Favourite ‘Under the Weather’, Comfort Type Food? ?

PinkCosmos

We used to have 'pobs' which is white bread in warm milk - in a cup.

I can't remember whether the bread was buttered or not. I think it might also have had sugar.

I don't know anyone else who called this 'pobs'. I am from the North West of England so maybe it is a local thing or my dad just made up this name himself.

I haven't had it donkeys years.

My Dales woman mil made pobs.

PinkCosmos

We used to have 'pobs' which is white bread in warm milk - in a cup.

I can't remember whether the bread was buttered or not. I think it might also have had sugar.

I don't know anyone else who called this 'pobs'. I am from the North West of England so maybe it is a local thing or my dad just made up this name himself.

I haven't had it donkeys years.

My mother, born in Yorkshire but mostly brought up in Lancashire, called it ‘pobs’. I didn’t realise it was a dialect word. I thought it was somehow descriptive of the texture. I’ve never used the expression myself.

Moist scrambled egg is my comfort food every time.

My friend from South Wales always talked about ‘pots’.
My father used to bring me hot bovril and cream crackers when I was ill…..I really hate bovril! (And did then too!)

At home it was marrowbone broth, the bone equalling that of a dinosaur when I think back
If I'm not into a knife and fork meal, then a tin of Heinz tomato or chicken soup, but it doesn't last long , thankfully.

I’ve just had toast and peanut butter.

It seems that bread and milk, whatever name you give it, was/is popular. I'd add to my previous post that my mum made it in a pan, with sugar. She always cut off the crusts and buttered them, and laid them across the top. The melting butter made it even more delicious.

Heinz tomato soup or mashed banana with bread and butter.

For me, homemade soup (that soup maker was the best present I was ever given, throw it in, turn it on, almost no washing up) or Heinz tomato soup.
If either adult child is ill, I make sure they have a bottle of Ribena in the house for magical hot Ribena. Quite difficult to find as all ready-made-up cartons now - last poorliness I tried everywhere, Waitrose had it.

When I was ill with Covid, I'd bought a quarter bottle of black rum to use to make rum sauce / butter for mince pies and pud but ended up using capfuls with honey, hot water and lemon It did the trick though and brought my appetite back with gusto.

Mashed banana on buttered toast is a favourite and home made soup with toast a close second. As a child I often got egg custard, which I haven't had in years.

Septimia

Bread and milk. Haven't had any for years, though.

Oh yes, pobs!
Not that I would want it now, but bits of bread in soup is rather nice, especially chicken soup for some reason when unwell.
Boiled eggs mashed up in a cup with butter used to be a favourite as a child.
Now, comfort food would be a grilled bacon sarnie or even better a fried fishfinger sarnie.

Hot lemonade accompanied by sliced bread spread thickly with butter and thinly with Bovril.

We also always had Lucozade, we loved it. Mum used to say it either made you sick or stopped you feeling it!?

Boiled chicken with white sauce was a comfort food, you don’t get boilers nowadays, more’s the pity. They were so tasty, accompanied by Mum’s thick white sauce with nutmeg grated in.

Almost worth being poorly for.

Blossoming

Toast and marmite and a big mug of tea.

Ooh yes, me too! When I was little, it was always either tomato soup or an egg mashed up in a cup with butter - and 'proper' Lucozade, the one with the orange see-through crinkly wrapper, which you could only buy from the chemist. You knew you were ill when mum bought the Lucozade!

Pink cosmos
I am from the Potteries and pobs was something I remember from my childhood.

ThanksMarydoll trouble is I’m still on jelly and custard. DH is planning curry for tonight. I think he may be doing’kill or cure’.!???

Our Mother always gave us Lucozade and something called Benger’s Food. The latter was a thick milky drink that we loved. Now I’d opt for cheese on toast.

When I was a child I had a long bout of whooping cough and the only thing I could manage to eat was toast (crusts off) with Auntie Emily’s home made strawberry jam.

At other times, being ill meant a small plate with a portion of mashed potatoes and gravy.
We had a large vegetable garden and the potatoes were grown there.
I still love mashed potatoes and tasty gravy.

Cheese and onion crisp sandwiches on white bread with thick butter. Very rarely have this though!

My children had Heinz tomato soup and bread. If I am ill it's usually a gastric thing so just dry toast for me. I loved Lucozade as well but can't get it here in France. I remember the crinkly wrapper as well Blondiescot.

My mother gave me pobs and it was disgusting and slimy. I can't stand the smell of hot milk.

Back in the 1950s I always had chicken noodle soup. The last time I was poorly the first thing I could get inside me was cool buttered toast and marmalade. The sweet orangey twang of the marmalade was what I wanted.

I had an emergency hospital admission in the summer.
When I was released and suffering the after effects of the morphine, I understandably couldn’t eat and slept a lot.

I awoke one evening and when my anxious partner asked me if I wanted anything, I said I could eat a bag of crisps.
He later told me he went on to the landing and did a little victory dance, as he knew I must be getting better, if I was asking for crisps.

The dish we call ‘illness dinner’ is mashed potato with grated cheese stirred in, more cheese on the top then grilled. With peas. Very comforting.

Soft boiled egg and toasty soldiers. Very nice. I love toast with lurpak nice and crisp.