Comfort Food

Beef dripping spread on hot toast……now that brings back memories…..and the dark jelly mixed i with it!

Dinfords was gripe water, but I haven't seen it sold for decades.

Beef and potato pie with shortcrust pastry!

jackyB my mouth is watering - chicken livers. I planned to have some on toast for lunch one day last week when DH was meant to be out, but his event was cancelled and the chicken livers will have to wait his next absence.

My mother used to out the beef or chicken dripping from the Sunday roast on toast for Monday breakfast. Wonderful, especially the jelly!

I still do that today. And it it was a chicken I will gently fry the liver from the giblets bag and put it on the toast, too.

Oh yes fat and bread I’d forgotten about that haven’t had for years, it’d probably give me indigestion now 🤣 when I’m feeling really sorry for myself I’ll buy a box of Farleys rusks, three in warm milk, lovely.

Pie and chips from my local fish shop, with lots of gravy 😋

paddyann I use lamb lank too. I love the taste of the meat.
I haven't been well this week and have been living on ham bone soup.

ziplok I loved bread and dripping, still do, if I get a chance, but you need a good fatty joint and to cook it without foil.

Does anyone remember having beef dripping (including the jelly) on bread with a dash of salt? Oh, and fried bread.

I also remember having white bread broken up into pieces with warm milk and sugar, as some of you do, too.

Blackcurrant jam on toast when recuperating from illness was another thing, and chicken soup, of course (not together 😂).

Another favourite was a boiled egg with runny yolk (but not runny whites) and buttered bread soldiers to dip in the yolk - yummy!

Warm ribena.

Readybrek for breakfast (and also porridge at other times).

Simple pleasures! 😁

MARYDOLLScotch broth is a favourite here too,I make mine with a lamb shank or a couple of pieces of lamb flank cooked in the pressure cooker until falling apart and chop the tender meat through the soup.Needs plenty barley and some dried peas .My other go to is eggs hard boiled and mashed in a cup with butter and salt.Arbroath smokies warmed through and eaten with my fingers ,though they can be hard to find .
I have quite a limited diet since I stopped being vegetarian and I live on eggs cooked in lots of ways and pastas usually with mushrooms in a cream sauce or mac and cheese

Bacon roll
Cheese on toast
Marmite toast
Fish finger sarnie with mayo
Pea and ham soup
Boiled eggs

My emergency 'go to' in reaction to stress is a marmalade sandwich, ideally with thick Anchor butter - I actively do not buy butter any more, too tempting!

When poorly then it's homemade chicken soup with lots of garlic, ginger and chillies. There's always a batch of chicken stock at the ready in the freezer.

I don’t do comfort food as I am a reversed diabetic. If I did it would be syrup sponge with custard and a pork pie

I’ve three. Cheese on toast, home made vegetable soup and what will probably sound very odd. Tinned tomato soup with baked beans in it. It was my parents go to for a hot, filling supper when we were on our summer holiday in an often chilly and damp rented caravan. It puts me straight back to childhood.

If its a quick fix then cheese and ham toastie in an airfryer or soup and crusty bread. If its cold and for tea cottage pie or corn beef hash yum. Hope your ok take care.

hot buttered white toast with a banana squished on it or failing that with marmite.

I’m not keen on eggs, but if feeling under the weather, I love spinach Florentine, (eggs in a nest of spinach, covered in a cheese sauce then baked)!

Witzend

I’m now wondering what else babies and very young children were given before there was baby food to buy, and nobody had electric blenders.
I seem to remember my mother sieving cooked spinach!

I dare say mashed potato and gravy was a thing, too.

I think your right Witzend. Anything the adults were having was mashed up and fed to them. Crusts off bread were dried in the oven and given as rusks and their gums rubbed with brandy when they were teething. Dinifords is a name that comes into my head but I don't know what it was. Nurse Grants colic bottle as well.
No wonder so many never lived out of childhood.
My late FIL's party piece was telling how when he started school in the 1920's ,one woman went down to the school at break pushed her breast through the railings and shouted for Alfie to come and get his pap. She was still breastfeeding him when he was at school!!!!

Bacon sandwich with brown sauce

Mushroom or chicken soup

Cheese on toast

Anything with eggs

Shepherds pie

Mushy peas

Bella23 -
My dad grew up in Cumbria and, according to him, bread & milk with sugar was called "dolls' pobs" while bread & gravy with salt and pepper was "sloddy pobs".
I can't say I fancy either delicacy very much!
Melted cheese on thick toast for me, every time.

I am loving this thread ......

I am just about to have 2 boiled eggs and bread and butter for my lunch ...... but I always put some raspberry jam on the second slice of bread!

Bella23 pobs that’s probably it! He used to put salt and pepper on his, he also liked porridge with salt, he must have preferred savoury things where as I turn to sweet things for comfort. Rhubarb crumble and custard is my favourite.

Witzend

I’m now wondering what else babies and very young children were given before there was baby food to buy, and nobody had electric blenders.
I seem to remember my mother sieving cooked spinach!

I dare say mashed potato and gravy was a thing, too.

One old method I used was to chew stuff first and then give the baby a taste of what it was. Other primates do this too. Many of you will have seen footage of primate babies reaching to their mothers' mouths for some food.

I’m now wondering what else babies and very young children were given before there was baby food to buy, and nobody had electric blenders.
I seem to remember my mother sieving cooked spinach!

I dare say mashed potato and gravy was a thing, too.