Food you had at your Granny's house

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My Nana was a wonderful woman who brought up three children during the war (well, actually, two of them were evacuated as she lived in London) and she had some weird and wonderful ways with food. She grew all her own vegetables, well into her 80s, and could be quite eccentrically creative with her recipes. Some of her staples that I have never eaten anywhere other than at her house were:

watercress sandwiches (always on brown bread).

tinned mackerel sandwiches (always on white).

stuffed marrow - it was stuffed with minced beef and vegetables and roasted.

sausagemeat and tomato tart - like a sort of working class quiche

strawberry jelly made with evaporated milk instead of water for a proper treat!

Stewed apple and custard was my favourite. She taught me how to peel a huge cooking apple all in one long spiralling strip. Shortbread. Upside-down pineapple cake. Blackcurrant milk jelly in a rabbit mould.
And she'd butter the loaf first before cutting it and then give you a tissue paper thin slice. a trick from the war apparently

Gah, I'm going to be the odd poncy one out here...

Roasted red pepers in olove oil with garlic
Corn fed chicken
handmade pasta
Cougette flower fritters

goseberries

and bovril on toast.

Corned beef and potato pie

Valp you are either very young or have a forin granny.

Oh yes -

stewed apple
bovril on toast
gooseberries

lol at the courgette flower fritters!

TheAlmighty, yep. The second one

Had a posh granny and a lovely down-to-earth nan. Granny made us eat gooseberry tart, nan gave us bananas and custard and always had choc-ices in!

Homemade ginger biscuits, and rhubarb and orange jam. She has given me the recipes to both but they just don't taste the same when I make them. She'll be 92 this year and has an identical twin and they are still in competition with each other over the making of sponges and scones for family teas.

My nan does suet pudding with her roast dinners - yum!

Blancmange & stewed blackcurrants.

Homemade jam

Oxtail

Boiled eggs & soldiers

High tea on Sunday with the silver teapot & Mr Kipling's finest

Suet...i loved the total disregard for calories. My grandma had a chip pan permanently on top of the cooker and used to make crinkle cut chips with lard. They were beyond delicious.

Klops.
Latkes.
Rollmops.
Wallies.
Hot beetroot.
Chicken soup with kneidlach.

Ooo Latkes. Yum.

Bibbity they are so damn tasty

Are they? What do they taste of? I doubt I'll ever get to eat a courgette flower fritter .

My Nana used to make tablet , diabetes on a plate but delicious.

My other Nana was a great one for shortbread, her 'press' was full of tins of homemade fruit cake and shortbread.

Gravy with chicken innards within it. Which my grandad used to enthusiastically throw down his neck.

Bleaurgh.

McDonald's
Taco Bell
Popcorn
Microwave croissants
My gran lived in the States and hated cooking Obviously to me this was sheer heaven. Fortunately (from a health perspective) we visited rarely and my mum was usually there to throw in the odd balanced meal.

Eggy bread aka French toast with green tomato chutney. Plum jam, always a tin of biscuits with pink wafers.

Mince pies with all lard pastry, to die for. Hot milk with sugar in at bedtime
Stew and dumplings. Weetabix with hot milk and sugar on top.

Snap with the wafer thin bread buttered before cutting.

Homemade soda bread with a thick layer of butter and sprinkled with sugar

Chicken soup from a chicken we kids would help her chase around the yard and decapitate!

Stewed apple and custard

Lots of tea - served in a baby bottle for those under two!

Can you guess I'm Irish

gammon and pineapple with homemade chips
homemade jams
beef stew and dumplings
gooseberries
potted shrimp
quite amazing pies and other pastries

My granny wasn't great at cooking generally, but she made the best omelettes!

Bovril on toast! Only place I have ever eaten the stuff was at my nans.