what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

[FluffyMummy123]

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rack of lamb?

mmmm at ring of meat. no wonder you're a veggie

is that the meat with funny hats could never understand that

is that the meat with funny hats could never understand that

crown something? I used to have to put the bobbles on

wtf was that all about? "let's stick 20 small frilly hats on this so no-one will notice it is a great big dead lump of animal with bones sticking out of it"

lol at ring of meat

what's the difference between those milk jellies and blancmange then?

my mum used to do those pot luck dinners when everyone used to bring a course to a dinner party .... we always used to end up with grim leftovers!

rice salad, bodiddly, i remember a lot of rice salad...

I remember discussing that with an american friend at university, she called it pot-luck and found it hilarious that I called it a pool-in.

yep rice salad ... but with a few raisins and something curried thrown in ... horrific!

my aunt's speciality was white rice, spring onions, mayonnaise, peanuts and MANDARIN ORANGES from a can! (i sa this in an appalled way but really, it was weirdly nice).

Does anyone remember the 70s cooking classic that was Cookery in Colour by Marguerite Patten? Picture here. It was early food porn - fantastic pictures of cakes (including one that had a small icing man on a small icing bonfire)etc. and I spent many happy hours drooling and wishing my mother was one of the mothers who would spend their days cooking bonfire cakes rather than indulging in 70s feminism and having a career .

my mum used to make a soup from a tin of plum tomatoes a tin of beans and blend it all with a chopped fried onion, then just as she served it we all got to put some grated cheese on top. i think she read it in an early prima magazine and we used to have to have it all the time.

but her mousaka she made was lush, cannot recreate it now however much i try

oooh that reminds me ... not cooking but arctic roll really makes me think of my childhood

ok it was in the early 80's not quite the 70's sorry saw that bit after i posted

mine too, bo. and those sponge cakes from the freezer section that my mum would serve barely-defrosted. we called them ice-cream cakes... it was only later we found out the cream was supposed to be soft.

ooooo cake porn!! my mum had an early jane asher birthday cake book and i used to sit for hours choosing which cake i wanted. i got a ladybird once and a hedgehog, aka cholog and lots of matchmaker spikes!

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we had those too, Aitch, and cheesecakes. I remeber snapping the plastic ring off and trying to carve through them.

that and the blocks of mousse that you used to get in the freezer section .. like blocks of ice cream but lemon, strawberry or chocolate mousse - I used to love it

lemon and orange skins filled with icecream

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