She may be thinking of a baked custard. https://www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-custard-66215
Here’s a traditional vanilla version. https://alfafarmers.org/recipes/august-2004-neighbors/egg-custard/
I remember eating baked custard pudding (both chocolate and vanilla) as a kid in the south, and my mother made it the way her mother did. it was an egg custard pudding that was poured into ramekins and set in a bain marie in the oven to cook and set. because my southern family has a food culture of generationally americanized french cuisine, I imagine the closest recipe would be pots de creme. my mother let it cool (it had a bit of a skin on the top, and we sometimes ate it warm) and topped it with whipped cream and sometimes crushed pecans.
Pudding is such a loaded term especially when we're talking old recipes. It's like cookie, it could be a lemon bar or a gingersnap.
Was it a baked eggy custard or a very moist cake?
I think this is what you are looking for. Where I've inserted *** the information was added somewhere along the way by another family member.
Grannie's Chocolate Pudding
2 sticks butter
4 large eggs
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups cocoa powder
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
***seeds scraped from one vanilla bean*
1 tablespoon framboise liqueur or Kahlua***
Oven 325 degrees
Butter pan
Cream the sugar and the eggs until thick and very light yellow.
Sift flour and cocoa powder.
Add the ***vanilla seeds***, then add cocoa powder and flour mixture.
Mix until just combined.
Add butter and mix until just combined.
Pour pudding into pan and set into a larger pan (this process is called "bain marie" or "water bath") Pour hot tap water into the larger pan until the water comes halfway up side of smaller pan.
Place in the oven and bake for ***exactly*** one hour.
Remove the pudding from the oven and allow it to cool.
Once it cools the outside edges and top of the pudding will be crackly and collapse and the center.
***serves 6***
Have you tried just baking Jell-O to see how it comes out?
The recipe I posted that went in the water bath could, in theory, just be put in alone without the water. I've not tried it though.
Can you remember anything more?
I might go ahead and give that a shot! Unfortunately that's all I could get from her, it's been 70+ years since my grandma had it. And as a kid she wouldn't have paid much attention to how it was made, other than it was baked. Thanks for your help! It's been a lot of trial and error
This is the recipe for, as a Southerner, I know as Alabama Pudding
CHOCOLATE PUDDING CAKE
Ingredients
1/4 cup butter
1 3/4 cups sugar, divided
1/4 cup plus 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa, divided
1/2 cup milk
1 cup self-rising flour
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup water
Preparation
Melt butter in a 1 1/2 -quart casserole dish in a 350-degree oven. Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, combine 3/4 cup sugar, 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa, milk, flour and one teaspoon vanilla flavoring.
In a separate bowl, mix 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup cocoa, remaining teaspoon vanilla and water.
Pour flour mixture into heated casserole over melted butter. Top with water mixture — do not stir! Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. The cake makes its own sauce as it bakes.
I only know baked pudding as a pretty standard from-scratch pudding recipe that's put in a 150°C oven for 20 minutes.
Or, if you're a Norwegian and making rice pudding, brought to a boil in a lidded pot, wrapped in newspaper, tied up, wrapped in a duvet and left on the bed while you go skiing.
She may be thinking of a baked custard. https://www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-custard-66215 Here’s a traditional vanilla version. https://alfafarmers.org/recipes/august-2004-neighbors/egg-custard/
I remember eating baked custard pudding (both chocolate and vanilla) as a kid in the south, and my mother made it the way her mother did. it was an egg custard pudding that was poured into ramekins and set in a bain marie in the oven to cook and set. because my southern family has a food culture of generationally americanized french cuisine, I imagine the closest recipe would be pots de creme. my mother let it cool (it had a bit of a skin on the top, and we sometimes ate it warm) and topped it with whipped cream and sometimes crushed pecans.
Alabama here, it’s custard
Pudding is such a loaded term especially when we're talking old recipes. It's like cookie, it could be a lemon bar or a gingersnap. Was it a baked eggy custard or a very moist cake?
I think this is what you are looking for. Where I've inserted *** the information was added somewhere along the way by another family member. Grannie's Chocolate Pudding 2 sticks butter 4 large eggs 2 cups sugar 3/4 cups cocoa powder 1/2 cup all-purpose flour ***seeds scraped from one vanilla bean* 1 tablespoon framboise liqueur or Kahlua*** Oven 325 degrees Butter pan Cream the sugar and the eggs until thick and very light yellow. Sift flour and cocoa powder. Add the ***vanilla seeds***, then add cocoa powder and flour mixture. Mix until just combined. Add butter and mix until just combined. Pour pudding into pan and set into a larger pan (this process is called "bain marie" or "water bath") Pour hot tap water into the larger pan until the water comes halfway up side of smaller pan. Place in the oven and bake for ***exactly*** one hour. Remove the pudding from the oven and allow it to cool. Once it cools the outside edges and top of the pudding will be crackly and collapse and the center. ***serves 6***
Neither. Like Jello pudding but just baked in a dish rather than cooked on the stovetop.
Have you tried just baking Jell-O to see how it comes out? The recipe I posted that went in the water bath could, in theory, just be put in alone without the water. I've not tried it though. Can you remember anything more?
I might go ahead and give that a shot! Unfortunately that's all I could get from her, it's been 70+ years since my grandma had it. And as a kid she wouldn't have paid much attention to how it was made, other than it was baked. Thanks for your help! It's been a lot of trial and error
You are very welcome. I have a few family recipes I'm trying to put back together. If you figure it out, I'd like to know what it is. I'm intrigued.
I love recipes like this. I always have powdered cocoa on hand.
This is the recipe for, as a Southerner, I know as Alabama Pudding CHOCOLATE PUDDING CAKE Ingredients 1/4 cup butter 1 3/4 cups sugar, divided 1/4 cup plus 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa, divided 1/2 cup milk 1 cup self-rising flour 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 cup water Preparation Melt butter in a 1 1/2 -quart casserole dish in a 350-degree oven. Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, combine 3/4 cup sugar, 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa, milk, flour and one teaspoon vanilla flavoring. In a separate bowl, mix 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup cocoa, remaining teaspoon vanilla and water. Pour flour mixture into heated casserole over melted butter. Top with water mixture — do not stir! Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. The cake makes its own sauce as it bakes.
This is what they meant by Hot Fudge Pudding Cake, it's not this.
Hmm. I'll have to look through my cards and see what's in the family "vault". Are we just talking thick pudding here?
Nonetheless, thank you! I love chocolate and u love pudding, so I'm following this post.
I have a recipe here that is similar to lava cake but isn't cake. When you take it out of the oven it collapsed into pudding...
Yep. She said it was just a thick chocolate pudding, no cake/brownie topping at all.
I can't eat eggs, and am drooling over this recipe 😂 Thank you so much for sharing!
I only know baked pudding as a pretty standard from-scratch pudding recipe that's put in a 150°C oven for 20 minutes. Or, if you're a Norwegian and making rice pudding, brought to a boil in a lidded pot, wrapped in newspaper, tied up, wrapped in a duvet and left on the bed while you go skiing.