The weather's decidedly grizzly and cool today and all this food set me off thinking about other oldfashioned comfort foods. Forgive me if they are a bit mixed up and if some of my Dad's Irish and My Mum's Belgian foods may have crept it: * Steak and Kidney pie or pud * Rice Pudding * Finny 'Addock (smoked haddock) * Fish and Chips and Specials * Black Peas at the fairground * Oatcakes and crumpets * Oven Bottom Muffins * Cheesebake (mashed spuds with cheese and onion) served with crispy bacon and tomatoes * Bubble and Squeak * My Dad's Champ and Colcannon * Sausage and Mash and Onion Gravy * Cheese and Onion Pie * Mince Meat and Potato Stew (pie without the crust), which my husband rather unkindly called 'splodge'. * Pea soup with Bacon Ribs * Bread and Butter Pudding * Apple Pie * Rhubarb Crumble * Treacle Tart * Lemon Meringue Pie * And endless cakes, puddings, bicuits and buns Not many vegetables seemed to make it onto the menu :( This was sample of 1950's Lancashire Staples, that I learned to make, but that my son and daughter might still need me to show them. I'm starving now, must go and make lunch. GAY Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire www.members.aol.com/victoroly/genealogy.htm www.members.aol.com/gayjoliver/Tameside.htm _www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm_ (http://www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm) _www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk_ (http://www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk/)