What were the favourite things your mum cooked?

[Caramel78]

Is/was your mum a good cook and what are the best things she makes?
Mine does the best lentil soup and apple crumble. Never tasted anyone do them better

Chocolate crunch (she was a school cook in her day).
Skirt (of beef).
Liver and onions.
Cheese and potato pie (with corned beef in the bottom).
She was also very good at cakes, but gave up on bread after the whole family used to scoff the lot after it came out of the oven!

My mum is a brilliant cook. She does,the best steak and kidney pie and a fabulous roast. Both my grandmother's made wonderful apple pies and chocolate cake.

Ooh my mum used to make the best mine and onion pie with short crust pastry. Also really nice pasta with cheese and ham sauce and yummy apple crumble. Made a fab curry too, my mum was a fab cook. She's still a good cook but doesn't do so much now.

@OhNoNoNoNotThatOne - what is their secret, for the best Yorkshire puds? I am not a bad cook, but I cannot do yorkies. They taste OK but are sad, flat things.

My mum was neve4 adventurous, it was just meat & veg every day, but she did make this amazing dish that was simply layers of potato, cheese, bacon ,& onion Cooke really slowly in a frying pan.

We all had a huge plateful.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius, my dad was obsessed with yorkie and reckoned the secret was a cast iron pan with lard heated up to smoking before you pour the batter in.

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@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius I don't think there is a secret, I've cooked yorkies with my mum stood next to me telling me exactly what to do, and I STILL managed to mess it up 🤦‍♀️
Although I did manage to make pancakes successfully for the first time ever got my dh 30th birthday in January haha.

My Yorkshires tip is to mix half the flour with the milk, egg and salt, let it stand a few minutes then add the rest of the flour and mix. Let that stand for a few minutes too. I use a metal pan and sunflower oil (my mum always used dripping) that has been well heated and use a jug to pour in the batter quickly.

@GnomicGnu are you my mum? that's exactly what she does, but using trex not sunflower oil.

And I still mess it up 😂😂😂

Italian lamb and egg casserole (sounds rank, doesn’t look great, tastes incredible!) if I’ve been away and she invites me for dinner I’ll always ask for this!

Chicken with mushrooms in a white wine sauce, I’ve tried to make my own and it’s just not the same!

One of my grandmas was famous amongst my friends for her incredible baking, there was always home made cake at her house. Other grandma made the most amazing mince pies, literally everyone she knew used to ask her to make them some and she started months before Christmas and had a freezer full! I discovered last week that I thought I’d been using her method for years, turns out I hadn’t. Maybe I’ll make some next week to cheer us up!

Pretty much everything was good, but her cheese pudding was delish. I could always have eaten double, though.

My mum was a great cook and I'm salivating at the memory of her melt-in-the-mouth roast lamb.

I still like the corned beef fritters, but my modern wife will not cook them.

As a modern husband could you cook them yourself?

My mum was an awful cook. She could destroy a fillet steak like no one else. Vegetables boiled until she was definitely sure they were dead. Christmas dinner a nightmare. The turkey went in the oven around midnight on Christmas eve and came out just before lunch at 3pm when it resembled cardboard. One year I had a Goodfella’s pizza because I just couldn’t cope with the turkey.

She was however a great baker and taught me when I was very small. I was a regular baker long before it became fashionable. My mum made lovely melt in the mouth pastry which became apple pie or mince and potato pie, sponge cakes, boiled fruit cakes, biscuits, and some of my fondest memories are of helping her make the Christmas cake and licking the bowl when I was tiny. I still make a Christmas cake every year and the smell of the batter and when it’s in the oven take me right back.

My mum gave up cooking years ago and now buys all her food from delis or just wats out. Occasionally she has soup from a packet which even she is capable of not ruining.

It's actually heartening to hear how many of us had mothers who were crap cooks.

Growing up I thought I was the only one.
My mother didn't keep any seasonings apart from salt in the house.
Discovering pepper at a friends house aged 11 was a revelation.

A "stew" growing up was ropey beef boiled in water.
The grey cooking liquid with flecks of scum was the "gravy".

Lasagne with puy lentils instead of mince (we’re vegetarian)
Big rectangular pizzas with a really thick, bread-like base
Leek and potato soup with fresh white bread rolls, still hot with loads of butter melting into them

Blackcurrant pie. She died in 2012 sadly and I am rubbish at baking

I cook - I really hope my son [now 27] remembers me for my home cooking, among other things. I'm sure he will. I know I'm called Mince Pie Queen where he works!!!

Beef stew.
Corned beef hash.
Meat and potato pie.
Chocolate buns.
Fruit cake.
Egg and bacon pie.

Mum’s not exactly an amazing cook but she does a pretty good beef curry and I love her steak and ale pie made with newky brown.

Grandma (90) has a pretty solid repertoire of gravy based Dinners and her roast dinners and stews are legendary in our family, as are her bread and Yorkshire puddings.

My mum was an absolutely hopeless cook, except for one thing : her chips. They were fried in lard and were the best you could ever taste. Unfortunately she binned her chip pan for health reasons many years ago, so no more home-made chips ☹️

I love my mum to bits but the woman is hopeless in the kitchen! I did used to love Findus Crispy Pancakes though!

Leek and potato soup
Apple pie
Bramble and apple pie

Ooh yes, proper chips!

My mum was an average baker but a very good cook. She made fantastic

Lasagne
Risotto
Homemade tortelli and ravioli
Sublime Ragu for pasta
Stews
Casseroles
Pies

All delicious