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?

Dry semolina (the type that can be reconstituted with boiling water) is available in Waitrose and Sainsbury, I only know this because we decided it was cold enough outside to have semolina and a blob of compote to make it go all pink 😊

you can also get Birds instant Semolina in Tesco. It's lovely but quite sugary.

Oh stuffed marrow, but Mince, onion, herbs, breadcrumbs, cheese, served with home made tomato ragusa,boiled potatoes and green veg. Hollowed marrow, stuffed. It was delicious. I had forgotten it. My grannie made it.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER Cheese pudding recipe (supposed to serve 2, but I love it so much I could eat this all by myself) : 2 oz breadcrumbs, 1/2 pint milk, 1 egg, 1/2 Oz butter, 2 Oz grated cheese, pinch cayenne pepper nutmeg and salt. Heat the milk. Add breadcrumbs, seasoning and butter and leave to stand for half an hour. Separate the egg and stir the yolk plus the grated cheese into the breadcrumb mixture and then fold in the stiffly beaten egg white. Put in buttered souffle dish and bake in a moderate oven for about 30-45 minutes until it's set in the middle. I sometimes add a finely chopped onion along with the breadcrumbs.

Love the fact that the need for rose and violet creams might constitute an emergency 😆

God I used to love stuffed hearts, don’t think I could eat them now, stuffed apples, yuk, stuffed peppers, loved belly strips but again couldn’t eat now, the good old days.
i remember going to a friends house for tea at 11 years old and got liver and bacon, yum, imagine giving that to a kid now 😆

Loved puddings as a child (still do)

Queen of puddings (my favourite)

lemon crumble? It was like lemon curd with a crumble topping? I’m sure there were other flavours too?

Ground rice pudding? Moulded in the shape of a rabbit. My mum would add a few raisins to look like rabbit poop.

decent garden centres and farm shops usually have them

We've been eating different squashes and pumpkins since before Halloween- still got 3 big ones in the garage.

Not sure if it's classed as making a comeback but we can't remember being able to buy such a wide range of types from big green and orange ones to the tiny little white ones called Munchkins [cute emoticon] until this year. They all have such different flavours.

Those mentioning stuffed marrow, my mum used to make them stuffed with sausagemeat and onion, with some kind of delicious gravy and served with mash. Yum!

@cherrytree12345 I think the dessert was called Sweetheart, it was delicious.

I have found blancmange mix in B and M and Home Bargains quite recently, I used to make hot custard with the strawberry one when my children were small and called it Tubby Custard like the Tellytubbies!

I introduced a visiting Californian friend to these and they became an obsession - no day was complete until he'd visited a chippy and bought a pot

Now he's home and heartbroken because they're just not popular there. Refried beans just aren't the same, and though he could get marrowfat peas and make his own he insists only the British version would do

I miss Toast Toppers, but do a makeshift version using Campbell condensed soup adding mushrooms or sweetcorn to make a Topper.

Semolina is in the Indian/East Asian section of our Asda - we have it for breakfast quite a lot!

@thatsawhopperthatlemon ooh I fancy a baked apple with currants in now.

I’m really disappointed. This thread reminded me of a cookbook my mum had, which was a notebook that she’d written recipes in but also stuck in ones cut out from newspapers and magazines. I used to love looking through it because there were lots of recipes that to me felt old fashioned and/or had funny names. Anyway I asked her about it today and turns out it fell apart so she threw most of it away. She saved some of the pages but not the really old recipes I remember. Gutted.

Tinned marrofats are almost as good, and would have those over garden peas any day. Having said that, you can't beat eating a freshly picked pea from the po!

@Puzzledandpissedoff , could your friend get some dried peas on line and make his own?

Much like cremola foam a wee tin was £5 ...so so disappointing I used it cos of the price tag .

Oh yes! 😋

Rennet to make a junket, loved it with strawberries.

Mr Kipling can do one those mass produced monstrosities have to be the worst cakes in creation.

blamange set in a rabbit shaped mould. With green jelly chopped up as grass round in food of the Gods if you’re a 5 year old stuffed out on sausages, and cheese and pineapple on sticks.

last nights potatoes fried with cheese.

cheese and onion layered pie.

home made rice pudding (complete with skin)

before I became vegetarian used to love dripping on toast with added salt.

stuffed marrow chips (in the chip pan) and gravy was many favorite- used to be so excited to come home to this.

Lemon crumble? It was like lemon curd with a crumble topping? I’m sure there were other flavours too?

My own recipe, @Lovemusic82:

Flesh only from 6 or more navel oranges (must be navel ones)
Spoon lemon curd over liberally, minimum of half a pot
Top with crumble, preferably substituting some of the flour with oats and using demerare sugar
Bake and enjoy - there won't be any left!!

Tip: to obtain orange flesh halve them, use a sharp knife to separate each segment from the mebrane, then scoop each out by driving a spoon in and under from the edge

You can thank me later

meat / chicken or cheese Fondue
fudge
chicken parmigiana
mulligatawny soup

Potato puffs from the school tuck shop.
@BarbaraVineFan I'm jealous - love a cheese and potato pie. I scrunch up a bag of cheese and onion crisps and put on top of mine before baking for extra crunch although I do really love the cheesy crust on top especially when the cheese browns - yum!