Old family recepies you still make (with crave for)

stephenb (Stephen) · #1 03-09-2009, 09:34 PM

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 (Ron) · #2 03-09-2009, 09:37 PM

Hi Stephen, some nice tucker there

but that's one heck of a big frying pan

DavidU (Dave) · #3 03-09-2009, 09:42 PM

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

DistroMan (Trevor) · #4 03-09-2009, 09:43 PM

Mmmm, fooooooooooooooooooood.

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.

astroron (Ron) · #5 03-09-2009, 09:45 PM

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

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #6 03-09-2009, 09:46 PM

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

leon · #7 03-09-2009, 09:47 PM

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.

I am however the expert when it comes to pancakes.

yummy

Leon

DavidU (Dave) · #8 03-09-2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by astroron

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

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

astroron (Ron) · #9 03-09-2009, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidU

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

David I knew I would get a bight

But I still wish now and the for it

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #10 03-09-2009, 10:01 PM

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

FredSnerd (Claude) · #11 03-09-2009, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

My Mum's Black Pudding, it was so black that even the whites were black.

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

DavidU (Dave) · #12 03-09-2009, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by FredSnerd

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

Very much something else !!!

erick (Eric) · #13 03-09-2009, 10:05 PM

Claude - we don't want to go there.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #14 03-09-2009, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by FredSnerd

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

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

FredSnerd (Claude) · #15 03-09-2009, 10:09 PM

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

GrahamL · #16 03-09-2009, 10:12 PM

Offal in all its forms ..NOT

.. 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

Ric · #17 04-09-2009, 12:04 AM

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

Smoked Kippers and the infamous Black pudding. YUM

astroron (Ron) · #18 04-09-2009, 12:08 AM

There's always Tripe and Onions

DistroMan (Trevor) · #19 04-09-2009, 01:24 AM

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 (Stephen) · #20 04-09-2009, 08:16 AM

What is it with this black pudding?

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.