Recipes/dishes no longer in fashion.

henetha

Prawn cocktail
Coronation Chicken

Both going strong in our house………Mr A loves a prawn cocktail and I had to introduce him to coronation chicken because he had never heard it.

Chicken or scampi in a basket that was posh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Casdon

You can still get Babycham at Christmas, I always get some as I still love a brandy and Babycham - a seventies favourite even now.

Casdon I would Love a Cider and Babycham at Christmastime, but have only ever been able to get the 'Dry' Babychams with the light blue tops and it's just not the same as the dark blue topped ones. Where do you get yours?

As I can no longer be bothered to stand and cook much , done it for too many years, I keep a bottle of M&S Coronation sauce in my cupboard.
It is very good.
Just cook a couple of chicken breasts in the air fryer, cut up and mix with sauce, add raisins or apple/ mango and you have the perfect meal with a nice salad.
Add small new potatoes if you wish.
It mature overnight and you can have it next day with a jacket potato.

NotAGran55

Fruit juice as a starter.
Melba toast (with pate)

I remember grapefruit juice as a starter on one of the very rare occasions that we ate out. In the 50s it was probably Trout Hall tinned, but a rare treat anyway - in a tiny little glass.
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JamesandJon33

We had the most wonderful prawn cocktail at an hotel recently. Prawns, avocado, sliced mango, with lettuce and rocket in a tarragon mayonnaise . It was superb .

A niece’s dh who used to cook at his own pub, had a regular who used to ask for a giant prawn cocktail as a main course.

Eventually a ‘main’ prawn cocktail was put on the menu and proved to be extremely popular.

With or without the oysters, Monica?

Indigo8

Starter: Prawn Cocktail (sometimes with half an avocado)

Main: Canard a l'orange (not the version made with orange squash)

Dessert: Zabaglione (not the ice cream version)

Very 1970s and superb if done properly.

I still make dumplings, lemon meringue pie, and Dh makes duck a l'orange.

As a child I detested tripe and onions which my mother loved and was affordable during rationing. Even the smell of it cooking... ugh. Years after Mother was dead, we had small kids and no money, and I could hear her in my head saying "You need to give those growing children tripe and onions, so nourishing ".

So in her honour I got some tripe and made tripe and onions and it still stank and was vile, I still hated the smell, the taste and texture. . So I never made it again,

blue14

Tongue
Blancmange
Milk Pudding

I sometimes make a chocolate blancmange for dh (though I do help him eat it 🐷.). It’s a childhood favourite of his. My Dm used to make it too, only we called it chocolate pudding and always had it warm.
So quick and easy to make.

Avocado prawns
Prawn Cocktail
Taramasalata should still be available as a starter in Greek/ Turkish restaurants but I'm out of touch since Covid and move to France.
I do love an Eccles cake !!

Chocolatelovinggran

Rice pudding is the work of the devil: just saying...

No, that’s tapioca pudding, or frog spawn, as we called it at school.

My husband and I were in a pub yesterday and we were reminiscing about pub grub of the past. Chicken in a basket was a favourite of mine, you don't find that these days.

A truly pity is the classic dessert: Baked Alaska ..

I prepare at home over the Christmas Season Holidays.

Years ago I used to make seed cake. Ooh I could just eat a slice now with my cup of tea.