Lucretia Borgia > wrote in
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> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:57:46 GMT, Wayne > wrote:
>
>>Arri London > wrote in
:
>
>
>>Let's say I go "hoping" for it. I really like English food, and if I
>>see that a restaurant offers an English pub stew or roast beef and
>>Yorkshire pudding, I usually make it a point of going. Chances are,
>>they'll also have bread pudding. While the typical neighborhood
>>restaurant may offer a decent meal, their interpretation of bread
>>pudding is usually disgusting.
>
> I am not sure if anyone pointed out that bread pudding came into its
> own during the war. The flour in the bread replaced the loose flour
> that was not available most of the time. Ingredients were very
> flexible, in other words what one could find, and if the mixture was
> not too appealing, well it would be covered in custard to make it
> somewhat better. I remember fairly frequently when it was mostly
> bread and suet with just the odd trophy currant if you were the lucky
> kid who got that slice
>
> I prefer the bread and butter pudding to the bread pudding simply
> because I had the latter ad infinitum as a kid.
>
> Sheena
>
>

That's very interesting Sheena; I didn't know that. I've never had bread
pudding often enough to make me tired of it. It's always been a treat.

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Wayne in Phoenix

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