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Which homemade dish brings you the warmest memories from your childhood — the kind of food that instantly reminds you of family, home, and simpler times?
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#1
Lemon meringue pie. My mum used to make it when I was a kid (in the '60s). Sadly, it is so true that no one makes one 'Just like mum used to make' but a few have come close.
Final score:
8points
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Oh, I remember my Mom's Lemon Meringue Pie! Chocolate Cream Pie, too, with the same meringue! I can't do it, but my sister has the recipe.
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#2
Home-made french toast that my mom nicknamed "eggy bread".
That was a childhood delicacy.
Final score:
8points
#3
For me, it’s a bowl of warm tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich. The moment I taste it, I’m back at the kitchen table on rainy afternoons after school, with the smell of butter crisping on the pan and steam fogging up the window. Simple, comforting, and tied to a feeling of safety and care that nothing else quite recreates.
Final score:
7points
#4
Home made mashed potatoes.
Final score:
6points
#5
My Nan's boiled ham, mashed potatoes and homemade pickled onions. Oh dear, my eyes are leaking now.
Final score:
5points
Auntriarch (Submission author) 2 months ago
I'm going to cook some ham today I think. And take some to my mother, she'll know...
#6
My mom's baked macaroni and cheese.
Also, she was a wizard with brown gravy (not with the mac n cheese, though)
Final score:
4points
#7
We were pretty poor growing up, so for breakfast I'd have sliced bananas in milk with some sugar.
Still have that sometimes for breakfast.
Final score:
4points
Vonny 2 months ago
We grew up pretty poor, too. But your fruit breakfast actually sounds pretty good and nutritious. My siblings & I were lucky to have a piece of toast before school. My sister used to sprinkle sugar atop, then broiled it. We didn't have a toaster so had to use the big oven. Our parents found out, the electric bill had gone up, so back to cold bread w/butter for breakfast.
#8
Mac and cheese with sausages on top,baked in a casserole dish with a cowboy theme from the '50s. Inherited the casserole dish, which was only used for this dish,and still use it for only that. my second favorite is pancakes with giblet gravy, usually served as supper after Thanksgiving dinner. It sounds awful but is actually delicious.
Final score:
4points
Dona Laura 2 months ago
Being European and living in Europe, there are 2 things that I was always curious to try because they are so praised over there, "Mac& cheese" and PB&J sandwiches. But Mac and cheese really looks like the epitome of comfort food!
#9
A tin of "Ravioli" (from the company
"Maggi") or spinach with mashed potatoes and fish sticks.
Final score:
4points
sturmwesen 2 months ago (edited)
found the German...?Spinach with mashed potatoes and fish sticks or Leberkas was my moms standard dish. no cooking talent required
#10
I'm a farm kid, one of the last of a vanishing breed, and Mom was a genuine old-school farm housewife and cook, with a wood/coal stove in the kitchen. She excelled at cooking, with Baking as her strong suit. There are so many answers I can give here! Bread, Rolls, Pies, homemade Doughnuts fried in the big kettle on the stove, Cookies, the list goes on and on, even homemade pizza. Then there were french fries made from our own potatoes, with hamburgers from our cattle. Not to mention Christmas and Easter candy - she made her own caramel. Homemade ice cream, too, especially strawberry and black raspberry with berries we picked. Mom made great sloppy joes, and leftover sloppy joe got put on a half a round or long bun, topped with cheese, and baked in the oven - THAT was a wonderful treat! I've learned to make a few of Mom's recipes, such as 'raw fried potatoes' (weird name, but delicious) and homemade raised buckwheat pancakes. I have the recipes for her ham loaf, poor man's pie, and braided orange bread with coconut, but I've never been confident enough to try them. A lot of our favorites were Depression-Era treats, but they were made with love and first-class ingredients.
Final score:
3points
Dona Laura 2 months ago
really relate to the last part. I believe the best food comes from the times of scarcity, when people had to be more inventive and, with just a few basic ingredients, managed to cook incredible things.
#12
Tuna noodle casserole. It was from the box. Since I am an adult now, I decided to make my own with homemade herbed bechamel, seared tuna chunks, a small amount of sauteed onions. Egg noodles, of course. At the end I would take it out of the oven and stir in frozen peas and top with shredded english muffin and a blend of hard white cheeses.
Final score:
3points
#13
along with my Nanna's Lemon Meringue Pie, Nan also baked a mean meat pie - thick with gravy and meat, flakiest pastry (handmade of course) with homemade mashed potato........I'm salivating....
Final score:
3points
#14
My Mum's spaghetti. The meat was always too dry, spaghetti chewy and not enough sauce. But it reminds me of my childhood and I aways request it, when I stay with her once a year.
Final score:
3points
Dona Laura 2 months ago
I can relate to that. My grandmother would always burn the toasts in the morning. Today, that faint smell fills me with nostalgia — she’s gone already, but that smell is a doorway back to tender mornings, warm with love and simplicity.
#15
Canned frosting on saltine crackers. It's the best.
Final score:
2points
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Rick Ours 2 months ago
Believe it or not, mine is Campbell's Tomato Soup with a grilled cheese sandwich, especially on a cold day or when I'm not feeling well. 60-some years later, nothing has changed. Thank Heavens Campbell's has never changed the recipe. Despite all the recommendations to use fancy cheeses on the sandwich, the best is still Kraft American Singles.
Rick Ours 2 months ago
Believe it or not, mine is Campbell's Tomato Soup with a grilled cheese sandwich, especially on a cold day or when I'm not feeling well. 60-some years later, nothing has changed. Thank Heavens Campbell's has never changed the recipe. Despite all the recommendations to use fancy cheeses on the sandwich, the best is still Kraft American Singles.
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