> This may be a little off-topic - sorry - but I'm looking for a > traditionally English, simple, pudding or cake recipe for a theme > evening on Who Do You Think You are!! What would your ancestors be > eating as desserts or cakes?! A odd one I remember from around 1950, may be from Walsall ( Staffs ), wartime, or father bought it from Derby, was a battered jam sandwich. When we have fish and chips mother would do a normal jam sandwich, 2 rounds of bread, cut in half, batter, then deep fry, served with custard, it was cheap, simple and tasty. Everyone who hears the story think's I'm mad, but money was short then, and we still had rationing, and it could not have been that bad as I still remember it fondly. Brian KINDER's Derbyshire