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?

Aldi had faggots in yesterday….in the freezer.

Bacon and onion roly poly pudding. Suet pastry with chopped bacon and onion, rolled up and steamed, much nicer than it sounds and works well in a slow cooker.

My mum used to get them from the Co-op in the 80’s and I used to eat a packet in one go!
Used to save them for Saturday nights when Dallas was on!

Oh that sounds lovely, must try it some evening.
I rember my dad making us what we called 'bruisey' as a kid, mashed potato's with butter, milk and an egg mixed in. Don't think I'd try it with a raw egg these days though

I’m obsessed with blancmange, you can get packets on Amazon, but I bought catering sized bags online! I do it with a bit more mix to milk ratio to make it thicker. The brand is Pearce Duff and I make strawberry, choc or vanilla regularly and pour it into individual brûlée pots it keeps in the fridge a few days. The catering bags last years, they don’t go off as it’s basically cornflour, sugar and flavouring x

You can still get semolina! I use it for my roast potatoes. (Powdered though)

I think it was called Sweetheart.

We had vol au vents & cheese & pineapple on sticks just last month for (adult) daughter's birthday lunch!

Nelson cake. could stun an ox with that.

I got some of these in the World Foods section of Asda this week so somewhere is still making them!

If you tell a Welsh person that the things made by Brains are faggots, they get so indignant! 😂

Proper faggots are the size of a fist and apparently bear no resemblance to the marbles that are sold by Brains (said by a very indignant Welsh DH reading over my shoulder)

Hartley's jelly with sugar in, not sweetener still exists, ocado have it also tesco.

The family years ago requested a steamed syrup pudding for Christmas Day, no matter how hot the day is. I serve it with ice cream, custard, cream, meringue and frozen raspberrie.

Oh I forgot - tapioca! Wonderful stuff...

Brains Faggots are usually in the freezer section of supermarkets, my late OH loved them, he was on his own there!

I make a few old classics for my teen son... Pasty-pie, cheese and potato pie, corned beef rissoles, Eve's pudding etc

Last week I made a macaroni pudding and he devoured it. Bread and butter pudding today!

I make bacon and egg pie for picnics

Been searching everywhere for these DH loves them

I like a Belgian bun, but they are iced. Chelsea buns are different, and are not iced.

I've got out my Dairy Diary cookbook.

Grandma's Cheese Pudding.

1.1 litres or 2 pints of milk.
125g or 4oz breadcrumbs.
450g or 1lb cheddar cheese, grated.
8 eggs.
5ml or 1 tsp French mustard
Salt and pepper.

Bring milk to a boil, mixy up rest of stuff. Pour in big shallow dish, bake in oven at 180°C for about 45 minutes.

Does that sound about right? Eight eggs and a pound of cheese is quite a lot isn't it? There's a photo of it here and it kind of looks like a soufflé?

Fried spam.
Toad in the hole (fried egg in bread with a hole in the middle).

I do not miss the boiled lambs hearts. Sucking the grey matter from around the fucking tubes.

You can buy suet almost anywhere. Even my corner shop has suet.

Used to love hot chocolate sauce i.e chocolate blancmange before cooled and set poured over ice cream or as chocolate banana custard.

When my mum made the evaporated milk and jelly mix, she melted orange jelly with a some boiling water then made it the juice of a tin of mandarines before cooling and whisking in the evaporated milk.

That’s not toad in the hole.

I bought the Pearce and Duff powder on Amazon. I have seen it occasionally in Morrisons but haven't bought it because I don't like the chocolate flavour. Some world food shops stock their own brands of milk dessert powder, you might have to use google translate. However blancmange is just flavoured corn flour.