My latest triumph - Milk loaf in a pipe tin or small tin - recipes & photos

[cookie1]

That's the 'don't meet for coffee' shop for sure Kathryn.

[fundj&e]

JD can you tell me the measurements of your tin please. I just received mine 38cm x10 cm
Not sure what to do next lol

thanks

[judydawn]

Mine is about 24cm x 10cm fundj so yours is a little bigger than my Mermaid milk loaf tin.  Did you get a recipe with yours?

[achookwoman]

Fundj,   looks like you are going to have to make 1 1/2 times Judy's recipe.   What a long tin !!!

[fundj&e]

I got mine from ebay $17.50  it’s a mermaid brand and British made with no recipe and no vision hole
I will ask DH to drill one before I try and bake a loaf

[Cornish Cream]

I think you have bought a pudding sleeve Fundj The Mermaid brand is usually black anodized aluminum. The mermaid brand looks like this
http://www.headcook.co.uk/mermaid-milk-loaf-tin.html

[fundj&e]

the lock does say Mermaid British made
what is a pudding sleeve 

[Cornish Cream]

I think when they refer to "British Made" means that it is manufactured in the UK.A pudding sleeve is a form of bakeware that is used to steam a pudding eg Spotted Dick or Jam Roly Poly, usually the recipe contains suet but not always.

[achookwoman]

Was just reading that in olden times they used to cook suet puddings in the sleeve of a shirt.  I suppose that the modern tin comes from this.  Maybe Judy would take a photo of her pudding sleeve.   At the moment I have lost all confidence in posting photos.  I tried to make the triangular shaped loaf that i saw in Scandinavia.  Didn't have sharp corners and looked like a slightly squashed pipe loaf,(milk loaf).  Rather nice size 'though.

[judydawn]

Here is the Mermaid pudding sleeve in front of the Mermaid pipe loaf tin

[fundj&e]

 JD have you made a pudding in yours?

[judydawn]

Not yet fundj, as you can see, it is brand new 

[fundj&e]

I have been looking for a recipe for my size tin, no luck.

[Frozzie]

Was just reading that in olden times they used to cook suet puddings in the sleeve of a shirt.  I suppose that the modern tin comes from this.  Maybe Judy would take a photo of her pudding sleeve.   At the moment I have lost all confidence in posting photos.  I tried to make the triangular shaped loaf that i saw in Scandinavia.  Didn't have sharp corners and looked like a slightly squashed pipe loaf,(milk loaf).  Rather nice size 'though.

chookie did they have any triangle type tins..im asking as I have smaller shaped tins, star shape etc for 'petit fours' ..they are not small but not huge either..maybe there is a special tin (not that you need any more lol).. i will take some photos this weekend and post..

found a couple on french sites so im sure they are around in oz etc...here is a link of one that can be used for a variety of recipes from terrine, mousse, bread, buche etc etc..cooking and cooling.. i imagine you just put something flat on top that can go in the oven as i cant see a lid of any kind...anyway just a thought ..without seeing the photo its hard to say but I assume they would use something similar.. 

[judydawn]

Fundj, I think Chookies old pipe loaf tin is more the size of yours than those of us who bought recently. She has a photo of her pipe loaf here and used her basic 'no fuss' mixture.