Food you were brought up on.

[shilton dipper]

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when i was young it was meat and 2 veg nearly every day except fridays when mum made her own chips and we'd have fish cakes or rissoles (yum)........very little convenience foods in those day and thats not a bad thing........fav lunch at the weekends was walkers ready salted crisp sandwiches......and dessert was quite often a tub of mousse

[darren]

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other things where.

potato waffles
fish fingers birds eye.
cabbage
caulflower
salad with tomato lettce eggs cheese beetroot.

crisps burgers fish and chips.

[Beach Life]

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Grans (Babcia in Polish) special (well to me anyway) mash potato, after mashing she would transfer it into a aluminium pan and grill it until the top turned crusty but soft. Beetroots grated with horseradish and secret xtras, beetroot soup and bacon, that old retro fave trifle, Gołąbki (stuffed cabbage) which consisted of boiled rice, minced pork,/beef onions and seasoning served with a homemade tomato sauce - still eat/make these today!

Gołąbki (pronounced go-womp-kee) is translated as pigeon. Although no pigeon is used in the recipe, the name could possibly be due to it's resemblance to the shape of pigeon breast. Pork in breadcrumbs fried slightly and oven baked, goulash, pierogi and last but not least vodka (know this is not food but it is made from potatoes) was given sips of it as a kid where it was mixed with lime cordial.

Fish and chips, beef burgers, liver, faggotts, beef, chicken, turkey dishes. Semolina in tin, rice pudding.

[stuckinthe80's]

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Pease pudding has always been a family favourite. My grandma made the best pease pudding I've ever tasted! Lovely! I still make it now to her recipe but it's not quite the same!

[stuckinthe80's]

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So we're not the only ones to call it panackelty. Hooray! For the record, ours is mostly corned beef, onion and sliced potato. A bit like corned beef hash really.

Another thing my parents sometimes did was use cauliflower leaves instead of cabbage. Two veg in one and I could never really tell the difference.

The panackelty my Mam used to make was with pieces of lamb with sliced onion, thin sliced potato and chunks of turnip (swede but we call swede turnip. Think it's a northern thing). She did sometimes do it with corned beef and would omit the turnip.

[willpurry]

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Fried mince with chips, followed by a bowl of Ski yogurt from one of the big pots, in front of Angels on telly.

[darren]

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something i got a lot when younger was ravioli.
im sure it came in tins, i really liked it.
it comes in squares and it had thick tomato sauce in it i think.

[Trickyvee]

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My Mam used to make panaclety once a week. Probably her own version of a recipe that her mother used to make. It was lovely. We had things like mice and baked dumplings a lot in the winter. Also shepherds pie (made with beef mince so cottage pie really but we called it shepherds pie) corned beef hash and liver and bacon were my favourites. My mam made everything from scratch. No packets. Just real food. My grans Yorkshire puddings with onions baked in them were fantastic!

So we're not the only ones to call it panackelty. Hooray! For the record, ours is mostly corned beef, onion and sliced potato. A bit like corned beef hash really.

Another thing my parents sometimes did was use cauliflower leaves instead of cabbage. Two veg in one and I could never really tell the difference.

[stuckinthe80's]

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It's the correction setting on my iPhone! Should say mince!!!!

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We had things like mice and baked dumplings a lot in the winter.

I do hope that's a typo

[Sly]

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My Mam used to make panaclety once a week. Probably her own version of a recipe that her mother used to make. It was lovely. We had things like mice and baked dumplings a lot in the winter. Also shepherds pie (made with beef mince so cottage pie really but we called it shepherds pie) corned beef hash and liver and bacon were my favourites. My mam made everything from scratch. No packets. Just real food. My grans Yorkshire puddings with onions baked in them were fantastic!

Freaky, in the time it took to do my post, you mentioned the onion 'puds.

[Sly]

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Oh god, where do I start?

Yorkshire puddings done by my Granddad always had grated onions in. They were lovely. Any 'puds that were left over got left to cool, then had jam put on them and were dished out.

This is something I never bothered with, but my Gran used to drain the veg water on the Sunday roast and dish it out for drinking. Even I thought this was odd. I don't know if the people responsible still do this.

Sometimes when my Mum made pies, she would make a jam tart in a side plate. The jam would be so hot when it came out that we'd have to wait ages for it to cool bfore we ate it. Sometimes the jam set really stiff and became glass like. Sometimes we'd have custard with it.

We'd often have milk puddings. Of course it isn't a milk pudding without a big dollop of jam in it. Bagsies not get the massive skin on top.

Something we had that nobody else ever seemed to try was cheese and jam sandwiches. Crumbly cheese mind. Give it a try before you write it off.

My grandparents had a strawberry garden that me and my cousin used to pick through with little plastic bowls filling them up. We'd then go inside, clean them and put a little sugar and eat them.

My other grandparents grew loads of stuff. The highlight was the tomatoes, my Granddad used to pick them, wash them, cut them really thin into slices, put them on a plate and put vinegar, salt and pepper on them.

We used to have Shepards pie a lot, so much that I could no longer actually stomach eating it.

My mum used to buy donut mix or something and invite the old lady from next door to have a drink and some donuts. I remember her putting them in front of the big gas fire under a towel so they would rise before cooking them. I don't really like donuts, but those were super nice.

I didn't used to eat these, but my Granddad had a space where he used to keep freerange hens. The amount of eggs we had was insane. He used to get me to pack them in egg boxes so he could sell them on, then give me a Terry's dark wafer as a reward.

My family being what it is, we'd often have some livestock on the go. I remember one year feeding the lambs loads of polo's just because I could. When they were slaughtered the meat from them already tasted of mint. lol

There's probably stuff I missed, it's hard to remember everything.

[stuckinthe80's]

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Pan haggerty. My families’ own version which is nothing like the traditional one Ade Edmondson made recently on his travels to Northumberland! Infact we didn’t even call it pan haggerty. It seems my family warped the name as much as the recipe over the generations. To me it will always be panackledy. Lovely with a dollop of brown sauce on top.


And home made rice pudding or macaroni mmmm! but without jam. Jam spoils it.


Perhaps we could have a DYR old fashioned recipes thread. I'd quite enjoy trying to cook some other peoples old family favourites.

My Mam used to make panaclety once a week. Probably her own version of a recipe that her mother used to make. It was lovely. We had things like mice and baked dumplings a lot in the winter. Also shepherds pie (made with beef mince so cottage pie really but we called it shepherds pie) corned beef hash and liver and bacon were my favourites. My mam made everything from scratch. No packets. Just real food. My grans Yorkshire puddings with onions baked in them were fantastic!

[thewww]

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Being born and growing up in the East End of London it was "Pie and mash" for me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_and_mash

[darren]

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Pan haggerty. My families’ own version which is nothing like the traditional one Ade Edmondson made recently on his travels to Northumberland! Infact we didn’t even call it pan haggerty. It seems my family warped the name as much as the recipe over the generations. To me it will always be panackledy. Lovely with a dollop of brown sauce on top.


And home made rice pudding or macaroni mmmm! but without jam. Jam spoils it.


Perhaps we could have a DYR old fashioned recipes thread. I'd quite enjoy trying to cook some other peoples old family favourites.

home made rice pudding i just loved that.
Had it a few times a week.

I alsi had loads of the ambrosia one and still do sometimes with jam.

But homemade is still better.