Food you don’t often see anymore

[BigJanette]

What dishes did you used to eat, but don’t really see around anymore?

I’ve just remembered a M&S ready meal I ate quite regularly in my student days (this would’ve been in the mid 90s) but haven’t seen since.
Smoked haddock kedgeree.
Anyone else remember it?
I used to make it every so often, but haven’t done in years.
I think it’s time to remedy that and get it back on the menu.

Any easy recipes welcome!

In fact, they are still on sale - I had a pair of them at Peterborough station about 3 weeks ago. It was the first time I'd ever had such things and found them far too sweet for my taste.

Faggots are a family favorite in my house!
I make my own from liver and pork, I dread to think what is in the processed ones!

Check TìkTok - dd1 (14) asked if we could go to Preston to Spud Bros (food truck).
Unsurprisingly I pointed out that we could make them at home....without tje 8+ hr round trip.
Apparently there is a pop up in Soho now - but you queue from about 8am 😱😱😱

Tinned potatoes with mint

Tinned vegetable salad

I love faggots but they put wheat in them so I can no longer indulge

Love kedgeree! Loved coconut ice sweeties - M&S used to sell them. Also, my auntie used to make this thing I don't know what it is called, but you boil eggs, take out yokes, mix them with poached salmon, stuff it all back into egg halves, put it in oven, having covered with some sort of pinkish/orange sauce - I googled it to death and can't find it. And jellies with port and fruit!

Spud bros is all over tik tok people travel miles to visit them
I remember spud u like we still have a jacket potato truck in our town under a different name

Semolina, with jam stirred in. Blancmange. Suet pastry (thank goodness)

I love kedgeree and a make a good one. IMO the secret is plenty of butter stirred into the cooked rice and double the chopped parsley that you first thought of.

I still make semolina from scratch.
It's a popular pudding in this house.

It's been a long time since I had liver and bacon. Those that still do it - do you use lamb or pigs liver?

That was my only thought to.😆

Lambs liver, from the butcher.

Blancmange

we had pink at school…thought it was very posh

you can still buy birds dream topping in tesco it's quite expensive for what it is though, you can sometimes find it in pound shops a lot cheaper though.

I miss lime angel delight, it was my favourite & we often had it for pudding on a Saturday tea at my grans. It was my job to whisk up the pudding with a rotary whisk while standing on a chair at the kitchen table so I could reach, then spoon it into glass dishes to chill in the fridge & my gran would then grate a generous amount of bournville chocolate & spoon over the top, it was delish!

Blancmange always makes me think of Mr Pooter in The Diary of a Nobody.

Liver sausage and Haslet from the deli counter

I saw liver and sheep hearts in my local supermarket last week. Felt a bit grossed out, but remembered eating them regularly as a child.

Used to live there as a child and my mum regularly cooked tripe, with mash. Can still remember the taste and liked it then but don’t think I could stomach it now ( joke). I wonder if she bought it at the tripe stall. Probably not, it was pretty common in that part of the world.

I do have a food memory from that time which is going to a fairground ( I think it might have been in Manchester ) and buying small paper cones of little new potatoes , the size of jersey royals, dripping in butter , absolutely delicious but I wonder if it was a dream as I have never heard anyone else mention them, and it is something you wouldn’t forget.

Ploughman‘s lunch. The traditional type that you used to get on pub menus.

I love kedgeree - it was one of my favourite dishes as a child. I still make it sometimes but I don't often hear of other people eating it. I'd eat liver (probably in the form of liver stroganoff) if my husband didn't hate it - it's not the sort of thing it feels worth cooking for one person.

My other favourite was lemon meringue pie. You can still get that in lots of places but never as good as my mum used to make.

Ground rice pudding is another thing I have happy memories of. As the name suggests it was smooth, kind of like semolina (but nicer IMO). I liked it best of all with golden syrup on top rather than jam. Until fairly recently you could still buy ground rice in ASDA and I used to make it occasionally for old times' sake, but it seems to have been discontinued.

Turnips.

Cow brains with scrambled eggs
Tripe
Sardines: eat them rarely
Kidneys

Tripe - don't think I could eat it now but it was lovely, cooked in milk and topped with vinegar.

Tongue - bought ox tongue today in M&S.

We didn't eat Spam, we were a Pek household. I remember giggling at my aunt's funeral not many years ago when the celebrant talked about curried Pek and one of my cousins looked at her mum and they both said 'ooh, we'll have to try that'.

Tripe and onions. We loved it when my grandma made it though I'm not sure I'd fancy it now.

Junket. Weird stuff, curdled if you looked at it wrong.

Home made baked egg custard, with nutmeg on the top, ditto proper rice pudding baked in the over with a crispy brown top and a crust round the edge of the dish to scrape off.

Most of the farm shop cafes and more upmarket pubs do a ploughmans round here
I introduced my Italian friend to them recently and she was very impressed