Recipes/dishes no longer in fashion.

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 was in a country pub recently and found leek pudding on the menu.
My mother used to make it, I remember the pudding basin rattling in the pan as it steamed.
In another pub I ordered the liver and onions.
I love a summer pudding, you never find that on a menu anywhere.

And what has happened to Spanish Onions? Mild for a salad but I never see them now?

We have an abundance of Turkish Restaurants all serving excellent Taramasalata.

I have seen prawn cocktail on most restaurants still, even the local Indian ones.

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.

Prawn cocktail
Coronation Chicken

Steak and kidney pudding

Beef Olives
Grapefruit with a cherry on top as starter;
ditto Taramasalata
Dumplings
Sussex Pond Pudding,
any steamed puddings...

Chicken Kiev used to be a restaurant luxury. Now any old Tom Dick or Harry can buy it in any supermarket.

Crepes Suzette - flambeed at the table!

And slightly off centre - we thought we were the height of sophistication ordering a bottle of Mateus Rose.

Our local restaurants do not serve the old fashioned classics I like. I can’t imagine they will now every menu no matter where we go is the same. Our daughter living in Lancashire is very fortunate there is an abundance of pubs and restaurants. There are some still serving a classic pie or Lancashire hotpot which is my idea of heaven.

At home I make Queen of puddings lemon surprise apple crumble tapioca and rice pudding on a regular basis. I also make the old traditional meals faggots hot pots oxtail stew and Scouse. I cook old fashioned British foods I never tire of them they are served up most weeks reminding me of my childhood. Some are time consuming but my mum did them and had nine of us to feed.

I live near the black forest and it has never gone away here. However it is eaten purely as a cake and not served as a dessert.

I'm not sure what used to be on restaurant menus back in the day as I left the UK in my early twenties, not having eaten out much. My father ate out a lot during the week as he was a "commercial traveller" and fed up with restaurant food and my mother was such a good cook we always ate at home. I am coming to England for a two week holiday soon, so I will be interested to see how fashions have changed. I expect lot of the stodgy puddings of yore will have vanished (won't miss them).

I am looking forward to lots of fresh 🐟 fish dishes and maybe trying some Indian food. And seeking out a good carvery - now that's something that didn't used to exist. So I'll be following this thread to see what people eat these days.

I love Charlotte Russe and Baked Alaska for pudding. I'm rather bored by cheesecake and Sticky Toffee pudding that is just a darkish sponge with dates or a decent sauce (had one last Sunday I made comments on the review).

Black Forest Gateaux, a well made juicy one is just so delicious.