Tastes from your childhood

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What could you really really do with, right now?

I want my Granny's toad in the hole.
She could make it like no one else - no soggy batter bottoms and served with onion gravy... delicious!

Tea 'n' dip-ins: Rich Tea or Digestive biscuits dipped to the precise magic moment when they wobble like jelly but just about stay whole.

Alternatively, the sodden half-a-biscuit that detaches, falls into the cup and has to be hooked out,through the tea and into a greedy mouth.

Also, Rich Tea 'sandwiches', with the butter squeezing through the holes like burst acne as you pushed the two biscuits together.

The old butterscotch Angel Delight. No sweeteners. Nothing natural mind you, except sugar.

My Mum's mackerel fillet Rissoles , her belly pork and coffee and walnut sponge .
She was a very good plain cook .My Nan's Welsh cakes and pastries , tarts and pies .
She had a knack for it light as a feather .

My late in-laws were good at a roast beef dinner. I’ve not tasted anything as good in years.

Sorry. I missed the childhood tastes bit!

Fish and chips from the chippy fried in lard. Yes, horrible for the arteries, but the new oil they use just doesn't match my memories. Gran would put plates in the oven and warm a tin of peas, butter some bread and we would wait for Grandad to come home for his lunch. Golden days.

My mum’s lamb casserole with tomatoes and flageolet beans. It was perfect - I’ve never come close even though she wrote the recipe down for me. She tended to cook from instinct so I expect her recipe was missing several important steps and ingredients

My mum's homemade faggots and homemade lemonade (not necessarily together!), Corona cream soda made into an ice cream float and the old English cheesecake served at our local ice cream parlour. Much nicer than the American sytle cheesecakes we get these days. My Dad's Christmas dinner.

Toast that was done in front of an open coal fire. Its flavour was magical.

Pink Cresta, longed for that throughout my adolescence - nowhere sold it after I was about 8. Probably full of banned ingredients...

Any of my mum's baking but probably her Dorset apple cake or tea bread, which were amazing.

I still miss Homepride tinned madras sauce. And their rogan josh. I’ve never replicated the taste.

Yes to Angel delight, and Christmas trifle made with blancmange. My mum’s salads had a bit of everything on them and I’d eat most but keep a bit of each back, and pile it onto buttered white bread with salad cream. Also marrowfat peas in a Maykway chicken curry.

I miss my mums cooking.

Around the mid 70s there were some bbq or paprika puff crisps in a red packet. Little orange red semi circles of plump crunchy heaven and an absolute mound of salty dark flavouring left at the bottom. Possibly Bobby's or Burtons. I haven't been able to identify them in 50 years!

Birds Eye rissoles. I was addicted to them as a child. I thought that I really missed Vesta beef curry, which we used to eat in the 1960s and think we were very adventurous. I found out it was still made a couple of years ago and bought a pack of six. It was the most revolting thing I’ve ever tasted 😆😆

Cadbury’s chocolate before it tasted shit
My mum’s butterscotch tart
My nan’s apple cake
(yes I have a sweet tooth!)

I tried to edit my post and it didn’t work. That should have been VESTA beef curry.

Earliest memory, mum did a Tea for me called Fish Dish. It was just plain white fish, cheese sauce, more cheese and tomato on top. I was about 5.
Yes to Cadburys dairy milk when it was proper chunks.
Mums trifle, made with raspberry blancmange and lots of double cream.
Closepile just read, your mum made it with blancmange too 🥹

I know mumsnetters are not keen, but Tony’s is about the only chocolate I’ve had recently that tastes any good and reminds of chocolate that was around years ago ( excluding any really expensive ones , but not have had any of those in a long time)
Dairy milk and so on isn’t the same now.

My mum's macaroni cheese and my Nanna's rice pudding. Both such simple recipes, but I can't get them to taste the same.

White bread and butter at my nana’s. I don’t eat bread anymore but I would happily scoff a plate of that now.

I wonder why I can’t replicate my late mil’s roast beef dinners ? I’ve tried all the same ingredients she did and it’s not the same ! They did have an extremely hot gas oven , so might have been that ?

Corned beef hash, made with fried onions, fried potatoes

Parkin

Brownies

Coke floats

Wall’s vanilla ice cream that came in a block.

Smith's Square Crisps in sandwich