food of your childhood!

[Headfry]

I am a 60's child,
shepherds pie, fish on fridays, stew and dumplings, fried liver, toad in the hole
rice pudding, spotted dick, apple sponge, bread and butter pudding.
so many more!

What were you brought up on!

[Heidi]

I'm an 80's child.

Cottage pie, turkey drummers & alphabetties, angel delight, artic roll, roasts, spaghetti bolognase, egg fried rice, home-made chips, minty peas, vienetta.

[muckdiva]

I'm a Heinz 57 with regard to ancestry, so

My mum's influence - sauerkraut with dumplings, schnitzel (breaded pork chops) with potato salad, dark rye bread with unsalted butter, salami and gherkins, apple pancakes, plenty of stodge, but very well cooked stodge - and not a tin or pre-pack in sight. (She's German, but you probably guessed that!)

My dad's influence - Peanut butter and 'Jelly' (Jam) sandwiches, enormous chocolate devils' food cakes, hamburgers (proper ones, before Macdonalds hit these shores), Dolmas (stuffed cabbage or vine leaves), Yaknee (runner bean and lamb stew), Chicken Cacciatore, loads of Spaghetti, don't remember having Pizza much though. I also well remember powdered Grape Juice from the US base nearby where my dad was a teacher, and hershey bars of chocolate.

Ahh, nostalgia, I often think I might get round to re-creating some of those meal, but husband and daughter are more conservative eaters!

[Seahorse]

70s farm house cooking for me. Spuds with everything, roast on a sunday, Shepherd's pie, egg and bacon pie (we'd never heard of quiche!), fried sausages... Puddings were pies and sponges, with rice pudding on sunday.

I can remember being amazed (and slightly horrified!) to discover such outlandish things as pizza and curry in my teens

Claire

[Headfry]

Be that Upper Heyford Air Base Muckdiva?

[shirlthegirl43]

I grew up on shell pies with beans and a hot cup of tea, haggis with neeps and mash, black/white/haggis suppers. Great home cooking - chops, roasts, loads of variety of veg. Faves are tatties and mince still. Also learned to cook loads of lovely puddings. Love steamed syrup dumpling with lashings of custard and cream (yup, both)

Gotta stop - getting hungry!!

[HeyWayne]

I'd rather not think about the food I ate growing up. I'm still in recovery...

[shirlthegirl43]

I'd rather not think about the food I ate growing up. I'm still in recovery...

I know what you mean - mum's cooking was superb but when we were a bit broke we had macaroni cheese - I can't stand the stuff!!!

[HeyWayne]

I know what you mean - mum's cooking was superb but when we were a bit broke we had macaroni cheese - I can't stand the stuff!!!

Mum's cooking was shocking, Gawd love her. Most food I used to dislike as a child I love now, it's just I'd never had it cooked properly. However, she could make the best cheese straws!

[moggssue]

Scouse is my nostalgia food, with pickled beetroot! Or simple fare like egg'n'chips or battered cod.

[shirley]

I am a child of the 60's... Fish on friday with homemade chips. Roast every sunday. Lunch was dinner and tea was sandwiches and cake or something on toast.

[muckdiva]

Be that Upper Heyford Air Base Muckdiva?

Yep, sure was Headfry. Remember it?

[TEB]

Strange I was eating some Stinking Bishop thinking my Dad would turn over in his grave before having it in the house let alone eating it , we used to have fishfingers, shepherds pie, bangers and mash, pigs liver and always a roast on Sundays followed by dessert. The adults on Sundays would also have a supper of whelks or cockels bought from the man with his "orse" and cart and oh yeah "Pie and Liquor" (cockney geezers my parents) from the chippie

[bubblewrap]

Raspberry vinegar on Yorkshire puddings, Bubble and squeek made from left overs from Sunday dinner.Melted cheese on toast with brown sauce.Suet puddihg with milk and sugar.

[JennieAtkinson]

See my post on roly polys!

A child of the 50s - liver and bacon, stuffed lambs hearts (we had a lot of offal), fish pie, roly polys (sweet and savoury), stew and dumplings and of course roast on Sunday and cold meat and bubble and squeek on Monday.