Oxo gravy cubes - half vent, half query . .

Pollycat

MothballsWallet said:

Mal, have you tried using gravy salt? My mum uses Compton's when she makes gravy (and she's got Mrs MbW using it too) and it's really good, but I'm sure you'd find other brands doing the same thing.

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Lordy!

Another blast from the past!

We used to use this for Sunday lunch gravy.

OH (from down south) had never heard of it.

pattycake

This reminds me of the dim and distant past when our local swimming pool was outdoors and unheated.  There was a little hut at the side of the pool and after swimming, a real treat was a hot cup of Oxo for the grand price of 2d.  That’s old money!
We were a hardy bunch in the 1950s.

Forwandert

Oxo was definitely a thing in swimming pools all the way through the 80's too!

I've noticed they didnt seem as strong when cooking, wasn't too sure of it was the quantities of food I was making or the cubes but I swapped to Knorr rich beef stock pots and those really do have a taste to them. 

Sandtree

MalMonroe said
It's a shame 'cos I would prefer to use vegan cubes. Maybe just one a fortnight, or something wouldn't hurt!

Have you checked the contents? I havent with this particular product but there a host of “chicken” and “beef” flavoured products that are at least vegetarian if not vegan as you can get very close flavour matches with things like caramelised pea protein etc 

Bettie

I bought a different stock cube today, very low salt, vegan, called Kallo. I made it initially with 100mls water and tasted it and it was pretty good as stock but not what I call gravy, like Bisto. then realised it it should have been 500 mls so added more water and then I found it weak and not so tasty. I guess I like too much salt. Maybe I'll go half and half with the v oxo and wean myself off the salt..

Silvertabby

Ahh - memories.  My late mum's recipe for stew:

The cheapest, fattiest chunks of 'meat' the butcher had left.

Potatoes/Carrots/Cabbage/anything cheap.

Boil the whole lot to a mush, and add an oxo cube.

No good whining - we would just be told that 'you would have been glad of that during the war' and our only choice was eat it or go to bed hungry. 

Bettie

No doughboys? I loved stew as a kid, Mum always used Bisto. I make a meatless one now and it's very similar in taste, no gristle bits and bone splinters though . 😀

bubblesbonbon

Ah memories
Used to pop into Woolworths with my nan for our cups of Oxo in their cafe bar. 6d if I remember

MothballsWallet

Pollycat said:

MothballsWallet said:

Mal, have you tried using gravy salt? My mum uses Compton's when she makes gravy (and she's got Mrs MbW using it too) and it's really good, but I'm sure you'd find other brands doing the same thing.

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Lordy!

Another blast from the past!

We used to use this for Sunday lunch gravy.

OH (from down south) had never heard of it.

Ooh - I think my grandparents had a pack of that brand back in the 1980s...