General Chat

Does anyone remember the days when women went to the bakery with their meat, and their dishes, and collected a beautiful steak pie when it was ready?
They did that a lot in scotland, for Christmas and New Year, my MIL used to do it.
Deanna X

I go with Annina's suggestion. Similar to this was on a Saturday. morning. We had a bakery down the street and across the main road, about 55 yrs or so ago. It was my job to be trusted to cross the main road properly, and fetch a dozen fresh rolls, still warm from the bakery. When I got home, Mum 'spread' them with slices of Co-op tub butter. That was our weekend treat, unless we were going to grandma's for Sunday tea, where we got tinned red salmon, and tea out of a china cup, with saucer. Very proud of her china was my gran, which she fetched off Sneinton Market in Nottingham. We always came back with a bag of coal, in dad's Navy kit bag. Grandad got so many free loads a year as the farrier for Berggerlee Yard Pit.
On Boxing Day, all the family would congregate for tea, at the home of two maiden Gt. Aunts, grandad's sisters. What food!!!. Things we never saw all year round. The table was set, the way a grand table should, with bone chine crockery, and silver cutlery, on embroidererd table cloths. And, there was always a couple of jugs of whisky and rum to go in the cups of tea. How these two lovely old girls could afford to put on such a spread, when they were pensioners, I'll never know. Then about 9.00 at night we all walked down the great drive, with uncles jumping out from behind trees, trying to scare us children, and catch a bus in our respective directions.
Both OH and I have very fond memories of our school dinners. They were great.
See, this thread has bought back memories of people as well as the way of life all these people.
Jean, I have bookmarked the other thread you mention - thank you very much
Julia in Derbyshire

P.S. Just having a sentimental moment and a tear or two for the now long gone relatives, that gave us so much.

Oh Blackrose,you bring back happy memories of eating Queen pudding as a child.My Mum used to also make apple sponge quite often,or sometimes,apricot sponge.She used to make a wonderful pavlova for special occasions,everyone would rave over it.

She also used to make a chocolate peppermint slice,which had a biscuit base,meringue,then a mint flavoured chocolate layer on top-yum! Also a Swiss roll sponge cake,which she would roll up carefully while still warm into a clean teatowel,then when cool,unroll and spread with jam and cream. She made great lamingtons too,but unfortunately her talent did not extend to scones-they were like rocks the next day!

My current "old" favourites are bread and butter pudding,which I still make when I have stale bread to use up,and lemon delicious.I also can't make
meals like Mum did,but I think this is because our mothers had a lot more time to devote to domestic things like cooking than we do.We are
a lot more rushed-and don't have the time that our mothers' did.

Margot.

Sharron I have just nuged an old thred about old fashion cooking.....



Jean x

My gran used to do boiled hock with mashed potatoes, peas and parsley sauce - yummy !!!
Love Mary xx

queens pudding, eggy , milky, bread base with jam spread on and meringue on top. mum made it for me and I occasionally still make. I also treasure memories of mashed banna and jam sandwiches cut into quarters and eaten in the garden on the folding table as a treat when it was nice

My favourite food memory is of the markets in Germany, where I was brought up.
There was a stall, my favourite, which sold Potato cakes (latkes) with mustard.... beautiful.
AND, Frankfurters on beautiful rolls, also with the same delicious mustard.

My mother was a particularly good cook, and made very many Jewish dishes including the potato cakes.
Her chicken soup was second to none and was my youngest sons favourite.
I tried after my mother died, but never, ever, did he say... "just like Nana used to make".... ;-0(
I can make the food, and did, when my children were young, but never managed to recreate my mothers food!!
Ah well, I had other talents. I think!
Deanna X

Just reread your message Ann... cheered me up no end.
You could not make your meals as good as mummy did either!! X

Somebody bought me two 1930s cookery books from a jumble sale and they have "real food" in them.

I made a Bakewell tart from one of the recipes and it was better than anything I have ever had before.

One recipe they call tomato pie is just a layer of sliced tomatoes with some butter on and then a layer of bread crumbs,this is repeated until the dish is full and baked for twenty minutes.It takes a couple of tries to get the proportions right but when you do it is incredibly good.

Had I had that as a child it would have been my favourite without a doubt.

Have we lost something with our quest for the unusual I wonder..

Homemade bread doorsteps still warm with Lurpak butter and chedder, or black dripping.

Mum's roast dinner with all the trimmings including yorkshire puds. My MIL used to have a big pot of soup on in winter - it seemed never ending and whenever we went for a visit there would be a big bowl of it whatever the time of day:)
Now my grandchildren always ask for pikelets and cupcakes when they visit. Lately it's been rotcakes (rockcakes).

Sue xx

Late Dad's mutton knuckle curry every Saturday night.

Lindy ;))))))))))))

No.

Cornflake tart is just strawberr jam, then cornflakes in something like treacle or honey, something like that. You usually have custard with it. x

james did the cornflake tart have a whirl of green mint cream
on top?
ive always wanted that again!

I loved my Mums stew and jam roly poly with custard.

Curries that we used to have in Malaya plus nasi lima sold in a green leaf from a street vendor.

In fact I loved food and lots of it!

Tess

My Mum was very good plain cook and made some lovely steak and kidney pies and puddings but two of my favourite meals were Shepherds pie made from minced up left over joint, it never tasted the same when I made it, and bacon and onion suet roll.

Ann
Glos

Hi, James, never heard of cornflake tart, sounds interesting ...



Jean x

I think seeing as I am from a younger generation, my memories will be very different. But one food in particular that stands out for me was the cornflake tart my first school made. Also Cheese flan from middle school.... mmm

I have just been chatting to a friend, about our memory of our favourite food as a youngster, mine was ,going to a local cafe where they made wonderful steak and kidney puddings, also watching my aunt who owned a chip shop cutting the surplus pastry off her homemade pies, So do you have any special favourites?

Jean x