Pudding, dessert, sweet, afters.

When I was a child we had a cooked pudding every day and cake for tea too. We didn't ever snack between meals and probably needed all that carbohydrate to keep us warm without central heating.
Nobody eats like that anymore so why are there so many enormously fat people? We eat cake rarely and cooked puds never and I don't know anyone who does.

I love making puds but we only have them if the DGC are coming or if we have friends around for a meal. Love doing individual cheesecakes/panacottas for friends but it has to be apple crumble or steamed lemon puddings for DGC. Last weekend though we had a large plate of fresh pineapple, strawberries and raspberries with some home made ginger nuts and we each had a small ramekin of chocolate fondue. So simple but totally delicious. Think it's going to be a family favorite from now on.

Hardly ever have a pudding these days as I was diabetic. I loved all the stodgy ones. Sticky toffee, jam sponge , role poly, and all with custard. My mother always insisted it was ' pudding' Never dessert and horror or horror never ever afters.

Like others, puds in our house tend to be for special occasions and holidays, or if friends come to lunch. I like to make profiteroles and pavlova- really easy, but always raise an 'oooooh'. Christmas = chocolate, black cherry and port trifle, Easter = white chocolate cheesecake with a berry coulis and I love to make an apple and cinnamon crumble or two as autumn sets in.
We are not at all virtuous if you count cake as pudding - I bake most weeks and there is usually some lemon drizzle or chocolate cake loitering ... and the 'must use up' cream to go with it!

Lemon meringue pie - that's something I CAN make, and we both love it. A bit of a fiddle though.
Not like cheesecake which I've given up on - too many 'flops'.

Our favourite pudding for Sunday dinner is home made apple crumble. My son and I have it with custard, my husband and daughter like fresh cream (preferably extra thick double - uuummmm!). Sticky toffee pudding is another favourite (I don't make that, Aldi do a nice one though), or some sort of cheesecake, which we usually have with strawberries and raspberries and cream. If it is just me and husband in for dinner, we sometimes have lemon meringue pie as the children don't like that - but oh my I could eat a whole one given the chance! With a bit of luck there is often some of whatever we had left over for after tea on Monday, otherwise we don't really do puds in the week.

For some reason I feel really hungry now!

Mum made wonderful eggy bread and butter pudding - no custard though, it didn't need it. As a youngster, a boyfriend's mum made the most delicious trifle I've ever tasted, and used to make it for us regularly. I missed that trifle more than I missed him when we went our separate ways! How many times I wished I'd asked for the recipe. I've also cooked many recipes from the Dairy cookbook and still use a tatty old Bero book. More recently, we've had to cut down the sugar too but I've made summer pudding a few times lately with all the lovely seasonal fruits, with sweetener though, which I hate with a passion, but needs must. Tbh we couldn't taste the difference.

We always had pudding, DDs friends used to comment on my puddings when they came round for meals. Even now when any of the family come round we have pudding. DH is diabetic but even so we sometimes have a small pudding, especially when there is fruit in the garden. Easy to make a few ramekins with fruit in the bottom and a flapjack-style topping served with Bird's custard.

Most days I have a yoghurt or similar (tend to make my own and add fruit or honey or whatever I fancy), fsiling which I have fruit. We have a family meal every Saturday and this is the only time we regularly go for a real dessert, normally something seasonal, maybe home-made ice cream.

B&BP - I must remember that when the weather gets colder.
Another one I forgot was Chocolate Volcano pudding. I make it in the winter, in foil containers - about 3 lots at a time and freeze some.
A chocolate sponge with chocolate sauce bubbling up from beneath. Vanilla icecream with it.

Primrose & JaneD3 - Not having made a B & B P for years, guess where I went for a basic recipe?! The Dairy Book of Home Management my DM bought from the Milkman in 1969, of course!!

A friend mentioned she liked Bread and Butter Pudding and hadn't had one for years. I like it too and haven't made one for years. I invited her to lunch and made one for four. We both enjoyed it, after she'd left I was tempted to finish it there and then.
Showing unusual restraint I took a helping to my next door neighbour. He brought the washed dish back an hour later and asked whether there was any more! No, because DS was visiting that evening, he liked it too.
Four happy people! I'll be making one again soon!

My mouth is watering, reading all of the posts and remembering all of the puds I used to make when the children were still at home. I love making 'posh puds' now but only when we have family/friends to eat with us.

TriciaF , I remember my Nana making 2 Yorkshire puds so that my Grandad had 1 with his dinner with gravy on and the other as a pud with butter and sugar! And he always saved a little which he broke up for the birds!

My mother in law bought me the dairy cookbook - still have it! My mum made fabulous bread pudding - in the sixth form I used to take in chunks for everyone. My family love a chocolate sponge pudding which has a sauce underneath.

Dick

My favourite was steamed suet pudding with damsons inside or spotted dick. My rather Victorian mum called it spotted dog - I think duck was too rude!

I've put on 3lbs just reading this thread !

My youngest took my Dairy Cookbook from the milkman to uni with her - she's kept it and loves it too. I think it's going to become a family heirloom.

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.

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 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

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

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?

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!!

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.