- Location
- Northumberlandia
Yorkshires are just a lovely food made from so simple ingredients aswell
Chrismas Food Thats Declined Over The Years?
- Thread starter bluebell
- Start date
- Location
- Northumberlandia
Vol o vonts no idea how its spelt but there a rare party food these days?
Mam used too get that tinned chicken in white sauce it smelt Rank but actualy together tasted quite nice
Mam used too get that tinned chicken in white sauce it smelt Rank but actualy together tasted quite nice
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
Black Forest Gateaux was another favourite at parties in the 1970s, like wife swapping and Double Diamond (allegedly)
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Now that is just not right
- Location
- Quebec, Canada
The young no longer have a sense of adventure.
TheTallGuy
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Mum had a couple of slices of Black Forest Gateaux this year & she's quite partial to a prawn cocktail & liebfraumilch too!
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
Mum's BFGat. was pretty scrummy. We used to have proper Bread and Butter pudding at school with slices of bread in it. It's not the same today when you order it in the pub.
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Anyone else remember a homemade brawn and frumenty (not together) ?
- Location
- Quebec, Canada
Many packages of homemade cinnamon buns. Brought out each morning from Christmas to New Years.
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
I never used to like brawn, but my b-i-l has just moved back here and made me some when I had a few pigs done for sausis the other day. I must say it was really good although Mrs Fred wasn't keen on trying it.
I really like haggis and black puddings too these days.
TheTallGuy
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
As kids at Christmas we were allowed one alcoholic drink on Christmas day - either a small glass of home made wine or that classic.... a Snowball made with Warninks Advocat. Can't stand the stuff now, but seemed so special at the time!
wanton dwarf
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Do you have a recipe ? Tried Chelsea buns a year or so back, bread was a bit dry ...
- Location
- Quebec, Canada
Fen celery (the only available celery) was always a feature at Christmas, this year I've seen far more around than in 20 years or so, Local farm shop has had it for weeks, all the greengrocery stalls on Cambridge Market have had it as well.
We always had a big bowl of Woolworths pick and mix plus walnuts and brazil nuts in their shells. Nut shells in the carpet for weeks afterwards.
First employer after I Ieft school used to give all staff a tin of Quality Street, looked it up the contents were 1.7kg, think its about 600g now.
We always had a big bowl of Woolworths pick and mix plus walnuts and brazil nuts in their shells. Nut shells in the carpet for weeks afterwards.
First employer after I Ieft school used to give all staff a tin of Quality Street, looked it up the contents were 1.7kg, think its about 600g now.
Oliveau
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- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
Charming I’m sure!
Oliveau
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- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
Back in my school days, about twice per term we would be fed with individual steak & kidney pies for suppers . One of my pals would butter (well marge actually) 2 slices of bread. Than put the whole pie in there before gently flattening it down.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
I have had some Fenland celery grown by G's and while it was marginally better than the miserable Spanish offerings it was not the long white sticks we had 50 years ago, or os it just me getting old and rambling
Its certainly not as white as it was, they used to earth it up to blanch the stems, but the result was a lot of fen soil in the middle of every stem. Now they rely on close planting to blanch the stems. Its not as good, definitely milder tasting, still far better than the Spanish crap.I have had some Fenland celery grown by G's and while it was marginally better than the miserable Spanish offerings it was not the long white sticks we had 50 years ago, or os it just me getting old and rambling
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
Brawn, yes. We didn't have frumenty, though.
Mum would make mince pies with mincemeat, and mince pies with ground beef. Just occasionally, there was mince pie roulette
