What is your favorite 'old fashioned' dish?

Old fashioned is really a subjective phrase but I'll give you some idea of where I am coming from.

When I was younger, it was common to find ambrosia salad and oyster dressing at the yearly family picnic but I haven't had either in YEARS. There are some recipes that I associate with the older generation in my family and it got my wondering... I couldn't be the only one?

What would be a favorite old fashion recipe that you had or still make? Any good stories behind them?

My favorite old fashioned.

More seriously, if there are dishes I still make from my childhood, I'm not sure they're going to qualify as 'old fashioned', because they seem contemporary. But just so that I'm playing along correctly, how about alpine fondue?

Nothing beats bread soup for comfort food.

Bowl full of torn (not cut) stale white bread.  At least 2 tablespoons of salted butter.  Boiling hot broth to almost cover the bread.  It becomes something of a solid/soup/gel after sitting 5 min.

The key is to have an excess of salt and fat in a bed of zero fibre carbs.  In Victorian times it was the food to recover from illness. It also helps recovery from emotional days.

I like boiled nettle soup. It feels very nourishing and I try to always have nettles on hand for making these sorts of greens recipes.

In my opinion it seems like many of the plants that are “eaten like spinach” seem to taste better than spinach. But a spinach lover, I am sure, would have a different opinion.

Milkweed is another old fashioned pot herb that I like. Stir fried wild greens of any kind are good but especially if they have some cheese. I have been discovering that tall wild lettuce, against my preconceptions, is perfectly edible and delicious when cooked the right way with other flavors to balance the bitter.

Hominy is also a good addition to soups.

Ambrosia sounds heavenly and I have not had it in years.  Must have shredded coconut, too.

I have not fix gelatin salad in a while I like lots of fruit with chopped pecans.

I did a post on ice box cake that is an old fashioned idea:

https://permies.com/t/255145/good-recipes-Ice-Box-Cake

I have a very particular memory when thinking about this subject.

There was an older gentleman in my family that I only remember from when I was around probably five years old. He always was quiet and loved to fish. He was a husband to one of my great grandmothers when she decided to remarry after my paternal great grandfather passed away or something like that. Anywho, every year for the great big family picnic on my mothers side he would bring oyster dressing (stuffing?).

Doing some searching around, this dish seemed to be a side-dish for festivities like Thanksgiving found near coastal regions.

I'm halfway tempted to try and recreate the dish just for the memories. I can't say that I particularly liked it back then but my tastes have refined with age.