Meals of yore made by your parents

[Funky_monks]

Condensed milk sandwiches, bread and butter with sugar sprinkled on (thing these may be welsh things)

My gran used to give us sugar sandwiches, so they made it to the environs of Manchester.

 

[pigtails]

Whenever my mother was away my dad would ALWAYS cook us chicken maryland (chicken in egg/breadcrumbs and fried) with mash potatoes!

It was really good to be fair, but it was definitely his speciality!

 

[cesare]

Breast of lamb stew with pearl barley, carrots, swede and potato

If there was roast chicken, we then had chicken curry and rice the following day then the remaining carcass made a stew as above.

Mince and onions with boiled potatoes and peas. Lots of varieties of mince tbh including spag bol and cottage pie.

A sort of devilled kidneys thing with rice.

Stewing steak and kidneys.

Liver and bacon with mash.

Tinned tomatoes on toast.

Blancmange, milk jelly, rice pudding, semolina, those frozen mousses you used to get, tinned fruit (mainly peaches but cocktail on Sundays) & evap, drop scones, welsh cakes.

My nan used to make what she called rarebit - pyrex dish with bacon at the bottom, eggs on next layer then a tin of tomatoes on top, then baked and eaten with bread and butter. She did a brilliant baked rice pudding too.

Vesta meals "chicken chow mein with rice and spices to help recover from the crisis" and Findus pancakes with peas.

Homemade ice lollies made from those tins of concentrated orange juice.

Those long blocks of ice cream (neapolitan, strawberry or vanilla) cut up and made into wafers.

Rosehip syrup. Malt and codliver oil.

Surprise peas.

Rank frozen burgers that had to be prised apart to cook, still can't face burgers.

 

[Badger Kitten]

Lots of overlap with this thread: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=285428

Yes, that was why I started this thread because there was a complaint that the other one was about working class salads

 

[madzone]

"whats for tea ? "
"shit and sugar"
Nearly every night .

We had 'wait and see' many a night

We had bees knees and bubbles an awful lot.

 

[Badgers]

Wiltshire Bacon Cake

 

[seeformiles]

Monday - Chips and bacon and beans
Tuesday - Chips and sausages
Wednesday - Chips and mince
Thursday - Boiled potatoes and mince
Friday - Chips and Bacon and beans
Saturday - Chips and sausages and beans (on your lap while watching Dr Who)
Sunday - Lunch was always Knorr packet soup with fried croutons, Dinner was Sausages and chips and (as it was the Sabbath) I would be sent to the garage round the corner for a block of raspberry ripple which was kept wrapped in newspaper inside a teacosy so it wouldn't melt - this would be accompanied by a tin of fruit (usually peaches or pears)

That was pretty much our dinners up until the age of 13. Things have got a bit more varied since then!

 

[Pingu]

not forgetting

spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam

 

[innit]

tinned tuna with salad cream and boiled rice, aka child abuse

 

[fractionMan]

Ham and pease pudding with boiled spuds.

fucking rank.

Oh, and burnt fishcakes. Double fucking rank.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

My mum used to make this really gross fish curry. I like fish, and I like curry, but this didn't work at all. And it had raisins in, which for me is vom-city.

Disgusting appalling stuff.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

boiled cabbage
boiled spuds
boiled bacon

Oh christ, do the older generation of Britons know how to wreck vegetables! I think part of the reason British kids are so unkeen on greens is because their parents cook them so badly! My mum just used to boil spinach and spodge it on the plate. It wasn't until I went to China I think that I started to appreciate veg!

 

[innit]

My mum used to make this really gross fish curry. I like fish, and I like curry, but this didn't work at all. And it had raisins in, which for me is vom-city.

Disgusting appalling stuff.

that sounds quite nice

 

[fen_boy]

My mum made Brawn a few times. That used to stink the house out and you'd look in the pot and there'd be these hideous boiled eyes staring back at you, urrrgh. Tasted alright though.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

that sounds quite nice

It wasn't. Trust me.

 

[beeboo]

Casserole - basically some kind of chunks of meat, carrots, tatties combo. Usually served with pickled red cabbage on top.

Plaice with breadcrumbs, the breadcrumbs being some bright orange crispy stuff which came in a cardboard tube with a shaker on the top. Usually with tinned or frozen peas and mashed potato - always served in balls using an ice-cream scoop.

Spag bol. Always with the spag cut up into small pieces, so I've never learned the proper skill of fork-twizzling to eat spaghetti With dried parmasan from a shaker for my dad - or "sweaty sock cheese" as it was known.

Pudding - tinned fruit and carnation milk, Vienetta or Arctic Roll as a treat.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

My gran used to give us sugar sandwiches, so they made it to the environs of Manchester.

I never had them. My favourites were jam, brown sauce and Dairylea. Not all together, obviously.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I recall things like spag bol, corned beef hash, Lancashire hot pot (one was accompanied with either pickled beetroot or pickled red cabbage), bangers and mash, Sunday roasts (roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, chicken with stuffing, lamb with mint sauce, gammon and pineapple), pork or lamb chops with overboiled tasteless vegetables, shepherd's pie or cottage pie with tinned peas on the side, those Findus crispy pancakes, probably served with chips and peas or baked beans. Friday was often chippy night, everyone else had fish and chips, but I usually had meat and potato pie because I didn't like fish back then. Friday was also pocket money day, so I used to eat my pie and chips while reading Bunty and the Beano and stuff.

Pudding was tinned fruit and Carnation, or ice cream, or jelly.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I recall things like spag bol, corned beef hash, Lancashire hot pot (one was accompanied with either pickled beetroot or pickled red cabbage), bangers and mash, Sunday roasts (roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, chicken with stuffing, lamb with mint sauce, gammon and pineapple), pork or lamb chops with overboiled tasteless vegetables, shepherd's pie or cottage pie with tinned peas on the side, those Findus crispy pancakes, probably served with chips and peas or baked beans. Friday was often chippy night, everyone else had fish and chips, but I usually had meat and potato pie because I didn't like fish back then. Friday was also pocket money day, so I used to eat my pie and chips while reading Bunty and the Beano and stuff.

Pudding was tinned fruit and Carnation, or ice cream, or jelly.

I wish my parents had made food like this

It was all kedgeree and fish curry and dal and rice. When you're a kid, you just feel like you're being forcibly deprived when you're made to eat things like that. I used to envy friends with their roast dinners, spag bols, lasagnes and so on.

 

[pogofish]

Vesta chicken curry
Jelly fluff

Shit - Not had either for years. The Jelly fluff stands out in my memory though. Part-set jelly, whisked with a tin of Carnation Milk IIRC? With hundreds & thousands on top.

 

[beeboo]

I recall things like spag bol, corned beef hash, Lancashire hot pot (one was accompanied with either pickled beetroot or pickled red cabbage), bangers and mash, Sunday roasts (roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, chicken with stuffing, lamb with mint sauce, gammon and pineapple), pork or lamb chops with overboiled tasteless vegetables, shepherd's pie or cottage pie with tinned peas on the side, those Findus crispy pancakes, probably served with chips and peas or baked beans. ...Pudding was tinned fruit and Carnation, or ice cream, or jelly.

That's more or less exactly the food of my childhood.

 

[fractionMan]

Findus crispy pancakes? I always wanted those but my mum wouldn't buy them

I ate tuna and pasta bake at least twice a week iirc

 

[mr steev]

My mum is a great exponent of what she terms the "blue peter" ("Here's one I prepared earlier").

Sunday -- it's a piece of roast beef
Monday -- leftovers cut up; veg & dumplings added -- it's a stew
Tuesday -- leftovers from Monday, more veg added, pastry crust -- it's a meat pie
Wednesday -- fried up mince & onions with leftovers added (basically gravy and veg by this stage) plus tin of tomatoes, mashed potato on top -- it's a shepherd's pie. By now the veg have been cooked so many times they're basically translucent.

My mum used to do something similar.

Sunday - a roast with roast beef or occasionally chicken
Monday - beef/chicken with boiled veg
Tuesday - same as monday
Wednesday - shepherds pie (with the mince made with a heavy old metal hand mincer) or chicken casserole
Thursday - chips
Friday - an omlette or something
Saturday - either fish or a salad

This went on for years. They were on a very tight budget and looking back I am very impressed with my mum's housekeeping. All the veg we ate was fresh (a lot from my dad's allotment) and lots of it. We would only have a small amount of meat on the plate. Ready meals and stuff were an occasional treat when we went on holiday... all very healthy really, although it was done due to finances more than anything else

 

[fen_boy]

My gran used to give us sugar sandwiches, so they made it to the environs of Manchester.

We used to have sugar and lettuce sandwiches

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Favourites were (and still are)

Roasts with all the trimmings (inc. Yorkshire Puds regardless of whether we were having beef or not!), Chops (port or lamb) with boiled potatoes and whatever veg Dad was growing at the time (Kohl rabi, broccoli, sprouts, broad beans, green beans...more green beans... lots of green beans ), Quiche when that become the 'new thang'.

Lemon syllabub (yummy), Lemon Merangue Pie, Raspberry Pavlova, Apple Crumble, Blackberry and Apple Pie, Fly Pie (sweet mincemeat)

Least favourites were

Liver in gravy
Stewing steak in gravy - I think I still have some of that stuck in my teeth now!
Rice pudding

We ate really well when I was a kid, nearly all the produce was home grown or local, advantages of living in a small village in the 1970's I suppose

 

[Hellsbells]

Boiled potatoes, pretty much every day. Never rice. Very rarely pasta

Watery, tasteless cabbage

Over cooked pork chops

Stewed apple and watery custard

 

[blossie33]

My mother is a good cook and we used to get some nice meals and yummy puddings, sponge, apple pie etc. all home made.

However, I really disliked stew - the meat seemed horrible, stewing steak that always had fatty bits - ugh! The only redeeming feature was the dumplings which went with it.

The other thing I hated was roast Lamb dinners, I can't bear the taste of lamb but I had to eat it. Probably why I stopped eating meat back in the 80's, I never really liked it .

 

[dilute micro]

Least favourites were

Rice pudding

Must have been making it wrong.

 

[Geri]

My favourite was mince, onions & potatoes in gravy - served with Yorkshire puddings.

Least favourite was boiled fish and new potatoes in parsley sauce. Bleurgh.

 

[beeboo]

We had rhubarb growing in the garden so we always had rhubarb crumble.

We also used to go bilberry and blackberry picking in the season which made for loads and loads of fruit pies.