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!

My dad's bread and butter pudding 😋

Haha, me too! So hungry.
I think my sister was a fan of those cupcakes.

Little Chef jubilee pancake with the cherry filling burning your tongue and the ice cream coming to the rescue.

My Mum's beef casserole. I know exactly what went into it, but I can't get mine to taste the same.

Heinz tinned syrup sponge with custard AND double cream.
Trifle with cream.
Prawn cocktail sandwiches from Safeway's.
Canadian clear. Fizzy pop in a glass bottle in black cherry or blackberry flavour.
Findus crispy pancakes.
Chilli and kidney beans thick pizza from M&S. My dad had one for dinner nearly every night and I ate the crusts dipped in branston pickle!
Frozen mousse pots. I think there was a peach melba one with half a peach in the bottom?
Golden Wonder crisps.
I don't miss it at all but Semolina from school dinners. And pink custard. Bleughhh!

Dm's oxtail casserole. Used to love picking the odd shaped bones out and sucking the gravy off them. Especially when they were with dm's yorkies - best ever.

I loved the cheese pie at school and all the puddings. Manchester Tart, Gypsy Tart, Jam sponge with coconut on the top. My nan used to make the best scotch eggs ever.

My Mum’s Christmas dinner. The last one was 2002. God I miss her.

Smoked salmon and egg mayo bridge rolls. Sums up my childhood in one. Followed by a chocolate cake with icing sugar sprinkled on top. I think it was made with almond flour but it was the teatime of my childhood.

We grow potatoes. They taste like potatoes used to, and cook in half the time, freshly dug. One of the things that is different is that nearly all meat had a bone in it and it gave it more flavour. Pork chps with a bone, barnsley lamb chops, even chicken breasts came sometimes with a bit of bone attached and the skin on.

while my mother was a terrible cook and I could not speak to even one dish of hers that I ever enjoyed, her mother, my nan, omg walking in and seeing her in the kitchen seeing her making soda bread and potato bread, knowing that she also was going to make some rashers , maybe sausages, eggs and some fried tomatoes, Ulster Fry. I used to be so happy for that. Then my auntie .. best pavlova (that I am proud to say, I have perfected also now) and omg her sherry triffle.

My mum wasn’t the best cook but she made a gorgeous bread and butter pudding that I do miss. Her eggy bread drizzled with honey was also delicious.

Does your oven not have a grill setting? Or do you not think it taste the same?

I also think we ate seasonally and locally my mum shopped at the butchers and a grocers and Gateway for tins etc etc, but I think meat was reared different/so.tasted better. That and a tonne of salt on everything 😀

Toast cooked under a gas grill
my mums mince pies, corn beef casserole and rhubarb cake, she also made a fabulous bread sauce :(
my nans trifle ‘Joseph’ made with blancmange and mandarin segments!
kia ora juice
like another poster - salmon or egg bridge rolls
Birthday cake from the Gingerbread Cottage in Oadby (they were the best!)

Toast cooked under a gas grill
my mums mince pies, corn beef casserole and rhubarb cake, she also made a fabulous bread sauce :(
my nans trifle ‘Joseph’ made with pink blancmange and mandarin segments!
kia ora juice
like another poster - salmon or egg bridge rolls
Birthday cake from the Gingerbread Cottage in Oadby (they were the best!)

This.
lashings and lashings of it….

My mum’s chips. Her plate pork pie. Fish, chips and mushy peas on a Saturday lunchtime with the opening tune of Grandstand playing in the background.

M&S boil in a tin lasagne. M&S flat round cornflake cake.

@serioustissues you have just reminded me of my mother's chips, made in the chip pan. I'm 64 and have never er made proper chips.

DH just made eggy bread for DCs, which reminded me of having ours drizzled with some condensed milk when we were little.

Grandma’s Yorkshire puddings.
Mum’s chocolate cake, she’s still here but doesn’t really bake now.
Apples, why don’t they taste the same anymore? Even the fancy ones?
Real Cadburys chocolate oh and coffee cremes out of Roses/ Quality Street at Christmas.