My sense of taste is not "special"!

I treated myself to a pot of posh Vanilla Custard too, and had a similar experience! I shan’t bother again. I’ll stick to Tesco sachets where you just add hot water from now on!

Willow try adding a bit of brown sauce to your beans?

I can't seem to manage three course meals any more. I've certainly felt daunted and very put off if confronted by a huge plateful. Some pub meals are meant to be generous and suit some people but those vast platefuls that you eat and eat but they never seem to dissipate are a problem for me. Sometime two starters are the answer and the others can have their starter and main meal.
Also I suddenly find some sweets and chocolate just too sickly sweet these days. Is it me or the manufacturers?

Now, I don't want to sound snooty but I think my taste changed when my dear late hubby and I visited France for holidays. We began to eat in the French way at weekends - a two, three or even five course meal - not exactly nouvelle cuisine but lighter fare which we took our time over.

When I see a typical roast or Christmas dinner, roast turkey, enough veg to come out of your ears, stuffing, gravy, sauce and goodness knows what else, my appetite disappears. It looks like a dog's dinner to me. Having to 'shovel it down' quickly before it goes cold would give me indigestion.

As a child I ate Wedding/Christmas cake/pudding and mince pies as we all did. I realise now that it was the cream which came with it that I liked rather than the stronger flavours of the accompanying items and I've gone right off them.

I prefer lighter fare in smaller portions. I've never seen the attraction of strong flavours like curry and even dislike pepper. I don't want to stuff myself till I'm bursting.

Jane10

Aldi's custard is delicious. Not their posh Madagascan stuff, the ordinary custard in a carton. It's about 45p.

I'm fond of Revel salad. Recipe: open packet of Revels and tip into bowl. Eat.
Delicious with red wine soup.

My mother was a poor and resentful cook.
Her mother my grandma however was an amazing cook who hailed from Lancashire.
She made melt in the mouth meat and potato pie, she served it with pickled red cabbage.
No pie I have ever tasted has come close.

Some on there know it as Yorkshire salad, apparently. I live in Yorkshire now and I’m the only person I know to have heard of it!

There’s a discussion about it on this Sunderland board (that’s not where I lived, btw).

www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/salad-type-dish-with-mint-cucumber-etc-with-sunday-dinner.617782/

Oh yes, wet salad was definitely just an addition to Sunday dinner, Georgesgran! My dad was a miner and I don’t remember ever having salad as a meal!

I prefer Birds Custard, but it has to be made with Steralised milk! It makes it tastes creamy. In the Midlands when I was growing up we only had Steralised milk. Never buy it now, except to make custard!

I’m in Durham too and not heard that mixture referred to as a ‘Durham Wet Salad’. My MIL used to make it but just referred to it as salad. I wonder if it was popular in the pit villages where the miners could grow the ingredients easily and it was added to a proper meal, not a salad in its own right? Not a lot of pitmen would be happy with a plate of ‘rabbit food’ after a long shift underground!
My favourite expression is a Scottish salad - chips!!

Maggie I had to pop back.
I was brought up in County Durham but have never heard of or eaten a Durham salad.
I can’t quite imagine it ... ?

My mother was a very good cook and as her father was a butcher, much of her cooking was meat related with delicious gravy.

I love gravy ... and lots of it on any meat related meal.
I have also turned my partner into a gravy fiend. His mother wasn’t a very good cook thus he has a distorted sense of how good my cooking is. He loves my gravy and frequently remarks that people would pay considerable money for it.
Consequently we’re a ‘gravy family’ and I always have to make a HUGE jug of it for any family meal involving a roast.

I have no desire now to eat pies or custard of any type.

I love a pie. They’ve had a big revival in recent years (round here anyway), and a really good chicken and ham pie or a proper nutmeggy custard tart can send me straight back to my childhood.

I still like a Durham wet salad with my Sunday dinner. Lettuce, tomato, chopped spring onion and mint sauce made up with vinegar. Heaven piled into a Yorkshire pudding with thick gravy on top. Funnily enough I’m usually the only one eating it.

I lost my sense of taste and smell 10 years ago but even before that I found that beans on toast just wasn't the same as when I was a child. It was my favourite meal but something was lacking as I grew up

GrannySomerset my children weren’t keen but Creamola was my husbands all time favourite pudding I don’t think it’s made now but I once found a recipe to make it and I believe it had custard powder in the recipe.

I like Birds , I make it with no sugar . My MIL did this because FIL used to sprinkle sugar over the custard anyway and she was being thrifty with the sugar , so OH had got used to the taste

Sainsbury's own low sugar make up custard is great with bananas (and fruit pies, etc.) Not worth making when it is just me and this is thick and creamy.

I still love salad cream Vegansrock.

I have no nostalgia for childhood food. Boring salads of lettuce and cucumber with a hard boiled egg and “salad cream”. jam sandwiches, mashed potato with carrots and dried peas like bullets, rice pudding, lots of stuff out of tins. Even though my mother was a reasonable cook and her pastry was good, I have no desire now to eat pies or custard of any type. My memories overall aren’t good ones. When I think of the foods my grandchildren choose to eat - hummus, sushi, curry, couscous it’s a world away.

Banana cake - my mum made a simple banana cake with brown sugar frosting. It was just in a 9x9 pan, not double layered. I'm sure she made only to use up bananas turning brown. Somehow I cannot find a similar cake or icing.

Banana bread or banana muffins are not the same texture. I'm still on the hunt for a similar recipe.

I like the chocolate custard for a Black Forest trifle ,I love black forest cake but it doesn't all get eaten if its just two of us so a small trifle hits the spot

I love M&S and Waitrose vanilla custard - currently with mince pies but even on its own. Did anyone else give their children Cremola, a yellow ground rice pud made with milk? Known as yellow pudding it was a firm favourite, often with the addition of stewed fruit.

Frederick Glasscock set up a factory in Clerkenwell, London, to manufacture a range of sweet food products to tempt the Victorians’ adventurous palates. With his business partner, a Mr. Monkhouse (grandfather of the late Bob Monkhouse) he developed his most famous product, a special recipe custard powder which was sold in tins under the brand name ‘Monk & Glass’ with a picture of a splendid fat monk holding aloft a glass filled with delicious yellow custard on the label. This brand continued into the 20th century, eventually being sold to Bird’s Custard Co. by the Monkhouse family in 1958.