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?

Wet Nellie

Fairy cakes

not “cup cake” or muffins

but good ole fairy cakes

@StevieNic wtf is Wet Nellie?! It sounds like the slang name for an STD 😂😂

This is a long shot, but does anyone out there remember or have you ever heard of a dessert that was known to my grandmother as 'Shango'?

Apparently she used to make it many years ago it was remembered by my mum, who always wished she could find it in a recipe book, but never did.

I think she said it had raspberry jam which was sandwiched between a crust and crumbled top?

It could have been a regional name, or just one of those names lost in the history of dessert baking.

I am loving this thread, it is bringing back so many memories of my childhood and my lovely mum

Cremola I think it was called, a bit like custard but with added texture, I used to love it.

We still love a cheese and potato pie in out house, OP! With a fried egg and beans ❤

@BarbaraVineFan Wet Nellie is a slightly moister Nelson cake. It’s from Liverpool/the Isle of Man.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/food/recipes/cakes-bakes-desserts/wet-nelly

Awesome oinks?

Cremola was a powdered drink

You can get semolina in Tesco. I think Birds do a kind of instant one, but I’ve also got another make there, which was nice (sorry, can’t remember the brand).

@Thevelvelletes Cremola is also custard thickened with ground rice. https://www.easytoswallow.co.uk/cremola.html

I like Queen of Puddings. I discovered an old cookery book with lots of yummy puddings. Queen of Puddings was one of my favourites.

Syllabub is also due a comeback. My mum had a lovely recipe. Yes, I know it’s rich, but this was lush. Lots of cream and some kind of alcohol.

Okay so @CustardCreams2 you've sent me down a DukesHill ham based rabbit hole for the past few hours. I’m going to make an order this week! 🤤

Because it was real food, mostly made by hand.

Now it's all packed with fillers and gums and sweeteners and emulsifiers - all linked to obesity, over-consumption and food addiction - all designed to save food companies a ton of cash by packing products out with cheap shite.

We've been royally screwed over.

😂
I was force-fed them on a frighteningly regular basis for around twenty years, and I'm sure that sultanas would have been preferable to the currants my late DM often used, and I'm also sure that brown sugar & butter would have been better than ordinary granulated.

I don't care. I am never going to eat another one and that's that.

omg! -my ma would have us "make" rich tea biscuits,jam ,lid,icing n jelly tot +sprinkles. for pudding(we just bout always had 3 courses)- alternatives to soup = melon,or fruit coktail(not tinned) ....fairy toast (regular toast BUT remove crust(chop n put in croutons tub) then divide/toast other side(crispbread) ..with pate...etc... sliced banana n cold custurd pudding( which her prepared earlier in the day...ooooobviously

Everyday is a school day.
Thanks 👍

I haven’t been able to find tinned plums for a few years. They were the best.

Tapioca and semolina are due a revival too.

And bananas and custard. Yum!

Well, we didn't have central heating so we needed something that stuck to our ribs.
And we didn't drink tins of Red Bull all day long.

Coronation chicken. Delicious

Bread pudding?

Looks lovely but its bread pudding

Have you cooked this, is the milk in the recipe added to the soaking milk or is it the soaking milk?

In Morrisons' freezer I saw Spam Fritters a few weeks ago. Maybe I should just get some and see what they're like.

There is that. We had ice on the inside of the windows in winter. My friend, who is only mid 40s said that as a child she lived in a council house with an outside loo!

Fewer cars. People walked more. Children played outside a lot.