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

It isn't vanilla. It's more like thickened milk with green colour and peppermint flavouring.

In my school in the 80s, It was served with chocolate sponge.

70s school dinners not in Manchester: green mint custard and chocolate sponge, pink custard with jam roly poly and yellow custard with spotted dick. All gorgeous.

Snap!
We had strawberry too.

@Greensleeves me too! Chocolate icing on the sponge. Waiting for the moment it had melted into the custard?
Did you have tarmac with the coloured dream whip piped on top?

1981 born Yorkshire lass here and it was bloody lush! Chocolate concrete and mint custard 👌👌👌👌 we also had strawberry custard too with the same chocolate concrete, equally lush!

I grew up in Notts. We had lovely Pink and Chocolate custard, but never the green one.
We also had the best Manchester tart in the world. I've never tasted one as good.

Absolutely delish school dinner pudding with chocolate sponge. Mum would never make it though!
We also had vanilla sponge with pink custard. London in the 70s.

Soft southerner here.

Banana custard was the worst school dinner atrocity inflicted on us.

Mint custard sounds like a torture from a universe far far away...

We had this in the 70s, in Lancashire, with warm chocolate sponge.

It was my favourite school pudding.

I beg to differ. Banana custard is lush - particularly with skin on the custard! 😋

What? No. Pink custard, yes. Mint custard? No.

After eights are different as it's dark chocolate. Dairy and mint is just terrible.

I've never had mint custard but I do make a mint chocolate ice cream recipe which involves making custard with milk which has had mint leaves simmered in it instead of vanilla pods. I also use white chocolate powder. It's delicious!

OMG mint custard and a biscuit type pudding - yes! Definitely remember this as a school dinner pudding in the Midlands. Yum!

Post op I got
Cheese and onion pie with peas, mash and gravy and a bread roll
Jam roly poly and custard
2 cups of tea
A piece of jam cake in case I got hungry later

Apparently the catering staff were slightly confused by someone enjoying the food it was delicious!

From the old school dinners recipe book

And chocolate concrete seeing as so many have mentioned it

YES

Yes! I work in a school and would love them to still serve this!

Chocolate cake and minty custard is a favourite pudding in our house, bit unseasonal for the weather this week though.

hodgepodgedays.co.uk/recipe/chocolate-cake-with-minty-green-custard/

Mint custard sounds like a torture from a universe far far away...

That would be The North 😏

We had green custard. Wasn't minty though. Neither was the green milk.

The chocolate crunch we had had desiccated coconut in it. Servedwith mint custard, which was more like a sweet, minty white sauce coloured green! So actually quite different from traditional custard, which I don’t think would taste nice if you added peppermint flavouring. I think I need to make it!

@MsOllie my mum always likes the food on hospital too! I was like - what are people talking about? This is lush! 😂

I'm Mancunian, never had mint custard at our schools (I'm 48), only ever heard it mentioned on here