The mother of all essential desserts

[salymap]

Not a dessert but to go with the right sort of light creamy pud, my party piece for years, Lebzeltbackerei
or Honey-cake biscuits.


Fiddly to make but worth the effort- icing sugar, eggs, ginger, cinnamon,nutmeg and cloves. Can be made to hang on the Christmas tree [with hole in the middle] but lovely as a pudding accompaniment.

Easy to buy in Germany, Austria etc but home made are best.

[marthe]

saly, sounds delicious! Is the dough rolled and then cut with biscuit cutters? Shall have to try these at Christmastime. It's too hot to have the oven on right now!

[salymap]

saly, sounds delicious! Is the dough rolled and then cut with biscuit cutters? Shall have to try these at Christmastime. It's too hot to have the oven on right now!

Hello marthe, I'll send you the full recipe by PM, but not today. Found it in the Daily Telegraph in 1975 and still have the yellowing cutting.

[marthe]

Thxs saly! I'll look for it. m.

[cloughie]

I am also very partial to raspberries in raspberry jelly, tinned mandarin segments and hot apple crumble with custard.

(Who started this nonsense?)

If you want to get back to basics - jelly and evaporated milk.

[Serial_Apologist]

Kind of went off treacle tart after spending some night shifts packing them in boxes at Mr Kipling in Eastleigh.

Could manage one now, though! (well not a whole big one, obviously !)

Funny you should write that, ts.

As a child, to me there was no sweet more delicious than treacle tart. Then one day, after having it, the entire school was violently ill with salmonella. I'm pretty certain the steak & kidney pie served beforehand was the most likely culprit, but from that day to now it has completely put me off treacle tart.

[Anna]

If you want to get back to basics - jelly and evaporated milk.

Jelly is fun, you can suck it through your teeth, I think blackcurrant is best. Evaporated milk, not sure about that, but a while ago someone mentioned an awful desert called Gypsy Tart (?) which was evaporated milk boiled up with ? in a pastry case. Think it may have been Ams? Or was it condensed milk. Whatever, it sounded awful.

As to spotted dick - no thanks, but a light steamed sponge pudding is actually rather lovely with some kind of fruity jammy sauce. I also like old fashioned creme caramel (which I do make sometimes)

[Nick Armstrong]

a while ago someone mentioned an awful desert called Gypsy Tart (?) which was evaporated milk boiled up with ? in a pastry case. Think it may have been Ams? Or was it condensed milk. Whatever, it sounded awful.

Cooked evaporated milk (or condensed milk - is that the same thing?) is a great favourite in the Latin world, South America particularly, used for desserts and as a sweet spread to put on toast: dulce de leche. Can be delicious! http://savorysweetlife.com/2009/12/dulce-de-leche/

[teamsaint]

I am very much with the rhubarb crumble team......just fab !!
May be a result of it being the only properly edible food at school...

[cloughie]

Cooked evaporated milk (or condensed milk - is that the same thing?) is a great favourite in the Latin world, South America particularly, used for desserts and as a sweet spread to put on toast: dulce de leche. Can be delicious! http://savorysweetlife.com/2009/12/dulce-de-leche/

Or there is the scouser delicacy -The Conny Onnie Butty.

[Nick Armstrong]

Or there is the scouser delicacy -The Conny Onnie Butty.

Sprinkled with sugar, apparently...

a.k.a. The Dentist's Delight

[Lateralthinking1]

This sounds suspiciously like a pre-Thatcher banana split, Lats

Definitely. No one had injected air into the ice cream like into a tyre. No hint of soapiness in its texture.

On jelly, as Anna says, it is fun but we must end the virtual jelly monopoly.

The end of Rowntrees jelly was a disaster equivalent to climate change.

It just isn't right for it to be only a choice between Hartleys and the supermarkets' own brands.

Unless anyone has spotted any others?

[Mary Chambers]

The end of Rowntrees jelly was a disaster equivalent to climate change.

It just isn't right for it to be only a choice between Hartleys and the supermarkets' own brands.

Unless anyone has spotted any others?

You can make your own with sheet gelatine (veggie available) and fruit juice/wine/even milk. I can't remember exactly how, but I've done it in the past and it was easy.

[AmpH]

A multi - layered chocolate ( various ) and cream trifle - like construction in a large glass dish topped with nuts for added crunch. Known as ' Death by Chocolate ' and it is utterly yummy , deliciously naughty and seriously unhealthy.

[french frank]

Cooked evaporated milk (or condensed milk - is that the same thing?)

No, if you mean the stuff you get in tins, I think evaporated is the stuff that's the consistency of single/double cream and condensed milk is the thick sticky stuff.

My little local caff does a very nice saffron ice cream (and I'm not generally too keen on ice cream).