🔵 Is This Date Loaf The Origin Of Sticky Toffee Pudding?

[@shelleyhenley7414]

We always slathered butter on slices of date loaf. Yummo.

[@traceyallen8286]

I'm Australian, I found it really interesting that you say a hard sauce is the same thing as toffee sauce. I know hard sauce as a sweet compound butter. Julie mentioning the date sandwich prompted me to remember that Mum (born 1947) has talked about how they used to take date sandwiches to school. Love these old recipes.

[@Sine-gl9ly]

I agree (in the UK here). Hard sauce is basically butter creamed with fine-grained sugar (white, brown or a mixture of the two) and flavoured to taste with brandy or rum, or a liqueur, and/or spices or essence. Nothing like toffee sauce!

[@Adam-vp5lc]

I absolutely love that you're going through older recipes, recounting what are oddities to us these days, and all the informative things you've learned through the process of reverse engineering these recipes. Your content is amazing and unique.

[@FlashGeiger]

My mother made what she called date-nut loaf. She baked them in left over cans after we'd eaten the corn or peas. To get them out of the cans you got the can opener out and cut off the bottom and push the round loaf out the top. This was back in the 60sand 70s so if the cans had a coating inside at all it doesn't kill quickly since my sisters and I are still kicking.

[@_CoasterNinja]

Really enjoying seeing you explore the history of these recipes and trying to cook the original printed recipes!

[@riceandpotatoes]

Every Sunday before church, I sneak in the newest airing of this series ❤️ a cherished tradition to this day

[@kurtsimmons1587]

I like the older recipes that you are doing! I think you should throw together your favorite recipes and put out a cookbook modernizing it!

[@cristrivera]

Great idea bringing back old recipes, the bread looks delicious. Thanks for sharing Glen👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

This was great! Reminded me of my childhood.

[@rajaadawood5171]

Thank you dear Julie and Chef Glen 💐🙋🏻‍♀️🙏 it’s very kind of you and Julie to share the secrets of this traditional professional old fashion recipes of your good Grandmother since 1938 👍 I’ve been searching for Date Cake recipe which our grandmother use to make 😌🌹❤️ May God bless all our great grandmothers soul 🙏💐😇 can’t wait for next Sunday 🤗🎉🎈 Thanks a million Sir🙋🏻‍♀️ I love history not the Siri 😂😂😂 that was a good one 👌🌹👏👏👏👏😂😂😂 Bye 🙋🏻‍♀️💐🙏🌷🌿💕

[@MeBeingAble]

My nana was still cooking on a wood stove when i was little, 1970’s in NZ

[@Careful3890]

I'm looking forward to next sunday! 👍 i just love old cookbooks.

[@RunninBird]

The thermometer on my wood burning cookstove from that era ranges from warm to very hot, as opposed to using numbers. Some recipe books I have make references to such things as a "slow fire", which is great. I will say that once you get used to cooking on a stove like this, it's great fun.

[@SmallWonda]

Used to make something very similar when I was a young 'un (in England.) Great recipe, thanks for sharing all this culinary history - still loving it in 2021!

[@professordanielarauj]

I feel so much joy seeing you having this friendly cook time with us. :) Thank you so much for this!

[@jessguerra4204]

Really great, I enjoy this type of content. Feels real and genuine!

[@nmyhv1]

"someone who doesn't have a parent or grandparent to teach-" Grandpa Glen is here to teach the masses

[@stellaz2595]

Good point about the date cake with a "hard sauce". My Canadian grandmother made a delicious carrot steamed pudding with a hard sauce, I remember, and my mother made several different cakes topped with warm pudding sauce.

[@sennest]

SO COOOOOOOOOL!!! totally freaking cool!!! Nobody does it up like you do, Glen! THANK YOU!

[@chriscaughey1103]

My mother use to bake date nut bread in those baking powder cans too! We'd come in from school in the 50s and smell the kitchen and it was wonderful as was the taste after they had cooled. (and I'm from Muskegon, Michigan!)

[@moonovermiami9787]

This recipe looks great. I'm going to try it. Thank you. 💙

[@_CoasterNinja]

Looking forward to the Sunday historical recipes!

[@evieo1086]

OMG. I love the sound of the loaf when it is being sliced at the beginning of the video. I to love the end/corner piece of cake. Unfortunately there is too much sugar in these recipes. (I’m doing keto but I love watching your channel, I don’t even use much alternative sweetness) Love your 3 spout measuring jug. How do you both not put on weight.

[@SariyasCooking]

Oh yummy

[@lizajane55555]

I figure this would be good sliced, toasted and smothered in butter :)

[@GGLEEME]

Love the cdn history. So cool!

[@maryblaylock6545]

I have a question for Julie please. Who was Mrs. O? She sounds like someone I would like to share a kitchen or perhaps a garden with.

[@TheSuzberry]

You can’t fool us. You used a spoon so there would be more batter left in the bowl to lick later.

[@takemeaway5548]

Thank youuu

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Thanks for watching, and we hope you check out the rest of our channel!

[@takemeaway5548]

@@GlenAndFriendsCooking i'll sure do

[@faze_buendia9514]

I gotta say I'm really curious about that recipe on the other page as the Date Versatile, the Tomato Soup Cake, I hope you make that someday, sounds very.....interesting :D

[@ephemerabluetit335]

I'm surprised reading the comments that none are reporting results. Mine is mixed and going into the oven. Unfortunately, I would have chosen to cut the sugar by half. Although the date flavor is rich, the batter is much too sweet.

[@sehtdragon]

I love the story of the sticky toffee pudding. (Though I'm not sure it's the 'quintessential' English pudding: I'd say that was apple pie, spotted dick or Bakewell tart.) It's fascinating to see how recipes develop and evolve, too: I found a recipe for 'date bread' in a 1923 cookbook published by Be-Ro, a UK flour company, so the story goes even further back...

[@martinsanchez4827]

To be honest it should be a quintessential English pudding as it's so delicious. Even if it had Canadian influence, its still a English desert as the recipe was invented and popularized in England. Also the use of treacle and steaming of it, is quite different compared to what he is doing. Like you pointed out, the history of STP most likely goes further back than the recipes he is cooking. Also date cakes are also a very British thing, that predates the recipes he is proposing. Even though it's English, it still has an interesting history behind it.

[@EastSider48215]

Please make the white gingerbread!

[@melrupp2129]

Honestly...throw in some nuts (hickory or black walnut, preferably) and this Iowa Girl wouldn't be able to tell this from her Grandma's Date-Nut Bread. ❤

[@loveni_33]

I Subbed After Seeing Your Comment Under How To Cook That’s Video I Enjoy Your Content Will Be Sharing With Friends

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Thank You!

[@andrewduncan4908]

Do you understand the purpose of soaking the dates baking soda. It shouldn't assist raising as soda activates with water and so it will be exhausted by the time it goes into the batter. Does it soften the dates, or is it one of those oddities of cooking that we keep doing even though we don't know why?

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Actually Andrew baking soda doesn't activate with water - it activates with acid. Baking Powder activates with water: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJbOkIyMq9t5pdE

[@andrewduncan4908]

@@GlenAndFriendsCooking Many thanks: cooking is art and chemistry!

[@jenningsrountree5361]

I would have expected a little cinnamon or nutmeg in this.

[@jenningsrountree5361]

Do a Lady Baltimore cake.

[@danielamoran6817]

Can you tell me the recipe in grams??

[@meganpopple9100]

We never did get egg-less milk-less butter-less cake. 😢

[@carolgivati7372]

Your recipe indicates baking time as 1 hour. However in the video you said 1hour 15 minutes. Which is it? I did 1 hour and the bottom edges were slightly overdone.

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Cooking times are at best a guesstimate - depends on your oven, the shape of your pan, the material of your pan, etc, etc. So it could be done in an hour, but could take an hour and fifteen minutes. Some ovens may take longer.

[@sandraswital1269]

What does the baking soda do to the dates, sorry if thats a stupid question don't use dates much

[@kurtisburtis]

It helps break down the skins. It would also contribute to how dark the loaf got.

[@JamesPawson]

2:55 Tomato Soup Cake on the same page... looks absolutely horrendous.

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

The tomato soup cake is really really tasty! Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYPUdqKCabp-mZo

[@yelar9000]

Wasn't sticky toffy pudding invented in Peter head