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Alternative to Heinz Tinned Sponge Puds?
Si_Clist
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Since the dastardly Heinz company stopped making their tinned sponge puds, there's been an obvious omission from our prepping shopping list. I know you can get sponge puds which go in a microwave, but we don't have a microwave.
So, the question is - is there any sort of sponge pud type thing readily available which has a reasonably long shelf life and doesn't need a microwave to heat it?
So, the question is - is there any sort of sponge pud type thing readily available which has a reasonably long shelf life and doesn't need a microwave to heat it?
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These are much nicer HM.. have a look on the BBC website.0
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Home made are nicer but they don't have a long shelf life.These are much nicer HM.. have a look on the BBC website.
I haven't got any for years so hadn't realised they had gone, boo
I do stock up on tinned rice pud, semolina etc All yummy
Gu have an oven chocolate pud - no idea on the shelf life or if they are what you're after
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Ah. Sorry, I don't seem to have made myself clear. I know sponge puds are much nicer home made, but what I'm after is an alternative to the Heinz tinned puds - something sweet and filling that has a long shelf life and can be can be got ready to eat by just plonking it in boiling water in a pan while you get on with something else.We're all doomed0
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Chocolate has a long shelf life and requires less prep.Ah. Sorry, I don't seem to have made myself clear. I know sponge puds are much nicer home made, but what I'm after is an alternative to the Heinz tinned puds - something sweet and filling that has a long shelf life and can be can be got ready to eat by just plonking it in boiling water in a pan while you get on with something else.
Cake in a tin can is just so very wrong
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VfM4meplse wrote: »Chocolate has a long shelf life and requires less prep.
Indeed it does. But it's not a pudding.VfM4meplse wrote: »Cake in a tin can is just so very wrong
If you say so. But I'm talking about pudding, and when there's no power, all you have to cook on is a wood stove, you're not feeling very well and you fancy a substantial hot pud - not chocolate, not cake, but a pudding - the question is what's available that doesn't need a microwave?We're all doomed0 -
You could probably get frozen in plastic tub sponge puddings, I got one from Iceland a few months ago [haven't eaten it yet] . I expect the plastic will withstand steaming if not on the bottom of the pan, much as the christmas pudding containers do.Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi0
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I had thought about home canning cake ... but a quick google produced very credible warnings about the danger of botulism.
If you have a ready-made pancake batter mix, it probably isn't any slower to make up a batch of pancakes than heat a tinned pudding through.
There are also recipes for microwave-in-a-mug cakes, which you might be able to keep as a dry mix (using dried milk or egg powder?). That does require a microwave, of course, and they need electricity.A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0 -
Im sure there are long life puddings in the tinned fruit aisles that are in plastic containers that can be plunged into hot water ( probably does say best results microwave but Im sure we used to stick them in pans of boiling water when camping )0
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Christmas Pudding comes in a sealed plastic container that keeps for months in a cupboard.0
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