I yearn for good old fashioned recipes!

I found that substituting natural yogurt for milk in scones made them lighter and fluffier.

Try the Mary Berry recipe for light fruit scones.
See if you can get a copy of The Book of Home Cooking from a charity shop and you will find some tasty traditional recipies.

I love trying out new foods and new recipes, but I do find that too many recipes have far too many ingredients in them and the larder would be full of bottles used once or twice only if I wasn't careful, so I just reformulate any recipes that appeal to me and remove or replace anything that I cannot see me using more than once. It probably changes the flavour of some meals slightly, but not much.

BradfordLass You want scones? Try any NT property or non chain cafe. We have a little cafe in our town, consciously vintage which does beautiful scones, as does the cafe attached to the local baker.

I ordered banana bread as a treat... bit into it and it wasnt right.. double checked and the cafe makes all their bakery items with gluten free flour now (which is less healthy than normal flour unless you have a medical reason for needing gluten free).

My "treat" didn't taste like a treat :-(
I <3 gluten!!

I made a rice pudding this week!

I agree recipes are more fussy. They often demand ingredients we don't have which are only needed for that specific meal, adding to my staples, herbs and spices. I suppose it goes with the shift away from meat which seems inevitable.

How about a nice plateful of Lord Woolton's pie?

I know what you mean! I have really quite simple tastes. An omelette with 2 veg suits me as well as some elaborate concoction. I'm vegetarian and though not vegan people think I'm going to be hard to please.
I do like free range eggs and fresh organic local veg though!
Porridge is on the hob now.

I think my parents generation were much healthier using the old fashioned recipes. They had an all round diet and cooked everything from scratch. My dad grew his own fruit and veg which my mum bottled in kilner jars.

The younger generation are extremely faddy in the name of health. Quinoa is an example of this - can’t stand the stuff. Give me a good cottage pie any day.

I think many of the 'old fashioned' receipes although tasty and filling would today be concidered unhealthy.

We are all so conscious of what we are eating and watching our figures, fat intake, cholesterol etc that is why more up to date foods are more previlant.

This made me laugh. We visited family recently for the weekend and on Saturday evening there was much huffing and puffing in the kitchen for what seemed like hours, and not much on the plate for the myriad of ingredients and effort, when we sat in to eat. (It was tasty though!)

I made a comment about it to my husband when we went to bed, and he replied "I was hoping for Cottage Pie"

No, you don't - you ARE the times!
I find the same annoying thing here where every outlet seems to think everyone wants trendy food.

I long to find a cafe with really light, fluffy scones (anyone got a recipe?) with a dollop of cream and jam.

Fortunately I can still see well enough to bake but I heartily agree with you.