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?

We used to have rissoles often as a child. Haven’t had them now for about 35 years.

I make Earl Grey tea with frothy milk and vanilla syrup, then top it off with lavender... it's called London Fog and it's absolutely lush.

Ooh that's posh!

Mum just put twists of pastry on ours!

Eta.

Sorry, misread, thought you had put "for some reason", meaning that everyone did!

I got excited when I saw them in poundtretcher recently and bought some, so disappointed to find they are an updated version that as per modern times taste rubbish and very little like the original.

Get yourself over the bridge to Wales, they’re a staple there. And faggots. DH stocks up on them whenever we go back.

Cheese pudding, like my DM used to make. Alas I never got the recipe from her, never quite sure of quantities of breadcrumbs, cheese, milk and eggs. Utterly delicious comfort food though - must do a Google search for one that hasn’t been poncified with e.g. aubergines and garlic, so that it no longer appears so shamefacedly British - in some people’s opinions, that is.

You can get them in Home Bargains except they're round now

Absolutely! I was just browsing a menu of a place close to me that I'm going to next week and they're on the menu! https://thewelsh-house.co.uk

No, you can make blancmange with normal custard powder and milk and you just put it in a mould to cool and set. I make it regularly - its not gone anywhere!

What you’re describing is a milk jelly. Very nice but more faff to make.

@godmum56 @viques @Deathraystare thanks for all rose and violet creams suggestions.

DH and I are having a thrilling outing to Lidl tomorrow so I'll be on the lookout.

Toad in the Hole
Meat pies
Stewed fruit and custard
Block ice cream made into wafers
Oxtail stew with pearl barley and dumplings
Home made chips in the chip pan
Pork chops with the kidney in with cauliflower cheese and chips as above
Skate wings fried in butter
Gammon and pineapple
Baked ham or salt beef with pease pudding
Cold meat with chopped aspic

We called the jelly and carnation milk thing jelly whip. Much lighter than blancmange, which is like thick. I wanted to make some for my kids, but can you even buy jelly that has sugar in it and not artificial sweetener? I can never find any of the former.

Guilbert's has rose and violet creams, as well as geranium and lavender. They're wonderful.

World food aisle still has them

Tomatosandwiches Lardy Cake is a specialist Dorset delight! Readily available down here . Or online Amazon

Rissoles!
A staple for using leftovers when I was a child, iirc.

Block ice cream made into wafers

Blocks of Neapolitan ice cream shopped up and sandwiched between two slightly stale wafers - my parents' way of keeping us from nagging for a 99 from the (relatively) expensive ice cream van.

try a world war 2 cookbook. There was definitely one in there

obviously had a shit load more cheese now we aren’t rationed

Brains faggots (frozen) are still sold at my local ASDA.

I love making black forest gateau and old fashioned desserts such as sweet macaroni and other milk puddings.

Can't think of many main courses I miss, liver and bacon yuk, hearts, kidneys etc. I don't my miss offal. I do make my own pies sometimes.. Haven't had pork chops for ages. Love a good thick lamb stew.

World food aisle still have the rectangle ones

Yep! You and me both… when I was doing ‘domestic science’ at school (a bloody lifetime ago) the general brief for what we cooked and learnt about was
“feeding a hungry family”

DP has a manual job, as did my Ddad and Dbrother, so I’ve always cooked hearty meals. No complaints as yet!

I made some rissoles a few years ago. I immediately remembered why I hadn't made them before. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Ox cheek - I know it's fashionable but I can't remove from memory the fact that it was boiled up for the working dogs on the farm.

They sell one in Asda but its about £4 I think, so haven't bought it in a while...

I miss Marble Cake,* *Asda used to sell one but not seen it for a few years now.

Blancmange IME is made with cornflour and milk and some kind of fruit to flavour and gelatine to set it.