I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this before, but when she was at school my mum was served the most amazing array of puddings.
Not amazing in the culinary sense. Due to an apparent world surfeit of suet and jam during the 1950s, most of her puddings were as stodgy and dimpled as a school girl’s thigh.
No, what was amazing were the names these puddings were given:
Mixed Bathing
Spotted Dick
Swiss Roll
Dead Man’s Leg
I kid you not. They were served up a rolled suet-sponge and jam affair affectionately known to them as Dead Man’s Leg. Suddenly William Golding doesn’t seem such a visionary, does he?
Apparently, Mixed Bathing was something to do with fruit floating in custard, Spotted Dick as you probably all know involves currants and Arctic Roll is iced penguin, cut in to slices.
Nell Frizzell
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