what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

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My mum was a domestic godess in the 70's

She used to make all her own bread and roles, I used to love the smell of the damp teatowls over them while they rose.

Also pie made with tinned mince
Vesta chow mein
Cinimon swills
Home made eclairs
Home made porkpies with water pastry
Fish in fennel sauce with new potatoes
Home made fish and chips (we live by the sea)
Winkles and muscles
Tripe and chittlings with vinegar
Liver and kidney
faggots in gravey

There was a jam and cornflake school dinner pudding. Jam on pastry topped with sticky cornflakes that had been turned in syrup or something. No mousse in it.

have we done devilled eggs? (there's too much of this thread now for me to check, makes me feel unhungry & worse)

• ie hard-boiled eggs, halved into boats, yolks turned out & mushed up with salad cream, piled back into whites with dust of obligatory paprika on top

Our friends used to do that & I loved them so I adopted the recipe. I make them now (only noughties-style with Hellman's Lite & cress instead of red dust) - dd's just-about-favourite tea.

Going back a few posts here, but Dinosaur, I remember peppers of the red and green variety coming ready chopped and DRIED (!!) in a little plastic pot. I can remember quite clearly taking a chrysalis to school in an empty dried pepper pot when I was 5 (1977).

To my parents it is unthinkable to have such a thing as olive oil on your salad, they class all oils in the same league as crisp 'n' dry etc. They still think of it as 'wierd continental stuff' fgs. And the only avocado in our house was in the bathroom. Even avocado was deemed too exotic for us in the 70's.
Our snazziest meal had to be sweet + sour chicken (Uncle Ben's of course!)

Our snazziest meal was chinese style king ribs (you know the reformed goo shaped to look like a kidney and coated in the tastiest coating) with boiled rice mixed with carrot sticks, onion and mushrooms and soy sauce. Was heaven!

Oh and pudding was 2 digestive biscuits stuck together with jam, some tinned manderins on top then drizzled with single cream (or milk if we didn't have cream), gorgeous!

mum's food was strange traditional english: steak and kidney pie, shepard's pie, liver and onions...

bleurgh!

however, her indonesian cooking was fab: corn-cookies, rice and veg with peanut sauce, grilled banana and icecream - fab! it's strange that she tried to fit into the norm of the time and she would have done much better by us all if she stuck to what she knew!!!

and puddings were always served with lumpy custard - yuewk!

my lovely mum used to make us packet creme caramel (oh so good!) in the shapes of a tortoise and bunny rabbit. there's something slightly dark about that.

until I went to uni I thought that pizza was meant to be a pastry lined casserole dish, filled with 2 inches of passata, topped with floating islands of melting cheese.

We were like sooo continental!

daisymoo - yes to Queen of Puddings - my dad's favourite and totally lovely - have made it myself since

Haven't read all the delicacies on this thread but think I just caught sight of "cheddar curry" so that's worth revisiting

Used to have most delicious desert which was Maryland-style cookies sandwiched together with whipped double cream, soaked in sherry, left in fridge to 'set' and then served sprinkled with chocolate shavings. We referred to it as "naughty but nice" which suggests that adventure was somewhat lacking in our lives

Hmm, I want some now.

My dad once got asked if a ran a pizzaria when we were in NZ (mid 70s), as we had been making pizzas )from the Pizza express cook book) at a School Fair.

He was a consultant radiologist!

just remembered my mum's dinner party starter ... half a grapefruit (pink if you were very lucky) with a bit of booze, brown sugar and a cherry on top cooked in the oven!

Yes Yes Yes - I'm sitting here in hysterics remembering all these...

sausage plait
mousse supremes
magic sauce for ice cream
merri-mix (the betamax to soda-stream)
the canape chessboard
cold rice salad
endless chinese leaf salad
my aunt's trifle with Bird's, hundreds and thousands and dream topping
Angel Delight (butterscotch is still my ultimate comfort food if I feel v v low and in need of trashy food)
the curries made with the ubiquitous Sharwood's curry mix and always with sultanas

hamlyn all colour
cordon bleu cookery course
dairy book (I bought the microwave version of this from a charity shop - every recipe has a microwave equivalent method! even if it takes longer)

And the starters were v snazzy

I'm thinking half a melon with ground ginger or instead with port

or the half grapefruit with brown sugar grilled

LOL Shergar I get the egg salad thing you refered to at my MIL's on special occasions when she is doing anything prawn releted. I actualy quite like it .

Crikes, this thread is a blast from the past!

Mum used to mke Bolognase- but without pasta, we're not eating plastic, dear. ,we would have a crusty cob instead. Hated Bolognaise then and hate it now.

Curry- like Tutters I think, mince -curry powder - diced apple and sultanas. (Actualy really liked that!)

Yoghurt made in a flask, never had anything other than plain.

Boiled beef in Gravy (left over beef from sunday dinner boiled the next day until it was grey) Bleurgh

Pineapple upside down pudding - loved it then and love it now.

Devils food cake- sickly and horrid.

Come to think of it I used to put vinager on my lettuce in the days when you only ever had mayo or salad cream. Mum thought I was bonkers I loved it, no olive oil though. Never thought vinagerette would become so popular.

MIL not so long ago was still using olive oil to fry, letting it cool then draining it back into the bottle, urgh! I soon learned not to use her olive oil as a salad dressing.

Can I resurrect this?

Did anyone have Bonne Femme?

Basically fish baked in white sauce with black flecks in it (boak)

Out of a packet, naturally.

It only occurred to me when I left home that not everything came in a paper sachet.
We used to have a box of them in the cupboard, like a mini filing cabinet.

There'd be Cumberland Pork, Spaghetti Bolognese, Bonne Femme....just thaw out the relevant meat and bob's your uncle.

They didn't seem to suffer from competitive mummy syndrome in those days, did they?

Whatever got you through the week was fine.

I remember when she discovered courgettes. She chopped them into discs and boiled them until they were grey. You could have eaten them with a straw.

She also discovered lasagne in the 80s, which required two packets (bolognese and cheese sauce). She used to serve it with a bowl of chips each.

I bloody loved it until it was time to wash up. She would use every pan in the house.

Not snazzy but very 70s! My Mum had a YogoMagic yogurt maker! - 'it was yogurt Jim, but not as we know it'. It hummed away overnight and the the result was truly vile. In the end she gave up since none of us would eat it!!

Marrow stuffed with corned beef-
My mum had a corned beef recipe book and we had a variety of innovative recipes using this delicacy.

'Pizza' made with scone base,cheddar cheese and luminous danish salami.

my mum did marrow stuffed with minced beef,with a white sauce over it. The cut end of the marrow was stuck back on using strands of raw spaghetti to pin it together - was very nice, actually !

Liver creole. Liver in a tomato gravy with sweetcorn.
Green's cheesecake from a packet, also lemon meringue pie from packet too, as also mentioned.
Lots from the good housekeeping cookery book (melting moments anyone? mmmmmmmm). Chicken fried rice, also my dad travelled a lot and made (still does) amazing curries from scratch.

Starving.

Her poshest meal was BBQ pork chops. Not cooked on a BBQ, this was the 70s and no-one had ever seen a BBQ. But she would make a BBQ sauce and cook the pork chops in it.

Poshest 'afters' was a mandarin segment flan toppped with Quick Jel