I am told my “rants” are famous but I doubt it, but what the hell, here I go again.

I had a lovely recipe, handed down through generations – well two at least for this simple filling for light sweet bread rolls that were topped with zesty lemon icing. I lost it! Why – because some stupid person who has nothing better to do decided to send a bug or Trojan horse or virus or whatever to our computer which somehow managed to get through several levels of security and took said computer over – I lost about 20 of my very old and treasured recipes, my books are still in the UK, at least I hope so.

Now -after searching the Internet for two hours, all I can get is the French version. It isn´t as simple and it isn´t as tasty as the one my old Mum and Grandma made.

So I am having a b****y paddy about it.

Going off at a tangent, why is it that many of our lovely old recipes that are not so famous are being “reinvented” by “celebrity chefs” and given French names. Is it because our “chefs” are so into naming all our dishes in “French” to make them sound just that little bit “posh” and different, more sophisticated even? It seems that all our food hailed from France (maybe I exaggerate just a tad), then we just gave said dish an English name and claimed it as our own.

I mourn the loss of my recipe, but I will not use crème patisserie, which is absolutely lovely in its place – but its not in my light fluffy British sweet bread  roll with Confectioner´s Custard or Cream (the British version) with lovely zesty lemon icing.

Rant over, for the time being. Looks like I need to hunt down an old British cookery book for baked goods, preferably from someone who was “born and bred” in the county of my birth – Yorkshire!

And then there are people who insist on calling our “pouring custard” by the French name “Crème anglaise”  - even when they do not speak French and are not French and reside in the UK. Please save me from the pretentious i****s amongst us.