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Favourite foods from the past, your mother used to make and you can,t quite replicate the taste..

My favourite was cheese pie - which actually contained onions; bacon; and obviously cheese.

Yours?

Happy days

Hello Harry love,


My Mum was, and is still quite adventurous. I love her quiches, all types and so yummy and her veggie cottage pie, yummy!

Caz xxx

Still got time to learn Caz. you're very fortunate.

Best wishes Happy days

My later Dad was a better cook then Mum, I have yet to taste gravy like he used to make.

Lindy :(

Oh,I loved my Mums Cheese Pie,It was delicious:-))

Meat and potato pie is also a favorite, Pea and Ham Soup,too made with ham shank and Dumplings.My goodness there are just too many:-)

It has to be her pastry making skills,

she wasnt much of a mother, but her pastry was to die for

mine is a bit like cardboard lol

merry christmas Harry to you and Mrs Happy Days

hugs Lynn xxxxxxxxxxxx

Home made shepherd's pie. Mum makes them with the left over roast beef minced...some onion and fluffy mashed potato...gorgeous. when we visit we usually scrounge some for our freezer

Thanks for those replies and best wishes.

Roxanne - snap and snap again.

Happy days Merry christmas and beyond, to all

Hello Harry,
My Mums' shepherds pie...which I have mastered :0))
Leek and potato soup.
Meatballs
Sweet and sour pork
Oooh there are lots that I wish I'd had recipes for!

Have a happy Christmas x

My Mum's
Yorkshire Puddings, Corned Silverside (Corned Beef), Meat and Potato Pie, Cornish pasties,
Apple, Rhubarb, Blackberry or Gooseberry pie, Custard Tarts amongst a lot of other things

One thing my Mum did do wrong was overcook Vegetables
I like them on the crispy side and her's were all mushy.

I love to cook also and was taught a lot from my Mum and Grandma.
When my Grandaughter comes to stay with me I let her help me too. I don't think a lot of mothers show their children how to cook these days.
WE were also taught it in school and I don't think they do it in a lot of the schools Such a shame.

My Dad always used to say that I was a better cook than my Mum. Mind you she used to say it also. She cooked because she had to. I cook because I like it.

Regards
Jackie

My mother was (still is) the most awful cook! tg I can't replicate the taste or I'd have starved to death by now LOL.

Mary

Hello Harry, as soon as I saw this thread I thought......the chicken noodle pie.......my, that was the very best pie ever.....

We used to go camping and we were starving.....Mum had made this chicken pie and had cooked some chicken noodle soup, drained off the liquid and left the noodles in the pie.....we were so famished we ate it cold......I can still remember the taste of it now....

My Mum and Dad were good at inventing dishes......they used to call them b*gger ups.....and all sorts went into them, but they did taste good....

Dad would, even after Mum died, put concoctions together.....he would say.....guess what I ate today Sally.....and I could never......

I miss my mums gravy no one makes it like her and her banana cake that was gorgeous.

Not Mother. Grandmother,Her Bread and Cakes were absolutely Wonderful,Every Wednesday Was Baking Day,and how we all looked forward to it. **M**.

Thank you folks. To resurrect a touch of magic or nostalgoa is no bad thing.

Off to Morrisons for fish; chips and peas. Hardly world shattering, but we both enjoy it.

best wishes Happy days

Apple Dumpling...never had it since...and hot custard poured over it....ah yes.....

Mac , we call it bacon jack .Make a suet pastry , roll it out an sprinkle lots of chopped fried bacon an onion down the middle , salt pepper , fold over and seal with water .Wrap in tinfoil and cook in a pressure cooker for about 1 an a half hours .Serve with mashed spuds , veg an lashings of gravey ..LOOOVERLY
Kim xxx

I had forgotten about steamed bacon and onion roll.....my Mum didn't make it, I can't remember who did, but it was really tasty.....

My mums spotted dick .
and her yorkshire puddings were to die for lol
her casserole was a hit as well .
Hazelx

buttercup my grandma made apple dumplings do you have the recipe?
and roxanne my mum made similar bacon ribs and mushy peas oh yum