Meals your parents used to make (or still do).

Pauliej

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Had this discussion with the better half today and it threw up some real mouthwatering former meals.
I'll start with these and would love to be able to make them like my parents did.
Dad's rabbit pie and mams home made soup with bacon bones. Ohh and my mam made cracking fadgies to go with the soup.
Over to you people, this should be interesting.........
 
Corn beef hash
Homemade pea and ham soup
My Grandad's bread and butter pudding. Sod took the recipe to his grave !!
 
Me Gran’s Yorkshires with green Yorkshire salad and gravy before the Sunday roast (usually brisket). - there’d quite often be a garnish of Lambert and Butler fagash, if you were unlucky.

Mum used to make beef stew with prunes and dumplings, which always went down well

my Stepdad often delighted us with his spotted d*ck
 
Nothing out of the ordinary but I'll say Roast Beef and Yorkshire Puddings. I've not had a really good home made Sunday dinner since my Mam died.
Same here, at least not as good as hers. Football Sunday morning, a few beers after then walk down Low Grange Ave to the smell of Sunday dinners before sitting down for ours.

Others were liver and onions, mince and dumpings, home made soup followed by puddings that she brought home from school that were left over, jam roly poly my fave.

The fry up on a Monday always a treat.
 
As kids (around 5 & 7) in South Bank, a man came to the house witht a white rabbit in a box and gave it to our mum. My dad was still at work and my sister and I got the rabbit out of the box and played with it in the backyard. When my dad came home he killed the rabbit and our mum cooked it for tea with a crust on.

I have never eaten rabbit in my life.

My mum also used to cook a lovely split pea soup with a ham shank, it was to die for.

Panacklty - I knocked up a pan of panacklty last week for tea, the wife even took some to work the next day for her dinner. It reminded the both of us of being kids.

My wife's mother lived with us and she was a great old fashioned, warm your bones cook and she was great at Sunday dinners (the wife does good Sunday dinners), one pot wonders and mince and dumplings. Her specialty though was lasagne and as much as the wife tries, she can't come near her mums.
 
The old fella worked on maintaining the big chimeys at ICI and my Mam fit and sold shoes at Clarks. With 3 young kids they had little money and little time to make meals so when the steam cooker came out it was a godsend.
Everything went in the same pot and everything tasted the same and everything was one big mush.
Yuck!
 
When you make Panacklty do you make it with gravy. My mam made it without so l could mix brown or tomato sauce into the broth
 
Spam Fritters!! & home made chips.

In the summer we had loads of salads with new potatoes - everything came out of our back garden - if it was pay week, we sometimes got breaded sliced ham with it from Newboulds.

Ducks and Pease Pudding

Home made Colcannon - again from what the old man grew in the back garden
Kirby college used to do a mean spam fritter! Get a couple of them with chips. Eat them in the queue to pay and only pay for the chips. Happy days
 
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