British Puddings are dying out 😮

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.

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!

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

Do bkack puddings count in thid

Lets start s campaign called

"Bkack Puddings Mattter"

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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'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.

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!

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?? 😂

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.

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.

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!

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.

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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.