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How about Gypsy Tart. I remember Gary Rhodes making something along these lines years ago. I remember him boiling a tin of condensed milk for several hours so that it was very thick and concentrated.

I shall need to consult the library, and come back to you.

valmarg

Oh Gypsy Tart - that takes me back a bit!

Problem in those days was actually finding a shop stocking muscovado sugar ...... I remember Mum had a packet in the cupboard under lock and key!

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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
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Thanks everyone - I told Scared that I was not completely mad (only partially)

I shall have a look and see if I can make some - I'm willing to bet that it isn't as nice as I remember from my schooldays (things are always better remembered from childhood I think)

If I make one I will post a pic, watch this space.

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Even harder here in France - normal brown sugar is hard enough. Lucky I bought some muscavado with me from the UK when I moved - might be a bit old though

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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

See Haze making up food parcel for the Scareys.....

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update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!.....

We used to call Chorley Cakes 'Flies Graveyards.' Aren't kids vile?

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Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake)

MMmmmmm lardy cake, my Grandad used to buy one every saturday from the local baker and we'd eat it whil it was still warm .

We used to call Eccles cakes " dead fly cemetry"!!

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Does anyone remember ovaltine chocolate bars? I remember my mum used to buy a large bar and every so often we were allowed a chunk!

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Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

All this talk of cake ... I just ate a Xmas pudding with custard. Well, I did get absolutely drenched biking home from school just now. Floods in East Angular tonight they reckon .... oh joy.

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Available all over Europe - we often have them

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I remember Ovaltine tablets/sweets?.........Just ........A long long time ago.

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My Nan used to make everyone a Rice Cake for Christmas every year, and when she died no-one could find the recipe - she made it from memory & the original recipe wasn't in any book on her shelf. After years of trying every recipe I came across, I finally last year found one that worked in an old 'farmhouse' type book. I now have 'orders from 6 members of the family for them for Christmas! It'll be a fair test of will-power not to scoff them though...

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“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

[quote=Two_Sheds;144884Floods in East Angular tonight they reckon .... oh joy.[/QUOTE]

Sorry to go off thread, but the forecast does seem to be promising horrendous weather for you. Hope you all keep safe.

valmarg

I make a mean Christmas pud - I really enjoy the smells in the house as it steams away. It's become one of our traditions that I make the puds. I also make a chocolate and orange one from a Jamie Oliver recipe.

I spent my early life in an "old people's home" (as they were called back then) - as my Ma was a warden at one, and my dear old Nan was warden at another. The old ladies used to want to give me money all the time, but Ma taught me to thank them, but say no. The old ladies used give me biscuits and cakes instead, and I remember loving bread pudding in particular. Really stodgy and I remember grey being a feature colour...

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Can I ask you to post the chocolate and orange recipe please HW?

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Shirley

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Of course, just had a quick blackle, and found it: http://www.cook-book.com/recipes/cho...e_pudding.html

I use a cocktail stick to prick the orange, and the bit where you put the orange in the pudding can be a bit messy, be sure not to put too much in the bottom of the pud basin as the orange won't fit otherwise.

I've never cut the orange into segments, and it's never caused a problem.

It usually looks like there's not enough mix, but once it cooks it kind of joins together so don't worry too much.

The smell is lovely!

Enjoy.

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Thanks for that - some family members don't like dried fruit (strange folks)

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Luck things!!!

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Yes I remember them too now you mention it (can't be that long ago!)

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Likewise - I think there's only my Ma and me that eat Christmas pud. Pretty much everyone else prefers the Choc/Orange one.

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PM me your address Lainey Lou and I will send you some

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Somebody brought some from Thailand about four years ago. The Ovomaltine brand is positioned differently in the Far East and those little sweets, although bearing an uncanny resemblance to my dogs' worming tablets, are quite popular (and, IMHO, delish).

Also available in the Philippines [link]

KK