which food you to childhood?...

Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood?

What food transports me back to childhood I give you four.oh dear, not all food contains good memories. Are you ready?

1. Roast Dinner UK 🇬🇧 old fashioned British style roast, not my mothers cooking but my step fathers. Mother walked out when I was about 13 so my step dad who was a farmer not a cook, tried his hand at the Sunday roast. Please dear friends remember not only was he traumatised that his wife was gone but he had his two young step daughters and his 6yr old son to care for. I digress. So all was going well with my help the meat and roast potatoes were about cooked, and the vegetables were slid to the side of the old Rayburn (like an aga but smaller). Now came the gravy, now there wasn’t these gravy granules then we had proper gravy as some like to say. Meat juices, flour, oxo cubes, vegetable water and maybe a bit of gravy browning. None of us knew the quantities so in the pan it all went and it was the first time I have ever had a slice of gravy, but it was tasty. Best Sunday Roast ever from there dad got better till his gravy was just right. I think that’s where my love of a roast dinner came from.

2. Lamb . I try it every now and then and it takes me right back to being a kid and saying I had finished and being told to eat everything on my plate . And as time went on I had tried but when you are so full you gag that was me then. So the plate was in front of me, congealing fat globules growing around the meat, and I remember crying as I was told I would get it for breakfast and evening meal for the next week. I tried but I heaved and was sent to bed. Yes it was given to me for breakfast and placed there in front of me, cold congealed lamb and cabbage with a tiny amount of potatoe on last night’s dinner plate. I went to school hungry, thank goodness for school dinners back then. That night mum served up our food and everyone recieved plate and mine came back to haunt me she had kept that plated remains of the congealed fatty lamb and i sobbed. My step-dad put an end to this fiasco. Needless to say lamb and I do not have a good relationship, one bite and I am that little girl crying again

3. Homemade cakes 🍰 ie melting moments, rock cakes, Victoria sponge cake, transported back to my Auntie Babs kitchen, she taught me to Cook to crystallise flowers for cakes and so much more

4. Strawberries 🍓 straight back to Auntie Babs garden, sat with a huge glass of homemade lemonade and a dish full of summer fruits and ice cream. Mine was always Strawberries and Raspberries with a sprig of mint on top. Wow would have been from the age of about 10 onwards I suppose