus you can refrigerate and reuse for dinners

Grilled back bacon with a crunchy rind on 😋

Me too! I wonder if they were stopped for Elf and Safety reasons? ISTR it was very easy to either

a) Scald yourself with steam when opening the tin, or

b) Lacerate your hand attacking the hot tin with a tin-opener.

My mum made them plain but with currants in. Lovely. Can't abide muffins

I came here to say faggots. I bloody love them and I’m sure I’m the only person still buying them. Aldi sell them if you ever fancy them

Yes. And I hate the trend for really thick/high cakes smothered in icing. Too much and too sickly