Horn and Hardart's Rice Pudding, Chocolate Pudding, Egg Custard
Yes I am dating myself. When I was a youngster, my grandmother took me on many to Horn and Hardart on either 54th and City Line or in the Bala Cynwyd Shopping Center for countless meals. I always loved that place.
H and H sold their desserts and baked goods to retail customers as well as those who dined at the restaurant. If anyone out there remembers those puddings......rice, chocolate, and egg custard, please speak up! The rice pudding was creamy, with cinnamon overtones, and fat moist raisins throughout. The chocolate pudding was made from real cocoa, with a dark chocoate flavor. The egg custard was delicate yet eggy and sweet.
Does anyone have an idea where i could find some rice pudding that even comes close to H and H?
By steelydad
on Nov 13, 2009 09:50 AM
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the H&H egg custard was a fav in my house in the late 50's.
don't remember the choc pudding as my mother always made her own with My-T-Fine.
Remember Junket?
For the best rice pudding in NYC visit Rice to Riches on Spring Street.
Check out their site. www.ricetoriches.com
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I do remember Junket, and I just wish someone would make it again! It was kindl of like instant custard if i remember correctly. You just mixed the ingredients with milk, heated, poured into cups and cooled. I live in Chappaqua, and found a place there that makes fabulous egg custard, and a very tasty rice pudding that is good, but not quite as good as the egg custard. Langes Deli-----both are homemade.
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I also remember HH mac and cheese and Ebinger's black out. Arthur Schwartz had the receipe for the mac and cheese but when I made it it was not as I remember. I wish someone kept copies of all these lost great receipes.
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Junket rennet custard is still sold they even have a web site that you can order from. I remember the Tapioca pudding from Horn and Hardart with the big tapioca pearls in it... Loved it
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Remember the Baked Macaroni in a tomato cream sauce? We lived in Jersey and Philly and we were regular H&H customers in 3 states. There is a H&H cookbook out, but I'm not sure it's authentic because the cookbook recipe for macaroni is just another mac n' cheese variation. Our favorite H&H takeouts were the Health Salad and the Applesauce Cake, but I still drool for that Baked Macaroni from the Automat!
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