Old family recepies you still make (with crave for)

[stephenb]

I have just whipped upa batch of (what we call in our family) "fritters". More on them later...

But what old fashioned, handed down family recepies do you still cook, or crave for in your home?

Here are two semi-regulars for us...

1. Rice puddling

2. Bread and Butter Pudding

3. Fritters - 3 grated potatoes, 1 grated onion, 2 eggs, 3/4 cup flour. Mix together and fry up in hot olive oil in a frypan, about 203 inches diameter. Serve with lots of salt.

4. Home made apple pie

5. Home made vegetable soup (yum...)

[astroron]

Hi Stephen, some nice tucker there:) but that's one heck of a big frying pan :rofl::rofl::rofl:

[DavidU]

Mum used to make an egg and bacon pie. It was awesome. I miss her

[DistroMan]

Mmmm, fooooooooooooooooooood. :thumbsup:

One I haven't had for a long time is Oxtail. Cut into large chunks, wrapped in alfoil with some Worcestershire Sauce. Either in the oven or a campfire. Messy, but lots of good things are. :rofl:

[astroron]

Black Pudding in a stir fry with lots of Butter on Toast:D

[jjjnettie]

Afternoon tea staples that never go out of fashion.
Pikelets and Scones

[leon]

My dear wife Alice would like to make me the head cook, and I have to admit i quite like cooking, but I make some dishes up as I go, and usually they turn out pretty good. :P

I am however the expert when it comes to pancakes. :whistle:yummy


Leon :thumbsup:

[DavidU]

Oh no ! black pudding. my dad loved it but he gave me some along with a discription on how it's made. Ahhhhhhh

[astroron]

:lol::lol::lol: David I knew I would get a bight:thumbsup:
But I still wish now and the for it:)

[jjjnettie]

My Mum's Black Pudding, it was so black that even the white bits were black.
:rofl:

[FredSnerd]

So whats the deal with black pudding. Is it pudding? or something else

[DavidU]

Very much something else !!!

[erick]

Claude - we don't want to go there. :scared:

[jjjnettie]

I was just quoting from "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite".
Ripping Yarns, episode 2.
I don't want to think about the ingredients.

[FredSnerd]

Right I think I might just take the wise advice and not probe any further

[GrahamL]

Offal in all its forms ..NOT:D.. the deppression of the 30's is long gone and despite some nostalgic rememberance of having to eat this "stuff"
that needed to passed on to the next genereation for some reason ...thanks but no thanks ;):P

[Ric]

I always remember Sunday breakfast with my granparents when I was a kid.

Smoked Kippers and the infamous Black pudding. YUM

[astroron]

There's always Tripe and Onions:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[DistroMan]

I'm sure that if you put a plate of tripe in front of me I'd curl up into the foetal position and start sucking my thumb. That stuff traumatised me as a child. Blech, yuk, ewww and a few other choice adjectives I could think of but won't use here. :(

[stephenb]

What is it with this black pudding? :lol: Is it that popular in the Mother Country? My only experience with it is from multiple references in The Goodies from countless repeats on Aunty in the 1970's.

David, the good ol' egg and bacon pie is great, isn't it? Infact we might have some tonight.

I'm not keen on tongues, brains, kidneys or any sort of organs. Speaking of brains, to quote Bill Cosby "I aint eating nothing anything else has been thinking with"

Speaking to some work colleagues last week about eating rabbit. Some of people over the age of, say 40+ often reminisce about eating rabbit, but did anyone actually like it?? I certainly didn't.

[astroron]

Stephen, you haven't lived till you have eaten Black Pudding.:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[wavelandscott]

In an effort to sweeten things up a bit I'll offer up my Grandmother's (passed on to my Mother passed on to my wife) secret 'Sugar Creme Pie' recipe...

I don't know the actual recipe (it is a secret) but I love the stuff...

Think of it as creme brulee in a pie crust (it is a custard)...glorious stuff with about 1 million KCAL per slice...but worth every one of them...

No special occassion can be held in my family without one...

With respect to Black Pudding, Rabbit, Squirrel, Venison, Possum etc. etc.
In the Michael Moore film "Roger & Me" there is a scene that is one of my favorites...a sign is up in front of a ladies house advertising rabbits...with the caption "For Pets or Meat"...

I grew up on a farm without much money and at one time or another ate most everything...if you could hunt it or find it in the woods or streams it qualified for dinner!

[DavidU]

Crikey Ron:eyepop: black pudding, tripe, haggis.........blimey

[DistroMan]

I not only ate rabbit, I enjoyed it immensely. I'd love to get my hands on a pair right now. Soak'em for a couple of days in Red Wine. Mmmmmmmm. :thumbsup:

[astroron]

Just after the war:violin::violin::violin: in Britain most forms of meat where beyond most people's budget, so basic foods where the norm:whistle:

[jjjnettie]

I remember as a kid the local deli would have skun bunnies hanging in the window.
I've eaten wild hare, which was pretty ordinary, even after marinating it in soy and honey.

[Karls48]

Nothing wrong with rabbits, or hare. Used to eat them when I was hunting. Like all game it is meat with little fat and you have to know how to cook it.
I’m in with Scott. I used to hunt and eat what I shot. Mind you I don’t recommend crows- kind of tough and chewy

[jjjnettie]

I'd expect a plump, well fed bunny would taste quite yummy.
I'm not one to turn my nose up at "different" foods, but I'd have to draw the line at insects. Unless I really had to eat them to survive.

[Benno85]

Not an "old family recipe", but one I've been working on for the last few months and have finally nailed it:

Clove of garlic, fried off in a small splash of olive oil, dump in a heap of butter and sliced mushrooms.......ramp up the heat for a minute then drop it back down to medium, add salt and pepper according to your taste then served straight on top of your favourite cut of steak.........

:love: :love: :love: :love:

[Benno85]

I agree with that, I remember my Pop (cheers Pop Doyle!!) making curried rabbit stew.......oh the memories, it was delicious!!

[astro_nutt]

My Mum still makes A Maltese "Pudina"..which consists of white bread soaked in water, then drained then add the following...dried fruits, eggs, sugar, nuts, chocolate, coconut, butter, glacied cherries, sherry...mix well, bake then allow to cool overnight..the aroma throughout the house is delicious to say the least..thank good I learned how to do this!!!!...now where's my mixing bowl...

[jjjnettie]

Ooooh, that sounds delicious. I might have to try that one out. Thanks.

[astroron]

Sounds like "Bread and butter pudding" that we used to have when I was a kid:D but with a few more ingrediants Yum:)
Lovely all the same :thumbsup:

[JimmyH155]

Now your'e talking Black pudding, yum yum. There was a deli in Kippa Ring a few months ago that sold great large pieces - I bought it by the kilo. Think it has closed, but the factory was in Caloundra - Franz small goods?? Fry it up and have it on toast. Another Pomme delight when I lived in the old country was "Faggots" (No you foul minded simpletons, these you ate!!:P) I would have a couple for lunch - got them from a butcher in Basingstoke. Never seen them over here.
Chitterlings - no thank you and tripe UGH UGH I agree with you, horrible.
Home made brawn oh yesss :D:D yesss. I once grew my own pigs, fed them on swill and apples and made my own brawn.
Nothing like the rubbish you get at Woolies deli.....
Baked apples for brekky, horrible, full of husks cos my mother used the cheap cooking apples.
Haggis?? Mother got some once - it turned out like a runny soup and was foul:mad2:
Has anybody had a Lardy cake?? Used to be special to Hampshire - absolutely delicious and wickedly fattening. Never seen them here either

[astroron]

I used to love "Pork Pies" not these little things they sell over here, but big ones with brawn:D:D
Another one is "Scotch Eggs":D

[lacad01]

I read an old swaggy's joke that to cook a crow you boil it in a billy for a few hours with a large rock, after the cooking time is up drain the water, throw away the crow and eat the rock ;)
Coming from a Czech background I really love schnitzel with sauerkraut or pork with dumplings and sauerkraut....mmmm :)

[JethroB76]

All this oldies talk about weird food and no mention of Mutton birds or dripping on bread?:lol:

[Barrykgerdes]

I don't know how you ex-pmms eat that stuff. I tried them while I lived in Scotland and it took me a week to recover! Yuk!:doh::help::(:P
I'd rather eat a Haggis!

Barry

[astroron]

for our Irish friends Soda Bread and Tattie Fairens(spelling) I had some in Belfast when I was last their very filling:P

[Karls48]

Tasty- how about Tlacenka, Jitrnice a Jelito (similar to English black pudding) Sorry I don’t know English names for other two. When I was kid back in Bohemia, when we slaughter
pig – everything was used. From the blood to the trotters.

[stephenb]

We alway used to have toast cooked in front of the wood stove at my Grandmother's house (before they had gas put on). There is something about freshly cooked toast over a fire. It tastes different than in a toaster. Very nostalgic

[lacad01]

Jitrnice I think is something like tripe :shrug:, mum only cooked it once and us kids couldn't take it but the black pudding we had a few times, liked it but don't think it's that good for you:)
BTW, mum was from Brno, Moravia :)

[JimmyH155]

Hey, jjjnettie, you should marinate your hare in red wine, not soy. When you put it in the oven to cook, if it has been hanging for some time, (as all game meat should) go out to the beach for a couple of hours, 'cos you wont stand the smell in the kitchen:D
I gave the recipe to an engineering friend. When he came to work on the monday, he gave me a real serve about the smell, about how his wife nearly threw up etc., etc. Wouldnt speak to me for ages!!
But the one I cooked up was delicious, though. Copious quantities of wine before the meal will help:lol::lol:

[DavidU]

Allrighty then..........what about "spotted dick" ???????

[DistroMan]

Nope, not saying it. :whistle:

[JimmyH155]

Yes, spotted dick was delicious - I remember it well. My mother often used to make it. I think it was just a dough with currants and sugar thrown in:D

[DavidU]

Got it ! LOL
Ok..............Toad in the hole???????