What products do you miss?

VfM4meplse

gilly1964 wrote: »

Sunday afternoon western

Best of The West.

gilly1964 wrote: »

Some pudding that you mixed and put in a Pyrex dish with a topping baked in the oven and when it came out the top had gone syrupy and sunk and the bottom was now on top as a sponge

Saucy Sponge.

monnagran

Foster Clark's soup squares - a bit like giant OXO cubes. The soup they made was a bit iffy but my mother used to crumble one into mince which made it very tasty.

I'd forgotten Ayds. Over my long lifetime I don't think there has been a single diet or slimming aid that I haven't tried in my search for the Holy Grail. As well as PLJ there was a powder that had to be mixed with water and drunk half an hour before a meal. Can't remember the name but the memory of the taste is the stuff of nightmares.

When I was slimming into my wedding dress I had one Limit's meal a day. That consisted of 3 biscuits and I spread it out - one biscuit for each meal. I got into the wedding dress. The wonder was that I had the strength to walk down the aisle.

I wonder if anyone remembers a radio programme called At the Luscombes. It was a bit like Mrs Dales Diary/The Archers. It was on a Saturday evening, my grandmother loved it and I always associate it with drying my hair in front of the fire after the weekly bath and hair wash. It must have been in the forties and may well have been a west country regional programme. We certainly had it in Southampton.

Oh, the first washing up liquid was called Quix. Before that it was a bar of green Fairy soap swished through the hot water plus washing soda.

x

Primrose

missbiggles1 wrote: »

It's actually Pan Yan and the recipe's on the jar (although not the quantities).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-539489/Relish-lovers-longer-pickle-lost-recipe-comes-light.html

There are also domestic recipes like this.

http://www.food.com/recipe/a-british-classic-pan-yan-pickle-246663

Does anybody know whether Premier Foods or any other commercial manufacturer has actually started manufacturing this particular pickle recipe again?

missbiggles1

Primrose wrote: »

Does anybody know whether Premier Foods or any other commercial manufacturer has actually started manufacturing this particular pickle recipe again?

Worth a look -

http://www.cranfieldsfoods.co.uk/collections/chutneys

LameWolf

ivyleaf wrote: »

In the early 70s I wore a lovely perfume called Kiku. I wonder if I'd still like it now? I can't remember who made it - possibly Yardley.

ETA Just checked, it was by Faberge.

I remember that perfume; one time they had a promotion, and gave away kimono-style garments - black with a Chinese dragon embroidered in yellow on the back, in a little cloth storage bag. I still have mine!

charlies-aunt

Another Kiku fan here ..... I loved Aqua Manda eau de cologne in a funky dark brown bottle too in my teens and Mary Quant makeup.

Are Spangles still around? I used to be addicted to the old fashioned flavour version!

DigForVictory

To derail the train of thought thoroughly, I miss real suet - the hard fat from around the sheeps kidneys.

I can still get it from real butchers by arrangement but it's getting blinking tricky to find butchers who deal in sheep still with the kidneys in. A lovely Kiwi pal has said if I sort postage, he'll sort me a 50 kg drum but even my eyes cross at that sort of bulk buying.

missbiggles1

DigForVictory wrote: »

To derail the train of thought thoroughly, I miss real suet - the hard fat from around the sheeps kidneys.

I can still get it from real butchers by arrangement but it's getting blinking tricky to find butchers who deal in sheep still with the kidneys in. A lovely Kiwi pal has said if I sort postage, he'll sort me a 50 kg drum but even my eyes cross at that sort of bulk buying.

Along the same lines, I really miss pork chops complete with their slice of kidney.:(

ETA
You can buy real beefsuet online from several UK companies.

http://www.greenpasturefarms.co.uk/products-page/deli-items/grass-fed-beef-suet#.V81dRE197C0
http://www.godfreys.co/free-range-beef-suet-shredded-6204-p.asp
https://www.graigfarm.co.uk/organic-produce-c1/beef-c2/graig-farm-organic-beef-suet-p40

alec_eiffel

coffeehound wrote: »

John West 3-bean tuna salad in vinaigrette dressing. Nothing else comes close to the deliciousness of this sadly long-gone product. Can't even find a picture of it now. Their replacement 'light lunch' pot just isn't the same. Aldi's equivalent is nothing like and something from Tesco that looked similar was utterly disgusting. I emailed JW asking them to reinstate it, but they poured cold brine on the request.

I'll never forget you, John West 3-bean tuna salad in a vinaigrette dressing . . .

My MIL has a really restricted diet, but this was the one thing she actually enjoyed eating. It was not a fun time for any of us when it became unavailable, she still talks about it.

missbiggles1

coffeehound wrote: »

John West 3-bean tuna salad in vinaigrette dressing. Nothing else comes close to the deliciousness of this sadly long-gone product. Can't even find a picture of it now. Their replacement 'light lunch' pot just isn't the same. Aldi's equivalent is nothing like and something from Tesco that looked similar was utterly disgusting. I emailed JW asking them to reinstate it, but they poured cold brine on the request.

I'll never forget you, John West 3-bean tuna salad in a vinaigrette dressing . . .

But they give you a lovely recipe on their website so you can make your own.;)

https://www.john-west.co.uk/recipe/tuna-bean-salad