Pudding, dessert, sweet, afters.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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!!!!

I found thinking the other day about the steamed suet pastry jam roly-poly that my mother used to make. It was lovely. I have only ever made the baked version and it is not as nice. She used to wrap it in a muslin pudding cloth. I have a hankering for it so I will have to find a recipe.

Mum made rice pudding, steamed puddings, pies and crumbles. Ma in law was a superb baker and pudding maker, producimg everything you could think of. None of them were overweight. Mr C and I were slim children and young adults, positively skinny in fact. Now we have berries and yoghurt but always have a 'proper' pudding on Sunday, often Saturday as well and of course Monday if there is any left from the weekend. Every day when we have friends or family to stay. I make pies, puddings, crumbles, meringue, cream based puddings, lots of chocolate based things - just about anything but never trifle as I dislike it . We seem to be bucking the trend .

I make puddings all the time,my husband has a very sweet tooth,trifle or eton mess type usually in a glass,fruit and jelly layered with yogourt ,apple pie always hot with ice cream ,home made sorbets ,orange and cointreau is a favourite a flan case filled with yoghourt fesh berries and sugar free gel on top is good too and a large one looks impressive for Sunday family dinners .I dont eat sweet stuff and although I love a good piece of cheese I restrict how much I eat .I have been known to buy it and leave it in its wrapper until its sell by date before I opem it so I wont eat it all

Puddings in this house are mostly for high days and holidays. If family or friends come to lunch, I will make pineapple upside down cake, a crumble or steamed sponge. Yesterday because there were some nice strawberries to be had, we had a sponge strawberry flan, which is one of my favourites. When it is just DH and I, it is a piece of fruit or a yoghurt.

I like puddings but only have them when we go out to eat or have people to eat with us. I make an excellent treacle sponge! I don't even have ice cream in the house in case I get tempted but we always have plenty of fresh fruit in. DH did make a rice pudding last week though and it was delicious. Hot the first day and then cold the next. My slim DiLs love coming here for pud.

Love puddings the stodgier the better nowadays I do one pudding a week roughly. We love any flavour sponge pud, rice pud, any flavour crumble OH favourite are suet puds, jam rolls poly, spotted dick etc .

Other days we have fruit.

I remember when I was a child, it was always "a sweet" not pudding or desert. Typically it would be a tin of fruit and some "shaky" (Carnation) milk poured over, unless we were at grandmas in which case it would be a milky pudding with "rabbit" (skin) on top.

We sometimes had Yorkshire puddings with sugar and milk TriciaF.

As a child Sunday roast was always followed with a Birds strawberry trifle. Still remember the sound of it being dished up. These days its just the occasional choc ice.