what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

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I fondly remember arctic rolls but we didn't have that very often.

Oooh! Yummmeee! Baked Bens so goes with Shepherd's Pie though 100x

millefeuille is the world's most labour-saving pudding (well, nearly) - block of froz puff pastry, whipping cream, something jam or fruity (those M&S compotes would work well), bit of icing sugar glaze. I think I will do that as ds & dd's next cooking venture

Yes, with but not IN surely? Perhaps it does.

Anyway I'm not sure she did all that much cooking when I was small. I'm sure she didn't. I'm going to ask her - I bet she paid someone to bring plates of shephers pie with baked beans in to the house.

OH she did.

She used to do a big dish of caramalized oranges. God it was delicious, with all the caramel hard around the plate. I took her name in vain, sorry Mum.

Another thing we had nearly weekly was beef olives - haven't seen those for ages - sausage meat rolled up in a slice of very thin steak. Casseroled in cider. Was really very nice.

LOL at Tablets' mum laying an egg at the sight of the mango chutney!
My mum was (still is) a fantastic cook so we were spared most of the 70's culinary horrors. If my dad was in charge, we used to get tinned ravioli - does anyone remember it? - you heat it by putting the tin in a pan of hot water and boiling the bejeesus out of it. Also tinned sponge puddings, prepared in a similar way, and Angel Delight.

Marguerite Patten's book is a bible. If you ignore the horrible colour photos that would make the nectar of the gods look like puke. It tells you simple basic stuff like how long to cook all kinds of fish and meat for, how to bone things, yorkshire pud, scones. So many newer ones tend to be too fancy when home cooks don't even know the building blocks of cooking. I inherited mine from my mum - lost the paper cover, the spine is coming off but when she gave it to me I felt I'd finally grown up.

Mum also used to make "Milk Tart" - a fabulous South African sweet tart, sort of like a custard tart but less eggy and with almond (and vanilla?) essence in it and sprinkled liberally with cinnamon when cool.

She also made a yummy tablet - I have a copy ofit and mus t try it again some time!

Used to have beef olvies at school but don't remember Mum ever making it.

She di also make (and I still make) a lovely lasagne which doesn't use a bechamel/white sauce but uses layers of mozarella, parmesan and eggy ricotta/cottage cheese instead. I think it was an American recipe.

This is a great thread!! My mum was a bit "experimental" in the late 70s, ones I remember are:

• cheese cake made with COTTAGE cheese (still hate cheese cake to this day)

• coleslaw made with raisins and peanuts (bleurgh - ditto above!)

• some sort of dish made with kidneys (actually I liked that, though don't care much for meat at all now!)

• canneloni with sausages in - we thought that was really posh!!

A treat was of course a chinese takeaway on a Friday night.

I never tasted an indian til I went to university though and didn't know what naan bread was!!

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Sallystrwaberry - my dad make boerewors. Also Akrikaner chops (marinaded in tomaot kectcup, onion and worcestersire sauce I think) and sosaties, kebabs of lamb, apricots and onions.

Mum's koeksisters are also great - deepfired wistsof a sort fo dnought dough that immedialtely soacked in a sugar syrup.

I often think there is scope for a South African restaurant yhere in Glasgow - there are so many great specialities.