As requested, there are some recipes for you below. They all came from a great retro cook book Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook, my copy is from 1977 and I love it! I have altered the recipes slightly to suit me, so I will write them as I made them...
Mary Berry wrote some of the recipes in this book, including chilled lemon flan and Montelimar pudding.
Chilled Lemon Flan
1). Crush 4oz digestive biscuits and stir in 2oz melted butter. Press into a flan dish with the back of a metal spoon. Chill.
2). Make the filling by mixing together 1/4pt double cream with a 6oz can of condensed milk (I used half of a 397g can). You don't need to whisk for long...just mix them together.
3). Slowly beat in the juice of 2 large lemons. As if by magic...the mixture thickens!
4) pour mixture on top of biscuit base and chill.
This was mine...
Not quite like the photo, but it was lovely!
Chocolate Crunch Pie
1). Crush 4oz digestive biscuits and stir in 2oz melted butter. Press into a flan dish with the back of a metal spoon. Chill.
2). Make up a packet of chocolate angel delight with single cream (instead of milk) and pour onto biscuit base. Smooth over and chill.
3). Whip 1/4pt double cream and pipe onto chocolate. Drizzle with chocolate sauce (I used the chocolate sauce for ice-cream).
This was mine...
Montelimar Pudding
Mine looks nothing like this!!!
1). Chill a 6oz can of evaporated milk in the fridge (I used half of a 397g can).
2). Dissolve a raspberry jelly in a little boiling water then make up to 1/2pt with cold water. Cool until sloppy but not set.
3). Whisk the evap milk until light and foamy. Then whisk in the cooled jelly...it will start to thicken.
4). Stir in the juice of 1/2 a lemon...and the magic happens again! Add 1tbsp caster sugar and 2oz chopped marshmallows (I used 7 large marshmallows and snipped them with a wet pair of scissors!)
5). Mix and pour into a serving dish.
We haven't eaten ours yet (today's tea) but it looks like this...
The original recipe uses lemon jelly and glacé cherries. We don't like those cherries and I already had the jelly, plus we have already had a lemon pudding this week, with lemon meringue pie coming up.
Eating a pudding each day means I can serve up smaller portions of our main meal which contains expensive meat. I am also trying to stick to three meals a day without snacking!
Please let me know if you try any of these recipes and if you enjoyed them.
Thanks for reading,
Mandy x
