I was a bit surprised when the "frames not analyzed for stabilization" notification popped up (13:57). I thought it was something to do with my computer😆
I have some fun facts about Bird's custard since it originally came from the city I was born, Birmingham. The creator Alfred Bird wanted to make an egg free custard for his wife who was allergic to eggs. The old factory has since been converted and is now full of independent shops, restaurants, pop ups, and studios, but is still called "the custard factory".
I picked up some Bird's (not a common thing in the US), a few years ago to make an "authentic" trifle. (I think I wanted it for something else, as well, but I can't remember what. Maybe to go with fish fingers? ;) ) Was pleasantly surprised by the result.
We certainly never had the custard made with strawberry milk it was just food colouring. You should do a whole series of old British school desserts, you’ll be amazed 😂😅
The pink custard takes me back to my school dinners as a child in England. We were convinced it tasted like strawberry but looking back I don’t think it did 😂 thank you for my little trip down memory lane, as kids we lived for pink custard day!!
@@emmymade absolutely! I think if the pink custard was deliberately made to taste of something entirely different our brains would initially taste it as strawberry 😁
I'm in the UK and according to my old dinner ladies from the 80's the pink custard was in fact strawberry blancmange. It's the same as custard powder and yes it was strawberry flavoured.
Also from the UK, and the pink custard where I grew up (in the 80s in Yorkshire) was not strawberry flavoured, in fact it barely tasted of anything at all - not even custard. The chocolate concrete was also rock hard so I suspect a different and probably far cheaper recipe must have been used. Still, we all loved it, especially compared to frogspawn (tapioca pudding) or glue (semolina pudding) which were also on the pudding rotation.
Hi emmy! Lovely video as always. I believe there may be an editing mistake starting at 13:56. It is a blue bar saying “New Frames Need analyzing, click analyze” and it lasts for about 6-10 seconds. I haven’t seen any comments on it so maybe it’s just me though!
Yeah, it's what happens when you use image stabilization in Adobe Premiere, but then change the length of the clip. As an editor I see them a lot, and it gave me a chuckle to see them make it to the final product. As a note, Premiere will pop up a warning when you hit Export and there's either unanalyzed frames, or unlinked media. And, it's a good idea to go check all the clips with warp stabilizer on them.
Hi Emmy! Idk if you noticed it but around 14:04 there are these pop ups from maybe editing about new frames needing analyzing. And it flashes for a few seconds. But amazing fun video as always!
If you ask for a chocolate concrete in the mid west you'll get a thick custard based ice cream milkshake that is incredibly rich I can only eat a small one and I have quite a sweet tooth. Fun video, gonna have to try this sometime.
Even though I'm an American, my favorite dessert growing up was something my grandmother made called "puddin' and sauce". The 'pudding' part is a yellow cake made with one egg and self rising flour and the 'sauce' part is a chocolate pudding-like sauce or chocolate gravy that was served over the top of a piece of the cake. I still make it fairly often. Edit to include cake recipe as I have it: Oven at 350 degrees, grease and flour a cake pan. In a bowl, mix 1/3 cup oil, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup self-rising flour, and enough milk to make a batter. Pour into prepared pan, bake in oven until toothpick comes out clean or middle top springs back when touched. Any chocolate gravy recipe will do for a topping, also lemon curd or jam and whipped cream. Depending on the ingredients I have on hand, I make chocolate gravy with cocoa powder, sugar, cornstarch or flour, water or milk, pinch of salt. Cook until thick stirring constantly, remove from heat add some vanilla or almond extract and a bit of butter. Serve it warm over the cake.
Just wanted to thank you for always putting your videos in the chapter sections! A lot of RU-vidrs don’t do it & I just wanted you to know I & I’m sure many of us really appreciate the extra effort you put in to do that. Thank you for all the amazing wholesome content ❤
I grew up eating chocolate crunch, in primary school it was served as a dessert with custard and in highschool it was served without custard as a morning snack, along with shortbread biscuits etc, but I most remember it being served with green mint custard, not pink strawberry. So I guess even in the UK there's regional variations. Definitely not healthy to be eaten everyday but they were a comforting constant when dealing with the craziness of high school and all the changes that happen along with it. Chocolate crunch was the only thing that stayed the same, day in day out 💚
Not just the 70’s and 80’s! We had this in primary school when I was there in the early 2000’s! I will say we never had strawberry flavoured custard with it though, it was just vanilla dyed pink for reasons unknown…😅
Emmy has a way of being authentically whimsical and simultaneously very practical and informative. It is a great combination. Love the lighting and atmosphere. 😌✨ Also agree that there are so many reasons to love parchment paper. It is so helpful in so many ways - I never like to be without it in the kitchen.
Tragically we had chocolate custard at our school rather than pink (and it was a lot thicker), I always assumed the crunch was shortbread and have lamented at never finding a shortbread with the right texture, so I am very grateful to find out how I might recreate that 2002 vibe!
I love Emmy and have subscribed for years but I have to admit, I’m really struggling to stay engaged lately with the sheer number /length of ads and paid promotions in every video….
I know this sounds funny, but that pink sauce reminds me of the Telly Tubbies kids show. They ate Tubby custard which was a pink custard. Lol maybe the creators were thinking back to thier school days.
If you're going to start the stroll through uk primary school puds would definitely do aussie crunch, treacle sponge and school cake too. But the ultimate is butterscotch tart 😍 was always served with a blob of stabilised cream on top and chocolate vermicelli sprinkles. Pure nostalgia!
I work in a nursing home as a Dietary Aide, as such I get to make all the desserts. The little tehehe you made when mixing with your hands is TOTALLY me at work when cooking 🥰 I love desserts lol and I love watching your channel, your enthusiasm is incomparable ❤
Britain does have a specific dessert called 'pudding'. It's a sort of cake which is either steamed or boiled, often in a cloth bag. There are many variations on this idea, the most common of which is probably the Christmas pudding. The amusingly-named Spotted Dick is made in a similar manner. But yes, we also use 'pudding' as a generic word that means 'dessert'.
Correct me if I'm wrong as I am not native but have been living in the UK with my British husband. I always feel the word pudding is more an umbrella term for the course other people use "dessert" for. So I would call this a cake of some sort but not pudding. But if we are in a restaurant I'd say "what will we have for pudding". The individual dish however I would call by what it is. So when she said this is a British pudding it sounded not quite right for some reason. Maybe it's because many types of puddings are now eaten as snacks 😂
@@thesupergreenjudy It's sort of both. It can refer to both a specific dessert like the og comment said (eg sticky toffee pudding, Christmas pudding) but can also refer to desserts in general.
@@drghostduck Yes but in your example the recipes already come with "pudding" in the name. Would you refer to a brownie as a pudding even though you might have it for pudding? ;-)
@@thesupergreenjudy It means a whole list of things. 1. The dessert course in general 2. A specific kind of food that is often starchy and roughly round. This can be sweet as in a Christmas pudding, or savoury like a filled meat pudding. They are usually retro, warm and filling (although a Summer Pudding is an exception - being relatively light and chilled) 3. Taking the savoury idea to its limit gives you ‘black pudding’, which is a kind of blood sausage. 4. Even further is ‘yorkshire pudding’, which is roughly similar to a Dutch baby, or large popover. A light pancake batter baked in hot fat so it rises into a light and crisp pastry-like side dish. It’s a little like how ‘apple’ used to be the generic name for fruits in general, and became more specific over time - the main remaining theme seems to be the carb content and the rounded shape. There are probably other examples I have missed!
@@thesupergreenjudy as an English guy I refer to all desert as pudding, whether it be a brownie/cake or jelly etc.. I’d even say icecream is pudding as long as you have it after dinner/ whatever meal. Not sure if it’s correct but it’s the language I was raised around. Random point but as a child I always got confused when Americans would exclusively refer to the custard looking desert as pudding because I always assumed it was a general word for the sweet dish after your meal.
Why did it say frame not Stabalized? That was weird. Anywho, this is something I'm gonna have to try because it looks really good. Did they make the strawberry flavor milk sauce? Another question anyone know, if she has this as her you tube studio kitchen? It doesn't seem like a full kitchen in a house. Curious because I would like to have one one day
Never heard of this but it reminds me of an Afghan a New Zealand chocolate cookie, it's the same base recipe with cornflakes added, they are individual and round and don't pack them in so tightly, they have chocolate icing with a single walnut on-top, but they are dry and crumbly and without the sweet icing they are hardly sweet at all, don't ask me about they name I think it's something to do with New Zealand soldiers wives sending over these cookies during the first world war or something I'm not sure
Wait how is this significantly cheaper than brownies? Brownies are literally just this plus baking powder, milk, and an egg, that can't add more than $1 to the total cost
I’m 28 and I remember looking forward to this in school omg. Back in 2000 my mum told me to get the recipe, I begged one of the lunch ladies for the recipe for weeks and she finally wrote it down for me. I still have that same classic recipe from school. Also in the original school recipes they use margarine and not butter specifically ‘stork’ brand and it tastes better than butter imo.
If you want to bake more chocolate base cake, you should bake swedish stickycake(kladdkaka). One of first thing you learn how to bake in Sweden and it is so good! If you want a recipe let me now☺️
I grew up in the 70s with this dessert. It is actually nicknamed chocolate concrete because it used to be absolutely hard and difficult to break apart which is where the concrete idea came in. The custard was essential because otherwise any attempt to break it up with sand the dish flying across the room! The custard helped to soften it. Originally the custard was plain yellow but some places made it pink. I guess the softer version is a modernised version of this desert. Glad you learned to make it it has always been a UK favourite exclamation mark
This brings back fantastic memories from our lunchtimes at school. As a little’un you would really have to put all your weight behind digging your spoon into the hardest chocolate substance known to man. You’d end up loosing half the slice while trying to get a spoonful but the reward far outweighs the risk!😂
Emmy, as an American who's married to a Brit there is no end to the interesting and unexpected differences in the different terms we have for the same things. I just end up using the British versions 🤣
Omg you finally made it 😍 this made me so happy! Chocolate crunch and pink custard was my favourite school pudding growing up. I have since made this but the recipe I used called for an egg to be added to the mixture also, and I added the sugar and water sprinkled on top prior to baking. The only major difference here is the custard and I'm sorry Em but for that truly authentic experience 🥰 you have to use a packet mix for raspberry blamange. It's like a set custard dessert but you just use it hot instead, the raspberry flavour is subtle but goes much better with the Chocolate. This video made my heart so happy 😊 ❤️ really enjoyed watching it!
i’m not from the uk but my dad is originally from wales and every so often he makes a vanilla cake with white icing and sprinkles and calls it old school cake and that is super delicious
I use salted butter in everything instead of unsalted butter. I just omit any additional salt that might be in a recipe. I feel like things taste better with salted butter the unsalted. I understand why people say not to, because you want ro control the level of salt in a recipe, but I think chocolate chip cookies taste better with salted butter and also so many other things.
I haven't heard of Chocolate Concrete but 'school cake' was my favourite in school in England (think it was UK-wide?) and is something many generations know and love. Vanilla cake, white icing, and sprinkles. It's delicious! Sometimes served with custard too.
Thanks to whoever suggested this to Emmy - was a real stroll down memory lane. I remember the smell of this permeating the canteen and asking the dinner lady to give me the custard skin (to the disgust of many friends). ❤
Oh my goodness, custard skin!! What a delightful memory😍I’m from the UK and most of the kids I went to school with absolutely loved the custard skin. In fact, whoever was “lucky” enough to find it in their bowl would often shout “YESSSSS!!” like they’d won the lottery. It’s funny because it’s the kind of thing that as an adult, you’d probably complain about finding in your food. There’s definitely a lesson on perspective & gratitude in there somewhere.
@@bellakoko4558 It sounds like I definitely went to the wrong school! Yes, although still find it difficult to every complain about food when i'm out - perhaps another uniquely Brit trait, saying the food is "great" when indeed it is cold, has hair in it and tastes like it's a day old. I'm not sure if they still serve this in primary/junior school (losing out if not), but there's also something about growing up in a generation of abundance. I imagine children's tastes have greatly evolved - it's no longer chocolate brick and pink custard, but chocolate fondant with creme anglaise 😅
I remember having this at school but we had it with mint custard. It was delicious. In fact all the puddings I had at school were really good. Look up mint custard because it was epic!! I’m from the UK and was at school in the ‘70-‘80s btw😀
It was always served with mint custard at my school too. And you're right - it was delicious. Mint custard was just the best. I was also at school in the 70's-80's and always say the best thing about it was the puddings! 😀
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I remember mint custard too in the 00s, they must have a secret recipe book.
7:14!!!! Such a great trick for pressing the crumb mixture flat and beautiful! I love learning tips and tricks for cooking and the kitchen area in general. Thanks very much Emmy ! After all these years you still come up with new things to share that are actually possible in a common household. Love you and your channel ‼️❣️❣️
I remember our dinner ladies making a chocolate sponge with pink custard, not concrete! Looks tasty though and takes me back (some considerable time 😉)
Yes!! I used to eat this all the time at school, though this was in the early-mid 2000s/2010s. My mum was actually a dinner-lady at my school so we used to eat it at home a lot, too (it came in these big bags, pre-mixed, that my mum would bring home from work.) Haven't had it in many years but it was always one of my favourites 🥰 I hated custard as a kid, so I always ate it plain, but I think I just missed the pink custard craze 😅ours was just plain yellow. We also used to have these rice krispie cakes made with golden syrup and chocolate at my school. No idea if they were common in other places, but they were delicious. Chocolate toothpaste cake too, though the name always put me off of trying it!
😢Does *HelloFresh* have _singles meals_ for people who get to sit, alone, in their room watching re-re-re-re-runs of *It's A Wonderful Life* or *A Christmas Carol* and wishing it was a rerun of something more lively, like a [expletive] *Jaws* marathon?
I loved this at school haven't had it in yonks might have to make some don't know about the pink custard though we always had it wirh regular custard, literally only seen pink custard on Teletubbies.
Emmy, please try the Lord Wooten Pie. It's a pie that Was created in England during the WW2 to help ppl make dishes using the simple rations. So it's a love/hate pie relation. I think you'll like it.
In my school we had these with banana custard and between that and strawberry, the banana paired much better in flavour. So good. Also we had a ‘white chocolate’ version of this in the same way you have a blondie and a brownie. Instead of cocoa powder it was just vanilla and milk powder, and some white chocolate chips strewn in. The white chocolate chips would stay as whole chips instead of melting all the way through like a cookie and that helped give it that firm texture.
School dinners were often a traumatic event, the food was always dreadful, and the days we got the mint custard, ugh, just nasty, oh dreadful the memories, it wasn't good, even just walking past the local primary school around midday, the smells coming from their dining hall brings back the bad times, I had PLENTY of dinnertime disagreements at school because the food was just such a bad experience for me (Autistic, but not known a the time, so was punished for it instead as a result!), ended up having to go home at dinner times instead cos of it... :S
Did you ever end up analyzing those frames to make sure that custard is ready for stabilization? I've heard that unstable custard can cause a whole heap of trouble! 😅
A school lunch favourite. Served with pink custard, mint custard or just enjoyed on its own. ❤️❤️ A friend still blames this on weight gain, despite the fact we left school 35 years ago. Another special is chocolate toothpaste cake! 🤣🤣
@@emmymade if you want something really different, a Bedfordshire clanger is a sweet and savory pastry. It's meat & potato one end and sweet fruit the other end. A real traditional delicacy from this part of England.
@@MummaQuan it's a pastry tart with really gooey chocolate filling. It uses milk powder for extra calcium. 🤣. It's a special thing they served where my husband went to school.
Thank you so much for doing it, loved this pudding at school and you got the top a lot flatter than the dinner ladies at my school 😆 the man who invented birds custard invented it for his wife who was allergic to eggs (hence the annatto giving it the yellow) . Because of this it's vegan, just make it up with plant milk like usual and you're good to go!
It took until you put the mix in the pan to realize that my dad made this for camping trips, no pink custard though, it did have oatmeal. Just the crumbly choco brick that dried out your mouth...it was so good. Edit: recipe was not this, anyone hear of chokdadhaurek? Google can not find it anywhere, my dad's recipe was lost in the cookbook expansion, luckily my aunt copied it down from my grandma's cookbook.
@@aphmaple2348 copied from aunt's cookbook card, according to my dad it started out as a drop cookie recipe but was to crumbly to hold its shape. Chokdadhaurek 1 cup shorting (maybe replace with butter) 3/4 cup sugar 1 beaten egg 1/2 cup flour 2 1/2 cups rolled oats 3 TBS Cocoa 350°F for 30 mins Melt Shorting & Cool Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy Add rest of ingredients Pack mix in pan and bake
In English we also use “pudding” to refer not just to desserts buy to steamed suet puddings, like spotted dick, Christmas pudding, treacle pudding etc, all made with flour etc tied up in a bag in a special ceramic pudding bowl, sealed with brown paper and tinfoil, steamed in a pan.
I'm from the UK, and I've never seen chocolate concrete, feel like I've missed out! I've not seen pink custard since my primary school days in the 80s, we used to have it over a vanilla sponge cake, that was baked in a large tray, with strawberry jam and desiccated coconut on top. I think it was just regular custard, dyed pink!
Ooh Earl Grey goes great with the chocolate concrete the bergamot really highlights the coco, also when I knew I was having this at School I would bring some finely chopped coconut to put on it, yes I was the foody kid at School people made fun of me till they tried it and where amazed at how it tasted, thank you for taking me down memory lane im going to go make some of this right now with a dusting of coconut sugar it tastes great anyone who reads this let me know if you tried it
Thanks Emmy! Very interesting. I think the lady who said use raspberry blamange has to be spot on. Usually it is raspberries or raspberry sauce you see with chocolate cakes or pies. At least in all the cookbooks I've ever read lol. Say do you or anyone remember Dream Whip??? When I was a kid that was one of our fave desserts. Chocolate, vanilla or strawberry I think we're the only flavors. It was powdered in packets. My Mom made that alot for us kids. I don't think it cost alot and we were a family of 7 so.. good buy for us I guess. Also a way to get all 5 kids to eat their dinner! Except Lima beans or liver. Good Lord how I hated those 2! Liver smelled awful cooking and that organ meat texture just turned us off. Tho we would eat chicken hearts because my Dad cut and delivered chickens for quite a few years. Lima beans? UGH. I used to hold a big bite and then had to go see. Into the toilet with them if I could get away with it! Have a good safe weekend lady🙏🤣🍫🍓
Chocolate concrete! I live close to Birmingham, UK and it's kind of a stereotype that we eat a lot ofchocolate concrete. We used to have this in school dinners, when it was served with green, mint flavoured custard. It was one of the very few items I could eat and enjoy from school dinners!
I’m from the UK and I used to absolutely hate chocolate concrete (more of a chocolate hedgehog kind of girl) but I would live for the pink custard. This, sprinkle cake, chocolate hedgehogs, treacle cake and pineapple upside down cake were the only good things about school
@@juliac6256 I went to school elementary thru high school in Alabama. We had our choice of desserts, peanut butter rice krispie treats, peanut butter cookies, lemon ice box pie, chocolate pie and chocolate cake, vanilla or chocolate ice cream, . Every single day.
8:38 I remember having to roll out some dough, but surprisingly not having a rolling pin in the house. I looked around the kitchen and saw our wooden paper towel holder. It has a detachable thick wooden post that held the towels to the base. I floured it up and it worked beautifully. I never did buy a rolling pin.
I have used wine bottles, cans of beer, rolls of foil or cling film, all sorts of things to roll dough! I finally bought a rolling pin after improvising for a shameful amount of years 🤣
gosh i miss chocolate concrete! i remember how difficult it was to bite into on the edges then inside it was so crumbly and soft, i will have to try this recipe, also your voice is so relaxing!
We never had this at our school here in the UK but we did have massive duvet like sponge pudding with chocolate, vanilla or pink vanilla custard 🤤. We never had strawberry flavoured custard but I would love to try making some. This looks amazing though like tiffin squares or biscuit cake 😋
I loved pink custard in primary school, they served it every friday with angel cake which is pink, yellow and white. I recently found out that Ambrosia sells tins of pink custard and it made me instantly nostalgic as soon as it touched my tongue 😍
Fascinating! It's so simple i never would have thought that would be nice... Seems like something a child would attempt whilst trying to learn how to bake but you make it look so professional!
I kind of wish Emmy would put the ingredients amounts to what she makes sometimes in the description.. especially when it turns out good. This looks like something I wouldn't mind making for my dad tbh
This reminds me so much of the Ted Lasso bars except substituting the cocoa for the abundance of sugar in the Ted lasso bars. I'll have to try this soon!
In New Zealand we say pudding for desserts too - mostly hot desserts. For example the chocolate 'water cake' you made recently is called a 'self-saucing pudding' here.
@@maeuschen22 yeah, you're right. If I say I'm 'having pudding' that could mean literally any dessert. But I wouldn't call ice cream or fruit salad 'a pudding' like I would a steamed pudding. If that makes sense.
