I was a little late with it but I combined the pudding and custard recipes in one post and put it out there early enough if someone felt inclined to do it.

Recipes are always welcome.

Your Mom knew how to control teenagers – with food.

Hmmmm! I just realized I hadn’t seen the comments to this. Must have posted it last year before I was unavoidably AWOL for awhile. 🙁

LOL @ BadTux (…’cause he’s right!) 😉

I can still remember fondly my maternal Grandmother making this (usually in Sept.) when I was a wee lad! Unfortunately… we were only allowed a small piece with a little hot custard, and I suspect that was to ensure we slept soundly Christmas eve! My Grandparents were cunning! 😉

I really should find something else worthy of posting… Oh!! Reminds me… I did finally find Mom’s old cookbook (which I think I mentioned in a comment last year). This has been a hectic year for me, haven’t really had a chance to look at it. It did bring back some memories… good and bad (mostly good, but a bit melancholy I guess). 🙂 When I was a teen and started *partying*, my friends used to come over occasionally on a Sat afternoon and we’d usually plan what we would do for fun that evening. Often, Mom would suggest we stay home and she’d *bake some cakes and pies* etc. The first time, I remember, my friends were not too sure about this plan… 😉 But I had a really great HiFi system (that I’d saved over 2 years for, just the speakers cost me just over $2k (Electro-Voice Interface D’s, with a Spectro Acoustics Pre-Amp/Equalizer/Power-Amp/Tuner, this was 79/80. In a curious twist of fate, I met the guy who started Spectro Acoustics when I was working in the USA for GD. He was designing power supplies for the B1 and eventually the B2 nuclear cruise missile launchers! True! Small World…) Ahem, I digress…
Anyway, my friends loved Mom’s cooking (was a hell of a lot better than the normal take-away party food crap or club food we usually had on Sat nights!) We had a great time and my friends and I would always clean up everything (though, often that would be on Sunday with a few sore heads!) They loved my Mom (and her cooking) and were always very polite and she loved having them over too. My father, on the other hand… *shrug* who cares? We didn’t! 😆

Yeah… I’ll have to dig something out of Mom’s *Magic Cookbook*! 😀 😉

Yes, I remember with great fondness the original McDonald’s french fries, the only reason I would stop there. The milk shakes are now plastic, and the fries worthless. In a few years they will probably discover that the new cooking oil are worse for you than the suet, as has occurred with the butter v. margarine dispute.

The canned light cream in the Hispanic section is often evaporated milk, so you have to check to be sure.

It’s like a fruit cake, PJ, it takes a while for the flavors to meld.

I haven’t found the bloody code that controls it to find out if you can just fill in with periods or it requires spaces, nor do I know why they are doing this. I was a change that showed up about three revisions ago.

Speaking of suet, remember when McDonald’s still cooked their fries in beef fat? You know, back when even food critics thought McD fries were the bomb? And fried apple pies, yum! Funny, since they started making things “healthy”, trying to eat their food guarantees me an acute case of indigestion. Never fails.

So you hang this pudding in the closet to “mature” for six months? And when does it crawl out of the sack and start devouring everything in it’s path?

When the current clowns in government get done, you’ll wish you could afford a Christmas pudding.

– Badtux the Foodie Penguin