what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

[FluffyMummy123]

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bvlimey cod your mum is my mum

yes, chilli con carne and pav

also pork and pineapple

anyone else get rabbit caserole a lot as a child?

and anyone else's parents use table spoons as soup spoons? (mine still do)

we all left the table when my mum announced it was rabbit stew

and my little brother burst into tears

proper soup spoons.
A great aunt did jugged hare one xmas, even my parents couldn't eat it, it stank the house out and there was a feeling of doom overshadowing the pre-lunch cocktails.

liver and bacon ... or a mixed grill!

A Sausage Plait
which is sausage meat in a pastry plait thing, served with buffet type dinner - she still does it (it's nice but a bit anti-mumsnet - being a giant sausage roll ).

Mind you, think my mum was quite frustrated cook. As we ate nothing but processed stuff - waffles etc and my dad only likes really bland food. We ate her lemon meringue pie, eclairs, apple turnovers, lots of Jane Asher cakes, though...

(PMSL at all the raisins in curry, we had them too - who is responsible for that? Delia?)

my mum did sausagemeat plait too ... in puff pastry

gammon and pineapple

couldn't stomach the pineapple myself

oh yaaasss. My aunty did a 'mixed grill' and it was so very exciting.

and she made fish pie which was a tin or two of tuna, white sauce, peas and mash on top. Very very tasty and I am not a fish pie fan (maybe because I am not a fish pie fan).

sauces for meat that always contained a tin of campbelkl's condensed soup

I can't read through this thread it's too long.

So someone might have mentioned the slice of melon (only ever honeydew then) with glace cherry on cocktail stick stuck on top

"manderin oranges arranged in a sponge flan ring topped with orange jelly!"

oh yes! But I'd pass on teh carnation

yes, there was melon with a cherry somewhere, there have been a few glace cherries about.

We used to have those flan cases with tinned cherries in with some jelly on it for special occasions.

Banana splits! When my mum went away on her Open University weekends, my dad gave us sausages with tinned spaghetti followed by banana splits.

Banana, three different kinds of ice-cream, no squirty cream for us, we were far too serfisticated, but halved glace cherries and chopped nuts on tops.

Think we had just got our first freezer (same size as small family car and certainly had to live in our garage) which parents dutifully filled with gallon sized tubs of ice-cream.

We've been thinking of having a 70s themed dinner party for ages (complete with Kaftans of course) and this thread has given me loads of ideas - thanks!

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i still have my mums fanny craddock cookbook.will see what i can find.

ate a great deal of recipes from this series

oops sorrythat was a snazzy aberation
cordonbleu

Not snazzy but I loved my mums fish pie with egg in it.

Sunday dinners in the 80's were the entire contents of the fridge on the coffee table a box of crackers, loaf of bread, jars of pickles etc. You just helped yourself until full, made up crackers and cheese, open sandwiches, ate pickles from the jar and used up all the leftovers from the week.

She did do roast chickens but not on a sunday .

rofl at chippymintons 'doomed hare'.

Snazziest would have to be souffle - she doesn't make them anymore, tis a pity, the plain cheese one was fantastic.

There was also a phase when everything was covered with aspic and turned out of a mould. And they weren't puddings. Very distressing for all concerned.

And I'm pretty sure I remember some sort of a pudding that was covered in cornflakes?

That can't be right, can it?

Ooh, I remember cornflake tart. Was it pastry on the bottom, jam in the middle and cornflakes in some sort of syrup on top? That was my absolute favourite school dinner.

Does anybody remember Queen of Puddings?!