Childhood Food memories......

[EcclesCake]

Inspired by Sherrards corned beef pie like her gran used to make.

I was wondering what foods you love and loathe from childhood.

I loathe lamb stew (grey with slimy pearl barley) and shepherds/cottage pie (reminds me of old folks homes).

I love gingernut biscuits dunked in milk.

[ummmm]

My OH likes his cabbage over cooked.

[McMouse]

Previous posts remind me of my mother's lamb stew which she exterminated in a huge pressure cooker. It always emerged as anonymous blobs of a grey/brown colour.

[emmie]

overcooked cabbage, a sure way for me to leave.

[emmie]

McM, seems many of our mothers weren't overly good cooks, mind you they had to mend and make do in the war years.

[McMouse]

Couldn't agree more em10, times were hard during rationing. In fairness to my mother the food was nourishing and I don't recall being hungry.

[emmie]

we didn't either, however some of the fare was pretty unpalatable - my old man used to shout at us if we didn't eat all our dinner, i can still hear the bstards voice, making us sit there for hours, even if we were sick.

[ummmm]

My mum and her siblings are all good cooks. My uncle's the best. He used to be a butcher and he can make a chicken look like it has 4 breasts....his 5 kids never did cop on.

[tonyav]

Cabbage water, Bluggggggh. Mom used to make my brother and I drink it '' It's good for you and you'll grow up to be big strong boys ''.

[ummmm]

I drink it :-)

Only when I have boiled bacon and cabbage....lots of black pepper. It's nice.

[horseshoes]

I was very lucky where school dinners were concerned - they were, on the whole, lovely; especially on the days when we had roast beef, the gravy was gorgeous and we always had carrots too. Not too fused on the semolina or rice pudding.

At home my Grandmother used to make a pan of "cheese and onion" that was FAB! Mum used to make lovely cakes and a tin of cheese straws on a Sunday. One of my favourite treats was a liquorice stick which my Dad used to buy for me - it was like a piece of twig and would last for AGES!

[Traci66]

I used to love getting up early with my dad on a Sunday morning for salt fish butties, loathe liver though.

[tonyav]

Hope you don't have it with crackling ummmm :-), and it is not nice at all.

[EcclesCake]

My mum was a pretty good cook, it was just that the food she cooked then isn't the kind off food that I would want to eat now.

The modern approach to vegetables is to cook them lightly sadly so many people are still haunted by the memories of overcooked cabbage, sprouts etc.

I also have an irrational dislike for food that doesn't need chewing hence my dislike for shepherds pie.

[mccfluff]

watching my gran cook in malaysia, she would make dhal and roti's. whenever i make it now i always think of her

jelly..... i hate that stuff, anythign that wobbles is wrong

[mrs_overall]

I still feel sick when I think about the butter beans they served us at school.

My mum was a rubbish cook. She once splurged on some rump steak for all of us and it was like shoe leather. She uttered the immortal line
"it should be tender, I cooked it for 30 minutes"

[albaqwerty]

Bonio dog bisuits.

Well, when your mum makes a chocolate sponge with bisto....

[Smowball]

Adored my nans roast dinners, and her gravy was to die for. Loathed my mums mashed potato - she would constantly sneak onion into it and swear blind she hadnt!

[EcclesCake]

Fortunately my mother did appreciate rare meat.....even if she did insist on grilling it!

I trust that was a one off mistake Alba?

[mrs_overall]

I particularly loathed Sunday afternoon tea. It was usually Shiphams paste sarnies, followed by tinned fruit and Carnation. The Carnation always looked curdled in the fruit juice.

<<<<runs for sick bucket>>>>

[nannybooby]

OMG I remember my mum's mince -1lb mince one chopped onion half pint water two oxo cubes - all boiled to bu**ery for abot an hour ,served with dark greens also boiled to bu**ery and boiled potatoes with eyes stareing at you!
My poor old mum couldn't cook she regularly exploded eggs when boiling them , if my dad was home (he did shift work) he cooked and was a fabulous cook.
Re the lamb stew , my daughter and granddaughters love my brown lamb stew ,so much so that I have to cook when I go to their house ,if my daughter makes it they say its not the same.
Favourite food memory ,my brother comeing home from the far east (RAF) and cooking lamb curry and rice, no curry can compair I can still smell an taste it