Which foods do you have trouble finding nowadays? (No call for it?? We still eat it!!)

Rosa_Damascena

Mnoee said:

Well, it was neither a resounding success nor an absolute failure. I did struggle to get it thin enough, so it's not quite as crisp as the store bought versions. I actually found the homemade version much easier to work with - I made a single sheet, filled and coiled it immediately, so it never had a chance to dry out. Far too much effort though, I'll not add it to the things I make regularly, but it's good to know that in a filo emergency I can make an approximation that's at least edible. 

I have some lidl baklava sitting on my coffee table at the moment - probably for the best that the filo is actually quite difficult, I don't need to any more recipes for delicious sweet things I can make from things already in my kitchen swirling around my head! 

That looks good! Spanakopita?

Mnoee

Rosa_Damascena said:

That looks good! Spanakopita?

It's something like that - a Turkish version called Kol Boregi that I've played about with and is not really authentic to anywhere. It has grated courgette and kale with some brown rice, feta and spices inside. I usually leave it looking pretty and spiralled, but where I had extra pastry that got chucked on top this time! 

MrsStepford

Bought a 1970s cookbook by Marguerite Patten OBE, called 'Cooking in a Hurry'. There's a recipe for Oriental Casserole, which includes 'Danish bacon grill'. Zero idea what this is, but Iceland is my go to place for retro items. Sure enough they have it (the brand is Tulip). Horribly salty. Further down the ingredient list, was mango chutney. Just the thought of very salty canned Danish bacon grill and mango chutney made me feel nauseous. 

Campbell's V8 vegetable juice was discontinued in the UK earlier this year. Much as I love Alvalle gazpacho, it's not the same. So I will rummage for my copy of the Savoy Cocktail Book (facsimile not original) and try to conjure up a tomato juice cocktail or two. Have managed to find Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce in B&M 😀  

As for Ryvita @Rosa_Damascena, the other half has tried the Original and Black Pepper versions. Preferred toppings so far are: Piatnica  Serek Wiejski cottage cheese with Parma ham on top or Le Roulé or Boursin black pepper. < look away if squeamish > and he dunks plain ones in Heinz oxtail cup soup.
 

Rosa_Damascena

MrsStepford said:

Bought a 1970s cookbook by Marguerite Patten OBE, called 'Cooking in a Hurry'. There's a recipe for Oriental Casserole, which includes 'Danish bacon grill'. Zero idea what this is, but Iceland is my go to place for retro items. Sure enough they have it (the brand is Tulip). Horribly salty. Further down the ingredient list, was mango chutney. Just the thought of very salty canned Danish bacon grill and mango chutney made me feel nauseous. 
 

BBC iPlayer has some Christmas cookery shows with Fanny Craddock and apart from her slightly sinister presenting style, I look at the food from 1975 and think how truly awful it was. We've come a long way in 50 years and so much of that is down to the influence of international foods. Back in those days French food was the height of sophistication but her choux pastry buns could have been used as cricket balls.

dealyboy

Rosa_Damascena said:

MrsStepford said:

Bought a 1970s cookbook by Marguerite Patten OBE, called 'Cooking in a Hurry'. There's a recipe for Oriental Casserole, which includes 'Danish bacon grill'. Zero idea what this is, but Iceland is my go to place for retro items. Sure enough they have it (the brand is Tulip). Horribly salty. Further down the ingredient list, was mango chutney. Just the thought of very salty canned Danish bacon grill and mango chutney made me feel nauseous. 
 

BBC iPlayer has some Christmas cookery shows with Fanny Craddock and apart from her slightly sinister presenting style, I look at the food from 1975 and think how truly awful it was. We've come a long way in 50 years and so much of that is down to the influence of international foods. Back in those days French food was the height of sophistication but her choux pastry buns could have been used as cricket balls.

Johnny ... 🍷

MrsStepford

Tesco website has this, but my local Tesco Extra doesn't. Any ideas ? 

Tropical Sun Jamaican Ackee in salted water. 280g can. OH used to live in the Caribbean and also lived in Brixton and he loves it. I want to try this before I commit to a bulk order from Amazon. 

Per 100g: 13.1g fat, 1.4g carbs (of which sugar 0.4g), 2.6g protein, 36mg vitamin C, 2.9g fibre. Free from artificial colours, flavourings and preservatives. 

It's a fruit used as a veggie. 

@Mnoee Sainsburys SO organic frozen whole leaf spinach 500g 1.50 with Nectar card to 31/12/23

Brie

Rosa_Damascena said:

MrsStepford said:

Bought a 1970s cookbook by Marguerite Patten OBE, called 'Cooking in a Hurry'. There's a recipe for Oriental Casserole, which includes 'Danish bacon grill'. Zero idea what this is, but Iceland is my go to place for retro items. Sure enough they have it (the brand is Tulip). Horribly salty. Further down the ingredient list, was mango chutney. Just the thought of very salty canned Danish bacon grill and mango chutney made me feel nauseous. 
 

BBC iPlayer has some Christmas cookery shows with Fanny Craddock and apart from her slightly sinister presenting style, I look at the food from 1975 and think how truly awful it was. We've come a long way in 50 years and so much of that is down to the influence of international foods. Back in those days French food was the height of sophistication but her choux pastry buns could have been used as cricket balls.

We were talking about Christmas dinner at work and making gravy and I astounded my colleague relating how my mom made the best gravy in the world (as it's what you grow up with....) that included the tin of condense mushroom soup and instant coffee powder.  Very 1960s Good Housekeeping.

YoungBlueEyes

Aldi have/had Tropical Sun products @MrsStepford but I don't know if they still do. Ackee and gungo beans etc. They might have shifted the remnants of the promotion elsewhere to make way for Christmas stuff. But maybe yours still has some.

MrsStepford

Thank you @YoungBlueEyes I will be sending husband to look for that in the New Year. We don't have an Aldi here but there's one a few miles away.

A._Badger

Brazil nuts in shells - almost unobtainable this year. So far I've tried, Aldi, an independent supermarket, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. I suspect they are nudging shoppers towards ready shelled nuts but they are expensive and lack the flavour.