{"id":537090,"date":"2026-04-18T03:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537090\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:22:09","slug":"endangered-british-dishes-and-the-home-cooks-reviving-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537090\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered British dishes &#8211; and the home cooks reviving them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ever heard of carrageenan pudding? No? Neither had food content creator Annie Mae Herring until a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was awful,&#8221; says the 33-year-old from Essex. &#8220;It was a soggy welly, with, like, Fairy Liquid and a bit of salt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A milk-based dessert similar in appearance to a blancmange, the pudding uses carrageen moss \u2013 a type of seaweed found in coastal areas \u2013 to give it a gelatinous texture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Maybe I did it wrong, and I will absolutely throw my hands up in the air,&#8221; Herring admits, before adding jokingly that, either way, it &#8220;may die a fiery death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other dishes include a Staffordshire clanger &#8211; a half-sweet, half-savoury pasty she describes as &#8220;wonderfully strange&#8221;; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever heard of carrageenan pudding? No? Neither had food content creator Annie Mae Herring until a few weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-537090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}