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?

Probably because that word now cannot be used at all in other contexts?!

Maybe they would come back into favour if they were renamed "gaffots".

You can buy faggots in any supermarket. Brains faggots. If you're from the North they sell them in butchers shops.
Blanc mange can be bought in sainsburys. I saw treacle tart in a supermarket. You can all these things if you have a look.

Thank you - this recipe sounds perfect - much like what I can remember of DM’s. I’m making it for dinner tonight! With jacket potatoes and homemade coleslaw. 😋

White pepper in mashed carrot and swede. 😍
Must make it at the weekend now I've thought about it.

So many people seem to miss milk puddings of various sorts. Would anyone be interested in a classic and easy Chinese one: ginger milk pudding?
It involves heating milk up to about 70° and stirring into a bowl containing a bit of fresh ginger juice (grate & strain). Cover and leave for 10' to set, texture like a soft blancmange! You can find more detailed instructions on YouTube etc.

@evtheria I would be extremely interested as a lover of both ginger and milk puddings. Thank you for sharing!

@TheLastLemonSherbetInTheJar No problem, hope you've seen a recipe that has measurements etc. I used to eat it at my best friend's house, it was so comforting (esp on a sore throat) and I love ginger.

It had several meanings, including one to do with fuel for bonfires. However, language moves on. How do faggots differ from meatballs?

Betty's individual curd tarts have lemon curd in the base, which is an unnecessary addition to the traditional Yorkshire Curd Tart.

Treacle tart - delish !

Wow you just brought back a memory from childhood, the baked apples!! Only we put mincemeat from a jar in them and ate them hot with ice cream and cream. I loved them!

Mine bought braising steak and minced it at home, she didn't trust butchers' mince, something about having lived during the war. (Same reason I never ate sausages until I was an adult away from home.) However, Mum did trust M&S and they had tinned minced meat so she used to make very tasty minced meat pies on a plate. I was always a bit put off by the yellow bits of tubes you'd find in there though....

You can make them easily and I still do, but I seem to be the only one whose DC likes banana sandwiches. They don’t seem fashionable anymore

Is gypsy tart a very “ stick your teeth together “ chocolate pudding. I think that’s what they called it at school and I would love to find a recipe for it.

Tescos sell them - husband loves them

Banana Highland Toffee. I have many fillings!

Home bargains - i always treat myself to a pack, although they are round now not rectangular.

Rice cremola and Little Miss Muffet Junket (raspberry flavour ) Mum used to get them when I was little.

Original coo candy (highland toffee I remember my dad whacking it on the mantle piece to break it been about early 70s

We used to have Rice Cremola. A pudding - a bit like ground rice and custard mixed

They sell Brains make Faggots, i in Tesco, we having the for tea tomorrow. They are frozen.

They sell it on Greens website:)

I got told that further up thread 😀

Chicken noodle soup
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Sponge cake with jam and coconut topping
Jam tart with Viennese topping
Rice pudding with whatever filling takes your fancy (jam, chocolate, rum raisins).

I always hated them! My dad loves faggots to this day and eats them regularly. You can get them in aldi, Sainsbury's and iceland