what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

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yes, whatever happened to the milk marketing board? did they do their job so successfully that they retired, having made us all aware of milk?

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that's my proustian button pushed.

you had radiators! you lucky, lucky barstard...

MaryAnn - Tuna casserole = tinned tuna in white or cheese sauce, served with flat noodles or other pasta and cheese on top. So like a pasta bake. One of the staples of my childhood - mum was Canadian so lots of US-type food, including loads of things made with Campbells condensed soup as a base. Come to think of it, I think you can make tuna casserole with the mushroom soup. And watch your salt levels soar.

Mum's show off recipes - late 70s / early 80s were blanquette de veau (sp??), boeuf bourginon, and chocolate mousse. And then when nursery food came into fashion in late 80s as a backlash against nouvelle cuisine she learned to make spotted dick! It was very yummy though, with posh custard.

And I'm sat here looking at our copy of Cookery Year.

another victim of 70s curry here:
apple and sultanas in it, dessicated coconut and banana on top

some chef must have made that recipe famous at the time - I wonder who?

Lasagne. And cheese sandwiches!

oh my word I found this

and this

aaah curried eggs
my boyfriend at uni cooked that for me once
amazngly we stayed together for a while despite this

I have a bero book. My MIL gave it to me.

Coronation chicken
Waldorf salad -yummy
Lots of stew and dumplings

Dino, my mother used to make some kid of boiled egg casserole that had green peppers in it, so they must have been available in the 70s

I think when my parents used to have people round for dinner a starter used to be half a grapefruit with brown sugar sprinkled on the top and then flashed under the (eye-level) grill.

There are probably more but the one I remember most circa 1981 was a starter for "occasions" (dinner party/Christmas day)
Melon boats - yellow melon slice as the hull with a twisted slice of orange as the "mast" and a glace cherry on the top as a crow's nest.
Genius.

Ooh yes Jura - jelly whipped up with evap milk - loved it.

Aitch - I believe the milk marketing board is now the milk development council, responsible for The White Stuff slogan and those ads telling teenage girls milk is good for their skin.