Childhood pudding memories - making me hungry!
By oldchem1
@oldchem1 (8132)
September 16, 2010 4:19am CST
I think that most people have food memories that date back to their childhood. I was lucky enough to have the typical stereotype Granny who was a fantastic old fashioned cook and who has left hundreds of great food memories stored in my head.
The one family pudding though that springs to mind is the one that Granny used to make when my relatives from down South used to visit; that recipe is an old traditional British pudding – Queen of Puddings.
The pudding is said to date from a pudding that was devised by chefs at Buckingham Palace for Queen Victoria – I don’t know if that is true, but it certainly is a pudding that is fit for a queen!!
I can still remember as the delicious, sweet pudding was ceremoniously served and Granny would cut through the light meringue down to a layer of her home mad jam and then to the egg custard base.
As Granny was an old school housewife, thrift was important (and also necessary) and so what went in the custard base of the pudding depended on what needed using up in the pantry – it could have even have seen a little sherry added to the sponge!
These days I don’t make this pudding too often, I am diabetic and there is just far too much sugar for me in it; I do however still make it on special family occasions and it is still as popular now as it was when I was a kid; I now buy cheap Swiss rolls from the supermarket to use in the base – however, as Granny did, you can use stale bread or cake that needs using up – but as I can buy a Swiss roll for under 20p I’m not being too extravagant – as Granny would not have approved!
What was your favourite pudding as a child?
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11 responses
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Sep 10
Hiya chem,
Apricot Turnover was one of my favourites. I always had this at School as it was never made at Home. Spotted "Richard" another you can see why I have called it that can´t you you can can´t you? Also Roly Poly another there I don´t have to change the words for that one. This is another one I could only get to eat at School also.
On Fridays my Dinner Lady would always give me double the amount as she reckon that I needed it to grow a bit quicker as I was quite small.
There you have my menu from before.
This one is an oddball but I loved Beef Goulash yumm again only got to eat it at School Dinners.
I wish my Granny would have been like that I really I really do.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
19 Sep 10
Hiya chem,
I always thought the same too but my Gran used to make it pretty okay and it was nice to eat but the School one was like you said cold and like tadpoles.
I loved Rice Pudding too with the skin browning on the top from the Oven. Then adding a bit of Jam in the middle.
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
16 Sep 10
We did not do puddings growing up until I was old enough to discover them and make a few. We were more into cakes and pies. I prefer pies over all. The puddings I learned to make thought were rice pudding--cooked rice, egg custard, raisins sugar an spice, bread pudding, with stale bread, egg custard, sugar, and spice, and dried fruit if we had it. I recently learned to make a sauce to serve over it that is wonderful. I also liked the chocolate floating islands. That is a dish that I have not made in ages. It looks like a regular cake batter, but once it is cooked you end up with a moist chocolate cake floating in a hot chocolate sauce. I will make pumpkin pie filling and serve it in a custard dish, instead of in a pie crust. It saves a boat load of calories.
@gdesjardin (1918)
• United States
16 Sep 10
My granny was a typical old fashioned country grandmother. She was very soft spoken, and would also make my sister and I cookies. When she was growing up (in the depression) she had to be very frugal when she got married and had kids, my grandfather lost his job so they struggled again financially. Well even when money was a struggle back when I was younger, she was still extremely frugal. My granny would bake sugar cookies. She would take a candied cherry and slice it in half and then take the half and slice that in half and in turn slice that it half. We would enjoy our sugar cookie with an 1/8 of a cherry on top. Of course she is now gone, but we also look back on our sugar cookies with the tiny little cherry on top. LOL Oh, and here chocolate chips cookies, even though they tasted terrific only had about 2-3 chips in each one...LOL. Good old frugal granny. I guess I must get my frugal ways from her.
@Professor2010 (20156)
• India
16 Sep 10
Hi chem
Reading this discussion made my mouth watery, felt like eating lol
we don't have pudding, but similar things like 'kheer', 'paios' etc, sweet and thick..
Thanks for sharing.
Welcome always, cheers.
Professor. .
@Catana (734)
• United States
16 Sep 10
I also had a memory of a recipe from childhood, but I was the one who made it. My mother was a terrible cook, so as soon as I was old enough to be trusted with the cooking, I started using her cookbooks. I found a delicious recipe that was chocolate cake floating on a layer of chocolate pudding. It was a one-bowl recipe that divided out as it baked. I always remembered that and wanted to make it again, but the newer editions of the cookbook it came from didn't have it any more. I finally found an old copy of the cookbook and made the pudding-cake several times. But it's sinfully rich, and I live alone now, so I don't make it any more. But I'm often tempted. Maybe some day.
@sender621 (14889)
• United States
16 Sep 10
I have the fondest childhood memories of cooking chocolate pudding on the stove with my mother. It was a dessert made with fun and love. i am not much for instant puddings. They just don't have the same flavor. Nothing comes close to the homemade pudding comfort that comes from family and good times together!
@Memnon (2170)
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16 Sep 10
Puddings were never my thing. My partner loves them, but I would always settle for cheese and biscuits instead.
My memory of food in childhood goes back to Shredded Wheat and fish and chips. Shredded Wheat was so rough that it would stick on the roof of my mouth since my stepmother was so thin with the milk.
Fish was always on a Friday, and I disliked both the smell and the falvour. For some reason ours always had bones.
Either way, it seems as if they were using food to try killing us. If they really did not want children perhaps they should have invested in contraception. Then again, once I could earn they were quick to take my pennies, so perhaps that was their purpose.
@mandywilks (191)
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16 Sep 10
My granny used to make a really lovely syrup suet puddong served with lovely thick custard, it was yummy, but not very good for the waistline!
