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!

Bilberries are so much nicer than blueberries, spent hours when I lived near moors picking them, takes ages to get enough for a pie. Utterly yummy though.

No they’re different to blueberries

Literally have every single one in my house right now. Baby daughter loves an aul baldy Gary!

I’ve not eaten meat for nearly 20 years, so that probably has something to do with it, but I feel like I never see ocean pie anywhere now, or prawn cocktail on menus.

Baked potato places
Nut burgers
Spicy bean burgers
Nut roast
Sausalatas in a can
Sosmix
Veggie Risotto
Veggie lasagna
Potato croquettes
Crepes Suzette (M&S)
Bread & butter pudding
Rum Baba
Iced buns
Toasted tea cakes
Fairy cakes
Arctic roll
Custard tarts
Garibaldi biscuits
Fig rolls
Cornflake or rice crispy cake
Eves pudding
Apple cake
Apple turnovers
Rice pudding
French bread pizza
Bagel Bites
Caramel custard deserts
Drifter
Fuse
Wispa
Raspberry Ruffles
Turkish delight
Sherbert Lemons
Black Forest Gateaux
Creme brulee
Penny sweets
Ploughmans lunch
Raspberry ripple icecream
Sarsparilla
Homity pie
Cranks loaves
Treacle tart
Pineapple fritters (chipshop)
Trifle
Cheese & pineapple
Cream horns
Custard slices
Parma violets
Floral chocolate creams
Bilberry or hazlenut yoghurts

BirdsEye Cheesies - triangular cheese and tattie croquettes, Delicious.

Grow your own, there really easy

I bought Parma Violets today from a farm shop

My gran used to make a great meat and potato pie that involved stewed steak , mash potato and a shortcrust top and bottom - a total carb fest but was delicious

My Auntie used to make these. They were lamb hearts, trimmed and stuffed with sage and onion stuffing then braised whole in onion gravy. You missed a treat - they were delish !!

Me too! They did the best jackets. I mean where else could you eat jacket potato and garlic bread!

What’s this student thing with grated cheese? Smother everything with grated cheese

Ohhhh baguette du mond used to do a cracking cheese and pineapple jacket potato!!

in fact, where did they go??

I’m in the north east and remember Greggs meat slices, little squares of mince pie which I used to have with beans and bread and butter for lunch when I came home from school.
I’d love to have another one of those but it’s probably 45 years since they discontinued them..

We used to have fake cream topping on desserts at (boarding) school.
i think it was called Roselle or Rosellie. Horrible stuff.

Sad, isn't it?

Was it this lot? Those tins don't look the same and I only remember the two flavours... https://www.treasureislandsweets.co.uk/novelty-sweets/CREM003.html

I blame low GI diets and people who say things like "if you eat a jacket potato for you'll have a blood sugar spike and then crash". Nope, I'll just feel nice and full for ages with a good 5g of fibre in it!

Trio chocolate bar- loved those

Findus crispy pancake- the mince one ( still see the cheese one around )

Echo bars! Think they were by Foxes

Not in a 14th storey flat, mate. 😀

They seem to be doing fine in many, many countries still though.

Brains Faggots are nothing like when I was a kid, they're mushy and taste awful!
My mum shopped at M & S a lot when I was a kid and I remember her buying us their lemon syllabub. It was gorgeous. Haven't seen that there or anywhere since!
Also gooseberry fool.

Oooh, I'm interested. I'm looking at lamb hearts in my nearest decent butcher's and wondering what to stuff them with. Sage, onion and what? Rice? Breadcrumbs? Pasta?

Like the braising whole thing too... (I like lamb. Not everyone does. My late father used to complain that Americans didn't really serve lamb in restaurants when he was there for work.)

Faggots is a Welsh meal, and they are still eat here in Wales, and still called faggots

She passed on her method to me. For four hearts. Auntie used packet Paxo sage and onion stuffing made up with an added a bit of chopped fresh sage and chopped fresh onion sautéed in butter. Pack it into the lamb hearts and secure the top with a cocktail stick to keep the stuffing in. Then fry the hearts in a casserole dish, in a bit of butter with olive oil until they’re browned on all sides, take them out and add a large finely chopped onion to the pan juices. When it softens stir in a tablespoon of plain flour and cook out, then add some beef stock until you have the consistency you like. Season to taste and put the hearts back in with the juices that have drained off, cover and braise in the oven for about an hour to an hour and a half, depending on size.