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Old 12-01-2014, 00:44
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I'm positive when I was little I used to get pink custard at primary school but none of my mates remember this, I've looked in shops and cannot find any, I used to love it with sponge cake.

Does pink custard still exist?

How do they make pink custard?

Do they add food coloring to the yellow custard?

Or do they add strawberries?
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Old 12-01-2014, 01:05
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I remember pink custard, think they just added food colouring to normal custard, I swear we used to have mint custard as well
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Old 12-01-2014, 01:14
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I remember pink custard, think they just added food colouring to normal custard, I swear we used to have mint custard as well

Yes I remember mint custard too.
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Old 12-01-2014, 05:35
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Yep, I remember. Disgusting stuff. As were all school puds. I think that's maybe why I don't have a sweet tooth. Put me off for life!
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Old 12-01-2014, 08:29
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I'm positive when I was little I used to get pink custard at primary school but none of my mates remember this, I've looked in shops and cannot find any, I used to love it with sponge cake.

Does pink custard still exist?

How do they make pink custard?

Do they add food coloring to the yellow custard?

Or do they add strawberries?
I remember pink custard, it tasted like my travel sickness tablets at the time, not great.
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Old 12-01-2014, 08:31
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Yep, I remember. Disgusting stuff. As were all school puds. I think that's maybe why I don't have a sweet tooth. Put me off for life!
I loved school puds except for yogurt because it was boring.,

School dinners, that was a different matter.
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Old 12-01-2014, 09:42
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It's blancmange, not custard with food colouring.
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Old 12-01-2014, 10:15
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Yep, I remember. Disgusting stuff. As were all school puds. I think that's maybe why I don't have a sweet tooth. Put me off for life!
Our school desserts were always really good quality and delicious. Jam roly poly, treacle tart, steamed puddings, cheesecake, pineapple upside down cake, all an absolute joy to eat.
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Old 12-01-2014, 10:29
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It's blancmange, not custard with food colouring.
we used to have blancmange AND we had pink custard.....

two different things

blancmange wasn't liquid like custard - it was more like a jelly
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Old 12-01-2014, 11:47
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It was just more milky blancmange

I remember my mate letting me have some (as i had packed lunches) and telling my mum it was yum. She asked a dinner lady for the recipe and we then had pink custard at home (was best poured over bananas!!)

My mum also used to make it at the old peoples home she worked at years ago as they used to have big packs of the mix and could make 2 desserts from it.

Found a recipe!

http://www.littlestuff.co.uk/2011/01...-pink-custard/
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Old 12-01-2014, 12:26
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We definitely used to have pink custard, mint custard and chocolate custard.

I loved all primary school puddings, including semolina!
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Old 12-01-2014, 12:32
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It's blancmange, not custard with food colouring.

I thing you are wrong then, most reply here say blancmange is different.
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Old 12-01-2014, 12:53
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I thing you are wrong then, most reply here say blancmange is different.
not really, it's kinda like more runny hot unset blancmange
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Old 12-01-2014, 17:35
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Mint custard!? bleurgh...
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Old 12-01-2014, 17:52
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We used to have pink custard with a giant melting moment Biscuit and it was gorgeous, we had normal custard and a white custard as well..
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Old 12-01-2014, 19:42
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We used to call it windolene custard. Yumm
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Old 12-01-2014, 20:55
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http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...8053011AAonjBo

i can't even remember it, but then again i can't eat the stuff anyway
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Old 12-01-2014, 20:57
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Mint custard!? bleurgh...
it was actually quite nice , alot tastier than the pink stuff
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Old 12-01-2014, 21:11
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I remember the Teletubby themed pink custard.

Revolting stuff. As was the Tubby toast you used to be able to get.
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Old 12-01-2014, 21:15
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Too much artificial colouring back in the days. They could just add some beetroot juice to custard, as they do now with fruit yogurt.
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Old 12-01-2014, 21:20
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It's blancmange, not custard with food colouring.
Nope, it was definitely pink custard. We were also (un)fortunate enough to be served blamange. Which is on a par with pink custard. I always opted for Apple and cheese.

Spam fritters. Now, they were nice....
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Old 12-01-2014, 23:39
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Might have been Ambrosia's strawberry custard. Ambrosia also does milk chocolate, banana, toffee & vanilla flavours. You can buy them all at Tesco.
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Old 13-01-2014, 03:09
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A hosptial I worked at @2004 would serve up pink custard and sponge with Sunday lunch; the elderly patients seemed to enjoy it.
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Old 13-01-2014, 08:54
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Whoever said it was blancmange was right, if you make up about half quantity of blancmange mix with full quantity of milk you get pink custard.
My Nan was a school cook for a while and that's how they made it.
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Old 13-01-2014, 15:43
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Whoever said it was blancmange was right, if you make up about half quantity of blancmange mix with full quantity of milk you get pink custard.
My Nan was a school cook for a while and that's how they made it.
It was me. As you say, Pink blancmange was made into a sauce using larger quantities of milk than would be used for the set version. It also meant the berry flavouring was lost, so it was quite bland (but still nothing like vanilla custard).

I probably should have explained in my first post
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