Pudding, dessert, sweet, afters.

I also remember my nan making suet pudding and having to go to the butcher's shop to buy the suet. I use to help her chop it up and the sound as you pulled away from the sort of papery skin it was attached too. She often made date suet pud especially after Xmas to use up left over dates. And of course jam roly poly and spotted dick. Pure heart attack food we now know!!!!

Charleygirl I expect you are a slim person never having puddings and never having made one. I love puddings- wish I didn't!

We seem to have ice cream every day, but just lately while the strawberries have been lovely,we have been having those with meringue nests,and ice cream. No hope for us in this house.

I think the tastiest pudding I've ever had was Sussex Pond pudding, made by a friend we were staying with.
It's a steamed suet pudding with a whole lemon, butter and sugar inside. These contents all dissolve and blend into a lemon sauce.
With cream or custard.

like everyone else, I love 'puds', but rarely make them these days, and do try not to eat the naughty ones too often. But when we have people in, I find they dive into a chocolately pud like there is no tomorrow! I've turned into a compulsive meringue maker in my old age and always offer to take some if we are invited out - they are always very popular.

I love making puds but we never have them unless someone is coming for dinner. They are usually too much for 2 people & then we have to eat them up the next day.We both need to keep an eye on our weight,
However GC love them so I usually do 2 when they are staying or f we have friends over.
I made a bread pudding yesterday as we had bread left over from GS staying weekend & we don't normally eat bread. I'd forgotten how delicious it is. I will freeze some of it later or it will go- mostly eaten by me- although DS did take a slab to work today.

I do love a pudding but as I need to lose a couple of stone I must sadly say no to them. I look at trifle longingly at the supermarket but must steel myself to move on.
We ate them as children but as we were still growing and ran around pretending to be a train or whatever it didn't put the weight on. Sadly I must say no to crisps too which are my real downfall.

We had puddings as children when we ran off all the calories. Now, however, it is difficult to justify doubling the calories of a meal.

Since I love some puds, like fruit crumbles or Christmas pudding, I sometimes have them instead of cake at afternoon teatime. And I allow myself cake because I skimp on lunch.

At the weekend, after dinner, I allow myself two chocolates from a box or two squares of block chocolate or two homemade Florentines. I have this with a thimbleful of Cointreau and it's a real treat.

Very rarely have a dessert, can't get it all in!

Just yogurt,ice cream or fruit in our house now. Though I did make a plum and apple crumble the other day. Do miss all the puds though and occasionally will make something. Sad really how we all have to watch what we eat.
Make a cake once a week, especially a fruit one love a cup of tea in the afternoon with a slice

Oooh puds puds glorious puds!!!
I made a fresh gooseberry crumble and real custard ..well birds custard powder real , hubby does not like the REALLY REAL custard with milk, egg yolks and vanilla pods. I love it .
Our family favourite puds are lemony custard pudding that makes its own sauce and is very fresh and yummy. I found it in a Jamie Oliver book but since then I have found it in lots of books including my ancient Mrs Beeton book.
Pineapple upside down our is another favourite.
We find suet puds too heavy

My mum used to either have a pudding made or a Victoria sandwich. Failing that digestives with cheese and apple. Today I am going to make a summer berry bread and butter pudding. Some for me and some in the freezer for another day.

Thinking of what mymadeupname said, I'd only call it a pudding if it's something substantial and cooked, treacle sponge, fruit crumble, etc. If it's light and uncooked, e.g.fresh fruit, a fool or sundae, in this house it's dessert.
One of my grandmothers referred to this course as "the sweet", which always sounded a bit naff to me but the other gran called it "afters" which was even more cringeworthy.
I can't remember the last time I made a pudding but it must be at least 30 years ago. We almost always finish up with fresh fruit with or without yogurt.

Once stopped for lunch at a coffee plantation called Gibb's Farm in Tanzania. Fabulous curries, followed by a huge array of traditional English puds: treacle sponge, jam roly poly, etc. We stuffed ourselves and met the chef, a local Tanzanian who had been taught by Mrs Gibb. We insisted on stopping there on the way back!

Normally we eat fresh fruit and yoghurt for pud.

Usually only when we have guests nowadays, for the simple reason that Dh and I would make pigs of ourselves.
Though I will confess to the odd small pot of Ambrosia Creamed rice, or even smaller pot of grandchild's Cow and Gate puréed fruit - I could easily manage 4 of those! Don't like yoghurt so can't have that - Dh will often have some Greek-style with a bit of honey, though.
At the moment I'm making a bit of a pig of myself on lovely fat black juicy English cherries while the short season lasts.

I love a pudding! These days I have a small Petit Filous Layers, but as a child my favourite was ginger pud with foam sauce (a steamed sponge, with beaten raw egg).
Whenever we asked our mum what was for pudding, if she answered "wait and see" we knew it was rhubarb crumble and custard.
I prefer apple crumble

Golden syrup sponge with custard, crumble with any fruit with custard or ice cream. I rarely make puddings these days being on my own, when DH was alive Christmas or any Party I had to make a sherry trifle. My Granny made the most divine rice pudding also we would have Yorkshire puddings with sugar. I love a really good pudding if I go out for a meal, sod the calories it's a rare treat.I also remember tinned fruit & carnation milk for Sunday tea (I love Carnation milk as I was brought up on it, bottle fed as a baby)

I normally have fruit now or cheese & biscuits, type of cheese depends on my mood (I adore most types of cheese)

I have just cooked some rhubarb which my neighbour gave me, may make a crumble later

When my children still lived at home I made puddings every day...it used to help fill them up. My MiL used to go on about bread pudding....I had never heard of it before ..was"nt something that we had in the north. One day as a surprise I thought I would make this bread pudding ..followed the recipe exactly...what I had actually made was bread &butter pudding..not realising this was something different all together. My MiL had to show me the difference between these two puddings ...I was not impressed at all. However the bread and butter one became a firm favourite. A few years later I was making a special meal for a family gathering and discovered Sussex Pond pudding...it was an instant hit. I only made it because my husband and his family came from West Sussex and myself from the north so was trying to do regional recipes. Nowadays it's just the two of us and we mainly have yogurts and fruit ..occasionally make trifle. It all sits too long on the hips for me now unfortunately. Always have to finish with something sweet although we have friends who never have puddings but like larger portions of their dinner.

my mum made the most wonderful puddings - rice pudding [tapioca, macaroni, sago etc too] and steamed treacle and jam puddings too. i always made a pudding when my children were little but after leaving their father it was too much trouble for one so i stopped.
now and again i'll make something usually for my daughter and myself as grandaughters are "too full" to eat more. but between christmas and new year there are puddings every day!
as i'm waiting for a knee replacement op i'm not able to do much cooking but as soon as i'm back to normal then the cooking duty will revert to me and there will be puddings!!

I love puddings. When I eat out I always look at the dessert menu first before deciding what to have for the main course! Why is it that the nicest things are always bad for you?

I know what you mean newgranny - I like to have a starter and dessert and skip the main!

My mum was a wonderdful "plain" cook so our puds - always known as Afters - were such glories as jam roly poly, apple pie (never crumble for some reason), trifle, bread & butter pudding, rice pudding. Always Birds Custard too.

I love puds but like so many on here don't often make them for just the 2 of us. I had a surfeit of milk and a couple of eggs hanging about so a baked egg custard is currently doing us for a couple of evenings. When we have friends round for a meal there is always a pud or two and I notice that although everyone says ooh, couldn't possibly manage any more etc. etc., they always go! My current favourites are Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Lime Pie and Mary Berry's Lemon Fudge Cake - both easy and gorgeous and make-ahead-able.

I love puddings but as I live alone have ready-made shop bought ones nowadays. When the children were small I used to make treacle or chocolate sponge or my favourite bread and butter pudding and they still love apple crumble when they are here. I remember my gran's suet apple pudding which was lovely. I do make all the Christmas puddings for the family

Love puddings but only have them at weekends now as a treat. When we were younger never thought about it, always had a pudding every day. Apple pie, Bread and Butter Pudding, Ginger Sponge .....I could go on and on! Does anyone remember The Dairy Cookbook I bought mine from the milkman for 12/6d still use it! Wonderful pudding recipes!

I remeber that Glenfinnan! When in M&S the other day I saw intriguing packets of mix to make individual cakes in a mug. I know these are (were?) the rage, but I never got around to trying one.