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?

The garage sells them, I was quite excited to see them this morning but wasn't going to spend 95p for 1. The Ritter Sport peppermint is a good substitute and better value.

I remember lardy cake and other is pineapple upside down pudding with glace cherries on the whole of the pineapple. So pretty.
I also remember floating island desert.

No, the tinned marrowfat peas are not true, even near to true, mushy peas and the little pots of frozen ones are even worse.

My mum's version also included crumbled-up chunks of digestive biscuits. I made it for my kids until they flew the nest at 18!

I see your point but don't recall it being watery and gloopy. Perhaps the breadcrumbs prevailed, perhaps it's a veg which if cooked from the garden, cooks faster than otherwise. I'll recreate it next marrow season - may plant some.

I have the Yorkshire TV Farmhouse Kitchen cards, must be 50+ years ago, by Dorothy Sleightholme

I have the tv farmhouse kitchen cookery book. It’s a classic. I’m so old I watched the tv show.

If you are near Expo supermarket or TFC supermarket you will find individual sachets of blancmange in wonderful flavours. They call it pudding and have the usual chocolate, vanilla and strawberry but also dark chocolate and hazelnut, pistachio, banana and apricot. I plan on making an apricot trifle soon.
They also sell lemon puff biscuits.
Also packet soups

The tins should have carried a H and S warning along the lines 'Don't do anything stupid when opening it, it's hot a steamy you idiot'. Loved them when we got married in '68, the only pudding we could manage.

Rice pudding
Apple pie
Deep fat fryer chips that are real potatoes
Millionaire shortbread with chocolate sprinkles on top rather than a layer of chocolate
Steam puddings
Caramelised pears
Prawn cocktail
Beef olives
Gammon & pineapple rings
Cheese chops
A rack of ribs
A t bone steak
Digestive biscuits dipped in tea
Jelly & ice cream
Chicken Kiev
Chicken cordon bleu

@Lovemusic82 I'm smiling like a loon at your mum's "rabbit droppings!" Brilliant idea. My mother made me a guinea pig shaped birthday cake the year I got my first ever pair of guinea pigs, but neither of us thought about adding little liquorice torpedos!

Rice pudding made with whole milk, milk powder and a bit of 'best butter'. Baked in the oven and pretty much sliceable.
The milk jelly mentioned above, except you whisked the evaporated milk to a foam first and folded it into the setting jelly. Was called Velvet. Was as awful as it sounds.
Chicken soup made from the carcass of the chicken on a Sunday, with any leftover vegetables and thickened up with rice. Never turned out the same twice, but was incredible.
Bread and butter pudding.
School dinner chicken fricassee. I was the only one on my table who liked it, and would often snag thirds.

For all you people missing sponge puddings, my DH does a delicious alternative in the microwave.
3oz plain flour
2oz caster sugar
2oz butter
2 eggs
mix all together. Add raisins if you like.
Put jam/golden syrup in glass/microwaveable bowl, top with sponge mixture.
Microwave for 2mins then check consistency. Do more minutes if you like it solid - we like it fairly undercooked. 😋

@godmum56 Thank you. I remember the boiling onion and then doing something with the water but I think I made it too wet.

I remember making the cheese and potato pie in school!

These days i call it cheesy mash

Lemon puffs no longer have the sugar glaze and are not as nice. And Krackawheat don’t have the delicious salt crystals either, and it’s like eating cardboard

You're not alone, JudgeJ - that and spaghetti in tins I actually got served that recently in a family resturant which used to be lovely but unknown to me had changed hands ... the horror, and what's worse is it was some kind of Happy Shopper muck and not even Heinz (do they still do it?)

Loved the tabasco-laced rice ring though

@Pippatpip Making stuffing, I add a beaten egg and a bit of melted butter to mine after combining the onion , breadcrumds and herbs. I find that way you get the "ooze" without the watery thing

That's why I said almost!
I agree, but sometimes when in extremis...!

Yes! And raspberry

I made myself a baked apple only last week (but using raisins not currants). I had it with ice cream and it was absolutely delicious! Very quick in the microwave too.

There are other dumpling mixes around like the Selma matzo based one

I’ve discovered we eat old fashioned food having read this thread!!

Growing up in the 1970’s my mum grew most of our fruit and veg including kohlrabi, purple sprouting broccoli, different cabbage varieties, cauliflowers, sprouts, courgettes (marrows when they grew too big!), aubergines, sweetcorn, carrots, peas, runner, French and broad beans, potatoes, all our herbs, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, Angelica which we then crystallised for our puddings, horseradish to make our sauce, strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, gooseberries (love them in pies or as a fool), grapes, plums, 4 varieties of apples, pears, quinces - I’m sure there are more but I remember these. We always had a freezer full of fruit, crumbles and pies as mum batch cooked.

We also kept bees so had our own honey and made our own yoghurt using a lumpy type of “plant” that you placed in a jar with a pint of milk then strained it off each evening, rinsed the “plant” And topped up with milk again. It was very much like kefir.

There was always homemade cakes and I still make biscuits using my Granny’s recipes.

Tom and Barbara in the Good Life had nothing on us!

My husband and I continue in the same way - we’ve brought our ds up on faggots, calves liver and bacon, homemade steak and kidney pudding, homemade sausages, Cottage and shepherds pies. Of course we also make other food but it’s all homemade.

Today dh made a raised crust pie. This is it before adding the jelly.

I don’t recall it ever being available in shops. It’s so quick and easy to make - milk, cornflour, sugar and flavouring. I’ve only ever made a chocolate one though, with cocoa. My DM called it chocolate pudding and we had it warm. In dh’s house it was chocolate blancmange, served cold.

We do this except it’s 2oz of everything and 1 egg and in a couple of mugs. Before you put the sponge mix in, you put a blob of jam / curd or nutella.
beautiful

The world food rectangle ones do