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.

[albaqwerty]

fortunately it was Eccles, poor woman wasn't allowed to live it down!!

Mrs O, I'm sorry to say, but that was one of my faves, tinned fruit and carnation milk.
Tinned pears were a bit of a bug bear if one of the pears was hard.

Loved the Sunday tea trolley, sandwiches made from the roast (beef or chicken) and cakes were a no-no unless you'd eaten enough sandwiches.

[LyndaB]

My mum is a great cook, but unfortunately I was extremely faddy as a child. I can't think of a single thing that I liked to eat! Some of the things we used to have for school dinners were so revolting I still won't eat them (tapioca, sago, semolina bleurghhhh!). Some things I hated then, but have grown to love since (mashed potatoes, rice pudding, custard, butter beans) I love most foods now (unfortunately lol) but my favourite comfort foods are Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup, fish finger butties, and sausages and cheese. Not cheese sauce, but cheese (preferably crumbly Lancashire) gently melted into milk and warmed through, Absoutely delicious with lots of bread to dip!

[EcclesCake]

I'd forgotten the horror or tinned fruit and tinned cream/evaporated milk.

I can remember my mun making 'curry', using Sharwoods curry powder in a blue container, she'd add apple and all sorts of odd things and serve the curry in a ring of turmeric rice and sprinkle dessicated coconut over the top.

I must have been in my early twenties before I had a proper curry.

[Ann]

Sugar sandwiches, bread and dripping, salad cream sandwiches ................ no wonder I've been on a diet all my adult life!!!

[albaqwerty]

In the days before pastes for curries, I remember my mum's home-made beef curry. She would put blooming sultanas in it though.
But with chutney it was lovely.

Her shepherd's pie had a crusty top, meat not too dry but not oozinig all over the place.

[ummmm]

Tony...I never roast bacon.

[nannybooby]

oh bread and dripping ,roll on christmas its about the only time you get dripping and jelly now !

[Mick-Talbot]

Can't remember anything I loved.

Loathed. Tinned salmon sarnies , they would still make me sick.

[cazzz1975]

I loved a bit of blanc-mange

[horseshoes]

OK who remembers conny onny butties?

[Mick-Talbot]

Anyone else make Blanc mange using jelly?

[mccfluff]

stop it please, im going all funny

[gness]

Rice pudding in a B&B in Dublin..every bloody year. Ghastly. :-(

[DTCwordfan]

My grandmothers Cornish pasties (my Grandfather was called Gregg?), were to die for, literally.....I am amazed that I am still here, the things sat like a brick in the stomach for hours - probably the lard that she used in her pastry.....

Macaroni cheese at school - delish, ham and eggs growing up, Hart's Ice Cream in St Ives (long gone and fab raspberry sundaes) and Jelbert's in Newlyn - they are still going and belong to Helen Glover's family - now the best Cornish ice cream down here as it's not oversweet.

[vodkancoke]

Anything with pearl barley in it, mince and potatoes and anything with raisins in it me no likey! These were things I had at primary school...yuk!

I loved (and still love) food at home, it was unusal to many of my friends because it was either Italian food or Egyptian food. Whenever they came for tea we would have fish fingers though which I loved too because it was not something we would have normally. I loved being different! lol

My guilty pleasure is ice cold skimmed milk with a spoon of cadbury's chocolate powder in it! Yum!

[pusskin]

Loved spam fritters and would still have them today if I ever remembered to cook them.
i hated meat as a child, so i lived on spam or spam fritters.

[pusskin]

Loved pearl barley in a stew, with veg, but had to pick any meat out, just couldnt swallow it, made me sick. lol

[seadogg]

Pure white bread and best Winconsin butter thrown down to the steam barge I was on, from an American troopship. The year was 1944 and in those days white bread was a luxury. I was a hungry ships boy.

[Iluvspikey]

My gran lived with us for a while when I was young and I used to love her macaroni cheese the toasty bits around the side of the dish! Ma's roast dinners, gran's pies - her pastry was perfection. the only thing I didn't like (because I got a bone stuck in my throat and had to go to hospital one time) was fish on a Friday. It was haddock, poached in milk and she used to make a white sauce with the milk and then put a poached egg on top - I don't like eggs so that was the only thing I didn't like

[Georgiesmum]

I loved bread and milk for supper and cheese and carrot pie for school dinners.
I cant think of any food i didnt like, we were always hungry and just grateful to be fed!