Puddings+and+Deserts

Puddings and Desserts //"......... a moment later the puddings appeared. Blocks of ice cream in every flavour you could think of, **apple pies, treacle tarts, chocolate eclairs and jam doughnuts, trifle, strawberries, jelly, rice pudding ......**" // Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J. K. Rowling

//What is a Pudding ? // A pudding is the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally). In Britain, we also use the words 'dessert, 'sweet'' and 'afters'. //"What's for pudding?" // //"What's for afters?" // //"What's for dessert?" //  For more of the words we use, visit our British Words section. Take care!

Not all our puddings are sweet puddings, some are eaten during the starter or main course like Yorkshire Pudding and Black Pudding.

**Puddings and Cakes in England ** There are hundreds of variations of sweet puddings in England, but each pudding begins with the same basic ingredients of milk, sugar, eggs, flour and butter and many involve fresh fruit such as raspberries or strawberries, custard, cream, and cakes.

The more traditional and well known home-made puddings are **apple or rhubarb crumble**, **bread and butter pudding**, **spotted dick**and **trifle**. The traditional accompaniment is **custard**, known as crème anglaise (English sauce) to the French. The dishes are simple and traditional, with recipes passed on from generation to generation.



Favourite Puddings include:

**Spotted Dick**

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">(Also called Spotted Dog) <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Spotted dick** is a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit (usually currants), commonly served with either custard or butter and brown sugar

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Trifle**

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Made with layers of sponge cake altternate with custard, jam or fruit and Whipped Cream. Sometimes alcohol-soaked sponge cake is used.

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;"> **Apple Crumble** <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Often served with thick cream, ice cream or custard.

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Hasty Pudding** <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">A simple and quick (thus the name) steamed pudding of milk, flour, butter, eggs, and cinnamon. <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Bakewell pudding** - also called Bakewell Tart. <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Recipe]

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">**Custard** <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">A thick, rich, sweet mixture made by gently cooking together egg yolks, sugar, milk or cream, and sometimes other flavorings. Most people today use a yellow powder mixed with milk, water and sugar. Custard can be served as a hot sauce, poured over adessert, or as a cold layer in, for example, a trifle. When it is cold, it 'sets' and becomes firm.

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">**Bread and butter pudding** - old English favourite (see image) [|Recipe]

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">**Semolina Pudding**

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">A smooth, creamy puddmade of milk, eggs, flavouring and sugaring. Semolina is cooked slowly in milk, sweetened with sugar and flavoured with vanilla and sometimes enriched with egg. Semolina pudding can be served with raisins, currants or sultanas stirred in or with a dollop of jam.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;"> **Roly-poly**



<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">A pudding made of jam or fruit rolled up in pastry dough and baked or steamed until soft. <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Recipe]

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Treacle pudding** <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">A steamed pudding with a syrup topping.

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Jelly and Ice Cream** <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">A favourite party food for children.

**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 260%;">Cakes ** <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Lardy Cake**

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**The Victoria Sponge** - Named after Queen Victoria

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Parkin** <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">A spicey cake combining oatmeal and ginger. Traditionally enjoyed around Guy Fawkes Night (November 5) <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Simnel Cake**



<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">A traditional cake for Easter and Mothering Sunday (Mothers' Day) <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Click here for a recipe]

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**English Crumpets** <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">A tasty "muffin" that goes great with tea, and spread with butter and preserves. <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Mince Pies** <span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Pastry shells filled with mince meat, and sometimes brandy or rum. Traditionally eaten at Christmas time