what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

[FluffyMummy123]

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My mum did most of the recipes on this thread! Re. the mince curry: we had our condiments (the univeral dessicated coconut, banana, mango chutney and sultantas) served in a separate hors d'oeuvre dish with individual compartments with pictures on the bottom. Poncetastic.

Once we went to a party where the mum made a dish that consisted of cold chicken and halved white grapes in some sort of cold white sauce, or maybe mushroom soup ? or perhaps mayonnaise and something, sprinkled all over with crushed crisps. We loved that. Talked about it for years after. Ooooh do you remember that Baked California Chicken Salad Rita made?

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actually i still do a lot of my mum's recipes. haddock poached in milk and butter and a bay leaf... ooooh lovely. with a baked potato and spinach, yes please. all her casseroles, chicken, beef, whatever. i think my mum fed us Rather Well.

There is a recipe for Manchester
Tart on the new mn recipes section.

in the section on Children's Parties:

Danish open sandwich fillings

1. Sliced hardboiled eggs and tomatoes
2. Luncheon meat with horseradish cream, prune and an orange twist
3. A rissole, topped with diced beetroot, gherkin and cucumber
4. Smoked pork loin, cheese tomato and parsley
5. Frankfurters and potato salad, with mustard mayo, bacon onion rings and parsley
6. chicken with gherkin and tomato

shall I go on? there's lots more

that chicken with grapes was a Fanny recipe, i'm sure. my auntie used to say 'receipt', mark you, not recipe...

[deprived and hungry]

Oh she must have. I remember her cooking when I was a bit older, she's quite a good cook actually nowadays. I don't know what she was up to. Swanning about mostly in a kaftan with a bouncy pendant between her bosom?

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Though when I went to University she sent me this parcel of all her Elizabeth David books, all those old Penguin ones. All that olive oil.

perhaps she just didn't cook for us? I think that might have been it. We had loads of au pairs who used to cook us food.

Sorry. I am actually just talking to myself here.

As you were.

more danish open sandwiches:

1. sliced gammon, mayo and mixed vegetables
2. Tongue and liver pate with aspic onion and tomato

10. Ham with a dessert apple ring, mayo and a cherry 11. cooked sausages red cabbage and onion rings

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Oh no not really, she's very nice I like her very much, but she was just a bit dreamy and a bit bored I think and yes, a little grand perhaps.

Also she really didn't know how to cook I don't think. She used to go in the raspberry cage in her bikini and wellies and read books. She's lovely actually, just you know, not the chicken in a pot type.

jelly cream (made with condensed milk), blancmange, chicken paprika, oxtail stew, fried bread with sugar on top (I am amazed I have any teeth left at all), rissoles, meatloaf, stewed fruit and custard .... to name a few!

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carnation milk

yep that is it ... carnation milk and jelly whipped together .... really sickly!

my aunt made us a milk jelly last year, i really nearly threw up.

aha
chicken "curry" with sultanas, presented on a ring of startlingly Daz white rice
rum baba (foul imo)
followed by Bird's trifle

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actually my mum is a fab cook, though she does tend to pressure cook vegetables to a fine mush
broccoli in particular, virtually liquid

my mum, posh
no, common as muck but a pretty adventurous cook for her time and class
spag bol and lasagne in th emid 70s etc

mine did what is it called? That ring of meat with the frilly bobbles stuck on the top of the bones

and lemon meringue pie, or raspberry pavlova

latter was fab actually