tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598211405543952135.post8970449142663529474..comments2023-05-26T07:00:57.761-07:00Comments on the artist and the tartist: Ginger Cake & Coffee & CustardJames and Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520067730464417940noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598211405543952135.post-78064146029292348732009-07-25T10:03:39.143-07:002009-07-25T10:03:39.143-07:00I grew up in Cape Town, South Africa and having si...I grew up in Cape Town, South Africa and having since moved to New York, the one place I could get my hands on the Diviiiine Ginger Cake and Custard that my granma used to make me is Tea & Sympathy in NYC (but its so flippin' expensive!).<br /><br />I need to just go ahead and make it myself...<br /><br />Also, the congealing and glooping together of it was one of the Highlights!<br /><br />Gaarrgh! I wish I was around the corner from Tea & Sympathy right now!!!<br /><br />Also, I LOOOOVE ginger snaps, but they're Never spicy enough for me ;)eezie peeziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033620455529620323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598211405543952135.post-20671962958067974742009-05-13T23:26:00.000-07:002009-05-13T23:26:00.000-07:00Ginger cake and custard - absolutely staple 1970s ...Ginger cake and custard - absolutely staple 1970s winter fodder at home! And at school, where it would be served with a strange, gloopy, pure white 'custard', the like of which (thankfully) I've never seen since. I love ginger cake and I love custard but I just can't stand the two together (or custard with any kind of cakey or pastry-based pud), which is undoubtedly a legacy from those years when, as a painfully slow eater, my pudding would always be lukewarm and the custard congealing by the time I got round to tackling it!Juliethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055924620237477722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598211405543952135.post-46118733405164922152009-05-11T14:03:00.000-07:002009-05-11T14:03:00.000-07:00never really considered ginger as a compliment to ...never really considered ginger as a compliment to coffee...although the husband is partial to Ginger Snaps...hmmmm.Susan Moorheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06744130110550636177noreply@blogger.com