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| RMMee Moderator | Forgotten (?) Foods posted on: 4/9/2005 2:36:27 PM Let's face it, the way that this country is going, with all the emphasis on convenience food, all "real" food will soon be forgotten. I'm proud to say that both my kids, aged 17 and 14, can cook to a greater or lesser extent, and both appreciate real home cooking too, while I know many people at work who can't even boil an egg, let alone make a meat pie! But climbing off one of my many soapboxes.... This topic is about those food stuffs that really have disappeared, or are on the verge of extinction. One of my dads favourites (though it has to be said that even then, in the 1960's, it was only him who ate it) was a bowl of tripe and onions cooked in milk. I was delighted to see the other week when I called in at Poynters Butchers at Heanor that they still sell tripe, but other than there I haven't seen it in years. I called in Poynters looking for faggots (real ones, not those silly frozen ones you can get), which I adore, but which are also becoming harder and harder to find. Poynters call their faggots "Savoury Ducks," which, again, is a term I hadn't come across for years. They tasted wonderful! So, what can you remember that is no longer available, or which is getting more difficult to find? |
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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 4/9/2005 3:52:08 PM by Azzabuv |
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replied on: 4/9/2005 3:37:06 PM Robert, you simply MUST send a couple of gravy-soaked Savouries over straight away. We're lip-licking in anticipation. Even now, most weeks, at sometime, it's Home produced Broth, with the included carrots, onions, peas, Cabbage, (the more the merrier) and Pork lumps and suet Dumplings, drowned in a three quarter thick brown, delicious tasting gravy. OR, as an alternative - Home-made Meat and Potato Pie, with its inch thick plus, delicious flaky crusty covering - a great stanchion full, to share EAGERLY and savouringly. Delicious. Occasionally, it's also the good old Elliotts supper, home-made chips, peas and fish. What about that light pre-meal appetiser. Thin 'cumber and onion slices, in a dish of vinegar and soaked over night? Easy, but affective, for stirring the juices into action. Yes, i remember the 'Tripe and Onion' meals. But, as time went on, they began to sell a thicker, courser kind. It hadn't quite got that 'Ummph' with it then. As for Savoury Ducks. Does anyone remember the butcher near the top of Loscoe Rd; Heanor, across from Loui's. A quick dash down there, with that LARGE basin, gazing slaveringly, as the butcher S L O W L Y filled the basin up with the conical shaped savouries and lashings of hot scalding gravy. Then a quick dash home, cold fingers wrapped tightly round the delicious feeling heat of the basin, its top covered in brown paper, or a tea-towel. Now that'a what you call, 'going out for a meal'. Scrumptious. And those other well forgotten 'foods' - Mussels and its never ending supply of Mussel Broth. What a joke. Made up for it since, though. How about that 'delicious' drink (well, it was after you're toes stopped curling) for cleaning the blood in War-time Heanor. Boiled, crushed and strained Wormwood juice - how have we got along without it? It was found on any ruined building area, in thick clumps. The worst area was next to the 'Machin and Hartwell' shop area. (It's now a small parking plot). Times i tried to burn 'em down. It's the fastest growing 'plant' i know. One fizzy-pop glass full of that and NOTHING dare live in your blood - for weeks and weeks and weeks afterwards. But thankfully, also, Home-made Spotted-Dick pudding, drowned in a hot Home-made, semi-thickened custard. You've started something here. I'm famished. Azzabuv. 
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Peter Chamberlain
Researcher This message was updated on 4/11/2005 7:10:49 AM by Peter Chamberlain |
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replied on: 4/9/2005 5:43:26 PM How about proper Home Made Bread and Butter Pudding made with Stale bread Fresh Eggs a little Milk and a few correns(currants) sprinkled in. Better than the stuff they serve at these trendy meal pubs today |
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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 4/9/2005 6:23:42 PM by Azzabuv |
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replied on: 4/9/2005 6:21:16 PM You're spot on with that one. Peter. Also, another enjoyable dish was 'Cheese Soaky'. Half a basin full of melted, liquidy cheese, (the proper kind, not this plastic imitation stuff which, unfortunately, thrives on the Super Market shelves today) mixed with large bread crumbs plus added salt and pepper to taste. Home made Blackberry Pie, as well as other varieties of fruit AND not forgetting 'The Dasher' - a nice sugarless, garden produced, Rhubarb Pie. After that, you certainly knew when you'd been 'Dashed', one way or another................... Azzabuv. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 4/10/2005 6:52:02 AM Well, any form of pie goes on the list I suppose - I'm pleased to say that they are all still alive and kicking in my household! I can't abide shop-bought pies, even the so-called "quality" items. It's not as though pies are actually difficult to make. (I must add that although my wife makes an excellent pie, I'm the principal pie-maker in the house!) |
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RMMee
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replied on: 4/10/2005 6:55:06 AM And I agree with Peter's comments on bread-and-butter pudding. I'm not much of a pudding eater, but if I have one, I prefer the old ones best. Summer pudding is another thing which is fantastic if done properly. Lots of fresh berries, put into a bowl which has been lined with stale bread, another layer of bread put on top, then put in the fridge for a couple of days with a saucer to press it all together. You can buy summer pudding in supermarkets now, but they are so sugary that they bear no resemblence to the real thing. |
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philfred
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replied on: 4/10/2005 12:48:15 PM You were really lucky Robert. When I were a lad we had to make do with sav'ry duck as as it was known at home. Another variation was rissoles made from to quote father " ear'oles, eye'oles and an unmentionable 'ole". He used a shortened form of unmentionable that has no business on a respectable forum like this one. We have an old fashioned butcher's shop in the Ollerton Village (so called to keep the property prices up). They sell things like pork pies, steak pies and about 10 variations on a sausage theme. Dry cured bacon that is sliced to order. In New Ollerton there is another butcher who has been there since Adam was a lad. If you did your shopping early you could get black pudding, still warm, cut in slices, pork scratchings, again, still warm. Whilst stationed in Germany the NAAFI sponsored a Healthy Eating Week with SSAFA (welfare organisation), black pudding was one of the NAAFI special buys that week. That really appealed to my sense of humour. regards Phil |
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philfred
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replied on: 4/10/2005 3:47:59 PM Going out for a walk in the evening usually Sunday and ending up at a pub. Mam and dad go inside, wait a couple of minutes and a bottle of Shipstone's Portello and a bag of crisps are yours. regards Phil |
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annancliffe
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replied on: 4/11/2005 9:09:25 AM What about bread and dripping laced with salt and my grandmother's home made bakewell tarts. Ann Marie |
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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 4/11/2005 11:59:20 AM by Azzabuv |
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replied on: 4/11/2005 11:56:37 AM Bread and dripping sandwiches, with the endearing condiments added, are alive and well in our Household today, Ann. When it's warm and a short break from the gardening is required, there's nothing like a couple of those sandwiches to sustain you through the next 4 hours of back-breaking toil among the galloping weeds. Azzabuv. |
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suzard
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replied on: 4/21/2005 6:57:04 PM I agree with philfred-a bottle of Portello with a straw -sat outside a pub on a warm summer evening-but wo betide if any spilled on to your clothes-the stain took weeks to remove-and instaed of crisps "Nibbets"-where have they gone? "Frizzled cheese"-cheese cooked in the frying pan-impossible to make with present day cheese! Damson pie-where have damsons gone??? Home made jams Stewing beef cooked overnight in the coal fuelled oven- I was always allowed after bath night to sit in front of the coal fire to eat my supper of a basin of stewing meat(more gravy than meat) with a thick slice of home made bread broken into it!The only timre I was allowed to eat away from the table! |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 4/21/2005 7:49:08 PM CASTLE CRISPS and an Elliott's ONION. Azzabuv.  |
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suzard
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replied on: 4/22/2005 9:40:46 AM They have to be top of the list,Azza. Can anyone explain something which always puzzled me?-Why was fresh uncooked tripe sold at fish and chip shops? I was always baffled by this. At Hopewells chip shop Langley Mill (and at Kintons Eastwood, there was always a tray of fresh tripe (with a glass cover over it) on sale, It always seemed strange to me |
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philfred
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replied on: 4/24/2005 8:19:47 PM Did anyone else end up belting off to school, after getting up, late with a couple of slices of toast and dripping. regards phil |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 4/25/2005 3:27:31 PM The old 'Roast Beef' for dinner. Unfortunately, sadly, i've not touched a piece of that delicious stomach-filler for a decade and a half now. That damn bug. The last outbreak was last year, but the Public were never notified of it, because, as the Government's (Health???)spokesman said, a few weeks ago, - "By the time we'd discovered it, and stopped it, the original meat had long been eaten". What can you say --- seriously? Azzabuv. |
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suzard
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replied on: 4/29/2005 1:06:27 PM What a cow!!! Polony is something I liked -in a proper skin,not plastic as something very vaguely resembling polony is now days. Batter bits and fish bits from the chippy! |
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