Typically English Food

Queen of puddings
Bread and Butter pudding
Jam roly poly
Gooseberry fool
Rhubarb fool
Eton Mess
Summer pudding.

I love puddings...... can you tell !

Eton Mess for me Annika please.

What about a nice trifle or an alcoholic jelly?

GranmaH - my OH is a Surrey boy (Weybridge), one of our daughter lives in Cobham and sil and bil in Guildford. What a lovely county which we visit often.

Scones, clotted cream and raspberry jam - although I realise Devon and Cornwall are almost as far as Yorkshire.

Traditional English food is wonderful, and sadly much maligned abroad.

Australia and New Zealand bicker about which is the originator of Pavlova, so if you fancy going 'foreign', you could make one of those. Yummy. Another one I can't resist, but have never made, is tiramisu.

My American friends and relatives always ask me to make scones when we're together, and we eat them with whipped double cream and jam. Had a hard time getting real cream in the States once because the huge supermarket I was in was low-fat obsessed. Eventually I asked a very round person if there was any real cream, you know, full fat, full cholesterol, the works. He told me is wasn't good for me. I was probably half his weight and twice his age. I replied that it didn't seem to have done me any harm. His comment was "You're English, aren't you?" and he went to the store rooms and found me some .

Clearly being English means cream isn't bad for you

(Not that I've ever thought it was)

Summer pudding! (once, and only once, referred to by DH as "that red glop.")

I vote scones with jam n cream. for those with fat/cholesterol issues. What about good old rock cakes

I say trifle with lots of sherry....they'll love it!

As I didn't read the OP properly, may I now suggest strawberry tarts or strawberry shortcake?

Apple Pie and clotted cream GrandmaH

Do you think your husband can manage to make that?

If he wants to just buy something - a pork pie.
I agree though, puddings are supreme.
I could happily eat summer pudding every day.

Simnel cake!

Eve's Pudding if it can be served hot?

A deep apple pie made with Bramleys, in butter pastry, and served warm with vanilla custard.

when - We're on the same page, as the American's would say.

As you can see, I'm going with a theme here.........

If you enjoy baking Bakewell tart or Yorkshire parkin, why let the fact that you don't live in the county stop you? Yorkshire athletes have done so well in the Olympics this year that I think it would be most appropriate! Up here in Yorkshire, we are as proud as parkin of all of them!

Go Cornish

saffron cake
sweet pasty like apple and blackberry with loads of clotted cream

and for savoury

traditional pasty of course and hogs pudding

all delicious

Oh thank you all- I don't know where to start now. I had thought of scones but they are really better the day they are made & i am not keen enough to get up at 5am- just lazy obviously!
I may make a cake with the union flag on it in fruit- did one for Jubilee street party or apple pie & cream sounds good but then a trifle is brilliant too.
I may let DH decide & NO he will NOT be helping.
BTW I have a really good recipe for tiramisu that takes max 10 mins to make, Annobel. If you want recipe i will gladly share it.
(cupcake)

Share it please,b*** MFP

I'm tempted, GrandmaH. You could put the recipe in the recipe section of
www.gransnet.com/food. Then I'd be even more tempted!

If you bake a lot it is easy to assume a Victoria Sponge is a bit run of the mill. But it is really surprising how many people enjoy a homebaked VS. Failing that I would opt for a Trifle or Eton Mess.

Tiramsu recipe PERLEASE!

My last Victoria sponge emerged from the oven as flat as two pancakes and I couldn't work out what I had done wrong. Then, last week, My DiL produced the most excellent light sponge - amazing, because my DS, who used to be a chef, does all the cooking and baking in that household. I had no idea that she could bake! She keeps that very quiet.

Sounds like a bit of witchcraft to me, Annobel!