Need help for mystery recipes . . .

[KnitnNatterAuntie]

I've been wondering recently how to make the following items ~ my DM passed away quite a long time ago and no-one else in my family remembers either of the following:-

(1) My DM used to make a lovely jelly pudding occasionally as a treat ~ it consisted of three layers (if I remember correctly) ~ a very frothy layer, a bit like a mousse, then a clear jelly and at the bottom a creamy jelly layer. I don't remember this having a name so don't know how to look for a recipe . . . can anyone help me?

(2) My DM told me about a lady at her church, during the war, who could use one tin of salmon and turn it into an amazing sandwich filling which would make enough sandwiches to feed the whole of the church. My DM wondered how she did this and I have always been intrigued by this story! Can anyone enlighten me as to how this lady might have done this?

Many thanks in advance for any information you can offer

For the dessert it sounds like it could be jelly fluff (ie whipped up creamy jelly) on the top, regular jelly in the middle and normal creamy jelly on the bottom.

This recipe uses carnation milk. My mum made fluff once when I was a kid (her grandmother who would have been in her 40s during the war used to make it a lot). I think she used blancmange rather than carnation milk but I might be misremembering.

https://annainthekitchen.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/carnation-milk-jelly-aka-jelly-fluff/

The salmon might have been an urban myth! But it seems likely it was some kind of sandwich paste? There's one here that looks like it would make the salmon go quite far:
https://www.food.com/recipe/canned-salmon-salad-sandwiches-233240

Many, many thanks . . . I'll can't wait to have a go at making this

DM was always making recipes that were printed on packets and cans and I remember she used to always have a tin of Carnation milk in the pantry so I suspect that's where she got the recipe from!

When she died I went through her recipe book, she had copied out lots of recipes but there weren't any involving jelly!

Thanks again for your help

"My DM told me about a lady at her church, during the war, who could use one tin of salmon and turn it into an amazing sandwich filling which would make enough sandwiches to feed the whole of the church. My DM wondered how she did this and I have always been intrigued by this story! Can anyone enlighten me as to how this lady might have done this?"

Erm, church, loaves & fishes...... Did the lady also turn water into wine ?😀

Many thanks for this . . . it certainly sounds similar to what my DM described. She was a teenager at the beginning of the war and remembered looking forward to Christmas parties at the church, hoping that someone had managed to obtain a tin of salmon for the old lady to make the special sandwich filling.

I'll make same the next time my family descend on me for a visit

Thanks again for your help

😂😂😂😂😂

Definitely NOT!!!!! 😂 My DM belonged to a church which insisted it's members were teetotal. My DGM used to organise the annual purchase of non-alcoholic communion wine . . . it was delivered to her house by a wine merchant and she always used to worry that the neighbours would see the van and think she was having a delivery of alcohol!!!!!!

I never thought about the loaves and fishes connection . . . my family will be really amused when I tell them! 😀