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Turktown tastes!

Have to admit, we used to have evaporated milk with bread pudding.
That's bread pudding - not bread & butter pudding, which, unless it was a total disaster we ate 'au naturelle' - but if it was too dry - evap milk was used.

We used to have Ideal milk on everything and I loved it then.

Think it is horrible now and the same goes for tinned tomato soup. No, I never did have that on me afters!

We used to have Carnation milk. Come to think of it, I used to think it had some sort of 'royal' connection.
Now I'm a wee bit older, I realise the word carnation is similar to coronation - and the carnation flower looked a bit like a Tudor rose. :-S

I am addicted to custard.

When I was van driving, one place I worked would make me do a delivery early either to Petworth where there was bakery that did excellent doughnuts, it's a Chinese restaurant now, or to Havant where Heidi's did, and I believe, still do, wondrous custard slices.

Then we could have them with the coffee.

I would gladly have swapped my cakey bit for somebody elses custard!

I love evaporated milk.. At 9 years old I was so upset that my sister was getting married (i was the bridesmaid) that they gave me a glass of evap milk as compensation as she left for her honeymoon.

I would probably have drunk it when I was nine but was quite disappointed to find I didn't like it any more a few years ago.

Dream Topping now that is a different matter but you never seem to see it much now and when you do it's a days work to get it whipped up.

At the school I went to, they cooked excellent meals, but, being a fussy eater, I didn't like much of it.We had to eat everything put on our plates though. There were two things I loved, one being spotted dick and the other jam rolo-poly...absolutely delicious.It was served with custard.Only tasted bread and butter pudding in 2006 for the first time....loved it.Trouble is, we can't get those puddings over here in Holland.

Make them then woman!

Easier said than done Sharron. One of my daughters is keen to try make a jam roly-poly, I will wait until she has tried, and hopefully succeeded.I don't trust cooking puddings. When I first came to Holland, suet was not available...had to go to a butcher to ask for it...he found it very strange that someone wanted this. It was called 'niervet'= kidney fat..hmm. Didn't know what to do with the lump of 'fat'..lol I gave up after this, and bought suet in the UK when I went over...still didn't make any puddings though.

I was thinking about the bread and butter pudding really.

That couldn't be simpler.