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

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!!

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

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 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

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!

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

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.

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

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