Endangered British dishes - and the home cooks reviving them

Endangered British dishes - and the home cooks reviving them32 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleAlys DaviesBBCEver heard of carrageenan pudding? No? Neither had food content creator Annie Mae Herring until a few weeks ago."It was awful," says the 33-year-old from Essex. "It was a soggy welly, with, like, Fairy Liquid and a bit of salt."A milk-based dessert similar in appearance to a blancmange, the pudding uses carrageen moss – a type of seaweed found in coastal areas – to give it a gelatinous texture."Maybe I did it wrong, and I will absolutely throw my hands up in the air," Herring admits, before adding jokingly that, either way, it "may die a fiery death".This pudding is one of many dishes Herring has been making and posting to her followers, as part of a social media series exploring endangered and lost recipes from the UK and Ireland.Other dishes include a Staffordshire clanger - a half-sweet, half-savoury pasty she describes as "wonderfully strange"; Brown Windsor soup, which is associated with the Victorian royals; and chocolate concrete, a school-dinner classic Herring paired with a radioactive green custard, reminiscent of her own school days.Food content creator Annie Mae HerringHerring has been making food content for a decade, but nothing has captivated her audience as much as this most recent series. Many of her viewers recall eating these dishes as children."Thanks for the trip down memory lane: we used to have this at primary school - it was my absolute favourite," one follower commented on a video of a Sussex pond pudding, which has a whole lemon encased inside a steamed suet pastry."Each table of six children had a whole one. One child was the server of the day, who sliced it into portions. "We had a large slice each with custard poured by the pourer of the day."Another commented on a video of an Eve's pudding, a cake batter baked with apples: "I think...