British Puddings are dying out 😮

The puddings I remember from childhood were always accompanied by custard.

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.
Oh I don't know, I'd say wishing a heart attack on anyone (even a non-fatal one) would count as evil - in my book, anyway!

Only eating pudding once a month! Now thats a scandal.

Stillness

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!

Indeed! It did put me off my lunch, (a very healthy jacket potato and tuna). I was very tempted to pick up one of his platefuls and up-end it over his head!
Had I been his size, I would not have shown myself in public!

25Avalon

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 made a sticky toffee pudding from scratch at Christmas, it was delicious and not as much trouble to make as I'd feared. It went down very well with our family, most of whom don't like Christmas pud. However it is incredibly sickly so not one I would want (or dare) to eat every day.

tanith

Spotted dick and jam roll poly two of favourites done the old fashioned way suet and steamed in a saucepan of water. Thick Birds custard made with the powder and milk in a jug yummy.
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I made a boiled jam roll last year and was disappointed that it wasn't as light as I remembered. Perhaps it was my mother's magic touch, but mine was a bit soggy.

Do bkack puddings count in thid

Lets start s campaign called

"Bkack Puddings Mattter"

Windmill. Don't think puddibgs are dying out, it's tge traditional home made ones at risk, apparently. People just buy their puddings nowadays.

Well, I enjoy steamed puddings, but the price of electricity these days rather puts me off making anything that has to be cook for 3-4 hours!

I absolutely love Eve's pudding. Also love crumbles. Also love lemon cheesecake which is so easy to make. Just a really good lemon curd mixed with mascarpone on top of biscuit base. Yum.

The obesity problem her and in the us isn’t down to puddings, it’s down to quantity and junk food= additives.

Spot on Petra.
We have a pudding every night because MrA thinks the main meal isn’t complete without one.
However, they’re always home-made never shop-bought, and we don’t snack either.
Neither of us are overweight.

AuntieE

Well, I enjoy steamed puddings, but the price of electricity these days rather puts me off making anything that has to be cook for 3-4 hours!

A slow cooker does the job and much cheaper to use.

Mum used to make Queen Of Puddings. It used stale white, crust less bread. Milk, eggs ,sugar and oodles of raspberry jam. All crowned off with a crisp , meringue tippy.. I can taste it right now. Happy days☺️

Can’t stand summer pudding; soggy bread - ugh!
I’m very found of Sussex Pond pudding,often make marmalade steamed pud, ditto Bakewell tart.

That's rather sad. Puddings are probably the only thing that other nations have had to admit that the British can cook.

We rarely have puddings, mainly because I can't be bothered, but at least I know how to make quite a few. The family favourite is Nostalgia Pudding, a Jocelyn Dimbleby recipe. It's a steamed sponge, made lighter with breadcrumbs, and it has apricot jam and chocolate chips. It's yummy.

Jaxjacky

AuntieE

Well, I enjoy steamed puddings, but the price of electricity these days rather puts me off making anything that has to be cook for 3-4 hours!

A slow cooker does the job and much cheaper to use.

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I make lots of crumbles whatever the season. I make a big batch of crumble mixture and keep it in the fridge/freezer. I think I'm known for my crumbles (possibly because I rarely make any other dessert).

I tend to make puddings in autumn and winter, perhaps early spring, too, if it’s cold. In the summer months and late spring it’s more likely to be various fruits, yoghurts and crème caramel type desserts, maybe a pavlova or ice cream occasionally.

So, from a personal point of view, puddings are not going out of fashion in this household, but the really warm weather doesn’t lend itself to most of them.

Also, they’re not something we eat every day or even every week (apart from fresh fruits), as we need to watch our sugar levels (DH) and cholesterol levels (me). I love a pudding, but limit it.

AuntieE

Well, I enjoy steamed puddings, but the price of electricity these days rather puts me off making anything that has to be cook for 3-4 hours!

I agree with Alira regarding the slow cooker for steamed puddings, but also, if you have one, a pressure cooker which cooks them extremely quickly.

My mother always made a pudding every day, apple pie (she always put garlic cloves in with the apples), crumble or charlotte, bread and butter pudding, steamed puddings - jam roly poly made with suet pastry and home made jam and steamed in a lots was the family favorite, milk puddings - rice, macaroni, semolina or sago, Queen Of Puddings and jam tart. At Christmas she made her own Christmas puddings and mincemeat. I followed suit because we had two hungry boys but when they had both left home my pudding making dwindled as DH worked away from home a lot and after he retired he developed Type 2 diabetes so puddings are a rare treat. I do miss all the cooking and fear I have lost my skills. I have noticed how extortionate ready made puddings are in Sainsbury’s and M and S so if puddings were ever back on the menu I would make my own.

My mother always made a pudding every day, apple pie (she always put garlic cloves in with the apples)

Were they garlic cloves or cloves?
My mother always put cloves in with the apples in a pie, I wasn't keen on them but they're an aromatic spice used for flavouring. You weren't supposed to eat them but sometimes you'd find one in your mouth with a mouthful of pie.

I've got jars of them because I was going to use them with the DGC to stud oranges to hang as pomanders at Christmas, then came Covid!

Ziplok

AuntieE

Well, I enjoy steamed puddings, but the price of electricity these days rather puts me off making anything that has to be cook for 3-4 hours!

I agree with Alira regarding the slow cooker for steamed puddings, but also, if you have one, a pressure cooker which cooks them extremely quickly.

It was JaxJacky who suggested it but yes, I agree.

Good for steaming Christmas puddings too, and for reheating them.

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.

I think it is probably down to ‘fast foods’ that are not home made, such as burgers, laden with melted plasticky cheese and sugar rich things such as the sauces used, bought from the various fast food outlets, ditto the pizzas, etc. Buying and eating these regularly mean you have no control over the ingredients used - the various palm oils, flavourings and additives which you wouldn’t put in home made versions are frequently used in these.
This, coupled with a much more sedentary lifestyle for the majority, where people don’t often walk anywhere but hop into the car, even for local school runs, contribute in my opinion, plus hard, manual labour doesn’t apply to the majority any more - many jobs nowadays are largely sedentary based, and I think you have part of the answer.
Just my view, of course, and others may strongly disagree.

Never eat puddings. I like apple crumble but never make it & probably have it once a year, if that

Oops sorry Allira and JaxJacky 😁