My mum used to bake fresh bread. I can remember walking into the house and This great smell of freshly baked bread was something I will remember always. Also, being English, Sunday diner was usually a baked dish , Yourshire pudding, or roast lamb,with apple pie,and cream for desert.I love baked diners. She would bake one for the family, and one for me.....Those were the days.

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jonathan wrote:

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.. nothing quite like her Bread & Butter pudding enhanced with raspberries !

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 Yep, that was one of Mum's too, without the rasberries...no rasberries in SEQ. Our berry was mulberries. Picked from over the back fence of Aunties place at Morningside. They never made it into a dish though, we'd just eat them straight from the tree! What a mess we'd make!

Sunday night to sit and watch Disneyland.....
home made sausage rolls, pastry and and all....... also pastie slice long before tiddly oggies came about.........

lol lo ..a ferguson plarre pastie slice.........only Victorians would probably know them......

My mum was a great cook. I have been trying for years to get the baked potatoes to turn out like hers, and mine are never crunchy.

I remember when I first tried the christmas pudding recipe after she died. Found her handwritten recipe book, gather all the stuff. Christmas day the pudding nearly blew the top of heads off ! "What one earth did you do to it? " everyone asked me.

Well, the recipe said älmost half a bottle of brandy, so that's what I put in, not realising that my mother would NEVER have meant a regular bottle, but one of those little ones they sell around christmas for puddings.

Was a great pudding that year, but no one wanted to drive home, just in case.

Love it Rip & Rosie!

Mum always made the Xmas pud too,,,she managed that without burning it...but my sister improved on Mum's recipe and makes it every year now.

Barina, I'll have to ask my Victorian/Qld d-i-l about that one.

Gillyb, you reminded me of the fresh cream we had...we had our own cow, so fresh cream spread on bread with jam or sugar was a favourite after school snack.

These days I can't eat cream or cows milk.

There's a ferguson plarre at chadstone shopping centre but have never tried the pastie slice but will definately have a look next time I'm there.

Sadly I'm like you Beth and can no longer have the cream and milk, soy milk only these days but sometimes I'm a bit naughty and will buy a cream cake to take home and suffer the consequenses  

Baked rice pudding, apple pie and custard tart.

When I got married, my wife, who is an excellent cook, could not cook a custard tart without the pastry rising to the top.

After many attempts, my mother said she would give my wife some help. Well, they both mixed the ingredients together, placed the results in the same oven and waited.

Yep, my mothers came out perfect.

My wifes? A perfect upside down custard tart.

Never seen another attempt in forty two years.

Dusty

My mum use to make the best Ginger Fluff, as light as a feather. Have never been able to replicate it. Glenda

My Mum's specialty was desserts made with alcohol in them, and she was always trying out new recipes on us, so we got used to 'being guinea pigs again'!

But Grandma's vege soup was to die for, it was made on the old coal stove and just left to simmer away on the side. Some years ago, I managed to get 'close' to her recipe, with my Dad telling me it was nearly as good as his mother's! Now that's a compliment for you. I have decided that I am reverting to recipes from grandma's time - good old fashioned cooking, can't beat it!

Girdle scones on a Sunday night, with lashings of golden syrup.

Many years later I read about griddle scones in an English Recipe Book, so I figure our 'girdle' scones were an Aussie derivative.

My sister and I spent our teenage weekends on Macleay Island, in Moreton Bay. We'd bring home a bunch of boys (not necessarily boyfriends) on a Sunday night, and that's how Mum would fill them up.

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My mum is most remembered in our family for her baked dinners, so full of flavour and with the veges lovely and crunchy, I have never been able to do a baked dinner as good as hers in my 42 years of marriage.

Mum described herself as a "plain" cook, she enjoyed cooking and always had some sort of cake, biscuit or slice ready to share.

Mum also used to make a delicious mayonnaise or "dressing" as she called it, the ingredients were condensed milk, vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper (I think) and it was always made in the same little jug, everyone loved it on their lettuce.

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 Mum always made this one too. I still have the recipe, but it's a bit wicked with all that sugar.

My Mum's baked potatoes, so crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. She also did her lamb chops in a special way, they were just done in the frypan but oh so crunchy and I can never get them the same. Bannana custard, and pasta salad as my boys would ask Nanna to make her snails and now it is a family thing. We have snails instead of pasta salad. After a roast with the left over lamb, she would make pancakes with the leftover meat, to die for. And also mock fish, which was grated potato, egg, flour and they were a firm favourite on a Sunday night in front of the fire. I could never make them the same and when my boys moved out of home they would ring Nanna so she could step them through the pancakes and the mock fish. The Christmas pudding, superb. Nothing like Mum's cooking.

Beth54 wrote:

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Jaytee wrote:

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My mum is most remembered in our family for her baked dinners, so full of flavour and with the veges lovely and crunchy, I have never been able to do a baked dinner as good as hers in my 42 years of marriage.

Mum described herself as a "plain" cook, she enjoyed cooking and always had some sort of cake, biscuit or slice ready to share.

Mum also used to make a delicious mayonnaise or "dressing" as she called it, the ingredients were condensed milk, vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper (I think) and it was always made in the same little jug, everyone loved it on their lettuce.

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 Mum always made this one too. I still have the recipe, but it's a bit wicked with all that sugar.

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 I also make this dressing now, it was my job as a kid to make it with brown vinegar and condensed milk...not sure I ever used mustard....but yummy all the same....will try the mustard now