- Apple and custard
- Chocolate custard
- Grilled cheese on toast
- Grilled cheese with tomato sauce
- Ribena
- Milo
- Sunday roast
- Golden syrup dumplings
- Jam and cheese sandwiches (I think mum ate them and we laughed but now I'm eating them while my kids laugh)
- Pancakes on a Sunday night
- Wednesday night bolognaise
- Ginger steamed pudding
- Dry cake with egg and milk like a bread and butter pudding
- Rockmelon and more rockmelon in summer
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Apple & custard
My wanderings in blog land today lead me to a post talking about childhood food memories. I have a few little stories about childhood food but I'm blogging by phone so right now I will confine myself to a list of foods I associate with my young life...
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Rhubarb and custard (known as thumb and custard after a brother's mishap).
ReplyDeleteHome-made mayonnaise (which I had on toast for breakfast for years).
Cheese straws (made at Christmas which I have not yet perfected).
Scones (which my youngest brother and I made better than my mother).
And cinnamon scented anything ALWAYS triggers memories.
Offal (which triggers very different memories).
Fruit salad at Christmas. Which I still make and is my Christmas dinner.
Cheese straws and fruit salad at Christmas! and Amen to that :)
DeleteHow weird that I've just done a post about food too! Must be that time of the year! As a child I loved Shepherds pie, as I was scared to swallow and this was easy to eat.
ReplyDeleteShepherds pie is easy to eat! Top notch comfort food so it's no wonder you liked it
DeleteIt's interesting to see what you ate. some of it I've never heard of. We had a good solid farm diet. We did have pancakes some Saturday nights and kids got to drink all the coffee they wanted.
ReplyDeleteYears ago I spent a weekend with some farming friends cooking for them after she broke her leg. It takes a lot of cooking to keep up and it would be even harder in your harsher climate.
DeleteKids drinking coffee is sooo un-pc these days!
I remember quite a few of those from my childhood, but we never had jam and cheese sandwiches, cake with egg and milk or milo (had to google that one). We had a lot of grilled cheese on toast (what we call Welsh Rarebit), fish fingers, pork pies, tinned fruit, spam and instant mashed potato. Meals were pretty unimaginative in those days!
ReplyDeleteI remember making welsh rarebit from a kids recipe book once and I thought it was suspiciously identical to the much less exotic cheese toast!
DeleteFood from my childhood... that's going back a way.Let's see what I can remember.
ReplyDeleteEasy mayonnaise, made with condensed milk.
Sliced tomato & white onion drowned in malt vinegar!
Quince dumplings.
Queen pudding.
Golden syrup dumplings.
Fruit slice with icing.
and best of all, at Christmas and Easter, the trifle my Mum made. Yum. Yum.
Alphie
I still do condensed milk mayo and I have been known to make queen puddings as well! Quince dumplings are a different idea. I like quince but they are a pain to peel
DeleteI ate some of the things you enjoyed but also jam roly poly...rice pudding baked in the oven... liver and onions... We never had any "foreign" food. But one meal that persists is the good old Sunday roast.
ReplyDeletemy mum hates rice pudding so we didn't get it too often. These days I make it in the slow cooker and it's easy (if slow) It gets eaten cold for beakfast for days after it's made
DeleteI took a lunch to school for my entire school life, and I had one sandwich I loved above all others - iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise. Yeah . . . lots of nutrients in that, eh? And that was back when I was a skinny thing and could have used more calories.
ReplyDeleteMom used to make us cheese on toast. While the bread was toasting, she'd melt/fry cheddar in a small heavy frypan, then pour it over the toast. It had a taste unlike any other melted cheese I've ever had. I think she may have fried it in butter!
Mom also made a Christmas pudding that her grandmother made and taught her to make the components. It included a dab each of the following: red, yellow and green jellos, homemade coffee jello, pieces of orange, strawberries, Bavin cream, strawberry Bavin cream, lemon snow, and whipped cream. It took so long to assemble that people actually had room to eat it after a full turkey dinner :)
(Bavin cream is made from whipped cream, egg whites, sugar and gelatin; strawberry Bavin cream has strawberries added; and lemon snow is lemon juice, gelatin, and whipped egg whites, and possibly some sugar . . . I don't eat any of them now because we are told not to eat raw eggs, but I wish I was less concerned about food poisoning - I would love to have them again.)
Wow, you've brought back some good memories!
I used to make apple snow which was lemon snow with added apples. We put whipped cream and chocolate shavings on top. And you should forget the whole avoid raw egg thing, life is too short!
DeleteYour Christmas dessert is the kind of thing I would never make. I love the yummy stuff but if it's more than two steps I run out of patience!
I'll never make it either!
DeleteP. S. I think our Bavin cream was actually Bavarian cream. Somebody in the family got the word wrong long ago :)
ReplyDeleteBavin cream and thumb & custard are two bits of family language this post has revealed. I wonder how much more we could discover if we rang the right memory bells
DeleteOn the family language front my father referred to all sauces as gravy. Seeing people's faces when he asked whether they wanted gravy on their ice-cream is a precious memory.
DeleteI like it!
DeleteMy dad recalls a cousin who ate tomato sauce on everything including ice cream... not the same but also involving gravy ;)
EC: Hah! That is funny :)
DeleteYou would not recoginise them as they were all, without exception, South Indian food. Western things like even biscuits, cakes etc made their appearances in my life much later. And, yes, I still eat quite a few of those things as I can get them from some online merchants from the South of India. Sadly, they are not made at my home any more.
ReplyDeleteI know just a small number of Indian foods through friends and the street food of Malaysia. I love them all but dont know which region they are from.
ReplyDeleteUrmeela must have been some cook, yes?
She was. I too was! The stuff that I wrote about however were all made by my late mother / aunts ' grandmother!
Deleteyou have lived a rich life!
DeleteMushy peas.
ReplyDeleteSteamed puddings (Plural- my fave was marmalade)
Bovril on bread and butter.
Eggs mayonnaise
Sliced ham rolled around cheese pillars.
Fried plum pudding.
So many more but what a great memory post!
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Fried plum pudding sounds interesting! and i just know I would love a marmalade steamy....yum
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