What food did your Mum make you eat when you had nowt else!!

gdm27 · 16-05-2009, 22:34

I remember back in the 50's when my parents were really skint my Mum would try to kill us by making a meal that still makes me turn pale. Small dishes, cut up some stale cheese into them, top up with milk, crack an egg on top, salt and pepper then into the oven. Wait until the egg had turned to a piece of plastic then serve!!! It was a killer but it was that or nothing. Spare a thought for me Dad, he had to eat 2!!! Anybody else have this if so what was it called besides orride!!!

emamum · 16-05-2009, 22:39

lol, i think theres a few accywebbers that love this meal!

never tried it meself.

MargaretR · 16-05-2009, 22:39

That is the famous 'cheese and egg'
Obviously she didn't do it right - needs to be baked 'on a tin plate'

During rationing in the 40s our main meal was often
a lettuce leaf and a tomato - but then such items really tasted good
- not like a wet hankie and a ball of mush.

turkishdelight · 16-05-2009, 22:46

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Originally Posted by gdm27

I remember back in the 50's when my parents were really skint my Mum would try to kill us by making a meal that still makes me turn pale. Small dishes, cut up some stale cheese into them, top up with milk, crack an egg on top, salt and pepper then into the oven. Wait until the egg had turned to a piece of plastic then serve!!! It was a killer but it was that or nothing. Spare a thought for me Dad, he had to eat 2!!! Anybody else have this if so what was it called besides orride!!!

I still make that dish love it very tastey with brown bread and butter and a cup of tea however not with stale cheese.

cashman · 16-05-2009, 23:01

i still scran it n its lovely, but know what yer saying, cos my mam was a crap cook.

bless her.

Mancie · 16-05-2009, 23:13

cheese? bread? egggs?...you were living a life of luxury!...worse dinner was when me Dad come home from workin 18 hour shift down pit and me Mam boiled his sweaty socks up with some owd spud peelings.

steeljack · 16-05-2009, 23:31

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

That is the famous 'cheese and egg'
Obviously she didn't do it right - needs to be baked 'on a tin plate' .

got to be crumbly Lancashire cheese and served with a dollop of HP sauce , (prefered it cooked under the grill rather than in the oven) . good stuff

gdm27 · 16-05-2009, 23:32

You were spoilt, dirt wi worms in if we were luck!!!!

shakermaker · 16-05-2009, 23:59

Paradise.

We had to lick red hot gravel before being thrashed with Dad's mace.

theprisoner · 17-05-2009, 00:47

Still have 'Cheese and Egg' myself! Tis lovely with a bit of Brown sauce & some Hedgehog bread.

shillelagh · 17-05-2009, 00:57

It wasnt my mum who made it was my dad ... dad could make 3 things ... a fry up (brilliant), fish (id eat the batter) or mash with boiled eggs in the middle ... and i hated it. Mum had to go to northern ireland and left me and my brother with my dad .. 1 sis was married and away and the other was at manchester polytechnic ... and she was away for 2 weeks ... and for 5 days dad made mash and eggs for tea ... never eaten a boiled egg since ..... and that was when i was 12!!!!

Margaret Pilkington · 17-05-2009, 14:47

We had to eat whatever was put in front of us......the alternative was to go to bed hungry.
I went to bed hungry when it was kippers. sardines, pilchards.......and I drew the line at eating rabbit and hare.

K.S.H · 17-05-2009, 15:00

Hey stop knocking cheese and egg

Great with tomatoes and bacon too for breakfast

Theres a thread about it HERE

ossy kid · 18-05-2009, 05:17

I,d have died for egg and cheese when I was little. We had pobs for breakfast most days and I hated them. I do make egg and cheese for myself now that I,m "rich".

junetta · 18-05-2009, 21:45

My Nana used to make bacon hotpot. It still makes me want to throw up all those years later. I had to sit at the table until I'd finished it and of course it was worse when it was cold and congealed. Thankfully the dog quite liked it and I would sneak as much as I could to him!