Eve’s pudding

In my first DS lesson in school we had to prepare ‘morning coffee’ and present it. Our ‘recipe’ included 3 biscuits which we had to arrange on a saucer. I also remember cheese and potato pie in the first year. It wasn’t until we started pastry in the second year that I learnt any useful skills.

When you say sponge, do you mean without fat, or just a victoria sandwich mixture?

Bella, it may amuse you to know small schools and their classroom eating arrangements still exist today in rural West Wales!

fluttERBY123

And all this time I thought it was eaves pudding and wondered why. Oh so Eve and the apple. I must be the last person to know. We made rock cakes in.our first lesson, BTW.

Eve's Pudding, also known as "Mother Eve's pudding" is a tradition British pudding. Named after the biblical Eve it uses apples, the forbidden fruit, as the base. The first known recipe is from 1824
downtonabbeycooks.com/traditional-eves-pudding
This one has blackberries too, but I'm not sure if they grew in the Garden of Eden either!

I think there was a variety of apple called Eve too, not surprisingly.

I could eat some now. With custard 🙂

So so easy to make, 50 gr of butter and sugar per egg, I usually make a 2 egg one, add a bit of vanilla essence, and a little milk to make the mix easier to spread over the fruit.

I just make Bird's custard, with a little extra vanilla essence and a bit of cream added. All so easy peasy.

And all this time I thought it was eaves pudding and wondered why. Oh so Eve and the apple. I must be the last person to know. We made rock cakes in.our first lesson, BTW.

I recall making bread. Took it home, went upstairs to wash and change, and came down to find just a sea of crumbs. Irresistible, apparently! We to had to make an apron in needlework, to wear for cookery - but Eve's pudding wasn't included in our very basic lessons. I might try it this week.

My first Domestic Science lesson was on how to hand wash - with Lux Flakes - the teachers' knickers!!

The second lesson was coconut pyramids - - good job my Mum was a great cook and I learned from her

It's nice made with pears too.

We didn’t make anything as nice in our DS lessons. The only things I remember are rock cakes and cheese and potato pie - just mash with grated cheese stirred in. I did quite like that though.

One thing that startled me somewhat, was dd1 having to make the exact same cookery apron I’d made 30 odd years previously! And she loathed sewing (still does) so I ended up doing much of it, and was rewarded with, ‘C+. Neatness and accuracy are 2 skills which you must practice (sic).’ 😂

Bella23

Foxygloves

Fleurpepper

Where was that Bella? Never heard of school dinners served in the classroom.

Never?
Do you think small village schools have separate dining rooms or assembly halls?
Reality check time.

I think the small village schools had canteens attached to the kitchens or they did where I lived. The school I worked in was meant to be state of the art obviously not designed by teachers.

Didn't mean to sound insensitive- but no, in all the places we have lived and known, same for OH and family- the village schools had a separate hall or dining-room attached. Never heard of, and never has OH, known of meals served in class-room in UK.

My first cooking lesson at school was soused herring. Never made it ever again and my poor Dad had to eat them as nobody else would! Not even my waste not want not little Nana.

You've had a better time than I had Foxgloves I was in an EPA school. When I moved to N/C I could not believe I did not have to sit at the dinner tables.
You still had the open plan,I told the head it was like hearing Browns cows there were so many in the class that if they did not like a lesson they sneaked into someone else's.

Our first lesson was knife control we had to make zigzag tomatoes. As we travelled a lot of miles on a bus you can imagine the state of them. My dad took one look and said "So what, they still taste the same.'
I did make Eves pudding and custard at school, I can still remember the smell of burned sponge and milk for the custard.

Bella23

Foxygloves

Fleurpepper

Where was that Bella? Never heard of school dinners served in the classroom.

Never?
Do you think small village schools have separate dining rooms or assembly halls?
Reality check time.

I think the small village schools had canteens attached to the kitchens or they did where I lived. The school I worked in was meant to be state of the art obviously not designed by teachers.

Not in our lovely , entirely modern open plan but tiny village school!
The children sat at big round tables (pushed together if necessary) and the two teachers sat and had lunch with them.

I too have a very old be-ro book inherited from my late mum.I must dig it out.😋Also yes we had school dinners in the classroom in 2 country village schools i attended.

Eve's pudding is one of my favourites, delicious! My first cookery lesson was how to prepare a grapefruit! We were obviously not an advanced group. I remember being instructed as to how to remove the 'skin' between each segment and leave the grapefruit looking perfectly untouched. Not a skill I've used since.

Foxygloves

Fleurpepper

Where was that Bella? Never heard of school dinners served in the classroom.

Never?
Do you think small village schools have separate dining rooms or assembly halls?
Reality check time.

I think the small village schools had canteens attached to the kitchens or they did where I lived. The school I worked in was meant to be state of the art obviously not designed by teachers.

Fleurpepper

Where was that Bella? Never heard of school dinners served in the classroom.

In what was a very poor district of West Cumbria.
The dinners were a hoot,they came through from the on-site kitchen in trolleys and each teacher had to sit and supervise a table. The Dinner ladies served.
When you started the afternoon session you had to be careful when you sat at the tables, if there had been glace cherries they were all stuck under the tables and the cupboards were full of brussel sproats.The site was on a hill and it was quite a new school so presumably they could not fit a dinning room in and the head would not let them use the hall which most schools would have as she didn't want her wooden floors damaged.
There were only a few walls in the building it was called open plan so you could hear all the other teachers encouraging the pink custard.
To top it all the classes were what was called family grouped so you often had three children from the same family of all different ages in your class of 42. It really was a trial by fire, not a Probationary year.

It’s one of those old fashioned puddings that’s delicious. I often use rhubarb which is prolific in my garden I love it.

Fleurpepper

Where was that Bella? Never heard of school dinners served in the classroom.

Never?
Do you think small village schools have separate dining rooms or assembly halls?
Reality check time.

Where was that Bella? Never heard of school dinners served in the classroom.

Callistemon21

😁
I don't know what happened to our rhubarb, it didn't survive the winter.
We must buy another crown.

My rhubarb has been superb this year. I will now have to make a pudding. Might even make an Eve’ s pudding.

As a young teacher, our school dinners were served in the classroom. One little boy hated them, I remember asking him to eat his Eve's pudding up. He replied that if Eve liked it would she eat it for him? All the others were resisting licking their dishes. I was sitting with tears running down my face.

Our rhubarb crowns have taken years to establish good and proper- and this year, doing great for the first time.