Classic comfort food.



A classic comfort food is some thing that brings a feeling of comfort. It is hard to say what they might be and no doubt to one person they might mean one thing and to another some thing else. The thing comfort food must do is connect with a memory that you have had in the past and help take you to that place.

Big bowls of ice cream or war soup on a winter’s day. A bacon sandwich with toasted bread. Or roast beef and Yorkshire pudding or turkey at Christmas. As long as the food can be linked with a memory or time in your life when every thing was safe and warm then it could be called a comfort food.

It is, I think, Fair to say that comfort food is often traditional and safe. Often not very good for you ether full of fat or sugar. But that is part of the charm of the actual thing that you are eating It should give you some comfort and most diet food do not. It should make you happy and warm inside with a glow that only that food can. And not many foods can do that in the way a comfort food can.

For me it would be some thing like trifle made with jelly and blamange. And it has to be made that way to take me back to a chid hood Christmas, birthday party or Sunday dinner. Or just jelly and blamange together in a bowl.

Every child likes jelly as you see it wobbles and shimmer in the light. All the different colure and shapes in the light on the table. And then you would have the blamange. Now a lot of people will not know what blamange is. Blamange is a desert that is made from milk and thickened with gelatine. It used to come in all kinds of pastel shades, pink red yellow and orange and just look grate next to jelly.

And that is the thing about real comfort food it normally is some thing that you would not have every day. For reason that you no longer go to parties that have jelly and blamange. Or for the fact that you never cook it any more. What ever the reason you have given it up for one reason or another.

Then you rediscover the taste of a bygone day and you are transported back. Back to the days of your child hood when all you wanted was blamange and jelly. Occasionally you see jelly, but not blamange. It has gone the way that so many thing have done. Probably full of chemicals and E numbers it is no longer made any more.

But now I will go and find some make it and sit and enjoy the taste of being seven years old once more.

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