British Puddings are dying out 😮

Do love a pudding but they’re now a treat only when the family get together. Sticky toffee pudding with caramel sauce is the current favourite, after a salad lunch.
DS (34) did an excellent rice pudding recently.

Of course, when most of us were young, things like yogurt, mousses, cheesecakes and similar were unheard of, no wonder we all had proper puddings.

Not much else.

Macgran43

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.

I've got ready-made pastry cases from both Asda and Morrisons just recently.

I think that the sensible approach to our puddings is not to view them as a calorie fest, but as tiny pieces of deliciousness.

So think of a couple of mouthfuls of heaven, and no more.

I’ve never really had a sweet tooth, as chief cook - not bottle washer, I rarely make a pud, MrJ isn’t fussed either and the children used to have yoghurt, ice cream or just a main course.
So guilty as charged Whitewave

Terribull the Pudding Club did a book called “Great British Puddings” which has some fabulous recipes, especially the apple ones. Just looked at my copy and it was first published in 2012. (Gosh, have I had it that long?)

If the pudding is dying out how come one of the most popular items on nearly every pub menu is sticky toffee pudding?

Oreo

Who doesn’t love a great British pud?

Me!

I find steamed pudding stodgy and unappetising. However, I have just made an apple and blackberry crumble for DH, I won't be trying it.

Now, if you were to offer er me, Scilian lemon tart, pavlova, Eton mess etc.I would eat them in a heartbeat!

Marydoll Sicilian lemon tart is one of my all time favourites.

(Don’t tell anyone, but if I am having a cannot be bothered to bake day I have been known to buy one from M & S or Waitrose, and smile when people say how delicious it is…)

I quite like Sicilian lemon tart, but my favourite Italian is panna cotta.

I love junket as well - we used to have it regularly when I was a child with nutmeg and clotted cream.

But of course the milk was full cream and unpasteurised

Only really eat afters when my rhubarb is so plentiful then it's a crumble don’t make or eat anything else that I can think of
Not often when I go out either as the afters are usually nearly as much as the main meal

We always have a pudding on Sunday, often fruit crumble, apple, plum, pear, trifle and lemon merengue also frequently frequently. When we have a party they all disappear very quickly.

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The pudding offerings in pubs/restaurants are so boring and samey for my liking. It's a real bug bear of mine. Everywhere you go there's some variation on a chocolate brownie, chocolate fudge cake or sticky toffee pudding. If you don't want chocolate or something drenched in sickly caramel, you're out of luck. You really need to go to a higher end restaurant to get anything more interesting. I had the most wonderful frangipan pear tart served with vanilla sauce recently at an independent restaurant. They also had lemon syllabub, strawberry tart and cherry with cottage cheese crumble on the menu. I think younger generations have acquired a sweeter, more Americanised taste in puddings.

A sponge pudding in the microwave takes very little time to make. Fruit, jam or syrup, whatever, in the bowl, then the sponge mixture on top. Cook on full power, but watch it like a hawk!

It must be a positive thing, and not really surprising, that these old fashioned puddings are dying out, given the constant messages about the threat of obesity-related issues etc. Even home made ones are usually full of sugar, butter and white flour and therefore unnecessary calories. Surely our modern lives are mostly too sedantary to warrant puds apart from a rare and special treat.

We have puddings at the weekends and enjoy them. I’m amazed at this news story considering the rise in obesity.and wonder what it is exactly that’s causing so many people to put on so much weight.

Stillness

We have puddings at the weekends and enjoy them. I’m amazed at this news story considering the rise in obesity.and wonder what it is exactly that’s causing so many people to put on so much weight.

Greed?? 😂

I was in one of those ‘eat as much as you like’ restaurants the other day. A rather ‘big’ man and a lady came in, she was carrying one plate of food. He was carrying two plates, each piled as high as could be without over spilling. They sat down and ate. He ate the contents of both his plates and then, to my disgust, went and got another plateful. He had paid the same for three heaped platefuls as I had paid for my ‘normal’ helping.
I consoled myself with the fact that a heart attack must surely be around the corner, not fatal obviously (I’m not evil!) but enough to frighten him.
He and his companion weren’t even remotely embarrassed!

I've just made a batch of 6 apple puddings to use some of the windfalls in the garden. Nostalgic as I don't often make them since DH died.

6 ramekins, stewed apple at the bottom (no sugar), a little cinnamon, then topped with a flapjack mixture of 2oz of butter melted and mixed with 2 oz of demerara (or muscovado), 1oz of pinhead oatmeal, 3 oz of jumbo oats. About 20 minutes on gas mark 4. Reasonably healthy as each one has only 1/3 of an ounce of butter or sugar and the cereals are high in fibre. My late DH always rounded of his main meal with one of these and Greek yog or creme fraiche. We ate puddings all our married life. When the DDs had friends round to tea after school they commented on the fact we had pudding. The married DDs still make puddings but probably not every day.

Crossstitchfan, I find this revolting. I just don’t know how it’s ever come about but I see it too when I’m out. Surely they must realise how bad it is for them. And to think I feel guilty if I eat two biscuits instead of one occasionally!

I only do pudding if I have guests. But I do like them and have recently made a rather delicious pear and almond tart and a summer pudding.
DH once made a Sussex Pond. Amazing but so many calories that we didn't repeat it.
I look back in horror at the pudding DM's cleaning lady used to make: Baby's Leg, basically a suet pudding cooked in a cloth in water. It wasn't just the name, it was the snot-like edges of the pudding. Ugh!

I don't have a sweet tooth (except for chocolate) so I've never liked steamed puddings like treacle pudding, Spotted Dick, etc. A crumble or open fruit tart or Lemon Meringue Pie are my favourites, along with cheese cake if it isn't too heavy.
But I never make these things myself. I like to enjoy them when I go out.

DH once made a Sussex Pond. Amazing but so many calories that we didn't repeat it.

I made one once years ago just to see what it was like. Delicious but a once in forty years treat!

Stillness

We have puddings at the weekends and enjoy them. I’m amazed at this news story considering the rise in obesity.and wonder what it is exactly that’s causing so many people to put on so much weight.

Long-term use of artificial sweeteners such as aspartame could be a factor according to some studies.

I don't make many pudding either now, just the occasional crumble or treacle sponge for meals for visiting family. We certainly wouldn't bother to have them when we're on our own, though we might when we go out for our regular Friday lunch treat.
If I were to have a glut of fruit I'd probably make crumbles, but we have no plums this year. It does look as though we may have a lot of Bramleys this year though, in which case I'll prepare them and freeze in bags large enough for a pudding.
My grandchildren like trifle and we sometimes make that together, but that isn't really a pudding.