General Chat

My Gran made the best fruit cake EVER. 1/2 pound of everythign and 3 eggs. Mix well, put into lined and greased tin, make a well in the middle and sprinkle demarara sugar on it. Bake for an hour. It could have lasted weeks. How many others have inherited recipes from grandparents that we still use? What are they?

My Nan used to make lovely victoria sandwiches half was normal the other was pink. I made one the other weekend as was feeling nostalgic

I have to add here that my Great Aunt Ivy also made lots of cakes, but her fruit cakes always sunk in the middle, no matter what she did. We always called them Polo cakes. They were still delicious, and more than made up for by her strawberry jam.

I think there should be a campaign to bring back all those old fashioned cakes. They were soooooooo much better that all these fancy one bite cakes you get today

I'm with you Linda. We didn't get fat on them either did we.

Got my great grans christmas cake receipe, my mum updated it, so now you dont have to break up your sugar or first candy your fruit, it tastes great and keeps for a year....

Not a cake really but my Gran made Roley Poley pudding, Spotted Dick, Treacle Sponge pudding, bread pudding...all from scratch with home made custard....oh Nelly I would give a lot to have you back for a day XX

Now you're talking Lemon. My Grans bread and butter pudding... mmmmmmmmmmmm Even my OH can't top that, and his b&b pudding is scrummy.

My gran made the best scones and pancakes I've ever tasted. Oh and her Clootie Dumpling...... drool, drool... Strange, only got a weight problem once I started eating shop bought stuff.

Have just bought a new cookery book. It's called, Just Like Mother Used to Make by Tom Norrington-Davies.The receipes really took me down memory lane. Steamed pudding, banana custard,tea time loaf cakes.mmmm.

Maybe I should start a thread on family recipes. Those recipes that have been handed down to us. Who knows? Those recipes our grandmothers used may have been handed to them by THEIR grandmothers. What do you think?

TW start a thread i love cakes

OK I will drag a couple of her recipes out tomorrow to get us going. Look out for new thread tomorrow afternoon.

but can you bake them as well

Yes I can, but they never turn out as good as Grans. She had Parkinsons before she died, but ever since I was little her right hand always shook, making the cup rattle in the saucer. She always blamed it on beating all those cakes for the village fetes LOL

not only can you cook but you can do it in a uniform i mean cook

What uniform is that Keith?

you tell me

and woody cooks in a uniform

does it count if your version is better because you tickered with the measurements? If so I have been handed down the recipie for victoria sponge cake / fairy cakes and short crust pastry but I have made them better by tweeking the ratios. Also have my ggaunt Bara brith (fruit cake) recipey, but she wouldn't tell a soul what she did that made her's so moist and morrish - we susspect it had something to do with alchohol but we don't for sure.