Transphobic attitudes contradict the good feminism does everyday

Ah, so it is what we always called Toffee creme tart. That was the best school pud by far.

How dare you!! Gypsy tart is amazing!!

We went to Buckfast Abbey once, and had lunch in the cafe there. They were serving treacle tart that day, and the filling was at least an inch and a half thick - dh was in heaven!

Gypsy Tart, @TinselAngel.

What's gypsy tart?

All the talk of treacle tarts has reminded me my Grandmother used to make a delicious Norfolk Treacle tart, served with a hefty dollop of Cornish clotted cream (in the days when you could only buy it in Cornwall). It's in Constance Spry cookery book and involves more of a lightly set egg custard with syrup and lemon. The filling is golden syrup, butter, cream, egg and lemon (rind and juice).
No breadcrumbs. I haven't made it in years due to dairy free DH so the breadcrumb traditional is much loved by him but one involving butter and cream is off the menu. I think it is far superior to the traditional which can be rather dry and chewy and very dense depending on the quantity and quality of the breadcrumbs.

”All syrup is treacle, but not all treacle is syrup.”

I guess it depends how the treacle identifies!

@Lamahaha - if transphobia should be an -ist rather than a phobia, does that make us transistors?

Thank you for the chocolate concrete recipe, @Danceswithwarthogs - and thank you to everyone for all the reminders of desserts past.

We used to have chocolate blancmange when I was a child - my mum disliked the vanilla one and the pink one so we only got the chocolate one (not the worst deprivation). I remember my dad making it once, and forgetting to put sugar in it - that was a disappointment.

I would like to have a go at making cornflake tart, but the one I really want to make is gypsy tart - the filling is dark brown sugar and condensed milk mixed together and baked.

Loving the treacle stories.
I know the molasses flood story is awful and a horrible way to go but I can't help laughing too.

And the description of how people tramped the molasses all around the city, leaving a trail of stickyness - a rather good example of why we are all at home social distancing and reading about molasses floods rather than leaving an unseen trail of virus....

Wow. That molasses flood story is amazing (and awful), too.

It could be outing, but briefly there was an altercation between two individuals in some premises that had legitimate reasons for having barrels of treacle on site.
One individual unfortunately, but possibly not entirely accidentally, ended up in the treacle.
The extraction of said individual was a bit like that child's storybook tale where a line of people all get stuck together.
It takes an awful lot of water to dissolve treacle.

I know somebody who fell into a barrel of treacle.

You can't just drop that here and not tell the full story.

I know somebody who fell into a barrel of treacle.

Is he/she like Obelix now, and doesn't ever need to eat sweets again?

I know somebody who fell into a barrel of treacle.

I would love a lunch that was just trifle.

Making a trifle later for lunch tomorrow (lunch is not just trifle)

Much obliged to you Warthogs

Chocolate concrete - Sorry recipe is industrial quantity...

3/4lb (12oz) flour - sieved
1/2lb (8oz) granulated sugar
1 and 1/2 oz of cocoa -sieved
1tsp vanilla essence
1/2lb (8oz) marg or butter

Melt the fat, add vanilla essence
Mix sugar, flour and cocoa in a bowl
Add melted fat and mix well
Press into 2x greased sandwich tins
Brush top with water and sprinkle with sugar
Bake for 30-40 mins at 180/gas 4
Cut while still warm and soft.

@deepwatersolo. I have a recipe for a lemon pudding that sounds similar. You stand it in a tray of water as you cook it so the bottom doesn’t set. The recipe is basically regular chocolate sponge, put in pudding dish, stand pudding dish in a tray of water, stick in oven.

Are you saying it is chocolate sponge but at some point lemon comes in? Or lemon lemon? Can you post the recipe? It sounds lovely either way!

Thanks for that mocha pudding recipe, sounds lovely!

Have I missed the recipe for chocolate concrete a pp offered earlier? I'm on the app and I can't easily scroll back.

Does it use the Grasmere Gingerbread Shop biscuits for the crumble?! I love those biscuits, my gran used to send me a tin from time to time because she knew how much I loved them.

Something like, but homemade. I managed to track down the ingredients.

I think best made with sharp cooking apples, lightly sweetened, stewed and cooled.

Topping. This is the original recipe, so not in metric. I put everything in the food processor and give it a whiz.

5oz butter / 8oz plain flour / 2oz brown sugar / 2oz caster sugar / pinch of bicarbonate of sofa / teaspoon of ground ginger.

I like to increase the amount of ginger because I like it.

I made it in small ramekins, but you can used a pie dish. Spoon the crumble mixture over the apples, bake in a moderate oven for about 25 minutes.

there is a recipe for apple Grasmere, which is a kind of shortbread crumble flavoured with ginger

Does it use the Grasmere Gingerbread Shop biscuits for the crumble?! I love those biscuits, my gran used to send me a tin from time to time because she knew how much I loved them ☹️.

www.food.com/recipe/self-saucing-mocha-fudge-pudding-27974

This is a very simple, very delicious chocolate self saucing pudding. Hmmm. Maybe it might be on the list for next week's dessert.