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?

I remember my mum doing a homemade version of those showboat cakes, based on a similar fresh cream cake from a Scottish bakery in the 70s. I think it must have been a faff, sure, but less trouble (and far tastier) than reproducing my dad's favourite wince-makingly sweet fruit and cream tarts smothered in thick soft icing.

yes, you can still get it under the lyles brand now ,still delicious but smaller

I like semolina but I just make it on the stove top and I have it with jam. DH likes tinned fruit with his, neither of us like it baked in the oven

I really like Audrey’s chocolates. They are based on Hove near Brighton.

They do Rose and Violet dark chocolates

https://audreyschocolates.co.uk/products/rose-violet-creams

I think they used to supply Fortnum & Masons

I am very interested to try the Lidl/Aldi variant for research purposes!

Loving the food nostalgia on here!

Not a food but hot possets with a dash of port are a fantastic nightcap.

The DC asked for a hot posset after seeing Kay have one in The Box of Delights and now I am frequently asked to make them - non-alcoholic for them, with port for me.

Those little frozen mousse desserts that you had to defrost. Also that bright orange juice that mixed from granules with water.

i’ve had packet semolina fairly recently and saw blancmange mix the other day.

if anyone is looking for the beat treacle tart and are near Derbyshire, the Chatsworth farm shop sells it by the (large) slice, its a mere 800 calories though 😂

You can still get those mousse in Iceland!

omg blast from the
past with those mousse desserts. I loved them.

I make a chocolate one now and then - dead easy!

Those frozen mousse were amazing. I loved the chocolate and mint ones.
The granules that you add to water was Cremola foam.

My mother used to call that a milk jelly. She was always looking for ways to “get more milk down you”, and ruined many a perfectly good jelly/artificially coloured chemical mix in the process - in our opinion!

Glad to see in You magazine (yes, the Daily Fail!) in Kim Wilde's interview about food she also loves the chocolate rose and violet cremes!

I only 'had' sago and tapioca at school. and avoided them. Most of us did after referring to it as frogspawn.
I have a stash of Pearce Duff's blancmange powders, having bought some when I thought I saw which way the wind was blowing, but not necessary, since they have been taken over by Greens and kept available, unlike Symingtons Table Creams bought out by Dr Oetker and dropped. I liked Maple and Walnut.

@Ilovemyshed wasn’t that juice called ‘apeel’ or something like that- I used to like it too

My DM used to fill the pastry case with breadcrumbs and golden syrup. It was lush! I last had it probably 50 years ago!

Dm used to make it with a mix of treacle (very little) and golden syrup and add crushed Weetabix to it. With cream it was definitely the best treacle tart ever.

I love stuffed lamb heart

not to mention expensive 😂

Marks and Spencer’s do these.

Also rise and shine was another brand.

Isn't that called Panna cotta these days?

nope totally different thing.

I don’t think blancmange is hard to make though.

Charlotte Russe

Manchester Tart

death by chocolate (fudge) cake