British Puddings are dying out 😮

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

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

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…)

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!

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 😂🇫🇷

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.