Nostalgic Food - Good and Bad!

rubadub · 13-09-2019 11:26am

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Is there another way to cook them?

Yep, lots of ways, as they are cooked you could even eat them raw! I wanted to stuff a chicken with them.

I slice in half and fry in oil, they can be microwaved but I would not recommend it. It can be used to speed up the heating if not slicing, i.e. microwave for 30-40seconds and then fry quickly.

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7 minutes at 170ºC.

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20 minutes, turning once.

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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

In the 1930s my mother would be sent to the shop with an empty jar and they'd fill it up with broken biscuits (the broken ones were cheaper)

We've come on a bit since then!

^^ this was in the aldi thread. I remember years ago that lots of people would have boxes/bags of broken biscuits or bars, some relative or friend of the family would work in a biscuit/chocolate factory and get their hands on them.

I got these a few times in spar or €2 shops, maybe in dealz

It was a real random mix, one could be full of foxes stuff and the next would be cadbury.

the beer revolu · 29-09-2019 9:26am

Saw an old family photo recently and noticed Coffeemate on the table.
It was basically a milk powder formulation for coffee. Very suited to the Irish taste for coffee being both milky and lava-hot.
As far as I remember, some family members would use both Coffeemate and milk.

rubadub · 29-09-2019 11:55am

Coffee mate is in dealz and is fairly cheap compared to other supermarkets.

Speaking of "mate", I remember milk mate syrup. No gritty bits like the powder milkshake ones. We would get strawberry

Seamai · 29-09-2019 6:36pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

Saw an old family photo recently and noticed Coffeemate on the table.
It was basically a milk powder formulation for coffee. Very suited to the Irish taste for coffee being both milky and lava-hot.
As far as I remember, some family members would use both Coffeemate and milk.

I can remember my Gran using something called Dairy Bawn before she had a fridge, it satisfied that Irish taste you mentioned for hot and milky beverages. I can remember getting a cup of tea and no matter how much you stirred it there would always be blobs of white floating around undissolved.
Yuk!

Professor Genius · 29-09-2019 6:39pm

Periwinkles or as they were called ‘pennywinkilts’

phormium · 29-09-2019 8:29pm

Periwinkles are for sale in my local Lidl car park, guy sitting in a car there regularly with a sign out selling them. Always thought it was a bit strange, it's a wonder they let him at it!

iamwhoiam · 29-09-2019 8:36pm

Professor Genius wrote: »

Periwinkles or as they were called ‘pennywinkilts’

When we were kids way back in the 60’s we used to pick periwinkles on a
north Dublin beach . We gathered a bucket between a few of us and sold it for 10 shillings to a French man who came by to buy them . It was a small fortune in those days and we would skip off for a six penny wafer ( ice cream ) each !! Then buy a bottle of Taylor Keats Lemonade and a bag of broken biscuits and sit on the rocks to eat them !

( there was the odd stone in the bucket but not too many , I promise )

Graces7 · 30-09-2019 9:20am

iamwhoiam wrote: »

When we were kids way back in the 60’s we used to pick periwinkles on a
north Dublin beach . We gathered a bucket between a few of us and sold it for 10 shillings to a French man who came by to buy them . It was a small fortune in those days and we would skip off for a six penny wafer ( ice cream ) each !! Then buy a bottle of Taylor Keats Lemonade and a bag of broken biscuits and sit on the rocks to eat them !

( there was the odd stone in the bucket but not too many , I promise )[/QUOTE

winkles are a part of island life and diet out here. Never fancied them but they were offered.... on my previous island it was " ebbmeat". ie razor shells. You had to walk the beach at low tide, gazing at the sand for the tell tale signs, then pounce.

Graces7 · 30-09-2019 9:22am

the beer revolu wrote: »

Saw an old family photo recently and noticed Coffeemate on the table.
It was basically a milk powder formulation for coffee. Very suited to the Irish taste for coffee being both milky and lava-hot.
As far as I remember, some family members would use both Coffeemate and milk.

coffeemate was the norm in the UK for decades. amazed it has to be explained here! Then it changed t o eg marvel, ie dried milk, which I still keep in as I only get shopping every two weeks

Graces7 · 30-09-2019 9:23am

Gobstoppers anyone? lol...

Rechuchote · 30-09-2019 9:27am

Graces7 wrote: »

iamwhoiam wrote: »

When we were kids way back in the 60’s we used to pick periwinkles on a
north Dublin beach . We gathered a bucket between a few of us and sold it for 10 shillings to a French man who came by to buy them . It was a small fortune in those days and we would skip off for a six penny wafer ( ice cream ) each !! Then buy a bottle of Taylor Keats Lemonade and a bag of broken biscuits and sit on the rocks to eat them !

( there was the odd stone in the bucket but not too many , I promise )[/QUOTE

winkles are a part of island life and diet out here. Never fancied them but they were offered.... on my previous island it was " ebbmeat". ie razor shells. You had to walk the beach at low tide, gazing at the sand for the tell tale signs, then pounce.

Pounce and do what?

BaZmO* · 30-09-2019 11:47am

Rechuchote wrote: »

Graces7 wrote: »

Pounce and do what?

Catch them I presume. From memory I think people pour salt onto the entrance hole to their little low tide dens (visible by the little mounds of sand that look like they've been squezed from a toothpaste tube) and they pop up to reveal themselves. Never had them but they're supposed to be quite nice.

I remember as a kid collecting winkles. As a really young kid I liked them but got turned off them as I got older. Neighbour of mine absolutely loved them. After boiling them and removing them from the shells he'd put them into jars with vinegar to store for later.

Graces7 · 30-09-2019 1:47pm

Rechuchote wrote: »

Graces7 wrote: »

Pounce and do what?

pull it out of the sand.. a name for them up north is " spoots" as they … spout and that is how you find them … a quick dig before they burrow deeper .. the spouting is for air..eject sand, pull in air... wonderful critters

Rechuchote · 01-10-2019 3:05pm

How do you cook them? Basically clams…?

Feisar · 02-10-2019 11:35pm

The good:

Bacon, cabbage and spuds for dinner with lashings of butter
Dad was/is a hunter so pheasant/duck served with homemade elderberry wine. (Different time, young lad getting a sup wasn't seen as an issue)
Might have been slightly hmm in terms of legality but serious trout
Mum's casserole

The bad:

Mum overcooking everything. Pink meat equaled a cholera epidemic.

the beer revolu · 04-10-2019 11:34am

Kellog's waffles.
You put them in the toaster.
Or did I dream these?

L1011 · 04-10-2019 12:17pm

Feisar wrote: »

Mum overcooking everything. Pink meat equaled a cholera epidemic.

Sounds familiar.

Fried eggs were done until the yolk had turned as close to an over-boiled egg as is possible for frying. Beef cooked until it was grey.

Sleepy · 02-12-2019 3:35pm

My mother was (and still is) one of those that burn meat and overcook the veg. Great baker though - I'd never admit it to Mrs Sleepy who prides herself on her baking but her chocolate eclairs and christmas puds have never gotten close!

"Exotica" like rice, pasta, orange juice and pizza found its way into our diets when we started taking in Spanish students and Dolmio and Goodfellas arrived on the scene. I can still remember the shock that the cardboard "pizzinis" we were used to from Dunnes were a mile away from even a poor frozen immitation of a pizza. And the amazement at my first real pizza in Blakes restaurant (later the Bondi Beach Club) in Stillorgan. Spice and Seafood only became part of my diet when dining out became more frequent in my mid to late teens (mid 90's Ireland) and as I began cooking for myself.

I think most of my childhood staples have already been mentioned but there's one or two I haven't seen:

Ham pie - leftover ham from the night before shredded into a white sauce with peas, carrots and onions and a pastry top. Absolutely hated it as a kid but beginning to get curious about recreating it as there doesn't sound to be anything fundamentally wrong with it.

Spice Burgers I've seen mentioned but in our house the only way they could be served was with baked beans and chips. Still how I'd do them on the rare occasion the nostalgia gets the better of me.

Bubble & Squeak and Colcannon were regular features on our plates too.

The absolute worst though, and it's literally put me off a dish I should like for life was when my mother got notions and decided to make risotto: completely dried out rice with bits of pepper, onion, peas and IIRC some turmeric to turn the rice yellow. Revolting stuff and, despite a seafood paella being my "signature dish", I still can't order a risotto to this day!

harr · 02-12-2019 4:43pm

Sleepy wrote: »

My mother was (and still is) one of those that burn meat and overcook the veg. Great baker though - I'd never admit it to Mrs Sleepy who prides herself on her baking but her chocolate eclairs and christmas puds have never gotten close!

Exotica like rice, pasta, orange juice and pizza found its way into our diets when we started taking in Spanish students and Dolmio and Goodfellas arrived on the scene. I can still remember the shock that the cardboard "pizzinis" we were used to from Dunnes were a mile away from even a poor frozen immitation of a pizza. And the amazement at my first real pizza in Blakes restaurant (later the Bondi Beach Club) in Stillorgan. Spice and Seafood only became part of my diet when dining out became more frequent in my mid to late teens (mid 90's Ireland) and as I began cooking for myself.

I think most of my childhood staples have already been mentioned but there's one or two I haven't seen:

Ham pie - leftover ham from the night before shredded into a white sauce with peas, carrots and onions and a pastry top. Absolutely hated it as a kid but beginning to get curious about recreating it as there doesn't sound to be anything fundamentally wrong with it.

Spice Burgers I've seen mentioned but in our house the only way they could be served was with baked beans and chips. Still how I'd do them on the rare occasion the nostalgia gets the better of me.

Bubble & Squeak and Colcannon were regular features on our plates too.

Ahh yes ham pie .. I remember that and yes I remember it being fairly bland but I make similar now and I add cheese and other various bits where as my mother would just throw it all together with a packet of bland white sauce made with water.
My dad was the one who made a variation of colcannon it was yum as he used left over Spuds and cabbage and made it all crispy on frying pan.

02-12-2019 5:05pm

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Rasberry lemonade .We only got it at Christmas along with a bottle of Cream Soda .Both made us belch like an aul fella and it came up our nose too !!

Almost certain TK did a version of that. Extra fizzy and turned the inside of the mugs pink. In a similar vein, they did a different apple-y flavoured one. I'm nearly certain it was called "Ciderette", but can't find pics of it anywhere.

Sleepy · 02-12-2019 5:23pm

harr wrote: »

Ahh yes ham pie .. I remember that and yes I remember it being fairly bland but I make similar now and I add cheese and other various bits where as my mother would just throw it all together with a packet of bland white sauce made with water.

My happiest memory of it was when my mother was still in hospital after having my younger brother and my Dad had a go at it using the frozen pastry he found in the freezer. Which just happened to be sweetened short-crust intended for use in an apple tart.

It was revolting and utterly hilarious to a 7 year old who was quite delighted when his Dad threw his hat at cooking and took us off to the local chipper instead!

iamwhoiam · 02-12-2019 5:24pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Almost certain TK did a version of that. Extra fizzy and turned the inside of the mugs pink. In a similar vein, they did a different apple-y flavoured one. I'm nearly certain it was called "Ciderette", but can't find pics of it anywhere.

Yes i remember Ciderette too .! Equally as fizzy as the rasberry lemonade ! It tasted like a mixture of lemonade and Cidona

igCorcaigh · 02-12-2019 9:35pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

Kellog's waffles.
You put them in the toaster.
Or did I dream these?

I... Dont know.
This was before pop tarts, but I do remember some kind of toastable waffle??

igCorcaigh · 02-12-2019 9:37pm

Raspberry lemonade?

Pffft.

Rasa. (pronounce: rAAzAAA, intonation at the end).

Seamai · 02-12-2019 11:54pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Raspberry lemonade?

Pffft.

Rasa. (pronounce: rAAzAAA, intonation at the end).

Drunk from a wine glass as kids at Christmas, and one of those cigarette sweets in the other hand (I can still get the taste of them, wouldn't mind some know I have the munchies), we thought we were the bee's knees.

Tree · 02-12-2019 11:56pm

Rasa is the best, lash a load of it in a pint of cider

rubadub · 03-12-2019 10:40am

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm nearly certain it was called "Ciderette", but can't find pics of it anywhere.

yep ciderette. Copy of cidona which was meant as a sort of non alcoholic cider rather than a fizzy apple juice.

Cidona is made from fermented apples and does contain traces of alcohol like a non alcoholic beer might.

Cidona Sparkling Apple Fizzy Drink. Cidona is a non alchoholic apple flavoured fizzy drink from Ireland. The drink is made by Britvic and was first produced in 1955. The drink was originally produced by Bulmers Ltd.

Cidona sparkling apple juice is an Irish classic and a delicious alternative to cider.

The fermented juice comes from a cider extract from which the alcohol has been virtually eliminated giving it a real cider taste without the concerns over alcohol.

23 calories per 100ml

Contains less than 0.5% alcohol by volume.

Best served chilled over ice.

Cidona is an apple-based soft drink that has been on sale since 1955. It is popular in Ireland and has some sales in the United Kingdom. It was once produced by cider producers Bulmers and comes in a distinctive brown bottle.

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Rasa. (pronounce: rAAzAAA, intonation at the end).

the beer revolu · 03-12-2019 11:44am

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Raspberry lemonade?

Pffft.

Rasa. (pronounce: rAAzAAA, intonation at the end).

Except rasa was raspberry cordial, not lemonade or any other sparkling drink.
In fact, it was not really rasa until it was diluted.

So raspberry cordial was mixed with water to produce the famous rasa!:D
As in; "Two pints of rasa".

iamwhoiam · 03-12-2019 1:57pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

Except rasa was raspberry cordial, not lemonade or any other sparkling drink.
In fact, it was not really rasa until it was diluted.

So raspberry cordial was mixed with water to produce the famous rasa!:D
As in; "Two pints of rasa".

Yes the Rasberry we had way back in the 60's was a Taylor Keat fizzy drink .It and Cream Soda are my Christmas memories .We got a full glass with a club milk and that was such a treat .

Rows Grower · 03-12-2019 8:37pm

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Yes the Rasberry we had way back in the 60's was a Taylor Keat fizzy drink .It and Cream Soda are my Christmas memories .We got a full glass with a club milk and that was such a treat .

That was TK red lemonade, there was only one Rasa and as pointed out it was the cordial diluted. There was no charge for cordials in pubs back in the day, you could have either had Rasa or Mi-Wadi orange if you were lucky enough to be brought out.

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