Recipes/dishes no longer in fashion.

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..

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!

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.

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! 🤣

Rum baba were my favourite never see them anywhere these days

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

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.

Chocolate nut sundaes.
I miss those.

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.

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!

Summer pudding is missing, unless I make it.

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 ……….

Has anyone mentioned pineapple upside down cake and Lardy cake?

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

I always wanted to know what "grits" is or are.
Not enough to find out, though, because I still have no idea.

Bread pudding was a favourite with my kids growing up.

I love spotted dick, nan used to fry it in butter the next day and add suggar.

MissAdventure

I always wanted to know what "grits" is or are.
Not enough to find out, though, because I still have no idea.

It's a kind of porridge-y type of dish made with cornmeal. Popular in the southern USA - I only know this because I have a friend who is a 'Southern gal'.

Grits is a cornmeal sort of porridge.

MissAdventure

I always wanted to know what "grits" is or are.
Not enough to find out, though, because I still have no idea.

Grits are very like polenta, cooked from dry.

Thank you all.
I suppose you have to flavour it in some way?

Azalea99
Bread and butter pudding was on the buffet menu every evening on Celebrity Apex last June. With proper custard! Also fruit crumble! 😎

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MissAdventure

Thank you all.
I suppose you have to flavour it in some way?

Yes. Truly delicious.

Butter and Parm being the Italian way, Sugar and cream being mum's way.

I use veg broth and herbs for savoury, coconut milk and syrup if sweet.

Though a staple in our vegan diet, how I cook is not as others.

Thanks, Norah.
I may have to give it a try.

Zabaglione. Very rarely available in a hotel or restaurant so occasionally make it myself.