Childhood comfort food

Being a true Slavs, we had many delicious items on the menu, one favorite of mine being thick creamed spinach which I have never been able to duplicate entirely, but I make it in a cheesy cream sauce, served over toasted rye bread and broiled, something like welsh rarebit. Delicious!
 

rkunsaw said:
In my homemade version of SOS I use ground beef instead of dried beef. I haven't made it in several years.
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I make that with ground sausage for biscuits and gravy but have never tried it with ground beef. There was a convo on my home town`s page several months ago where everyone was talking about that being their favorite dish in the school cafeteria in the 50s and 60s but it was never served at my school.
 

Meatloaf and mashed potatoes. SOS (my mom put peas in it, too). Grilled cheese on rye with a dill pickle. Pasties. For the uninitiated, it's pronounced past-eez, a meat pie. They've morphed into having all kinds of fillings over the years, breakfast pasties filled with scrambled eggs/cheese/bacon or ham, veggies pasties filled with...um...veggies!, but I still prefer the old fashioned meat pies like my grandmothers and mother used to make. They were probably the first "convenience" foods. The miners took them to work in their lunch pails. The pails had two parts sort of like a double boiler, and hot tea was put in the bottom and the pasty in the top. The tea kept the pasty warm until time for a lunch or dinner break.
 
Georgia, pasties are from Cornwall [south west of England] where the miners wives made them with thick pastry edges for the men to hold whilst they ate them [dirty hands see?]They were traditionally made with chopped mutton,swede and potato, and they still make them all over Cornwall, usually to be eaten hot straight from the shop.Here we prononuce the word pas-tiz.
 
Childhood comfort food, homemade rice pudding with nutmeg on the top.Buttery mashed potato and grilled sausages [bangers and mash] fish and chips, fresh crusty bread with butter and plum jam on it.
 
Yup...the miners who came to this country brought along wives who could make pasties! In most of the rest of the US, nobody has heard of them, but pasty shops are on practically every street corner in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Yup...the miners who came to this country brought along wives who could make pasties! In most of the rest of the US, nobody has heard of them, but pasty shops are on practically every street corner in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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That's interesting Georgia, I thought they were only made here, but thinking about it, people emigrated from Devon and Cornwall to the US and Canada, Oz and NZ too, so they are probably made all over the place now. They are very yummy and filling.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Yup...the miners who came to this country brought along wives who could make pasties! In most of the rest of the US, nobody has heard of them, but pasty shops are on practically every street corner in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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I lived in St. Ignace in the 70s. Managed a pasty shop one summer. Delicious.
 
I'm thinking of something completely different each time I hear you all say pasties, though, I realized you're talking about a food item.

Heeheehee, not just me with my mind in the gutter

Cinnamon toast dripping in butter and my Dad's version of a milkshake. Just ice cream well mushed with soda. I still eat ice cream like that. Oh and Kellogg's Sugar Smacks right out of the box.
 
Sounds incredible to me now, but then, being a very hungry, little girl, looking for some comfort food, I would sneak into the pantry, cut a slice of rough rye bread, top it with home made BEET SUGAR SYRUP or home made plum jam (Pflaumenmus), all cooked and stirred for hours in the wash house copper tub.
 
May I add my Mum's cinnamon flop. A hundred years before Paula Deen it was a Pennsylvania Dutch classic. I remember helping her make it. A vanilla batter then brown sugar and cinnamon. Then put pats of butter across the top and it baked into a caramel sugary hint of cake goodness. I still make it sometimes and it's gone before morning.
 
My favorite comfort food growing up was a simple,quick, dish that we all loved. Mom would brown some ground beef,add some cooked macaroni and make a sauce out of Campbell's condensed Tomato soup thinned with a bit of water. I still make this today but I don't thin the soup. The stuff is so darn runny thinning isn't necessary.
 
Cookie said:
Is there a childhood comfort food that you remember that you still enjoy now as a grown-up?

My mom used to give me noodles with hot milk and salt that I still have every now and then on a cold day.
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What are noodles?

I didn't like eating much as a kid, I found it a boring activity, especially as my Mother was all for foods, which were good for us! I wish I felt the same way about food now!:D
 
powdered cocoa with can milk and and toast thrown on the big black stove we had---meat loaf and mashed potatoes any any thing chocholate--i was the only one in the family that liked chocolate
 
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