Recipes/dishes no longer in fashion.

Lardy cake is freely available still in Wiltshire and West Berkshire, which is where it originates from. I boughtt one only last week and buy it regularly

Has anyone mentioned pineapple upside down cake and Lardy cake?

Not particularly a restaurant dessert, but bread&butter pudding seems to be out of vogue nowadays. Wish I hadn’t thought of it - now I’m hungry. Wonder how well it freezes ……….

Summer pudding is missing, unless I make it.

When my husband had his cleaning business, we often used to go to the cash and carry for supplies. It was only while browsing their freezer section that I realised a lot of the so-called 'homemade' desserts I'd seen on the menu in some places actually came from there!

The first time we had a meal in a nearby pub I asked if the Treacle Pudding was homemade and was told yes. When it arrived it was exactly the same as the catering one I'd had in a different pub a week or so earlier. Edible but not particularly nice.

When I queried it the waitress told me 'But it is homemade. It was cooked here in the microwave'. I didn't press it but we didn't eat there again as the menu was fairly basic anyway.

Chocolate nut sundaes.
I miss those.

fancyflowers

Restaurants today never seem to serve:

Apple Charlotte
Summer pudding
Rice pudding (homemade, not from a tin)
Sponge pudding and custard
Proper trifle

Maybe it's because they're considered old fashioned, but today, everything has to be 'refined' and it's all about the presentation. I think a lot is due to TV programmes.

As an aside, both DH and I enjoy cooking and occasionally we come out of a restaurant thinking that we could have done a better job ourselves.

Waitrose summer pudding is delicious, and a lot cheaper than a dessert in a restaurant.

I love Queen of Puddings!
I must make one soon….

Rum baba were my favourite never see them anywhere these days

Witzend, my DH loves rhubarb crumble too!

I was on a residential trip with pupils to Castle Toward in Dunoon, where they had an abandoned Victorian kitchen garden with a cornucopia of rhubarb growing.
I wandered down one day to get some, before I left.

I nonchalantly wondered in, cleaver in hand, only to find a BBC film crew filming the children's drama, Raven.
The producer's face was a picture! 🤣

I buy beef bones from Morrisons they have a fair bit of beef on. I roast them in the oven with water they make a lovely stock and when cooled a dripping. It reminds me of my mums cooking I use the dripping for roasties and the jellied stock for potatoes.
You can buy Greens lemon pie filling in little boxes for meringues crème caramel and egg custard mix from Amazon.

Marydoll

My DH doesn't like things like cheesecake, brownies etc.
I still make apple/ rhubarb crumble for him. I have just picked apples from the garden to make one.
He loves lemon meringue pie, the tarter the better, so I make it from scratch. No packet mixes here. 😉

I still quite often see crumbles on restaurant/pub menus. Always dh’s favourite, especially if it’s rhubarb.

While staying at a BiL’s huge place in France we often made crumbles with rhubarb out of the garden, plus a mix of any fruit that needed using up - e.g. peaches or strawberries - the latter from the local supermarket would barely last a day!

The crumbles were always very popular with French neighbours who were invited for dinner, which happened quite a lot.
I have still never tried making gougere, though - always offered (homemade) when we were invited next door for drinks. So moreish!

Lemon meringue pie features often chez CLG, as it is a favourite of one DD.
Oh RosiesMaw - tapioca, rice pudding with skin ...these are the puddings of my nightmares..

Roast stuffed hearts and a honeycomb mould...There used to be a recipe on the Grape Nuts packet for a dish using them as the base ( like a savoury cheese cake base) and the filling used sausage
meat.... I've looked everywhere to try and find it...no luck so far

MissInterpreted

I remember my mum making lemon meringue pie. If I remember rightly, it was some kind of box mix and the lemon filling mixture came with a little 'ball' of concentrated lemon flavouring. Can't remember the brand though.

My mother used those occasionally - I do remember the little capsule of lemon flavour. I made my first from an ancient GH recipe which I still use - only at least double the quantity! I do like the way it uses both the juice and the zest of the lemons, and both the yolks and whites of the eggs.
But as I said, a bit of a faff!

dragonfly46

Steak Diane cooked at the table served with Mateus Rose or Blue Nun. My in-laws loved it.

I now think I’ll buy Mateus rose for later 😅

Just to add that the irony of OP’s username has not escaped me! (Apologies if it’s been said already) but those wonderful, rib-sticking “nursery puddings” , tapioca, semolina and sago - not to mention my very favourite baked rice pudding with skin - are now only a distant memory!
I think semolina was the only one I didn’t like all that much.

We love faggots. We had a wonderful local pork producer/butcher who made the most delicious faggots. Sadly they closed down a couple of weeks ago. The couple who started and ran the business retired and their sons took over the farm, but didn't want to run the shop.

Before it closed down I stocked up with faggots and their wonderful pork pies. I have another 2 packs of faggots still nestled in the freezer.

flappergirl my father loved faggots, but he reckoned they were never the same after the war.

My DH doesn't like things like cheesecake, brownies etc.
I still make apple/ rhubarb crumble for him. I have just picked apples from the garden to make one.
He loves lemon meringue pie, the tarter the better, so I make it from scratch. No packet mixes here. 😉

I'd love to see more "old fashioned" food on menus. Such things as faggots (proper ones) and peas, liver & onions, steak and kidney pudding. I'd also like to see more old fashioned veg served with pub roasts, like mashed swede, leeks or runner beans rather than the ubiquitous carrots, broccoli or French beans.

When it comes to desserts I rarely order one when out these days. It doesn't matter where you go, the choice is always some concoction involving chocolate brownies, sticky toffee pudding or cheesecake. I like the latter, but not all the time. What a treat it would be to see a steamed fruit pudding, apple charlotte or an oven cooked rice pudding for example. I guess most places just buy catering packs of desserts these days and people have a taste for more "Americanised" puddings.

Bacon and onion steamed suet pudding, I remembered this one earlier, my Mum used to make it.

Anybody there from Great Yarmouth? About thirty-five years ago I saw a stall near the parish church selling weasand, jot, and udder. The family wasn't tempted at the time, but if it is still there I might make a pilgrimage.

And yes, bring back the sweet trolley, kittylester! My regular lunch place withdrew it during Covid, and it has not reappeared

LadyGracie

I think it was Greens Lemon Meringue mix.

I also love carnation milk, I'm definitely a pudding person.

Greens! That was it - thank you!