Retro bakes - which is your favourite?

Saffron cake

Love rock cakes! I used to make them until fatness slight weight gain set in. Is treacle tart retro? (Same goes for that [tbsad} And cut-and-come-again cake.

Love saffron buns!

Seed cake! Yum!

Cornish Heavy cake

I made rock cakes yesterday! I love Lemon Meringue pie, something we used to have a lot when I was growing up and made with the help of a packet of mix...I wonder if they still make it? Probably better to start from scratch these days...

I've just made rice pud . I know it's not a cake but quite retro. For bonfire night I made Parkin. Is that retro enough?

I make all the old favourites as OH loves them all, rice pud, spotted dick, jam roly poly, madeira, rock cakes, sticky ginger cake, tottenham cake, Welsh cakes and good old fairy cakes his favourite no iceing just plain cakes.

Anzac biscuits! Our neighbour used to make them when I was a child, and they were delicious but I could never persuade my mother to make them - she didn't make biscuits! I make them now and DGS loves them as much as I used to! My mother was a dab hand at coconut pyramids with cherries on top though!

mollie I bought a twin pack of lemon meringue pie mix earlier this year and when I used one of them it came out a disgusting yellowy grey colour and had strange bits in it! The other pack was okay, but I probably won't buy any more!

Lemon meringue pie is just as easy from scratch (Mary Berry's recipe)
Especially if you cheat and buy ready rolled pastry

I just love cake but don't make many because of a little weight gain

Cherry cake!
Just a lovely Victoria sponge with raspberry jam - can't beat it
Friday's saffron dough cake (from the baker's)

DM used to make ginger parkin

Drooling now, DH is making a but we don't have any cake to go with it

I have never managed to make successful rock cakes, they always collapsed into flat biscuity things
Tasted OK though

rosequartz the mixture needs to be very stiff and most recipes add milk I never do and they come out in peaks..

Tanith I come from Tottenham but have never had Tottenham cake! What is it?

Mmmm, Greyduster that would put me off too. I think I'll go with Rosequartz's link...lol!

I made singing hinnies recently. Haven't had them for years. We ate them with real butter and raspberry jam, lovely, but not to be repeated for a long time given OH's high BP.

Rock cakes were the first thing I learnt to make at school. One of DF's favourites.
Mum used to make rice pud or tapioca every Sunday for dessert DF and I would fight over the skin (sigh)

Mr Roses is a great fan of bread and butter pudding, so I make that now and again in Winter.

I often make Rock Cakes we still love them with lots of spice and nutmeg. A favourite of mine used to be Tottenham Cake - a plain madeira tray bake with glace icing and desiccated coconut shreds cut nicely into squares lovely.

Here's a recipe mollie www.haringey.gov.uk/libraries-sport-and-leisure/culture-and-entertainment/visiting-haringey/bruce-castle-museum/tottenham-cake

Very simple my kids loved it although I did also use chocolate or white icing just for a change.

Thank you Tanith perhaps I will try making some with the DGDs.

Mine were more like plateaux than rocky outcrops .....

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/marys_lemon_meringue_pie_02330

lots of sugar, though, but it does make a large one, good for if you have guests.
You could always make it proportionately smaller

all of these I loved and especially bread pudding with extra fruit in nom nom nom

DH loves bread pudding (I don't) but I do love bread and butter pudding with lots of egg custard underneath.
DM used to make egg custard tart - a large one with a bit of nutmeg on top - so much nicer than the individual ones you get in packets.

I remember the Greens lemon meringue pack in the 1970/ 80s. It had a little lemon capsule in it. Can you still buy it? I do make things from scratch now I am older!!!

DM made excellent Victoria sponges with a generous layer of butter icing and red jam in the middle which never turned out thin and biscuity, like mine. For Sunday dinner we usually had rice pudding and ate the leftovers at Monday lunchtime when Desert Island Discs was on the wireless. When ever I hear the theme tune now I think 'that's cold rice pudding music.'