25 Poor Man's PUDDINGS Brits Over 70 Still Make From Memory

Junket, sago, blancmange, jelly whisked with evaporated milk, banana custard, lardy cake, apple charlotte, Eve's pudding, summer pudding, queen of puddings, the pink powdered whip, the ice cream roll, the school Bakewell tart, cornflake tart, gypsy tart, Manchester tart, rhubarb crumble, apple crumble, date sponge, tapioca, bread and butter pudding, jam sponge, syrup sponge, chocolate concrete with pink custard and spotted dick. These are twenty five poor man's puddings that Brits over seventy still make from memory. It is nineteen sixty five, half past twelve on a Wednesday, and the whole school is queuing for dinner. A school dinner cost one shilling, and it stayed one shilling for eleven years. At home, Sunday pudding was stale bread, a pint of milk and whatever was in the tin. For each one you will hear where it came from, what it cost, and where the school pudding went. And number one is the pudding a council once tried to rename, because grown adults could not stop giggling at it. Tell us in the comments where you grew up, and what your mum called the skin on the custard. 0:00 Intro 1:13 Twenty five, Junket 1:46 Twenty four, Sago pudding 2:22 Twenty three, Blancmange 2:56 Twenty two, Jelly whisked with a tin of evaporated milk 3:36 Twenty one, Banana custard 4:10 School dinners and the one shilling dinner 5:09 Twenty, Lardy cake 5:39 Nineteen, Apple charlotte 6:00 Eighteen, Eve's pudding 6:17 Seventeen, Summer pudding 6:51 Sixteen, Queen of puddings 7:15 Why the puddings were so sweet 7:52 Fifteen, The pink powdered whip 8:13 Fourteen, The ice cream roll 8:47 Thirteen, Bakewell tart, the school kind, with white icing and half a cherry 9:26 Twelve, Cornflake tart 9:46 Eleven, Gypsy tart 10:30 Ten, Manchester tart 11:04 The custard, the jug and the skin 11:43 Nine, Rhubarb crumble 12:26 Eight, Apple crumble 13:23 Seven, Date sponge 13:54 Six, Tapioca 14:37 Where the school pudding went 15:38 Five, Bread and butter pudding 16:19 Four, Jam sponge and custard 16:57 Three, Syrup sponge, or treacle sponge, depending on where you grew up 17:27 Two, Chocolate concrete, with pink custard 18:06 Number one, Spotted dick 19:13 Twenty five puddings later