Mint Custard?!

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AIBU to reach out for a Mancunian mint custard recipe for a friend who's desperate to knock some up for a milestone birthday soon as a sort of reminiscence of childhood thing

I can’t believe that is a thing, DM grew up in Manchester. They were obviously too poor for custard. I can’t believe it’s actually green!

www.foodsofengland.co.uk/mintcustard.htm

As long as chocolate shortbread is available as well.

Get out.

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Yes!! With chocolate sponge.

OMG yes!!
school dinner chocolate sponge and green custard! Lush!

MINT custard? I'm from Manchester. Never heard of this in my life. Sounds disgusting

To be fair, are all those saying it sounds disgusting also as put off by after eight mints or any combination of chocolate and mint in different formats.

I'd not heard of it and my initial thoughts were 'how odd' but actually it sounds alright, I can imagine it being nice. Not sure I'd colour it green but each to their own.

Love custard, love mint based confectionary-I’m not convinced.

As an ex school cook we used vannila blancmange,green food colour,peppermint essence.

As long as you have some Australian Crunch to go with it. That's what they always served it with when I was at school (although I'm originally from the South West, not Manchester).

We had this with warm chocolate sponge at primary school in the 80s. I'm assuming those who haven't heard of it are too young to remember making me feel old

Me too! People think I'm mad when I tell them about the green spearmint milk I used to drink. You can't get it in England, more's the pity!

Chocolate custard, yep.
Strawberry custard, acceptable.
Mint custard, sounds gross.

Vanilla and mint just doesn't go together in the slightest.

I'm from the South West as well and we had this! We also had strawberry custard and chocolate custard sometimes. It was delicious.

I grew up in Stoke and had this with chocolate concrete for primary school pudding. Bloody delectable.

Yes!!! I am from the West Country, so not so far southwest as you but that epitomises school puddings for me!
Also coffee custard and flapjack

1Present0r2 I didn't know that it was called Australian crunch. It's not quite the weather for it but I think that we'll be having Australian crunch with mint custard at the weekend.

We used to have pink custard too but I think that was just colouring not flavouring.

Has to be chocolate concrete with mint custard

When I was in hospital having DD2 (now 11 so not too long ago), I was discharged the same day but before I was discharged they moved me to the ward. For tea I was given, what I can only describe as, a retro school dinner! Cottage Pie with potato croquettes - potato and potato anyone? And for pudding: chocolate sponge with mint custard!

OMG, I tell you, after giving birth I couldn't have been given anything better 👌.

My family is Mancunian & I've literally never heard of this! We did however, have a stonking chocolate custard with a skin like leather - fabulous!😍

Recipe here

Mancunian?

We had this at school in South London in the 1980s, eith chocolate cake.

@MistyGreenAndBlue I misread your name as MintyGreenAndBlue 🤦‍♀️and I thought there you were slagging off mint custard. 😂

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