Foods Granny Made and other treats.

[Treetotal]

Some of these tried and tested favourites I remember too...I don't have any recipes passed down either....her Yorkshire Puddings served with onion gravy is another thing I enjoyed....but I would pass on the Tripe and Onions though...yuk!!!
Carol

[KGarrad]

Not that this has anything to do with food but I love it that I use Nan, KGarrad Gran and Carol Grandma. The way we use different words when expressing the same person has always amazed me .

Sharon

In life, I called mine Nanny B.. and Nanny Garrad - it's only now, later in life, I feel silly calling them Nanny, so I call the Gran!!

[youngtug]

My [maternal] gran always had a tin of rockcakes. She also made seed cake and a whole load of other things,but there was always rock cakes.

[Treetotal]

We had those too YT...but we called them "Door Knockers" not within earshot though 
Carol

[Isabel H]

(Who else remembers adding Andrews Liver Salts to diluting orange squash to make a fizzy drink?)

I do! Andrews, or Enos Fruit Salts.

My Granny made raspberry vinegar too, and elderflower champagne. I have her recipe - no modern ideas like stopping the fermentation, so bottles used to explode from time to time.
Granny used to serve what she called "rissoles" and we called "pancakes", with bacon for breakfast. Just pancake batter fried, but hers were always light and crisp, and neither my mother nor I can make them like that.

My Grandma, on the other hand, made horribly greasy fried breakfasts, and broth that was referred to as "them" (eat them up, now!), but on the plus side, she was an excellent baker of cakes.

[Finley 1]

Yes my wonderful... Nanna Green, made most of the above, all without recipes or weighing out ingredients.

Bread pudding to die for..  and lovely Fruit pies with all the fruit in she could find. 
The one thing I remember that sticks in my mind is her 'potted meat'  she used to always pour hot butter over the top.  lovely.

Her Yorkshire turned out every time,   mine once in a while 

They were always on a tight budget... but we ate very very well.

xin

[glenclare]

Gran's apple suet pudding, steamed in a basin with a heavy cotton cloth tied over it, and then served with very thick cold custard.
My Granda's speciality was potato fritters. Thick slices of potato coated in a lovely batter.

[angelfish58]

My grandma's yorkshires were legendary and she was also very good at pastry. She used to make something she called neddy cakes, a mix like rock cakes but baked in one slab in the bottom of the oven like singin' hinny and eaten with butter.

[spark]

For savouries: rissoles - minced left over lamb/potatoes/onions combined and fried

For sweet:  chocolate blancmange (served hot, not set) over bananas or pears.  Still love this today.......... 

Spark