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what is you favorite type of pie or tart.

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  • I made a pumpkin pie,  using a mixture of sugar, grated lemon zest and ground ginger as flavouring. It tasted like pineapple, we all thought it was much nicer than plain pumpkin pie.

    I decided to try making a bread and butter pudding using brioche and marmalade, as suggested in a previous post. The flavour was fine but I did not like the mushy almost slimy texture. There were no nice crispy bits around the edge. I had to hunt hard to find my last jar of homemade marmalade, a reminder to buy some Seville oranges when they come in after Christmas. Nothing like homemade marmalade of any kind.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    What about simple bread pudding? Old, stale bread softened with water - butter, mixed fruit and mixed spice added before being baked.


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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I always use brioche @Joyce Goldenlily.   The trick is to assemble your marmalade sandwiches in yur dish and let the custard mixture soak in for at least half an hour before baking it and then bake till the tops gor crusty and golden.   Delish. 
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  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    steveTu said:
    What about simple bread pudding? Old, stale bread softened with water - butter, mixed fruit and mixed spice added before being baked.


    My late mother always made this,  but in those days, bread was cheap enough to let go stale. 
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2023
    A woman I used to know spent part of her childhood in a Japanese internment camp in the Far East during WW2 … (think Tenko) … her British father worked in the Far East before the war and she and her mother were staying with him when the Japanese invaded. 

    Even as an adult some 30+ years later if someone dropped some food, even a small crust, on the floor she would pounce on it and cram it in her mouth … she could not help herself … quite often afterwards she would sob uncontrollably … she said it would trigger such vivid memories.  

    Her father disappeared and she never saw him again. Her mother did not survive the camp. 


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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Your last post has brought tears to my eyes @Dovefromabove.
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Me too Topbird. She was a good friend of a friend of mine. We spent lots of time chatting over coffee in a big Suffolk kitchen back in the 70/80s. 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It won’t be there for long @LittleGreyRabbit 😡 

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  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    OH loves old fashioned bread pudding, but I buy bread to make it! Rarely have stale bread to use up. I did have a friend tell me that she never made bubble and squeak as they never had left over potato or cabbage. That’s another ‘leftover food ‘ recipe that I buy ingredients for.  
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Hated pumpkin pie, I think it relies on the added spices to try and make it remotely edible. I do enjoy pecan pie though. 
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