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Neighbour's son was down for a couple of days. He left school in 1976.

While he was still at school, they would frequent that cafe that Fred used to use and he remembered having a steak and kidney pudding with chips and the pudding had a mushroom on top.

So he has remembered that mushroom for at least forty-five years!

Thankyou Jl, yes this is the recipe i have used awhile ago but maybe i didnt whisk it enough? Mine went sticky on top but underneath was still runny.

Shall have another go soon and keep whisking a lot longer.

i had thought i had left something out of the recipe thats why I asked if anyone else had it.

Thanks

Florence in the hebrides

Found it Florence - and it’s very simple.

1 pastry case (bought or made - I think I made my own sweet pastry because that is the time I bought the baking beans for cooking the pastry case)

Large can evaporated milk

A bag of dark brown sugar (doesn’t give size but from memory I took it to mean the smaller 1 lb bag.

Whisk the sugar and evap together and put into pastry case. Bake for ten minutes on medium heat but keep an eye on the tart.

I capitalised the last seven words so I must have burnt (or at least overcooked it the first time around).

I also found a recipe for Tipsy Tart! :-D

Try ' schoolrecipes.'

Thanks Sharron but i dont do FB, or any other social media

There is a group on FB called 'Old School Puddings' who have the recipe.

Oh wow Gwyn so they still sell it after all these years.

JL thankyou, that would be great, thankyou very much.

Florence in the hebrides

Florence, I have a recipe for it that I’ll look for and let you have.

Florence,
I don't remember it from school days in Hampshire, but it's widely on sale locally in some bakers and many supermarkets.
In the latter, they are usually individual filled pastry cases with a set mixture in them.
Sold as Kent Gypsy tarts.

In the 70's at school, we had a desert known as Gyspy Tart served with 1/2 apple afterwards apparently to cleanse the teeth of the sugar!

I have searched high and low for a recipe and although i found one in a magazine, it never sets and therefore have never managed to replicate this delicious tart.
Up here they call it toffee tart buts its not the same.

The original i had was made with light brown sugar and evaporated milk which you whisked together until it thickens and is bubbly. But once poured into a pastry case, it sets on top but not in the middle no matter how long i whisk it for.
Does anyone else remember this desert from their schooldays?

Florence in the hebrides

This was 1974, I think it was more likely a charcoal sort of contraption.

Oooh - I loved the tapioca, semolina and rice pudding at school - I used to eat everyone elses!
Best rice pudding ever was in the Gurdwara (Sikh religious place)) at St Mary's in Southampton.

JL

Yes, he has had it for nearly 25 years, my daughter also has it.

Names

Thanks names, I'll look out for it on catch-up too.

My OH has coeliac disease, names, yours sounds as though he has the same.

JL
I think it is a one off programme, about 6.30 on Sunday.

I,m not too keen on semolina, but a massive spoonful of jam helps. As to summer pudding I’d just prefer a heap of strawberries with the clotted cream.

Added: you obviously didn’t go to school with me before 11. Rice pudding was delivered in a huge vat and it was a case of one lump or two.

I am not fond of pastry dishes - but if I were visiting someone's home and one was put in front of me, I'd eat it (or most of it, perhaps not the crusts) as I wouldn't want to seem ungrateful. I always feel I can get away with it by saying, 'I never eat crusts anywhere.'

I loved school dinners! :-D

I haven’t had syrup tart for years and think that I’d now find it too sweet.

Was discussing this with OH who voted for crime brûlée until I pointed out if there were gluten free chocolate profiter rolls on the menu he’d jump at them.

He wondered, if it was his last meal, whether he’d go mad and eat all his old gluten filled food favourites, until I pointed out he’d have to be certain to die in the following 30 - 60 minutes, otherwise he would just feel like he was dying. :-D

I so dislike syrup tart that I can barely bring myself to say it. Bannoffi pie is not far behind either, or sticky toffee pudding.

Never seen that programme, Names, so I'll look out for it.

Milk puddings are fine with me. My favourite from those is semoline but I'll eat rice and frogspawn too. :-D

Can;t beat summer fruit pudding though. I may make myself one today as I have everything in - including thick clotted cream.