"cybercat" > wrote in message
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> "ms_peacock" > wrote
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> >>What lucky children you were!
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> > That's what we thought too. We found out later it was because we were
> poor.
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> *smile* Yes, us too. Did you get bread pudding? My mama did not put any
> raisins in it, but just vanilla and sugar and cinnamon and milk. Maybe an
> egg? It was soooo good, and I imagine a good thing to do with stale bread!
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> > It's not. I baked bread myself for many years and when they came out
with
> bread machines I got one. It isn't at all like real handmade bread. It's
a
> > lot more like bakery bread than handmade bread.
> >
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> I'm glad I don't bother with it now! We have some good bakeries here, but
> nothing beats hot out of the oven, I imagine.
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> I had a friend from Greece whose command of English was not very good at
> that time, and to express how poor they were when he was growing up in
> Athens, he once said, "we burned our mouths on the bread my mother made.
Do
> you know what means that?"
>
> He meant that the children were so hungry that they could not wait until
it
> cooled. That put a lump in my throat.
>
> Bake to real chocolate pudding: it had to have a thick skin on it when it
> cooled, too! I loved that part.
>
> Did your mom ever make custard in cups, not pudding but old fashioned egg
> custard set in cups in a shallow baking pan full of water in the oven? I
> don't think I have had egg custard since my mother made it.
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Yes, my mother made bread pudding also out of the stale bread, and I make
quite often myself. I love it with or without raisins.
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