1970s style puddings?

??

Seriously its all over my nightie and everything i think i may even have some in my hair ?

mmmmm pink stripey hair that tastes good ?

? Wait, am I reading right? You exploded a dessert?

Not exploded

but when i started whisking it and before it went thick it went everywhere , its basically powder and milk , do you not have it in canada , want me to send you some ?

I have never heard of it! If you'd send me some, I could expland my culinary horizons!?

Wahhh ! leave liz alone with your day glow sorry excuses for puddings ?

Erm sorry to interrupt, please could some of you good cooks offer Rache some sensible suggestions on her halloween thread, she needs saving from my stupid ideas!

Many thank you's

PL, I was only one in the 70's but mum says I was partical to butterscotch angel delight and rice pudding, no wonder I have no idea about food!

xxx

Nono, send me some! I want to experience it for myself! (Wonders what she is in for) ?

Together?!

? I have a feeling its called whip in canada and the US.

Still not ringing any bells, Hyacinth. Hmm. Now I am morbidly curious.

We were never allowed Angel Delight, we only had Saisnbury's own-brand version, which was called whip. The mint-chocolate was my favourite, with hundreds and thousands on top.

Quite possibly, my mum is a good cook, but had bad PMT, which meant she would feed us (including dad) strange inventions and we wouldn't dare complain*, she once baked a cake in the microwave, it was rock hard, but we were to scared not to eat it, so dad had to use the electric carving knife to cut it.

*She wouldn't beat us or anything, she would just start sobbing and saying we were ungrateful, once she complained me and my brother didn't care about christmas and were runining it for hwe, in order to make her happy, we put tea- towels on our heads and pretended to be Mary and Joseph, we wrapped the cat in a tea towel and pretended it was jesus! finally she felt christmassy!

Even mum agrees that the day she had her hysterectomy was a day to be celebrated, we can now laugh at how she use to be, and was a wonderful mum and still is!

Oh my goodness I have verbal diarrhea- sorry!

MF, My Mum was EXACTLY the same! i am so pleased I'm not the only one with a looper for a Mother. She used to do "random dinner nights" where super would consist on various things plucked from the cupboard, with no thought for whether the foods complimented eachother- a favorite was corned beef, mashed potato, peas and a fried egg.

I used to feel so jealous of other children on harvest festival when they would turn up with fruit baskets and plaited bread, and my mum would dispatch me with two tins which had lost their labels, saying vaugely "I think they're peaches"

She still hasn't gone through the menopause, we're all getting twitchy.

as an aside, what happened to tinned peaches? do people not buy them anymore? there were always loads in our cupboard.

Are you my sister?

I was always sent to Harvest festival with unwanted raffle prizes or presents, so along with random tins of food, mum would send me in with talc in a half used gift set, or out of date packets of crisps (cheese and onion flavour as no one ate those)

Another cracker from my mum, I was struggling with all my home work, she asked if there was anything she could help with, I said I needed to draw some outfits in a window display for my art coursework, I asked mum to draw me the mannequins so I could then add the outfits, so she set to work. A couple of hours later, she handed my my shop display with 6 mannequins she had drawn in the window, however, because she couldn't do 'noses' she had given each of them a chicken head!

Sigh!

Or chocolate concrete and pink custard. Not classy in the slightest, but devine.

Jell-O instant pudding ringing any bells? Small white box, add powder to milk, whisk, chill, eat. Poor man's mousse. Kind of.

Can you get hold of a rickety melamine trolley and offer 'something from the trolley?'

*sigh*

I remember sneaking down to mymum and dad's dinner parties in the 70's.

Women in maxi dresses, fur coats piled up on mum and dad's bed (one lady always used to give us a box od smarties - not a tube, a box!)

We used to sneak down and eat some after eights and leave the wrappers in the box.

Aha! Yes, I know it. But, erm. Not pink. ?

Email me your address i will send some later today

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My mum used to make a really easy pudding with Maryland cookies. She basically just stuck them together with whipped cream and it was like a white yule log. I think she put alcohol in the cream too.

What a fab idea! ? Freecycle could be you friend!

Oh, you are all brilliant. I am in hysterics reading this. I am sorely tempted to do a trolley ? Orange sorbets in oranges, a gateau, rum baba - and angel delight. Completely OTT for the number of people, but I can give them party bags.

Now, who do I know that has a trolley?

We were talking about this yesterday and I SO wish I'd thought to go and borrow the hostess trolley from my mum's house.

(I'm now wondering if my children, in decades to come, will pore over my Nigella and HFW cook books in hysterics and do retro 2000s dinner parties? )

I think that's the exact hostest my mum has PL. ?

Aim for the older generation PL, you may be lucky! If not, try freecycle as there is probably someone sitting thinking "I wish I knew someone who would take that bloody trolley" ?

I'm so pleased you picked one of my ideas. [needy] There is a restaurant in my home town which still sells them and I love them. ?

MF - that's the funniest thing i've read on here in ages! I actually burst out laughing and had to disguise it as a cough. Please tell me another!

One from my mum - my dad's dad was a very slim old man with a bald pate and fluffy hair round his head (friar tuck style). He also had small, rather quick-moving eyes. A few months after he died, mum was in the kitchen and cried out 'Good Lord, that's your dad!' to my father. he and I rushed into the kitchen (not quite sure what we were expecting to find considering, we'd been there when Grandpa was buried), to see Mum pointing to a squirrel sitting on the window ledge, with small, twitchy eyes and fluffy fur around his head...
A tadge insensitive considering my poor dad's recent mourning.

I don't remember the wine, but I remember my parents having bedside lamps made out of a couple of empty bottles...

Youc an borrow my fondue set PL (in fact, I think I have two [rotfl).

Don't knock fondue, Lou ? Whoso findeth a cheese foundue findeth a good thing, imo.

I actually love my fondues. ? One of them is an alessi. <swoon>

I'm with sophie on this one - why do you think I moved to Switzerland?

Cariad, make sure you send her the butterscotch one, none of that strawberry gubbins!

H and MF, I fear I too may be related - although I don't think my mothers had anything to do with PMT, she just did weird combinations (and the tin thing!)

Cant you just get tinned fruit PF and dream topping (I always used to get upset because there was only one cherry and 6 of us - I didn't even like the cherry!)

I have one ?