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Posted by Barbara Anne
Sago Fluff June 16, 2019 08:26AM |
Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 607 |
A colleague and I were reminiscing about things we enjoyed eating and cooking years ago. We were discussing the fact that taste buds change over time and what we thought was the bees knees in the day and when we were much younger, often these days tastes fairly average and nothing to write home about - we were discussing that very thing here not so long ago.
The subject of Sago Fluff as a favourite dessert came up.
She asked if I had Alison Holst's recipe for Sago Fluff and a quick look in my stack of old recipe books confirmed that I don't. A quick internet search brings up similar recipes, even with the same name, but my colleague (bless her) is adamant that it is Alison's recipe that she wants, and neither she or I can find it anywhere.
Can anyone help please?
Regards,
Barbara Anne
The subject of Sago Fluff as a favourite dessert came up.
She asked if I had Alison Holst's recipe for Sago Fluff and a quick look in my stack of old recipe books confirmed that I don't. A quick internet search brings up similar recipes, even with the same name, but my colleague (bless her) is adamant that it is Alison's recipe that she wants, and neither she or I can find it anywhere.
Can anyone help please?
Regards,
Barbara Anne
Re: Sago Fluff June 16, 2019 11:37PM |
Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 5,699 |
I have Dame Alison Holst's 1967 book "Meals with the Family" - it has the recipe for Sago Cream, which, if I remember rightly is very similar to the Sago Fluff recipe we made in Homecraft cooking classes in Form 1 or 2 at primary school (heck that's a long time ago). Do you remember the little cream coloured Education Department cooking book from those classes anyone? Don't know what happened to mine. What makes the fluffy part of the dessert is beating the egg whites and folding them through the hot sago mixture.
If you'd like Dame Alison's Sago Cream recipe I'm happy to PM it as I don't recall an actual Sago Fluff recipe by her, but I may be wrong.
Regards,
Dawn.
If you'd like Dame Alison's Sago Cream recipe I'm happy to PM it as I don't recall an actual Sago Fluff recipe by her, but I may be wrong.
Regards,
Dawn.
Re: Sago Fluff June 17, 2019 12:55PM |
Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 607 |
Dawn, thank you for your response - I spoke to my colleague at work today and she thinks that you are right in saying that Sago Cream was Dame Alison's recipe (sorry I forgot that she was a Dame). Other recipes called Sago Fluff use the same method, as you describe.
So if you could PM the recipe to me please, that would be wonderful.
Re cooking classes, I don't remember the book but I do remember learning the basics of cooking in those classes while the boys went to woodwork. I remember feeling so proud when Dad couldn't tell the difference between Mum's scones and mine!
I wonder why the idea of teaching life skills in schools was abandoned?
Regards,
Barbara Anne
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/17/2019 12:57PM by Barbara Anne.
So if you could PM the recipe to me please, that would be wonderful.
Re cooking classes, I don't remember the book but I do remember learning the basics of cooking in those classes while the boys went to woodwork. I remember feeling so proud when Dad couldn't tell the difference between Mum's scones and mine!
I wonder why the idea of teaching life skills in schools was abandoned?
Regards,
Barbara Anne
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/17/2019 12:57PM by Barbara Anne.
Re: Sago Fluff June 18, 2019 01:56AM |
Registered: 16 years ago Posts: 1,979 |
It hasn't been totally abandoned thankfully, Barbara. My sons are 16 and 13 and over years 7, 8 and 9 (forms 1, 2 and 3) have both had rotations at school of cooking, sewing, woodwork, metalwork, electronics, graphic design, dance, drama, Spanish, Japanese and Te Reo. They've actually learned some decent basic skills from school cooking
Re: Sago Fluff June 18, 2019 05:19AM |
Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 5,699 |
Barbara Anne, you are right the boys went to woodwork when we went to homecraft - I also remember the sewing classes too. I laughed at your comment about your scones - well done and well deserved to be proud! I had a similar experience but the other way around - it was the homecraft class when we each had made just a single layer sponge and I was staying at my girlfriends house that night and for easy carrying in the school bus Pauline put her sponge on top of mine. That afternoon we duly got off the school bus carefully carrying our now 2 layered unfilled sponge into Pauline's parents kitchen. Pauline's father took one look at the sponges and announced that Dawn's sponge looked much nicer than Pauline's! Only thing is he thought that Dawn's sponge was on the top and Pauline's was the much thinner sponge on the bottom! Pauline was very quick to point out that it was her sponge that looked the nicest, and my heart sank with embarrassment.
I will PM the recipe to you shortly. I think the school Sago Fluff used white sugar, whereas Dame Allison's uses brown sugar giving a much nicer flavour.
Regards,
Dawn.
I will PM the recipe to you shortly. I think the school Sago Fluff used white sugar, whereas Dame Allison's uses brown sugar giving a much nicer flavour.
Regards,
Dawn.
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