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 mum used to buy a box of blancmange, it had about 5 separate packets inside each different flavours. My dad liked it.

Blancmange and lemon puffs are sold in poundstretcher!
Faggots can be bought it most supermarkets too!
Gypsy tarts are very much the rage anywhere in Kent!

Well now I feel old and dated! Still making and eating a lot of the stuff mentioned on here, and growing damsons, rhubarb and gooseberries. Obviously a dinosaur!
My mums recipe for lemon curd for all you missing it- makes 2 medium jars
Juice 3 lemons
8oz sugar
4oz butter
2 eggs beaten
Melt the butter sugar and lemon juice in a glass bowl (I do this in microwave). Heat a pan of water to simmer. Then add beaten eggs to the butter sugar mix and whisk, then put the bowl over the boiling water (bain marie). Keep whisking until thick and then pour into sterilized jars.( I also sterilize jars in microwave). It will set when cold.

Takes about 15mins then time to set.

So buy yourself some pastry and you have everything for your tarts!
You can grate the peel off the lemons when you juice them to make your yorkshire curd tarts! Or add to breadcrumbs and golden syrup for your treacle tarts!

Me neither! I love it 🙂

I am loving this thread!
I still make - bubble and squeak ( make extra cabbage and mash specifically ) with poached eggs on top
Suet pastry on top of a casserole in the oven , and dumplings in stew on the hob.
Sausage and tomato pie
Corned beef hash
I miss rice cremola , that seems to have vanished - semolina is not the same .
It is really hard to find anywhere that sells the curd cheese these days to make homemade curd tart - I used to beable to buy it from the milkman if I ordered it , but they went to the wall a long time ago .

Lincoln biscuits. Still available in Ireland apparently, but people say even those have changed. I wish Cadbury’s Dairy Milk was still edible 😔

I think Mr Kipling do one

Proper old fashioned bonfire toffee.
The kind that you need to smash to pieces to eat. They don't look or taste the same anymore.

I think my mum used to mix golden syrup with fresh white breadcrumbs for the filling 🤔

@Gothamcity I love ground white pepper for my fried eggs or mashed potato, it's just better.

Tesco sell lemon curd tarts

@bookbook god I loved Cremola!!

Oh yes, I liked it with syrup dribbled over the top and also rice pudding made in the pressure cooker. No shop bought stuff in the 50s.

The milk man dropped of a leaflet for the Dairy Diary retro cookbook the other day. I am rather tempted.

www.dairydiary.co.uk/retro-classics-cookbook/

with a teaspoon of jam swirled in the middle whilst it cooled! 😁

My DH is making beef casserole for tomorrow, I’m very tempted to add dumplings!

dry semolina, or ready made one, you can find in any polish shops.
Look for "kasza manna"

Trex is vegetable fat for baking. Atora is Suet, they do a vegetable suet as well, most supermarkets sell it.

I use semolina a lot - they sell it in Sainsbury's M&S and ocado.

Re cheese pudding - our cookery teacher called it souffle but is v easy - 1/2 pint milk warmed and poured onto couple of slices of crumbled bread. Grate in cheese - about 3 oz, divide 2 eggs, add yolks and beat whites till stiff and fold in . 25 mins on Reg 6

I am polish and semolina is very popular and it can be found in probably all of the decent polish shops ☺️

M and S.

Loads of it in the Asian food sections (the semolina).

I have seen packets of blancmange mix recently, but being sold off for tuppence.

I saw some lemon puffs recently in the Irish section in Sainsburys

HNRTWT - TLTR. But my husband wants Tripe and Onions. He has to make do with what I will cook and enjoy: Liver and Onions. Delicious!

Can't understand why liver is so cheap; we eat it about 3 times a month. In the unlikely event anyone else wants some: liver is often available in Sainsbury's and Tesco's.