Topic: Food from your childhood ... (Read 9019 times)

Stan · « **Reply #25 on:** December 29, 2020, 09:41:23 am »

Home made meat pie with mash and peas.

mrzippy · « **Reply #26 on:** December 29, 2020, 10:18:10 am »

Rice Creamola pudding !

roycv · « **Reply #27 on:** December 29, 2020, 10:18:54 am »

I used to like mashed corn beef in a wide dish spread over with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven. I did it a while back and did not think it was much good. I have since come to wonder if the corned beef in tins we have now are the same recipe as of 60 odd years ago. They seem more mushier. I noted that the ready sliced corn beef a la S. market was much better,
Roy

radiojoe · « **Reply #28 on:** December 29, 2020, 10:55:13 am »

Totally agree Roy Corned beef is not the same as it was but it's still good mixed with mash, then made into patties and rolled in corn flour then fried till crispy on the surface, mmm mouths watering now.

Joe.

Liverbudgie2 · « **Reply #29 on:** December 29, 2020, 12:15:46 pm »

Quote from: roycv on December 29, 2020, 10:18:54 am

I used to like mashed corn beef in a wide dish spread over with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven. I did it a while back and did not think it was much good. I have since come to wonder if the corned beef in tins we have now are the same recipe as of 60 odd years ago. They seem more mushier. I noted that the ready sliced corn beef a la S. market was much better,
Roy

Were you uaing the low fat learn version or the full fat traditional verson?

LB

Stan · « **Reply #30 on:** December 29, 2020, 01:23:12 pm »

HI Guys what about a very good classic bubble and squeak it used to be a favourite on Sunday evening.

Stan

derekwarner · « **Reply #31 on:** December 29, 2020, 01:55:25 pm »

I must admit Stan..

....Mums B&S patties made from the leftovers from Sundays Roast & freshly fried [in Lard] for Monday evenings dinner were mouth-watering.......she would shiver in her boots at the taste of today's versions......but they still bring back memories........thankyou Mum.......

Derek

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #32 on:** December 29, 2020, 02:27:54 pm »

Sound awful now but:
Tomato Ketchup Sandwich sat watching the ships coming out of the dock locks 2hrs before high tide.

roycv · « **Reply #33 on:** December 29, 2020, 02:31:04 pm »

Hello Liverbudgie I don't buy 'wimp' food!!!!

Preparing lunch today I am looking at 3 peaches that refuse to ripen and then I thought what would my mum have done? So I stewed them with some sugar! When cold they were lovely with ice cream.

I remember my little brother and I would walk up to Queens Crescent Market (NW London) and as the stall holders packed up on Saturday night we would ask for rotten fruit. This was not brown and mushy just not going to last til Monday. Always had a bag with us and the fruit would be cleaned etc and stewed, it was a nice treat. That would be 70+ years ago so not that long really!

4 years ago my brother and I took a trip to Chalk Farm tube station, Marine Ices was still there where I first tasted pistacchio ice cream, and walked to where we once lived, met some locals who were quite intrigued to get a short trip down memory lane. Walked through to Camden Town, and Camden Lock, up Park Way to Rip Max model shop where I started my model boat infatuation. Although it was buying Meccano spares that took me in there first.
Well I have more past than future now so a pleasant memory reminder.

Roy

Liverbudgie2 · « **Reply #34 on:** December 29, 2020, 03:25:39 pm »

Quote from: roycv on December 29, 2020, 02:31:04 pm

Hello Liverbudgie I don't buy 'wimp' food!!!! Preparing lunch today I am looking at 3 peaches that refuse to ripen and then I thought what would my mum have done? So I stewed them with some sugar! When cold they were lovely with ice cream.

I never said 'yer did! However, those peaches do sound good I have to admit

LB

roycv · « **Reply #35 on:** December 29, 2020, 03:45:19 pm »

Hi LB if you do stew peaches wait for them to suddenly expand like apples do, then they are done.
regards
Roy

mrlownotes · « **Reply #36 on:** December 29, 2020, 10:00:30 pm »

Before flavoured crisps came out my father and I used to pour tomato ketchup into the bag. Shake em up and eat them quick before they went mushy.

rem2007 · « **Reply #37 on:** January 03, 2021, 10:51:15 am »

...we had ketchup flavoured crisps back in Canada in the early 70s.

tr7v8 · « **Reply #38 on:** January 04, 2021, 03:29:46 pm »

Quote from: tigertiger on December 28, 2020, 08:36:22 am

Bird's Instant Whip.
It was probably bogging really, but we loved it as kids.
Strawberry was the favourite.

Much prefer butterscotch Angels Delight. My late friend used to make it late at night watching TV.
Had gypsy tart at school, a very Kentish thing. Absolutely hate it these days!

Colin Bishop · « **Reply #39 on:** January 04, 2021, 04:17:42 pm »

Gypsy Tart? The mind boggles...

tigertiger · « **Reply #40 on:** January 04, 2021, 04:54:51 pm »

I remember gypsy tart from primary school in Berkshire, and secondary school in North Wales. Wow! there is a blast from the past.
They also used to do some kind of cornflake and golden syrup tart that was really salty. You needed custard just to kill the taste of salt.
They also used to do a tinned apricot or peach tart, that looked like peaches covered in phlegm. Bogging.

Howard · « **Reply #41 on:** January 04, 2021, 06:01:40 pm »

as a young lad a bag of OXO crisps or plain but with the little blue bag for some reason the new kind just not as good and sasperella pop if I have spelt it right
Regards Howard

dpbarry · « **Reply #42 on:** January 04, 2021, 08:01:15 pm »

Was that the same stuff you got at school? Tapioca and a splash of red syrup in the middle.

Boke!!

Quote from: tonyH on December 28, 2020, 10:16:08 am

Frog Spawn with jam Sadly not allowed in the house by SWMBO

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #43 on:** January 04, 2021, 08:19:11 pm »

I made corned beef fritter today, in honour of my Dad..... I need another practice run... he won't be proud!

ballastanksian · « **Reply #44 on:** January 04, 2021, 11:43:35 pm »

They look alright to me Martin. At least they won't be raw in the middle

Liverbudgie2 · « **Reply #45 on:** January 05, 2021, 12:43:44 am »

Cheese & onion pie followed by prunes and custard for afters for school dinner, God it was awful and the mixure made me very ill one afternoon.

I liked flies cemetery & custard though.

LB

derekwarner · « **Reply #46 on:** January 05, 2021, 02:46:18 am »

Well Done is an expression in OZ to ensure the meat is cooked all the way thru.....

....they also say that eating charcoal is good for blood

obviously our Martin is of this School

I am up to 110 donations at the Blood Bank........they feed you salty chips...then you get thirsty & so you drink water to hydrate you

At no time do they offer a Charcoal Sandwich

Derek

BrianB6 · « **Reply #47 on:** January 05, 2021, 03:27:21 am »

I cannot stand the sight of rhubarb after school dinners.

derekwarner · « **Reply #48 on:** January 05, 2021, 05:31:26 am »

Well, maybe not quite childhood

...last week in my kitchen pantry I found a 340gm tin of Coles Baby Beetroots .....

Use by date was 20/07/2014...so waste not, I open the tin & the contents looked & smelt like beetroot in vinegar......nothing more, nothing less, no furry fungus growing anywhere

Contents...Australian baby beetroot, salt, vinegars, spices & and a dash of sugar

Absolutely beautiful........[told my youngest daughetr [42 YO] & she nearly died of shock horror that I was still alive]

It's a marketing ploy all of this 'use by'...'best by'.......if it's 20 seconds over the printed date.......in the rubbish they go

Derek

Barney Magrew · « **Reply #49 on:** January 05, 2021, 09:44:28 am »

My grandparents used to eat "natlings and chitterlings?" tripe and pigs trotters. Haven't seen them for years fortunately as I hated them.Also "skate wings" I haven't eaten fish since and I'm 66 this month (God willing)

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