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?

Was that the Unigate one? I think my mum had one.

I got very excited when I found Lemon Puff biscuits again. But I agree with you, they are not the same, the ones I remember had a sticky sweet coating on the outside, the ones now are dry almost like water biscuits.

Purrdrop, yes, the Dairy Diary cookbooks were bought directly from the milkman.

Omg candied Angelica!!!! I'd completely forgotten this existed!

Mine is coconut ice hence per my user name!

I miss Crawford's iced shortie biscuits. They had fluted edges, with a Neapolitan style icing on them (chocolate vanilla strawberry striped) and were very popular in the 80s.

I also miss Chambourcy's Hippo Mousse and Smith's Tubes crisps.

I'm not surprised it was popular, GETTINGLIKEMY MOTHER; it's the zest which makes the difference and gives the depth juices and flavourings just don't

I'll remember until the day I die a little patisserie in La Rochelle who made his tartes au citron by hand with the sweetest of pastry and tartest of fillings. They're still the best dessert I've ever eaten, and I just wanted to kidnap him

This thread has inspired me to start making some of these once more, so thank you.

I love blancmange, dream topping, angel delight, proper bread n butter pudding, sago, tapioca, semolina, custards that are really thick, trifles, baked apples with currants in them and loads of cinnamon . My mouth is watering here lol

Go to Kent or Bath respectively! In Bath the place to go for lardy cake is the bakery on Twerton high street. Gypsy tart is sold all over the place in Kent but if you want a wonderful dinner first go to Rocksalt in Folkestone and have their gypsy tart for dessert

@moonlight1705

A pub we regularly camp at has faggots on the menu, I won't touch them and don't really like their food to be honest (food snob here) but it's such a nice setting for a rally

My mum would share a tin of pilchards between my brother and the cat, they're the only ones who would eat them 😆

For the blancmange lovers, still available

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pearce-Blancmange-Raspberry-Chocolate-Butterscotch/dp/B0D6RWS3V8/ref=ascdffB0D6RWS3V8?mcid=e86691be191d37b3b845d28d5d7c6917&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697298169004&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15330150219067501605&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9220354&hvtargid=pla-2361057707736&psc=1&gadsource=1

I regularly buy fresh homemade faggots from my local butcher, can’t beat them in a nice onion gravy with garden peas & chips.

My mum used to make this. Hot with vanilla ice cream. My favourite. I simply can't make it like she did and she's not able to make it anymore.

Haven’t read the full thread but Morrisons sell a 6 pack of lemon curd tarts

@jmh740

Bought mine in an Chinese and se Asian supermarket

Don't you mean Gypsy Tart and half an apple?

I think we should open a restaurant selling old school favourites, with someone playing assembly hymns on the piano.

My granny made the best stuffing. Yummy when cold. She did something with boiled onion, used the water to bind breadcrumbs, seasoning. But I can't seem to replicate it. Does anyone have a recipe using just breadcrumbs - no sausagemeat.

That’s my problem too! It all gets gobbled up before I can make my beloved bubble & squeak.

I shall start making extra, extra potatoes and cabbage!

Nobody ever remembers these, but, you know Pot Noodles? - well, at some point around 1985, they made Pot Sweets. My favourite was the apple crumble one. Absolutely bloody delicious. Barely a week goes by that I don't think of them.

no. just add more cornflour stirred to a slurry with milk to the custard and warm it to thicken it.

with someone playing assembly hymns on the piano
Piano should be in need of tuning.

MrTwatchester · Today 12:33

"Isn't blancmange just jelly made with milk instead of water? I don't remember it ever coming from a packet."

I always made it from a packet.

just thought of another one- bread & butter pudding.

My mum made this every couple of weeks growing up, it was her specialty!
She managed to get it all lovely and crusty on top but creamy and delicious on the bottom.
Served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream - that was a real treat.

My Nan used to make brandy snaps for us at Christmas 😋