Savoury Snacks Part 2: ‘Look what I’ve found!’ ?

Fronkydonky

I love a blancmange so does my husband. If I can’t buy it I just add flavouring and colour to cornflour sugar and milk. I used to buy Pearce Duff. I think my favourite snacks are the puff pastry cheese straw type things that you have with dips.

That's all that blancmange powder is-flavoured cornflour. I made a coffee one in cookery class at school.

Whatever next ? Nice snack though ?

FannyCornforth Morrisons sell salted chip sticks

Just made “ frog in a pond” for my grandchildren,chocolate frog in a bowl,cooled green jelly on top—— I’d prefer twiglets but can’t buy them here,sadly.

FannyCornforth We were just talking about the ready salted Chipsticks half an hour ago !

I love a blancmange so does my husband. If I can’t buy it I just add flavouring and colour to cornflour sugar and milk. I used to buy Pearce Duff. I think my favourite snacks are the puff pastry cheese straw type things that you have with dips.

nipsmum

My snack of choice at the moment is Walkers French Fries. Multi packs of 6 or 12 .

I was sent a mixed pack of these in my online order as a substitution for a pack of just salted ones. I’m not fond of the salt and vinegar ones but I guess I will force myself to eat them! I love the Worcestershire sauce flavour but they are not in mixed packs and I rarely see them as individual ones.

I’ve just bought an air fryer and have joined a couple of FB groups to get recipe ideas. It’s interesting to see how many American recipes use crushed crisps as a coating on meat such as chicken wings in the air fryer.

Yes so annoying that you can’t buy blancmange in supermarkets these days. I wanted to do a pink rabbit like we always had as kids but couldn’t get any. So I used cornflour and strawberry food colouring/flavourings - it worked well. I’ve done it since with chocolate flavouring too .

I used to like potato puffs.

There used to be a Worcester Sauce flavour Twiglet - they were gorgeous, but I don't like the "ordinary" one.

Those Scampi Fries with Lemon were lovely too, and I was mad about cheese footballs, are they still available?

We used to love Potato Deltas that M&S sold around Christmas time. Very thin salted potato triangles. So more-ish. Haven't seen them for years sadly.

It’s Walkers Worcester Sauce flavour French Fries or Seabrooks Beefy crisps for me. I’m also partial to a good old fashioned Ritz cracker.

FannyCornforth

I remember my mom and I eating a cube of ‘raw’ jelly every day to strengthen our nails.
I think that the science behind that was somewhat flawed!

I used to do the same. These days I take a collegen supplement which keeps my nails, skin and hair in good condition. As I have to take steroids for a pmr it also stops that ugly purple bruising that you get when on steroids. Jelly is made of gelatine which has similar benefits.

I make a lovely Pina Colada cheesecake (which is absolutely not what I would consider cheesecake, but that's what the recipe calls it) which needs pineapple jelly. It is really hard to find. The only place I have found it is in Sainsbury

I don't buy jelly other than for that, so I've not noticed whether there are fewer flavours than before .

cc

Lupatria

i wanted to buy blancmange a while ago so i googled ut and found green's website. they sell so many things which are difficult to get these days - creme caramel "mix" for instance - so i'm well stocked up now.
i looked for black cherry jelly and i found it at morrisons but can't find pineapple anywhere.

I seem to remember that real pineapple stops jelly from setting?

yup, pineapple, kiwi and paw paw all contain a chemical that breaks the long protein chains in gelatine. Its those long chains that trap the liquid and make jelly set. the juices from those fruits can aslo be added to marinades to tenderise meat. Geat care is needed in their use though because they can affect how warfarin works.

Lots of tasty nostalgic memories on here! I have just looked at the Greens website as we like blancmange but struggle to find it. The website must be very busy as it is horrendously slow.....going to try again later.

cc (I love your username, it’s very enigmatic) do you think that there is some truth in the jelly / nail thing then? I can’t decide

Lupatria

i wanted to buy blancmange a while ago so i googled ut and found green's website. they sell so many things which are difficult to get these days - creme caramel "mix" for instance - so i'm well stocked up now.
i looked for black cherry jelly and i found it at morrisons but can't find pineapple anywhere.

I seem to remember that real pineapple stops jelly from setting?

We had to drink the cabbage water to help our spots.

FannyCornforth

I remember my mom and I eating a cube of ‘raw’ jelly every day to strengthen our nails.
I think that the science behind that was somewhat flawed!

It's often recommended now to take collagen, which is in fact gelatine under another name, though some is from non-animal sources.

DH & I both love chipsticks. Not the ‘fluffier, thicker’ ones but the plain, thin potato sticks. As a treat we’ll share a bag while watching TV. We start off with the intention of just sharing half, but inevitably end up scoffing the lot ?.

FannyCornforth

I had a packet of the Scampi Fries yesterday. They didn’t disappoint; unlike the packet of Bacon Fries. Yuk.
I hope that DH will eat the Bacon Fries, as I won’t be able to justify buying them again

amazon sell just the scampi ones or just the bacon ones.
www.amazon.co.uk/s?ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_12&crid=3HCERCXO3KLY7&sprefix=scampi+fries%2Caps%2C71&k=scampi+fries&tag=gransnetforum-21

Jacobs cracker crisps are my favourite at the moment

2 Christmases ago I couldn't find Blancmange powders in Sainsbury's and asked a member of staff to show me where they were. He'd never heard of them and didn't know what I was talking about. He was in his 20's.

Why have they stopped making tangerine jelly? It tasted far better than the orange ones when I made goldfish jellies for my grandchildren!

I used to love Ready Salted Chipstcks; but you can only get the Salt n Vinegar ones now, and they make your mouth hurt, especially if, like me, you tend to eat too many of the damned things