To think there is a MORAL OBLIGATION to share recipes if asked?

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Look, it's just a pickle recipe. Your daughter gave me a jar, it tasted delicious and I asked for the recipe when I'd finished the jar because we'd all fought over the last spoonful.

You live 200 miles away and you have refused to give out the recipe.

It's an outrage.

Atavisitic and

Brass neck indeed!

Atavistic! She sounds like a brass necked nutcase.

That was clearly your fault, atavistic. I bet your SIL believes a glass of sprite provides 2 of her 5 a day. After all, there's a picture of a lemon and a lime on the label.

atavistic I remember your post from the time. It made me think of giving your recipe a go and then I forgot.

I'm definitely going to do it now. I think I might add some tomatoes. Would that be all right?

I don't have any lemonade so Coke will have to do.

atavistic oh my God your SIL is a right muppet! And rude as well.

Limited: surely fanta would be a better choice.

I just made banana cake/bread having been given the 'secret recipe' of one of dh's colleagues. Convinced myself her cheeky missing ingredient was an egg...will let U know how it goes.

I love cooking and sharing recipes. Think it's a bit miserly not to. Unfortunately I'm a thrower inner with a 17 year old oven so cannot guarantee results will be the same.

The recipe that I always get asked for is this ginger dessert. I love revealing that it's so easy. I have eaten it all my life and am sure it started out as a 'serving suggestion' or something... Dunk gingernut biscuits in sherry very briefly and sandwich together with whipped cream until you have a 'log' of the length you want. Cover with more whipped cream and and arrange thin slices of preserved stem ginger along the top. Chill overnight. When serving, cut slices on the diagonal. Looks like impressive patisserie, tastes amazing, yet a reasonably competent child can make it for you

love the idea mrsp!

Asking for recipes can go a bit wrong when there isn't one, though ...

Months ago we had friends to dinner on an evening when I was just too knackered to do much, so the leek and stilton soup they raved about was actually Baxters Leek with some stilton stirred in and a bit more crumbled over the top

They still talk about that soup - and I've still never confessed

Cheaty shortcut noted, puzzled, Thanks!!

Oh bugger ... it wasn't meant to encourage you, mrspremise !!!!!!!!!!!!

Feeling faint at the thought of all these bread puddings being made with lard and water! How revolting! Surely everyone knows it egg and milk or cream,?!

My leg of Haddock dish is legendary

ovaryhill the bread, egg and milk/cream pudding is a bread and butter pudding - very very different from bread pudding!

ovienna My banana bread doesn't have egg in it.

I am with ovaryhill on this.
Have not made bread pudding for years, but remembered it as having milk rather than water - and including an egg.
Posts here made me doubt myself (although I certainly do know the difference between bread pudding, and bread & butter pudding!) so I have researched a little online.
Every recipe I could find for bread pudding (excluding the zillions for B&B pud) uses milk & egg! THIS Nigel Slater version is representative.

So..... I would now love to try out the water & suet versions that everyone seems to have inherited. Anyone offering a full recipe??

Mrspremise, your ginger dessert sounds interesting but I cannot envisage it. How does your 'log' not fall apart - what is holding it together? How do you 'cut on the diagonal'?

Winky- DH admitted HE had forgotten to tell me about the THREE eggs his colleague had mentioned needed to be added. I used one, 'twas fine.

Redesigned this recipe seems pretty close to the one I learned from my granny except it uses suet rather than lard. I don't really measure anything, just go by what looks/feels right.

As with so many 'traditional' recipes, I think there are lots of variations because people adapted them according to what was to hand/personal taste - my Granny certainly wouldn't have wasted precious eggs in bread pud during wartime.

Good luck!

Whew! Up to date with this at last and I have to say that due to this thread I have done a complete 360 on my opinion about sharing 'precious' recipes. You are all right and there is never a good reason to be a squinty-eyed prissy pants about a recipe. I am a reformed character.
Now - there is scarce a pickle or chutney I do not make and make mostly to my own recipes. Name it and if I know it I'll share.

Ah! Oops!!