British Puddings are dying out 😮

I’d also add portion sizes will have an effect to my post 17:33:45.

I really want a pudding! 😁

The next one I make (widowed friend coming for dinner soon) will be a good old apple and mincemeat crumble, since I’ve still got some of my Delia’s mincemeat left from last year. 😋

DH was brought up on huge quantities of home-made cakes, biscuits and puddings and was never overweight. My DM baked a fruit cake, an apple pie and a rice pudding every week of her long married life and I could never make them taste the same as hers. She made a fantastic, lighter Christmas cake but couldn't ice it for toffee - so DD did it with a plasterers trowel, made a complete mess of it so fluffed it up with a fork into a snow storm! He was a builders' labourer! But heck it tasted good! None of us was overweight at all.

But back then both DD and DM did manual jobs, scrubbed the front step, hung the carpets over the washing line and beat them, cut the lawn with a pair of shears, walked miles to work etc, carried heavy shopping home and did all the home maintenance. My dad used to have a one word phrase for the idea of getting in a tradesman, which was "Pay?".

Today's life is so fast and furious that there is no time for daily walking or scrubbing, or healthy home cooking, and everything has a machine to do the job, so obesity can soon appear. It does need effort to prevent it (and all the other damage to the body) and lots of folk haven't got the time.

Forgot to say I absolutely LOVE puddings of all kinds but rarely make or eat them and agree that the modern small selection of the same things in pubs and the like is BORING!

Oh, I do make a trifle now and again - exactly as my mother made it. Very simple, only fruit is mandarin oranges, but everyone declares it wonderful. A few years ago my cousin and my mum's cousin's daughter came over from NZ and stayed with me. I served a trifle one day and they both made exactly the same recipe. They had both lived in NZ for over 50 years!

I used to.love .asking a syrup pudding with custard for the kids. But now they've all grown up.i wouldn't bother.

Syrup sponge pudding and custard - Yummy!!

I make a trifle at Christmas and for DH's birthday. It has to be raspberries, preferably from the garden.

Special treat for DH is a Passionfruit Cream recipe from James Martin. Needs lots of passionfruit. I always have a bag of crumble mix, Delia's, in the freezer and a bag of mixed summerfruits. When the freezer broke recently, I used both to make a summer crumble. It's a new favourite pud. I have mine with Greek yoghurt and DH prefers a small pot of cold custard.

I was a pudding baking/steaming queen back in the 70s-90s but dietary needs ended it all plus the fashion for yoghurt! My teenage/20s children frowned on such old fashioned stodge but now middleaged son makes a superb steamed syrup sponge!