Recipes/dishes no longer in fashion.

SparklyGrandma
I remember Queen of Puddings. My grandmother used to make it with lemon, egg yolks, fresh breadcrumbs topped with raspberry jam and sweetened, beaten egg white on the top which formed a meringue when it was all cooked.

I have tried to make it myself but it never turns out as well as I remember it when DG made it.

Perhaps what disregarded dishes need is a jollied-up name. Look what happened to boring old macaroni and cheese when it became mac'n'cheese - you can't move without falling over it.

The sweet trolley!

Steak Diane
Melon with a glace cherry on top
Chicken noodle soup
Blanquette of veal

I love calves liver especially when it accompanied by lots of buttery mashed potatoes, fried onions, lightly steamed cabbage and a really good gravy.

Proper trifle the way my mum made it. Nothing like some of the trifle sold in supermarkets that are tasteless.

Meats that used to be a cheap meal - belly of pork, breast of lamb, lamb shank - are now expensive, probably due to being ‘chefified’ ferry23 😀.

Another meat that used to be a ‘more month left than money’ was beef short ribs. The butcher practically used to give them away, and braised in a good rich stock they were - are - delicious. Now that they have become ‘gentrified’ a kilo will cost me upwards of eleven or twelve pounds, if I buy them at our meat and fish market; more from a good butcher if you can find one!

Judy54

Tripe and onions Ugh! and Liver in any form. No thank you do not want to return to that type of food ever!

We are having lambs liver, lambs kidneys, bacon and onions for tea tonight, simmering away in the slow cooker.

Yummy!

foxie48

Steak Diane
Melon with a glace cherry on top
Chicken noodle soup
Blanquette of veal

I love calves liver especially when it accompanied by lots of buttery mashed potatoes, fried onions, lightly steamed cabbage and a really good gravy.

Calf liver is one of my all time favourites, it’s so delicious when cooked properly.

Every now and then a few of us threaten to do a 60s dinner. Prawn cocktail, steak and Black Forest gateau.

Greyduster

Another meat that used to be a ‘more month left than money’ was beef short ribs. The butcher practically used to give them away, and braised in a good rich stock they were - are - delicious. Now that they have become ‘gentrified’ a kilo will cost me upwards of eleven or twelve pounds, if I buy them at our meat and fish market; more from a good butcher if you can find one!

Love beef short ribs or Jacobs ladder as our butcher calls them. Slow cooked until the meat falls of the bone - yum!
I also love a cobbler - both the savory version with beef and gravy or a sweet version with stewed fruit at the bottom.
Desserts that seem to have disappeared off menus these days lemon meringue pie and a proper knickerbocker glory !

My mum used to make a mean lemon meringue pie using a tin of condensed milk for the filling. She would add the rind and juice of one lemon and two egg yolks to this with tow egg whites for the meringue.

She also made Queen's Pudding and Poor Knights pudding. The latter were jam sandwiches, fried and served with cream or evap.

We lived for a time at the back of Kensington Square and I used to shop in Harrods' food department where I would buy scrag end of neck of lamb for a stew. I figured that this meat would come from the same carcass as best end etc and I was right. It was excellent quality.

I also used to buy venison for making casseroles. There was a butchers in Soho where I could get it and it was cheaper than similar cuts of beef.

I think that a lot of venison now finds its way into Europe rather than onto the English market, which is a shame.

I always used to ask the butcher for any bones after they'd butchered something and he used to give me a big bag of them. Now they're wrapped in the frozen section, labelled as "stock ingredients" and sold.

I guess it was people like me who made the butcher realise he could make money out of something he would normally throw away.

fancythat

I went with my mum to a cafe last week.
She likes meringue.
We had eton mess.

She would have liked to have seen meringues, topped with raspberries and cream.
I said we would have to be back in the 80s for that.

I love an Eton Mess and do it often for dessert when we have people over . It’s so easy .

Dinahmo

My mum used to make a mean lemon meringue pie using a tin of condensed milk for the filling. She would add the rind and juice of one lemon and two egg yolks to this with tow egg whites for the meringue.

She also made Queen's Pudding and Poor Knights pudding. The latter were jam sandwiches, fried and served with cream or evap.

We lived for a time at the back of Kensington Square and I used to shop in Harrods' food department where I would buy scrag end of neck of lamb for a stew. I figured that this meat would come from the same carcass as best end etc and I was right. It was excellent quality.

I also used to buy venison for making casseroles. There was a butchers in Soho where I could get it and it was cheaper than similar cuts of beef.

I think that a lot of venison now finds its way into Europe rather than onto the English market, which is a shame.

We get venison from our local farm shop. We also get venison sausages , burgers, mince and steaks. It’s much leaner and healthier than beef .

The Charlotte Russe, would be lovely and Rum baba. Though I rarely have a dessert these days.
Still popular in this area is corned beef pie served with veg and gravy. Yummy
I used to love going to a Chinese restaurant that did a set menu on a lunch time , you could choose a starter, soup/ fruit juice/ prawn crackers, mains chow mein,/ Curry or a fried Rice dish. Ice cream for dessert. My sister used to "treat" me when I went to visit her.

I found some samphire in the herb section at a local garden centre and bought a pot - quite small but with instructions on how to water with salt water. It’s in a pot outside and doing very well. Probably enough for a meal now!

Tongue
Blancmange
Milk Pudding

I often buy samphire, I like it lightly cooked with garlic in a bit of olive oil, never thought of trying to grow it myself though!

Amazingly delicious Baked Alaska ..

We actually had this dessert, in 2016 went we spent a month travelling through Bucharest / Brasov / Transylvania ..

It was quite an amazing surprise ..

Tenko

fancythat

I went with my mum to a cafe last week.
She likes meringue.
We had eton mess.

She would have liked to have seen meringues, topped with raspberries and cream.
I said we would have to be back in the 80s for that.

I love an Eton Mess and do it often for dessert when we have people over . It’s so easy .

Meringues topped with cream etc are NOT Eton Mess.
By definition it is a mixture of broken meringues fruit and whipped cream. The clue might be in the name

I remember sitting on a beach at Blakeney waiting for a beach to pick us up, surrounded by samphire, and picking bits to nibble. A lady nearby asked me what it was, so I told her. She said she’d only ever seen it in Borough Market and it was twenty three pounds for a small bag! I said you can buy a large bag for about a pound in any of the villages around here. This was going back a bit too.

For a BOAT to pick us up!

Custard with hot puddings. Desserts seem to be served with ice cream or cream these days.

I’m in for a proper knickerbocker glory. I make them at home sometimes and they are a firm family favourite. So is a trifle made with proper custard - easy to ale as long as I give myself enough time.

I would like to find a Manchester pudding/tart. My grandma, who lived in Manchester, used to make them when we visited. I don’t recall seeing it on a menu though.