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Retro foods

Marianne72

I think this might have been covered before, but .. I found some recipes for toast toppers, which are sadly no longer on sale. The nearest dish is Welsh rarebit but toast toppers have a nice spicy kick.

Have you any favourite retro dish - either stuff you can buy or ones that no longer exist? Does anyone remember Sainsbury's breakfast slices which were a long oblong tasting of bacon? 

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  • I have thought of another one we used to have, angel delight. I preferred it with some fruit, or chocolate shavings on the butterscotch. We also used to have fish cooked in bright orange breadcrumbs which came from a packet. 

    I think some of these things made some variety after the traditional meals of steak and kidney pudding, liver, tripe( that's one I couldn't eat) as well as other cuts of meat. It was time consuming for Mums to cook, but I think stemmed from being brought up during the war when lots of food was in short supply. I remember my Mum making spaghetti Bolognese for the first time and that seemed exciting. Also when I was young we didn't have a freezer, just the bit at the top of the fridge which always had frozen peas and ice cubes in. I remember when my Mum got a freezer she cooked batches of things. I think that was also my introduction to lasagne.

    When I did cookery at school they taught us to make cheap meals, like meat loaf, sausage casserole or liver casserole. 

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  • I have thought of another one we used to have, angel delight. I preferred it with some fruit, or chocolate shavings on the butterscotch. We also used to have fish cooked in bright orange breadcrumbs which came from a packet. 

    I think some of these things made some variety after the traditional meals of steak and kidney pudding, liver, tripe( that's one I couldn't eat) as well as other cuts of meat. It was time consuming for Mums to cook, but I think stemmed from being brought up during the war when lots of food was in short supply. I remember my Mum making spaghetti Bolognese for the first time and that seemed exciting. Also when I was young we didn't have a freezer, just the bit at the top of the fridge which always had frozen peas and ice cubes in. I remember when my Mum got a freezer she cooked batches of things. I think that was also my introduction to lasagne.

    When I did cookery at school they taught us to make cheap meals, like meat loaf, sausage casserole or liver casserole. 

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