British Puddings are dying out 😮

They are not dying out in our house. I make them most days.

In summer we still have puds, yesterday had sticky toffee pudding but with a nod to the season by adding vanilla ice cream rather than custard. There is something rather gorgeous about seeing vanilla ice cream start to melt on a hot pudding. In winter is custard of course.
My favourite pud of all time though especially in this season - and btw I call all desserts puds - is a home made trifle.
Made a Black Forest trifle last week and it was gobbled up by the family in record time.

I haven't had much experience of e.g heavy steamed puddings because my late mother rarely made them and I have never cooked them and the OH who does a lot of of the cooking doesn't make them.
OH occasionally does an apple or other fruit crumble that I love or a light bread and butter pudding using croissants instead of bread that I also love.
These days I wouldn't want a heavy pudding. Not enough appetite; too heavy; too many calories.
What a bore .com 😒😒😒

I love puddings, but we have Greek yogurt with home made bramble coulis nearly every night.

Less fattening, I think.

But in the wintertime, love a rice pudding made with evaporated milk, or a treacle sponge with custard,

Just not too often.

A bit of what you fancy does you good, as long as it’s an ‘occasional’ bit.

I imagine many younger folk have never been taught to make puddings at school, and just buy a supermarket one if required.

Sad really.

I would happily eat jam Roly poly, syrup or jam sponge every day but I wouldn't fit through the door!
I have plain yogurt after my main meal every day.

Yes my choice is either nothing, fruit or fat free yogurt and fruit. Today is strawberries and yogurt.

But high days and holidays I make a pudding. All sorts get made. From a traditional trifle (which I adore) to mousse to custard tart, rice to fruit tarts, to a variety of steamed sponge, to summer or winter pudding to meringues (bit too sweet for my taste) to Charlotte cake (to be made for my sisters birthday)

What a shame to miss out on such luscious- ness

Crumbles are relatively quick and easy and are often to be found on menus - I don’t see them disappearing any time soon. And I’m informed by a relative who spends much of the year in Paris, that they are now very popular in France - he said ‘every bakery has them now.’

Certainly they were always popular with French neighbours of BiL, when we stayed at his place not far from Dijon. I used to make them with any available fruit - any strawberries that. needed using up, ditto peaches, rhubarb out of the garden, apples, you name it. Often a mix of all sorts!

I am encouraged now to try my hand at a good English Pudding. I googled them and do many look good.

I also think about trying to start a proper hat/fascinator trend here in the US too.

Always disliked puddings. My German mother was very disdainful about English puddings, hence we always had dessert. Usually fruit salad or something like her delicious lemon mousse. I’m not averse to the occasional M&S trifle though!

Not in my house. I’ve just made a blackberry and apple plate pie with short crust pastry, its was egg washed and sprinkled with sugar and it is cooling beautifully on the rack as I type.

There’s also an egg and bacon pie(not a quiche!) baking in the oven too - recipe from The Dinner Lady on YouTube.
I have a sweet tooth but also something known as self control

I haven’t eaten anything today though apart from some bread and marmalade this morning and Tuesday and yesterday the heat was just too much for me to even contemplate proper food, so just a couple of cuppas and lots of iced drinks and some oatcakes..well ok a handful of skittles and a glass of chilled coconut water when the heat died down as I lounged to the whir of the electric fan 🪭

The only puddings I ever make are summer pudding and the occasional crumble. I eat loads of Greek yoghurt and berries. As a child, we didn't often have puddings, but there was always a well-stocked fruit bowl.

Greek yoghurt, and not the low fat version with berries, or any fruit, my favoured breakfast, but that would be interchangeable as a pudding too.

DH said when we married that he didn't like puddings. He does actually, but he likes main courses better & so I've always done plenty of main course & sides, & no pudding.
I love british puddings, but when we have friends round,or if I'm cooking a sunday roast, or if we're out are about the only times I cook them.
Which means if I fancy something to round off a meal it's usually out of the fruit bowl, which can't be bad.
The apple & mincemeat steamed pud with custard mentioned up thread sounds amazing.

Mum often used to make bananas and custard when we were little (proper birds powder type) served after a trad Sunday roast.
Very easy on the tum and not made to sweet. By the time the dinner stuff was cleared we were ready😋 but dinner was around 12:30/1 -ish in those days and we got up quite early too even on weekends.
Later there might be a Victoria sponge after Sunday tea about 7pm.

We both love suet puddings and make them often, not just sweet puddings but savoury like leek pudding and steak and mushroom/kidney too. Neither of us is overweight. I make them in the slow cooker usually.

I suspect they are going out of fashion more because the next generation can't be bothered to cook them. My DiLs love them when I make them and eat them when they are out, but 'can't be ar*ed' at home, although they both cook very well. It's just one more thing to fuss with when they make a Sunday roast apparently. DD does make them, but usually in the Winter and only about once or twice a month.

If they're dying out, I can't bring myself to mourn. In my experience, they're mostly stodgy and overly-sweet so that any taste of fruit or spices is lost. Any taste that remains is then drowned under a tide of sugary custard. Ugh. They're mostly nothing but a carb-fest designed originally to stoke up the energy of people doing heavy manual jobs.
In the 21st century, most of us just don't need to stuff ourselves with baked, boiled or steamed, calorific creations after a substantial meal. I'm getting indigestion just thinking about it!
I do occasionally make a dessert, usually something light and fruity - a posset, a fool or just stewed plums or apples with yogurt but plain, unadorned fresh fruit is favourite at this time of year.

The only puddings I ever make are summer pudding and the occasional crumble

We like fruit crumbles and love summer pudding, although I haven't made one yet this year.

Lemon Surprise pudding is delicious and fairly light.
The mixture separates into a light sponge top with a lemon sauce underneath.

I must have cooked every kind of British pudding in my time but you hardly see them on a restaurant menu nowadays.

DMiL was a wonderful cook and would produce several puddings at one meal. While she remained slim as a wand, I piled on the pounds.

After she died, I and some of her descendants took a recipe each from her book and made a dish or pudding in her honour.
I made a simnel cake.
There was trifle, chocolate pudding, biscuits, pavlova...some savouries too.

I've never really liked the texture of a steamed cake. Too soggy for me. Give me a baked cake any time. The only one my mum used to make was a Christmas pudding which was steamed. I never liked it!

We use the term pudding here differently; a pudding more is like a custard, usually milk or cream based.

I forage different fruits and cob nuts every year here and always have. My parents always made puddings and sweet pies, etc. I do the same only at the weekend or on special occasions.
Bring on old fashioned favourites home made and never shop bought in our house. Because it is a home made treat at the weekend it's worth the effort.

My favourite pudding is strawberries, meringue nest from M and S and a spoonful of cream. I used to assemble strawberry tarts but I cannot find ready made pastry cases. A local baker used to sell packs of twelve but that closed I’ve not had much success baking my own pastry cases.I also love Tiramisu from Sainsbury’s. I occasionally make crumbles and the apples are almost ripe on the tree now but I dislike coring and peeling the apples. Yes M and S do tasty small steam puddings which can be cooked in the microwave. Like others I’m aware of weight gain and a more sedentary lifestyle.

So, if we simply took additives out of our diet we wouldn't be taking Ozempic?

My favourite is apple, pear and rhubarb crumble with custard, it will never be obsolete in my home.

I sometimes make a lemon tiramasu or a chocolate mousse and we make our Christmas puddings. Apart from that, as we are surrounded by excellent patisseries in our bit of Normandy, we just do what the French do. 😂🇫🇷