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The lad in Tesco thought sago was a herb when OH asked if they stocked it.

I have not seen pudding rice either (Carolina rice I believe it was properly called,long grain was Patna) so have to make it with long-grain.

I wouldn't put golden syrup in anything apart from the bin.The idea of a syrup tart makes me gag!

Blast, I knew there was something when I was in Sainsbury's yesterday - went there with my son as we don't have one this side of the city. I was so pleased when I asked a lad if they had the cheese sauce granules and he found some, that I completely forgot those packets of sago.
I haven't been able to get the cheese sauce granules for more than a year or so, they are so handy to make up for a moist topping for pasta when you are in a rush.

Lizx

I am so looking forward now to going to Morrisons tomorrow for the sago and tapioca, just to see if I can get it. I do not know if they sell it dried, but I am sure I have seen it in Ambrosia tins. Cheese sauce granuels are usually found near the DRUMS of Parsley sauce etc. near the gravy granuels. Very handy to have in.
Will tell you all tomorrow how I get on
Julia in Derbyshire

I have had both in tins,and semolina,but I want the real thing,dirty great dollops of it too.

You don't get the cooking smell from a tin,or the smell of the burnt milk which I invariably drop on the hob.

I think the last time I bought sago and tapioca they were Whitworth's.

I will try to get to Budgen's tomorrow.They may have it,they seem to be the the place for anything a bit obscure.

Scientists should be working on a way to make a milk pudding that is mostly skin and burnt bits.

That rice bit in the middle is alright but it is the brown bits that you really want.

I make bread and butter pudding but am not very keen on the burnt bits of fruit that you can't really avoid.This is not to say I don't eat the burnt bits of fruit,I just am none too keen on them.

Once,at school,we had rice pudding with rose-hip syrup on it.

That is something you don't seem to see any more,Delrosa.I used to love it.Wonder of you could make it.

Yes,this baby had it.

Looked up the recipe on the internet.A bit of a fiddle for something that doesn't keep.Lakeland do one I believe,much less fiddle.

Reliable but not usually cheap.I keep off their website as much as possible.Too much I didn't know I needed.

I buy it from Tescos

What?

I went to Morrisons today as I said I would, on the hunt for the puddings of childhood. Only managed to get a tin of Ambrosia Creamed Tapioca. Asked the assistant walking past where the dried pudding ingredients were and she looked in awe, as she didn't know what I was talking about. I managed to find some dried rice, but no flaked. Yesterday I was in Tesco, and managed to get a tin of Creamy Semolina. I will eat the Semolina with a dollop of jam in, but the Tapioca I'll put in a buttered dish with slivers of butter on top to form a burnt skin.
Thanks to all for bringing the memories of these puddings back.
Julia in Derbyshire

I was in bed with a cold type affliction yesterday when a friend came in from Morrisons with some tapioca.I am assuming it is dried but hve not been downstairs yet to see.

Try looking in Waitrose, they do stock a lot of the old things.