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Thanks for the further magic replies.
A trip down memory land - reminders of treats I had long forgotten.

Be sure that in twenty years time, your children will be telling the board about you.

Happy days

My mum used to make....
THE VERY BEST CHICKEN SOUP.

She would boil up the chicken, and veg in their original size.
She did not cut them up..... carrots, onion and potatoes.

When it was ready she lifted out the chicken and the veg, put a little rice, or vermicelli in the bottom of the soup plates, and cover with the soup.

Then the chicken, potato, and veg were next.
My son adored Nana's chicken soup, but although I saw her making it all my life.... when she died, her soup died with her.

MY OWN SON..... he wont eat mine!!

For a start, my soup is never clear, and the chicken and veg all break up!!

Ah well! I just stash that away with all my other memories.

And... Lindy... my husband makes the most delicious gravy too.
He says its worth £20 a ladle.... and mine is worth £20 a BARREL cheeky s*d.

Deanna X

Mum's pastry, she seemed to have a magic touch, it was beautiful and also her gingerbread/parkin. She used to make it in a large meat tin. It was about 2" thick and she cut it into strips one way and then strips the other so we ended up with no end of small pieces. I couldn't leave it alone. The nearest to it in commercially produced is Jamaica ginger-cake.

Apple dumpliogs - all I know was that my Mum used to take a large cooking apple
core it and fill the middle with sugar and sultanas and wrap in a suet pastry coat

Sharm..unfortunately I don't have her recipe for apple dumpling, but I shall ask around when I visit the family in Ireland at Christmas....

...and cabbage! My cabbage never tastes the same!

My late Mum was renowned in the family for her pastry and cakes, everyone would always be pressed to have something she had baked with a cuppa when they visited, even the local workman knew where to call lol
Her pastry was brilliant and she always provided the sausage rolls, mince pies etc for family get togethers. I used to laugh and ask her to keep some in her freezer for her own wake but sadly there were none there when I needed them. I hate making pastry, can't bear it in my finger nails. She used to make lovely Christmas cakes and had great fun icing them differently each year. I can recall her making the suet and bacon puddings and suet and apple puds too.

Lizx

One Feather In my cap Is My Mum thinks I make better mince Pies and Christmas cake:-))

I always take her a jar of my Mince meat and make her a Christmas cake Every year.
But thats the only thing I make better:-)lol

My mams Sunday lunch gravy, out of her 3 daughters I am the only one who can make it the way she did but still doesn't taste the same.

Tattie Pot with black pudding mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Broth.

Tattie hash to die for.

Finally her short crust pastry rolled out with a glass milk bottle.

I went to catering college and still can't make things the way my mam did.

Memories thank you

everythig my Mum cooked was fantastic:

steak and kidney pie
Welsh cakes
Maids of Honour
Cherry Pie
Applie Pie
Apple dumplings in suet pastry
Sunday Roast
Christmas puddings
Christmas cake
mince pies

everything under the sun and more!!

Lemon Meringue Pie, with lashings of cream on top!!
and bread pudding

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

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

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.....

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

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

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

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

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

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......

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