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?

Proper rice pudding - food of the gods and dead easy to make.
Suet dumplings - I've not made any for a while.

And the way to my heart at Christmas is a box of plain chocolate rose and violet creams. Hotel Chocolat sometimes has them, as does our nearest classy grocers, but nowhere else.

You've made me look for my late Mum's Clever with Cream book and I can't find it anywhere. I used to make some of the weird 70s stuff from that and I think there was a cornflake tart thing in there @Busywithsomething but all I can find online that looks similar is this - https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-cornflake-tart.
Now I've realised I'll never have Steak Marilyn Monroe ever again. Or that weird rum, raisin and nut flan. It looked revolting but tasted so good.

Oh yes, I remember these - a staple of the 70s/early 80s birthday party, along with pineapple and cheese on toothpicks and party rings!

My mum still makes stuffing like the regularly, DD 16 would happily eat it every day!

White breadcrumbs rather than cornflakes in my version

that's not blancmange, that's milk jelly

Rice pudding. Having too much milk, I made a 2 pint one yesterday, and unfortunately dh is away until very late tonight, so obviously I was obliged to scoff the whole thing myself. 🐷😋

I tend to make only what people think of as old fashioned food!
Corned beef hash, Lancashire hotpot, stews, ham egg and chips etc etc

I can cook but it's mostly comfort food type stuff I prefer

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Dukeshill do Rose & Violet creams. They have a royal warrant I think. I’m ordering a few things in November with free delivery. Have to spend £40 though. I really rate their food.

Bakewell tart, NOT covered in nasty unnecessary white icing.

DM used to make the most amazing little chocolate cakes. She'd start by weighing the egg and work the rest out from there. If anyone has that recipe... Pretty please?

I forgot chocolate blancmange - a favourite of dh that I hardly ever think to make even though it’s a doddle. Not that we often have puddings anyway.

Ooh, thank you! Will go and have a look and possibly indulge myself!

Try Charbonnel and Walker chocolates! They do them, probably do mail order or will list stockists.

Going really off topic but for really old fashioned fonds that ought to make a comeback - I like watching 'Tasting History with Max Miller' on youtube.

Sausage pie in a large metal tray. Last had it at primary school over 40 years ago. Real sausage meat in a very light but fatty pastry base lattice top.
I expect it had more fat in it than is strictly healthy but it was awesome.
We had sponge puddings for dessert with the appropriate coloured custard. Strawberry sponge pink custard chocolate sponge brown custard. I think I would give a month's wages for that meal again.
And the digestive tract to cope with it! I expect that sort of school food explains why there were fewer behavioural issues in the 1970s.

I’m having kippers today. That’s about as old school as it gets for me as a millennial 🤣

@BarbaraVineFan
My most favourite thing that cheese egg and potato pie but mine has tomato in as well.

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Tesco sell them too!

cornflakes? are you on drugs?

They definitely do packs of just the lemon curd ones. DH regularly brings them home for me. He thinks either B&M or Home Bargains.

@EdithStourton
I bought some Lidl Violet creams today! No way will they be as lovely as the Charbonnel et Walker ones but on a Lidl budget what is a girl to do!!!

https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/bird-s-dream-topping/100145848?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAxea5BhBeEiwAh4t5K9GQRr-V8wLK0dJtl-dW_EBxkS7RkQ_GS8IdAMiyH3d3BvLhrF9USRoCbU0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I generally have a packet of semolina in stock for Nigella’s crunchy roasties - coat par-boiled spuds in goose or duck fat, then in a tablespoon or so of dry semolina before roasting.
I also make semolina ‘gnocchi’ by mixing the grains with milk, cooking in a pan until thick. Pour the mixture onto a board or other clean surface, cool and cut into rounds or squares. Put the pieces into a buttered baking dish, dot with more butter, cover with grated cheese (eg Parmesan and gruyere/Swiss cheese) and bake until hot and bubbling. Parmesan or Grana counters the richer Gruyere.

If you have end-pieces or mis-shapes put them into the dish first and cover with the better ones.
Don’t be mean with the butter and cheese —

unfortunately this is not a cheap dish!

Love this thread!