School dinner desserts
Jun 19, 2019, 7:45 pm
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I would rather have a sundae on offer than a dessert that I wouldn't touch
Jun 19, 2019, 7:51 pm
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Once of my favourite desserts on any flight was in F in 2012 when BA had some "Olympic themed dishes". Simon Hulstone's Chilled chocolate fondant with roasted hazelnuts, sugar tuile and salted caramel center (I did have to look it up). I had one with lunch and another with afternoon tea.
Jun 19, 2019, 8:00 pm
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Come and live in Argentina and a BA dessert soon becomes a highly desirable item. I always give dessert a miss here for a fag and coffee instead.
Have to say my wife loved the T5 lounge puddings last time we were there....and she's a fussy bugger.
Have to say my wife loved the T5 lounge puddings last time we were there....and she's a fussy bugger.
Jun 19, 2019, 8:21 pm
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Cheese, good biscuits ( M &S Puffs ?) AND butter ? I need to take the flights you take ! ^
Jun 19, 2019, 10:02 pm
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Jun 20, 2019, 3:33 am
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Surprised it has not come up but what kind of custard? Proper custard is a delight but the yellowish gloop which fans of the Archers will recall contributed to the near death experience of Rob Titchener is awful.
My tip for those people making proper custard is to put in a teaspoon of Vanilla Paste, much easier than using a pod.
I doubt that BA could do a good custard, but thinking about it a Custard Slice? Now that's an idea.
My tip for those people making proper custard is to put in a teaspoon of Vanilla Paste, much easier than using a pod.
I doubt that BA could do a good custard, but thinking about it a Custard Slice? Now that's an idea.
Jun 20, 2019, 3:45 am
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And it sounds like PUCCI makes only childish desserts — Wikipedia notes that the Dame Blanche is “similar to the American sundae.”
Jun 20, 2019, 5:31 am
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Flew Qatar from Penang late last year and they had apple crumble on the menu.... It wasn't really like anything you'd consider to be apple crumble in the UK but my god it was a delicious cross between a warm muffin, bread and butter pudding and crumble. Absolutely stunning!
Hoping spotted dick is back on my menu for my flight to Miami in August!
Hoping spotted dick is back on my menu for my flight to Miami in August!
Jun 20, 2019, 5:36 am
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Crumbles are an excellent dessert. Sadly much of the other stuff - spotted duck, neon yellow custard - is a hangover from the landfill mass catering of mid 20th Century UK. Not really a culinary era to be nostalgic for.
Jun 20, 2019, 6:01 am
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Whenever people say to me the British are not known for their cuisine, I say that there are two things we do better than anywhere else in the world.
1. Chocolate biscuits - Cookies are nice (if they aren't dry) but they are not chocolate biscuits. We have the best biscuits in the world.
2. Hot desserts - I love a rhubarb crumble or treacle sponge and custard. I oft argue with Americans that apple pie is infinitely better with custard than ice cream and that crumble is better than cobbler. The hot dessert is invariably the best dessert on the menu in First or CW menu and the cold desserts are often too chocolate heavy or cold and still frozen solid. As pointed out the soggy cheesecake is awful, not like a proper baked New York cheesecake at all and they love trying to make slices of chocolate or fruit sound fancier than they are by calling them a delice or parfait.
1. Chocolate biscuits - Cookies are nice (if they aren't dry) but they are not chocolate biscuits. We have the best biscuits in the world.
2. Hot desserts - I love a rhubarb crumble or treacle sponge and custard. I oft argue with Americans that apple pie is infinitely better with custard than ice cream and that crumble is better than cobbler. The hot dessert is invariably the best dessert on the menu in First or CW menu and the cold desserts are often too chocolate heavy or cold and still frozen solid. As pointed out the soggy cheesecake is awful, not like a proper baked New York cheesecake at all and they love trying to make slices of chocolate or fruit sound fancier than they are by calling them a delice or parfait.
Jun 20, 2019, 7:39 am
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Yes all my (Muslim) Turkish in-laws do rather like coming coming for Christmas due to the puddings I make and even my normally tee-total mother in law will drink some of my trifle (not that that is a hot pudding)
Jun 20, 2019, 10:11 am
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I am surprised that not one airline serves Iles Flotantes as they are easily assembled on an aircraft. The other which really works is a Very Chocolatey Mousse. Indeed I think that the time has come for a revival of Black Forest Cake - again it would work perfectly. Unfortunately so many were dreadful, bugt a really well made one with proper cherries and decent chololate is fine - the only thing is that cream sours quickly.
Now I do apologise in turning a thread on School Dinner Desserts into a cookery lesson but if I, Pucci, can do this - BA should and could. Still, there's a thread on AA about an F menu where one of the choices is clearly a gastronomic constellation in their culinary crown is actually a Chicken Leg in some jus or other.