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?

Omg yes to lemon puff biscuits...and coconut snowballs.

I used to love eggy bread with brown sauce as a kid. That definitely needs a revival.

It was always french toast for me (as it is in America). The '1980s corner shop' thread reminded me of a place I used to go to that would sell one egg, one rasher, or one slice of cheese. My 'last day before payday' dinners tended to alternate between french toast with a rasher or spaghetti carbonara.

I still eat eggy bread wth brown sauce...even better when you put cheese in the middle and make it a sandwich.

potato triangles
ski creamy yoghurt
chicken/scampi in a basket in pubs
Terrys pyramints and Neapolitans
marathon bars. Not snickers. Actual marathons W
Texan bars
knickerbocker glory and peach melba (the whole of the Wimpys menu, I know there are a few Wimpys scattered about still but none near me. If I had my way I would make it mandatory for every city centre and large town to have one)

Before my time but need bringing back so I can experience them:

Cabana bars
Weekends chocolates
Kunzle cakes/showboats

My kids eat eggy bread.

irrationally annoys me seeing it as French toast. It’s just sweet eggy bread

Oooo lemon puff biscuits!!! I absolutely loved these!!!

Whereas my irrational irritation is with 'eggy bread' when it's always been french toast for me (since ca 1963, anyway, but my mother was taught how to make it, using that name, some time in the very early 1940s).

My mother learned in the thirties from her mother and a good deal closer to France (Sussex). Sounds like it came like mac' and cheese. It reminds me of Kipling's tribal lays, of which there were many ways of constructing, "And every single ome of them is rignt."
No takers for Mum's toasted brember* as French toast?
*Sussex dialect

My DD really misses decent boxes of Dairy milk chocolates and other similar boxes. All the modern alternatives are sickly, limited in variety and dull. She used to have a box every Christmas. We all hate pralines and caramels too.

Another comforting childhood egg thing is a soft boiled egg, cut up in a cup WITH squares of white buttered bread in with it.

'Im in my fifties. My gran used to give me apple and cheddar sandwiches, which were strangely delicious. Or apple sprinkled with sugar and put in a sandwich.

Not a 'where are they now' but more a 'why have they stopped selling', Lidl no longer sell Black Forest Ham and I am so annoyed, other types of ham such as Italian, Spanish, even other German just aren't the same. If Mrs Lidl is on here, bring it back!

I'm old enough to remember cabana

Glorious

Oh yes, chopped up egg in a cup. Has to be made by your mum, though.

I loved Cabana bars too. They should never have discontinued them. Does anyone remember Rondello biscuits? They were lush too.

I miss cabana bars too ,

Does anyone remember McVities chocolate loaf cake? It was the same size as their Jamaican ginger cake but it was a dark rich moist chocolate cake, we used to cut it into chunks and pour hot custard over the top for a quick pudding, it was delicious, I wish they'd bring that back.

Didn't they make a Golden Syrup cake too?

You can get lemon puffs from Home Bargains. They're very good, cost about 69p I think.

Thanks to this thread I have just had corned beef hash for dinner. Jolly nice, but I'll need to walk around in the cold for a bit.

And you've just reminded me that I forgot, again, to buy pickled red cabbage in Morrisons yesterday, here in Norfolk there are shelves full of pickled beetroot but hardly anywhere sells pickled red cabbage, as essential for meals like corned beef hash!

vegan recipe for Kunzle showboats....easy enough to unveganise though. They were on bake off a year or so (maybe 3 years) ago. http://theyogivegetarian.blogspot.com/2013/03/kunzle-cakes-but-vegan-cupcakes-in.html

Wow, I have never heard of kunzle cakes, but they sound delicious!

they are but a bit of a faff to make

Something which seems to have fallen out of favour is the baked milk pudding using semolina, tapioca and sago.

We used to have semolina at school with dried fruit scattered on the top.

I've had semolina more recently when I've been in Germany/Austria, where it's still popular.

On a cold day like today, I'd love a bowl of semolina.

https://neilcooksgrigson.com/2008/09/04/77-baked-semolina-pudding/

https://britishfoodhistory.com/2023/08/21/sago-and-tapioca-pudding/

@godmum56 they do seem faffy from that recipe, but maybe one day I will give them a go.