I sat next to an American woman on a plane to San Francisco who always brought a spare bag on visits to the UK which she filled with packs of Yorkshire Pudding mix (just add egg and milk) ..

Salad sprung to mind here too. In the late 70s, when we were working out recipes for our wholefood cafe, one of our favourites was chopped peppers and chopped tomatoes mixed with kidney beans and a vinaigrette dressing. It sounds boring nowadays but every time I have it I wonder why I don't make it ...

I had the pork and Stilton sausages bought from a new local farm shop recently. They were absolutely delicious, the Stilton wasn't strong but complemented the pork perfectly. Hot with veg on Friday. Cold in a baguette yesterday. Will be buying them again.

I didn't know you could cook them like that on gas, Pat. We always did it that way on an electric hob when I was a child, I was led to believe it was only possible because of the heat retained on the hotplate after it had been switched off. A timer's a good idea if you remember to take it with you i...

They all look good. I am familiar with Olio where you can fetch the items. Sadly, I don't like things being delivered as there's nowhere to leave them if I'm out.

I tried soft 'boiled' eggs. 7 mins. Worked well the first time, not so well the second. It was good not having to watch for the water to boil. When I make hard boiled eggs I'm rather good at forgetting about them and boiling the pan dry (An egg once exploded onto the ceiling from a dry pan) so will ...

A sachet took a pint of milk. When I was expecting my first baby, pregnant women had vouchers for a pint of milk a day for them to drink for calcium. I often made blancmange with my pint - and sometimes ate it all myself over a day .

Wow!

We had prunes and custard regularly at every school I went to. I never looked forward to them. A girl in kindergarten brought hers back up into her outdoor shoes one day when we were changing to go out to play after lunch. I associated the two for some time which didn't help. When I was grown up I, ...

Of course you could extract from real fruit but the logistics (seasonal fruit with strong flavour, cost etc) for making a blancmange (not the most exotic pudding) seems prohibitive to me! We did pink blancmange in a rabbit mould for the party! In the 60's, in our shop, quite a few older housewives w...

Yes it is. I have always made chocolate blancmange from scratch with cocoa but it's harder to produce strawberry and similar flavours without buying synthetic stuff which never gets used up.

Last time I wanted blancmange powder they had the individual packs in Sainsburys. I've an awful feeling it was when friend and I held our joint 'retro' 60th birthday party, so 10 years ago!! They may not still sell it.

Pearce Duffs seemed the biggest rival to Birds in my childhood. We always used their custard powder and blancmange ....ooh and jelly creams .. maple & walnut ... mmmm!

I had forgotten dried bananas .

No, you wouldn't want much.

I never had sugar or condensed milk sandwiches or bread and milk. We moved to a village shop at the start of 60s and lived through the introduction of many convenience foods and factory made cakes which friends' mothers wouldn't have bought but which we sampled. We would never have had a Corona lorr...

It all looks delicious, aero. I wonder if our idea of 'apple flavour' usually contains a hint of clove or cinnamon?

I loved Cremola Foam. Also Rice Cremola (it was made from ground rice). I'm racking brains as I'm sure there was another Cremola product at around the same time - perhaps something blancmange-like but can't think what it might have been.

I had considered mentioning junket. It used to be quite a treat made with liquid rennet and sprinkled with nutmeg.

When we went to Australia (1968) they sold junket tablets in assorted fruit flavours which you added to the warmed milk. It didn't seem right!

We used to go to the one at Selfridges for a treat in the mid 60s. My grandmother also made very good ones. I've not had one that tasted 'proper' for years.

Proper ice cream sodas.