When I was a boy (50+years ago), my Mum used to make a Christmas Pudding or two in November. We didn't have a lot of money, so it spread the cost of the fruit etc over a couple of months. However, her forte was a Steamed Ginger and Golden Syrup pudding. Once eaten, you couldn't move for a couple of hours. It was Heaven!
Best pudding has to be Treacle sponge or Treacle Tart. As kids Mum used to do extra Yorkshire puddings for Sunday lunch, which we had for pudding with golden syrup on. Thats nice as well.
@XtraPixel ....bold statement considering the UK is rated 4th in Europe & 8th on the planet with Michelin stared restaurants. Yes, we're out of Europe......thank God!
Blackberry and apple crumble with custard ..... oh man, that has to be one of the best ever! Or mincemeat tart (with custard) - so lush!! (Basically like a big mince pie but without the pastry lid) 😋😋😋
What I like about custard is that it fills the same niche as ice cream, balancing the drier taste of a crumble or pudding, but it's warm, which is excellent in winter.
Try a somewhat "thin" custard with a little extra sugar and a few drops of brandy or rum sauce. Non alcoholic versions of those are available in the supermarket baking aisle, for anyone wanting them. They give a lift to the custard and make it a super-warming comfort drink at bedtime. Perfect when sideways rain is lashing the windows and the wind roars through the trees!
Hi Amanda! I remember having my favourite school dinner pudding of Manchester Tart which I've never had since I left school over 40 years ago! Basically, it's a short-crust pastry, spread with raspberry jam in the middle and with a topping of dried custard on top of the pastry. It's finished with a glazed cherry spread with coconut flakes! Although I'm from Bristol, it's a must to try this wonderful dessert! Mouthwatering or what!!!! :)
Manchester tart is my favourite too. My mum worked on school meals and would sometimes bring home one of those metal catering trays of the stuff. I could never get enough of it. I have 2 small ones in the fridge as we speak from a local bakery. Not the same as the school stuff though.
You might like to give Sussex Pond Pudding a go- it's a suet pudding steamed with a whole lemon inside. It's cooked long and slow, so the lemon candies and creates a syrup.
Pineapple "Upside Down" Cake. Pineapple rings, the holes filled with cherries, layered at the bottom of a baking tin, then covered in a kind of syrup with a sponge-mix on top. After baking, turn it upside-down onto a serving plate, and voilà!
Absolutely love Christmas pudding!- my Nan used to make them with so much alcohol your eyes would water!! - never made one myself, don't have the time, but I tend to stockpile store brought ones this time of year (they usually have really good dates on them!), so I can have them throughout the year!
I hate Christmas Pudding! It's too stodgy and sickly! The only good thing about it is it never goes off! I once bought one for my Christmas dinner but couldn't be bothered with it and it sat in the cupboard for weeks until I got so sick of the sight of it I had it with my Easter Dinner!
I really like my family's recipe - 5 or 6 generations back at least. No alcohol, and contains grated carrot as one of the ingredients so it comes out a bit lighter and you can eat more of it. Served with a choice of custard, double cream, ice cream or (best choice) all three. We tend to make 6 or 8, and eat the last one in the autumn to free up the bowls for the new batch.
@@jeremyskelton8067 yes must have grated carrots it keeps the moisture in. Also should always be served with sweet white sauce, so no packets with sherry and cooked out. Minimal alcohol, only thing vaguely alcoholic I was allowed as a kid. Don't know about thirteen ingredients. My trans sherry trifle however was adults only. O e year she got confused and kept adding brandy, had to add loads of sherry to balance it out, fortunately I was driving but drivers see warned to avoid. God I t was a beautiful trifle, possibly because my Gran had to put so much more of the other ingredients. Having said that if I was driving now I wouldn't eat any if I didn't have a decent gap.
in lancashire its got to be rag pudding/chips and mushy peas,my favorite is whimberry tart you just dont see it these days ,love your stuff amanda !!!!!!
One you dont hear much about now is Gooseberry Crumble, and very rare you will find Gooseberry's on sale in any supermarket. Happy to say I grow my own in the garden.
I love the little snort makes me laugh every time!!! Bakewell Pudding tastes best in Bakewell like a Cornish Pasty in Cornwall. Jam Rolly Polly and custard every time Amanda cant beat it.
"I'm not the salad type!!" Brilliant!! I am partial to a steamed treacle pudding, although a combination of meringue and cream in any form is a match made in heaven!
Apple Charlotte, similar to crumble but uses a mixture of suet, breadcrumbs & sugar. Probably vegetable suet is better for you and you can jazz it up with muesli and granola. My sister redecorated the kitchen making banoffee pie when she let a can of condensed milk boil dry.
Clootie Dumpling is another favourite of mine, I always thought Banofee pie was invented in Banffshire in Northern Scotland. I love the Bakewell Tart without the Icing myself.
Blackwell tart here to..I do like almonds. my mother was a fine clootie dumpling specialist made in your finest muslin pillowcases. She had cold hands due to having renauyds disease supposed to be thought good for baking cold hands that is lol.
Eve pudding (soft sponge with a hard top & sugary apple base) closely followed by chocolate fudge cake. My mam and gran used to make a gorgeous Eve pudding. I haven't had it for years. No one seems to have heard of it nowadays!
Great vlog! If you ever see it, try “Figgy pudding”. The oldest and most traditional Christmas pudding. It’s even in a Christmas song “We wish you a merry Christmas”
When I was younger, my favourite pudding was always rice pudding the way my grandmother made it, with the skin on top. This was later replaced by the Ambrosia style creamed rice, from a can, when I had to make it myself. More recently, I have open access to an abandoned orchard and at this time of year, I have no end of apples, pears and other fresh fruits. My new favourite is apple crumble - but only the filling because I don't know how to make the crumble. I make the filling with apples, grated ginger, lemon juice and whatever and it is gorgeous...I've experimented by adding pears in too and it also works because the apples turn mushy before the pears are fully cooked, so giving an extra texture. I don't have it with anything else, like sauces or anything.
Amanda, always a fun video. I think you should research & try Sussex Pond Pudding, so gorgeous & lemony. Also Ginger Sponge Pudding or the Marmelade version, so nice with proper custard. Queen of Puddings, or Apple Charlotte. Some more to try ;)
Your mention of shoe-fly pie reminded me that we have plain old fly pies. These are simply small round pastry cases filled with dried fruit immersed in icing. Extremely calory dense! I've also heard them called ĺard arse delights.
My favourite would either be apple crumble or treacle sponge. With custard, obviously. As for bakewell tart, I love your personal recipe, Amanda. Jam and frabnihabnimab sounds so much tastier 😄❤ xxx
Apple crumble is the best, although it can be annoying when those little bits of tough skin from the edge of the core get left in and stuck in your teeth
No Lemon Meringue Pie? As a child of the seventies, I grew up on that! There's two versions, one with a sweet pastry case and one with a biscuit-crumb base, but both contain a tangy lemon-curd filling with a sweet, fluffy meringue topping just lightly browned in the oven. Best served cold, with nothing else - no custard, cream or ice-cream necessary (although there's nothing to stop you having some as well if you want to.)
Good shout. Shop bought ones are a bit too sugary in the meringue and probably in the filling too. I'd still eat a shop bought one and be happy but I'd be even happier with a home made one :)
Summer pudding is lovely. It's summer fruits (raspberries, strawberries, redcurrants, loganberries). Any mixture of soft fruits and bread. Loads of recipes out there. You need to make it in advance so the juices soak into the bread. Sussex Pond pudding is lovely too.
My wife was a Sussex Lass and used to use a Seville Orange instead of a Lemon, needed a ton of sugar in it to counter the bitterness of the Orange. It was delicious.
AMANDA RAE Hi A, so just on a general topic,puddings,cakes,biscuits etc that you chat so eloquently about...a quick funny for you regarding Scottish biscuits...two young lassies go in to flame haired, Jock Mc T’s shop, only to find him high up a stepladder, reloading the high shelves, as he was leant forward, the two girls peeped up his kilt and both said at once..Ach, we see ya have ginger nuts Mc Tavish!
Also, this isn’t a dessert but it reminded me - have you heard of or tried Pease Pudding? It’s lovely in a ham sandwich! Look it up on Wikipedia it’s a North Eastern English spread. It’s sooo good! Might be a good one for future videos!
Pease pudding and faggots with onion gravy. I first had this as a "take out" in Ramsgate, Kent where they also serve the pud' with saveloys. Both are what you would call "poor folks" food, I get my current faggots from a local farm shop and cook at home. Obviously these are savoury. My late wife cooked a spotted dick for our dive group while we were camped at a dive site in the wilds of Scotland, one guy had never had a home made one. There were fourteen in the group and we were there for a week while she did the catering for three meals a day on a couple of two burner camping stoves. (Camp fires not allowed because of the fire risk) Heroic and epic, most of us actually put weight on!
Nancy Pelosi was over in the UK a few months ago in Chorley attending a Speakers Conference hosted at Astley Park, I believe they were offered Chorley Cakes as part of the Lancashire fayre during their stay. I wonder what Nancy thought of what we fondly call Fly Pie!! 🪰🥧 😀
Warm Bilberry pie with carnation milk is my favourite ,Rhubarb pie/ crumble was a staple around my Nana's back in day most families had a Rhubarb plant in the back garden years ago .
Eton Mess is my favourite (or raspberry pavlova, which is the same thing in my stomach), but as far as Christmas Puddings go, I was always told (by my granny) that you should make a Christmas Pudding between Christmas Day and New Year's Day. It's then left to ferment (fermenti?) for a whole year before being eaten on Christmas Day the following year. Dunno if people still do that or not.
@@LADYRAEUK the pudding gets blacker as it ages, and the flavours get more complex, but I don’t think I would say it gets a stronger flavour. The amount of sugar in it preserves it completely. You should make your own Christmas pudding someday and try it out. If you’re interested, I have a recipe that I adapted from a traditional old one from Mrs Beeton.
Hi Amanda! Like you I absolutely love apple crumble! But my absolute favourite? Either sticky toffee pudding or chocolate profiteroles. Oh and not forgetting cooked banana fritters with warm toffee poured over or/and ice cream! 😋 mmm lol
I love bilberry pie. We used to go bilberry picking on the Mendips when I was a kid and then my mum would use them to make home made bilberry pie. It would leave you with a purple tongue and lips afterwards. Delicious!
I'd never heard that about Eton Mess and the dog. It's silly enough to be true but I love it as a desert. Derbyshire = a place Americans can't say correctly ;o)
Thing is it's pronounced Darbyshire as if there is an "a" so when Amanda says Derbyshire with an "e" that is certainly how it looks to be pronounced LOL!!
Many English place names have idiosyncratic pronunciations which many native born folk get wrong. For example few know that (the Somerset, I think,) village of Prinknash, is pronounced Prinnish. Buggering about with names of places and people seems to be another peculiar English hobby designed to confuse both native and visitor alike.
Banoffie Pie was invented in the Hungry Monk restaurant in the East Sussex village of Jevington on the South Downs. The chef was Ian Dowding, if I remember correctly. Sadly Nigel McKenzie died a few years ago and the restaurant was closed. The recipe is in one of the Hungry Monk cookbooks.
My favourite puddings are savoury ones. Traditionally there's steak and kidney but I prefer steak, onion and mushroom or if you're in the north west of England, rag pudding (minced meat and onions) which I had a long time ago when I was working up there (late 90s, I think).
Another few puddings or deserts are Triffle, Knickerbocker Glory, Manchester Tart, Jam Roly Poly and treacle, syrup or ginger sponge oh and not forgetting Eve's Pudding.
Bread Pudding, when done well is a joy to eat... when done badly you can grout your bathroom with it. You might want to try Summer Pudding as well... but wait until summer for the best fruit and enjoy it outside with a glass of Pimms No.7 to wash it down with.
Apple and rhubarb, or apple and Blackberry, are great variations. In cold weather it has to be with custard, but in the summer I prefer to have it with cream or ice-cream.
Bread pudding with a cup of tea is lovely and my Nan made the best. When I see a bakers selling them I have to go inside to get a slice. Rhubarb and ginger crumble with custard is another really good pudding. But then there are so many I like and enjoy.
My favourite pudding is most definitely not a dessert because it is Steak & Kidney Pudding! A bit like steak & kidney pie but made with suet pastry and then steamed. Marvellous!
As you mentioned shoofly pie & Xmas pudding, you might just like a Scottish kind-of- mishmash of the two. It’s called “flies’ cemetery (or flies’ graveyard) & are sweet pastries filled with raisins, currants, etc.
In Medieval times, pastry shells were called coffins. The pastry wasn't always meant to be eaten, & it was rather hard; it was simply used as a receptacle for the food so you could take it with you.
My kids used to love a Knickerbocker Glory, first recorded in England in the 1920s. It's a very indulgent form of sundae. When I used to visit my roomie's home in Wales whilst I was at school in London, his mom used to make Snowdon Pudding (Pwdin yr Wyddfa), made of suet, marmalade, and lemon zest, and served with lemon sauce. 😋🍧
_afters_ is used only in reference to the meal dessert course, _pudding_ and _dessert_ can be used for the course or for any foodstuff that could be a dessert.
@@samhilton4173 There's pudding that is actually an individual dish, such as summer pudding, then there's pudding which is another name for dessert, also known as afters, or "sweet". Now I'm showing my age.... 😉
As a savoury man I really only have 2 puddings up my cooking sleave.. Bread and butter plus rice pudding but I trying to master cheesecake atm.. That laugh always slips in and we love it lady, have a great week👍
just wondering have you try clotted cream yet? it go great with any dessert it is much more thicker and richer than the normal cream, if you buy scones in a cafe the cream inside the scone is made from clotted cream
For me has to be rhubarb crumble and custard and I know it's not a pudding I used to live in Bavaria and I got to try a genuine black Forest gateau and it was divine nothing like what is served over here in the UK.
My gran was the master of crumbles. She used to take us kids out blackberry picking with plastic bags so she had enough to freeze for the year. Apple and blackberry, apple, rhubarb, gooseberry (goosegogs she used to call them). All served with a thick custard or ice cream if we were very lucky. There is definitely an art to a good crumble.
Sticky toffee pudding is the best. I reckon it’s Cumbrian Cumbrian and Cumbrian. I’d never seen it until i come to Grasmere. I live Christmas pudding but as you say you can only eat it at Christmas. Over the 49 years I’ve been a chef I was always led to believe that banoffee was American but I might have been told wrong. But I have to say I do like chocolate fondant pudding, you know the one that is set chocolate sponge on the outside but when you put spoon in it the hot molten chocolate floods out, best served with white chocolate sauce or white chocolate ice cream.
Great compilation and great mentions from subscribers, up here in the North west , Manchester start, Eccles cake, Chorley cake worth a look, tried Kendal mint cake once....over the Pennines in Yorkshire anything from Bettys Teashop in Harrogate or York ,,best to order online....thankfully have just had our Sunday roast otherwise it would be a pudding fest, as always Amanda a great post, best wishes from the wirral....E
Rhubarb crumble, bread and butter pudding 😍 or a Cornflake tart (ah the school dinner memories!) I believe some call it a Manchester tart? Also, be careful Amanda - your accent is beginning to change!
Trcle sponge and custard or Rhubarb crumble, Gooseberry Crumble, Apple crumble. Eton Mess was invented when a waiter/waitress dropped the pavlova but the recipients still ate it and loved it. It's Bakewell Pudding as all those in Bakewell will inform you
Sticky Toffee Pudding Everytime. Number:1. You should try British Trifle traditionally made with strawberries, lady fingers/ sponge custard and whipped fresh cream.
Even more traditional recipe is: Layer of cubed maderia cake soaked with Sherry in the base. Top with proper egg custard and allow to set. Spread jam or fruit on top of the custard, then finish off with a layer of lemon syllabub. Very rich!
Ice cream and hot custard is a treat. But I am recently addicted to small sponge puddings. Various flavours like raspberry and toffee etc. Great with ice cream. Available from most good supermarkets who do their own brand as well as Mr Kipling,
The Bakewell Tart was originally called Bakewell pudding, got one from the shop in Bakewell that first created and sold them, still there to this day :) Beautiful part of the country as you also have Matlock And Matlock bath amongst other places of interest.
@@LADYRAEUK Are you thinking of Bread Pudding and not Bread and Butter Pudding? They're quite different. Bread Pudding is like a fruit cake and Bread and Butter pudding is very light, an egg custard with sultanas and the slices of bread change into a sort of light cake.
@@corleth2868 a lot of people mix up the two. They are quite different, as you say. Bread pudding is also traditionally made with suet, which makes it richer as well as denser.
Being a chocolate fun my self, I would go for the sticky toffee pudding. When I was in the US, I would get chocolate Ice cream with chocolate chips and chocolate sauce over it. Needles to say that all the "salad only" girls were looking at it with envy. As far as I was concerned, after 3 hours of daily soccer practice, I needed the calories.
Try "Eve's Pudding" which is a sponge and apple cake in a pudding bowl. Much like an upside down cake, you place the apple on top of the (thick) cake mix and then put in the oven and the apple ends up on the bottom fully cooked. Serve with thick custard.
At school in the 1950s we had a pudding called gypsy tart it was evaporated milk from the fridge whisked up with a soft brown sugar . I can't remember the name of the sugar but I think it had a k in the name after whisking it is put in a flan case and cooked for about 20 mins at 180 when cool put in the fridge to thicken . It is so yummy
Hi Amanda, any dessert pie/pudding that you are going to serve with ice cream may I recommend using Cornish Ice Cream, there are a number of different brands and recipes to try, I would start with one made with clotted cream as this is the more traditional recipe. Christmas Crumble. Home made, look online for recipes but, beware it’s Christmas so full of alcohol! Adjust as you deem necessary. Summer Pudding/Summer Fruit Pudding. Some people find this a bit gritty because of the amount of seeds from all those berries so, if you want to try a variation on this look for Wimbledon Summer Pudding recipe online. Jam Roly-Poly. I’m a sucker for Ambrosia Devon Custard and Rice Pudding, could literally eat it till the cows come home, and if you look at me you could say I’ve been doing just that! Treacle Pudding, Treacle Tart. Syrup Sponge Pudding. There are more but, I can’t remember them all, my mum, aunts, and grans used to make home made puddings all of the time, we were spoiled for choice.
I believe the UK is the best place for puddings and deserts. I have tried lots of foreign puddings and desserts not normally served here and they are not generally as good as ours EXCEPT where they have been adopted as regulars on our menus. So I do accept the a kulfi or a tiramisu can be every bit as good as what we have to offer. So with the good stuff that is home grown and the foreign stuff we have appropriated England is the best place for puddings and desserts. Sadly, with only occasional exceptions, that is not true generally of ice cream and chocolate. We have a few top-notch producers but, in general, the Europeans have us beat on those. Some foreigners taste our factory-produced chocolate and ice cream and don't even recognise what it is - because a lot of it is rubbish. But let us not forget that a lot of Americans think Hershey bars are chocolate. Delicious yes: chocolate no.
I’m from South Wales and here we have Welsh Cakes. Not technically a pudding it’s a scone type cake with currents in and about 3 inch in diameter and ¼ to ½ inch thick. Cooked on a griddle. Being from a coal mining area the griddles were made by blacksmiths and metal workers in the coal mines. The griddle was about a foot wide and a ¼ inch thick with a handle cut in, then put on top of the stove. They can be bought in shops now and supermarkets these days. As an option you can get them split in half and jam or nutella added. Another mining area speciallity was bread pudding. Made with left over or stale bread and with milk, eggs, dried fruit. Cooked in a deep tray and we knew it as “Sticky Ribs”.
I’ve lived in South Wales and in North Wales, and yes, Welsh cakes are very popular in both regions. I often get the bought ones, but I have made my own occasionally - much better hot and freshly made. Taste good with maple syrup! Bread pudding also a staple that I sometimes make.
The Eton Mess origins story that I was told was different. Apparently students from Eton college were having a dinner party and made Pavlova for dessert. Just before serving it was accidentally dropped on the floor by someone. Rather than own up and tell his/her guests what had happened this person scooped up Pavlova onto a serving tray and proceeded to serve the guests. When the guests asked what on earth this trampled dessert was called, the reply “Eton Mess” Maybe true maybe not! Who knows?
@@maihindess1 Right? I mean waste not want not, 10 seconds rule and all that! Plus all the students were probably too drunk to care that it had been on the floor! 😆
Yorkshire Curd Tart ... as the name suggests, it's a specialty of Yorkshire ... and also popular in the Northeast, ie.Teesside (where I'm from) & Durham regions. A sweet pastry tart filled with milk curds mixed with egg yolk, currants & sweet spices, then baked. Semi-sweet, slightly savoury ... all heavenly. I'm salivating now ... but can't get them in Scotland (where I live) ... have to make them at home instead!
Fantastic video, Amanda! I learned a lot! Very interesting. I never heard these cool names. So, puddings mean basically desserts in the UK... ? I always thought that puddings are custards. lol ... But I don't know if British people use the word "custard" like in the US. lol Cheers! Have a good one!
Yes Harry we do say custard which is either cold in a pudding like trifle or hot poured over a sponge or pastry dessert. We usually say pudding for all of them even milk based ones like rice pudding or semolina, but some people say whats for afters as well.
There is (as usual!) something class-related around what you call the sweet course of a meal. Posh people would never call it 'dessert', they would be very unlikely to call it 'afters', they might say 'sweet', but they're overwhelmingly most likely to say 'pudding' (and that means for everything, not just things with pudding in the name, so it includes pies, tarts, crumbles, cakes, trifles, the whole lot). So what you call it will very much 'place' you in terms of class/social structure.
@@davidcopplestone6266 I love it with ice cream because it sends taste buds into overdrive, hot cake and cold ice-cream, then the sour of the rhubarb with the sweet of the ice-cream. But that's not to say that I don't like it with custard, I actually do, but for me ice cream takes it up a level lol
Any crumble but Rhubarb is the best with Apple and Blackberry a runner up, must be served with proper Birds Custard 😊😊😊😊😊. My favourite desert when I lived in the States was Cherry Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream.
Christmas pudding also has a tradition of adding 2 or 3 sixpence’s in the mix. Of course sixpence was a coin before decimalisation in the UK. I suppose the kids would expect to find a fiver nowadays 😂
Back in the day we used silver threepenny pieces. They were about half the size of a sixpence and real silver, dated from quite a while back. Ideal for choking small children.
@@horace9341Quite so. Folk tend to remember the year I overdid the volume of flaming brandy. As per best practice I heated the spirit to just bubbling in a pan and poured it on. By the time I got a splint alight the flammable vapour had rather built up rather more than was wise. WHOOOMP! and scorched eyebrows time. Certainly distracted from the secreted small change in the pud. My good brandy too!
@@TheArgieH Yikes, so not so much the aroma of flaming brandy atop the sweet scent of matured mixed exotic fruit, but rather the unmistakable pungent smell of singed hair.
Love the video; I can hear your gradual change to a more British sounding voice. My wife lived in Plymouth for about 5 years before she returned prior to us meeting. She, too, had developed a somewhat British accent but her mom also came from Cumbria in the 60's so she had lots of exposure to the British accent. One of my favorite British desserts, although I don't think it would be classified as a pudding, is trifle. Keep up the great videos and work. I look forward to the next one!
I like apple pie and custard. It always amuses me when I hear the phrase “American as apple pie” because it’s from England. I like a custard tart too, not the cheap shop bought one though, they’re dry and horrible.
Another fantastic video Amanda. I love puddings too. My favourite dessert is trifle. Its got everything I like in it, sponge, jelly, custard and whipped cream. Heaven in a bowl. Love Christmas pudding too. Lush!!! ☺☺☺
Bachelor's Pudding, oh man I can taste it just thinking about it. Haven't had it in years. Same for her steamed pudding (Spotted Dick), but with a boiled brown sugar sauce instead of custard. English, and some German, ancestry, so I'm not sure what other desserts my mother makes/made are purely British. She makes so many delicious things. While growing up it wasn't "What are we having for supper?" it was "What is for dessert?". Then you could decide some much room to leave for dessert. :-)
When I was a boy (50+years ago), my Mum used to make a Christmas Pudding or two in November. We didn't have a lot of money, so it spread the cost of the fruit etc over a couple of months. However, her forte was a Steamed Ginger and Golden Syrup pudding. Once eaten, you couldn't move for a couple of hours. It was Heaven!
Best pudding has to be Treacle sponge or Treacle Tart. As kids Mum used to do extra Yorkshire puddings for Sunday lunch, which we had for pudding with golden syrup on. Thats nice as well.
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Have some gypsy tart after you have had gypsy toast. No I am not joking.
treacle pudding with thick double cream
@XtraPixel rubbish, that is no longer the case
@XtraPixel ....bold statement considering the UK is rated 4th in Europe & 8th on the planet with Michelin stared restaurants. Yes, we're out of Europe......thank God!
Treacle pudding is amazing as well. Made with suet again. Delicious. Great vid Amanda!
Thank you 👍🏻
Blackberry and apple crumble with custard ..... oh man, that has to be one of the best ever! Or mincemeat tart (with custard) - so lush!! (Basically like a big mince pie but without the pastry lid) 😋😋😋
Bread & Butter pudding. Or, if I want to be reminded of my childhood, Arctic Roll. And any steamed pudding. Basically anything 😋
I’ve never have arctic roll
@@LADYRAEUK it’s worth a try. Basically ice cream wrapped in sponge
@@LADYRAEUK think Jam roly poly with ice cream
Oh yeah, arctic roll; a 'must have' for every child ... and adult.
What I like about custard is that it fills the same niche as ice cream, balancing the drier taste of a crumble or pudding, but it's warm, which is excellent in winter.
Fair enough 😊
Try a somewhat "thin" custard with a little extra sugar and a few drops of brandy or rum sauce. Non alcoholic versions
of those are available in the supermarket baking aisle, for anyone wanting them. They give a lift to the custard and make it a super-warming comfort drink at bedtime.
Perfect when sideways rain is lashing the windows and the wind roars through the trees!
What the "crem'e anglaise".?
Hi Amanda! I remember having my favourite school dinner pudding of Manchester Tart which I've never had since I left school over 40 years ago! Basically, it's a short-crust pastry, spread with raspberry jam in the middle and with a topping of dried custard on top of the pastry. It's finished with a glazed cherry spread with coconut flakes!
Although I'm from Bristol, it's a must to try this wonderful dessert! Mouthwatering or what!!!! :)
Manchester tart is my favourite too. My mum worked on school meals and would sometimes bring home one of those metal catering trays of the stuff. I could never get enough of it.
I have 2 small ones in the fridge as we speak from a local bakery. Not the same as the school stuff though.
We need to form a Manchester tart society
@@eamonnclabby7067 Better not call it that though. Who knows what type of people it would attract 😂
Delicious! Lucky you!
I need to try one lol
Steak and Kidney Pudding, although it is not a dessert, is in the shape of a steamed pudding, and has the Steak and Kidney in a Suet pastry.
You might like to give Sussex Pond Pudding a go- it's a suet pudding steamed with a whole lemon inside. It's cooked long and slow, so the lemon candies and creates a syrup.
Yum
I’m not a big fan of lemon so I’m not sure about that one lol
Probably the most British pudding there is ! Deserves to be more widely known
The lemon virtually disintegrates and you are left with a very sweet syrupy pudding, it’s lovely and very easy to make
I've never tried that but it sounds delicious
Totally with you on using raspberries for Eton mess. I also add white chocolate
The very best is Bread and Butter Pudding made with Brioche, half milk and half double cream. It's so light and absolutely delicious. Try it.
the worst is vanilla and coffee pudding
@@leewesley1961 Doesn't sound very nice.
@@JohnSalmon it is bloody disgusting!
Chocolate Concrete, Lemon Meringue and at Christmas, Mince Pies . Three of my absolute favourites
I’ve never heard of chocolate concrete 👍🏻
Pineapple "Upside Down" Cake. Pineapple rings, the holes filled with cherries, layered at the bottom of a baking tin, then covered in a kind of syrup with a sponge-mix on top. After baking, turn it upside-down onto a serving plate, and voilà!
Oh I love that!! 😊
Wurzel Gummidge used to say “A nice cup of tea and a slice of cake aunt Sally, upside down right side up cake”.
@@LADYRAEUK the funniest name for any kind of pudding of course is spotted dick!
A variation on this is Chocolate Pear Pudding - pears with chocolate sponge on the top. My elder son's favourite still, and he's 43 !
@@leewesley1961 Jam Roly-Poly ?
Done properly bread and butter pudding can be quite light and fluffy!
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Absolutely love Christmas pudding!- my Nan used to make them with so much alcohol your eyes would water!! - never made one myself, don't have the time, but I tend to stockpile store brought ones this time of year (they usually have really good dates on them!), so I can have them throughout the year!
I love it but it tends to keep me up all night as it lays heavy on my stomach, even if hours have passed before my bed time. So I now have to resist 😥
I hate Christmas Pudding! It's too stodgy and sickly! The only good thing about it is it never goes off! I once bought one for my Christmas dinner but couldn't be bothered with it and it sat in the cupboard for weeks until I got so sick of the sight of it I had it with my Easter Dinner!
I really like my family's recipe - 5 or 6 generations back at least. No alcohol, and contains grated carrot as one of the ingredients so it comes out a bit lighter and you can eat more of it. Served with a choice of custard, double cream, ice cream or (best choice) all three. We tend to make 6 or 8, and eat the last one in the autumn to free up the bowls for the new batch.
@@jeremyskelton8067 yes must have grated carrots it keeps the moisture in. Also should always be served with sweet white sauce, so no packets with sherry and cooked out. Minimal alcohol, only thing vaguely alcoholic I was allowed as a kid. Don't know about thirteen ingredients. My trans sherry trifle however was adults only. O e year she got confused and kept adding brandy, had to add loads of sherry to balance it out, fortunately I was driving but drivers see warned to avoid. God I t was a beautiful trifle, possibly because my Gran had to put so much more of the other ingredients. Having said that if I was driving now I wouldn't eat any if I didn't have a decent gap.
You’ve ruined my night! I’ve watched this at 11:50 pm and now I’m starving - and no shops are open!!! I simply love your voice - and your snort!
Hahah sorry!
And thank you 😊
in lancashire its got to be rag pudding/chips and mushy peas,my favorite is whimberry tart you just dont see it these days ,love your stuff amanda !!!!!!
One you dont hear much about now is Gooseberry Crumble, and very rare you will find Gooseberry's on sale in any supermarket. Happy to say I grow my own in the garden.
I’ve never had it, if I ever see it I’ll def give it a go 😊
I love the little snort makes me laugh every time!!! Bakewell Pudding tastes best in Bakewell like a Cornish Pasty in Cornwall. Jam Rolly Polly and custard every time Amanda cant beat it.
Everyone loves Amanda's laugh!
I've never even heard of a Rolly Polly! Is it anything like a roly-poly?
@@mantrashak same thing 😂 Just what my family nick named it
@@Reearl Haven't tried one for ages! Think it brings back memories of school meals. And they were awful!
@@mantrashak that’s some crappy one. A real one is nice not shop bought rubbish. Lovely!!
Steak and Kidney Pudding, roast spuds, sprouts, and gravy, followed by treacle sponge and custard.
"I'm not the salad type!!" Brilliant!! I am partial to a steamed treacle pudding, although a combination of meringue and cream in any form is a match made in heaven!
Lol 😊
Apple Charlotte, similar to crumble but uses a mixture of suet, breadcrumbs & sugar. Probably vegetable suet is better for you and you can jazz it up with muesli and granola. My sister redecorated the kitchen making banoffee pie when she let a can of condensed milk boil dry.
I prefer Gooseberry Charlotte, which is tarter.
Clootie Dumpling is another favourite of mine, I always thought Banofee pie was invented in Banffshire in Northern Scotland. I love the Bakewell Tart without the Icing myself.
I’ve not heard of that one
I always thought banoffee pie was called that because it was banned for being awfy.
Banffshire! Brilliant!
Blackwell tart here to..I do like almonds. my mother was a fine clootie dumpling specialist made in your finest muslin pillowcases. She had cold hands due to having renauyds disease supposed to be thought good for baking cold hands that is lol.
Eve pudding (soft sponge with a hard top & sugary apple base) closely followed by chocolate fudge cake. My mam and gran used to make a gorgeous Eve pudding. I haven't had it for years. No one seems to have heard of it nowadays!
That sounds yummy 😊
love that
Mrs C does a great Eves pudding..lucky me ,we,ll save you some...
Great vlog! If you ever see it, try “Figgy pudding”. The oldest and most traditional Christmas pudding. It’s even in a Christmas song “We wish you a merry Christmas”
I will 😊
When I was younger, my favourite pudding was always rice pudding the way my grandmother made it, with the skin on top. This was later replaced by the Ambrosia style creamed rice, from a can, when I had to make it myself. More recently, I have open access to an abandoned orchard and at this time of year, I have no end of apples, pears and other fresh fruits. My new favourite is apple crumble - but only the filling because I don't know how to make the crumble. I make the filling with apples, grated ginger, lemon juice and whatever and it is gorgeous...I've experimented by adding pears in too and it also works because the apples turn mushy before the pears are fully cooked, so giving an extra texture. I don't have it with anything else, like sauces or anything.
Amanda, always a fun video. I think you should research & try Sussex Pond Pudding, so gorgeous & lemony. Also Ginger Sponge Pudding or the Marmelade version, so nice with proper custard. Queen of Puddings, or Apple Charlotte. Some more to try ;)
Jam Rolypoly with custard is the way forward. And if you add blackberrys to the apple crumble your in for another tastebud sensation.. 🥳
Your mention of shoe-fly pie reminded me that we have plain old fly pies. These are simply small round pastry cases filled with dried fruit immersed in icing. Extremely calory dense! I've also heard them called ĺard arse delights.
Lol 🤣
My Mum used to make fly tart with currants.
Totally authentic Amanda video, tripping over some words followed by a snort of laughter 😂😂😂
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For me it's Queen of puddings. It's called that because Queen Victoria loved it too.
my favourite is rhubarb crumble but you have to have custard with it
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My favourite would either be apple crumble or treacle sponge. With custard, obviously. As for bakewell tart, I love your personal recipe, Amanda. Jam and frabnihabnimab sounds so much tastier 😄❤ xxx
Apple crumble is the best, although it can be annoying when those little bits of tough skin from the edge of the core get left in and stuck in your teeth
No Lemon Meringue Pie? As a child of the seventies, I grew up on that! There's two versions, one with a sweet pastry case and one with a biscuit-crumb base, but both contain a tangy lemon-curd filling with a sweet, fluffy meringue topping just lightly browned in the oven. Best served cold, with nothing else - no custard, cream or ice-cream necessary (although there's nothing to stop you having some as well if you want to.)
Lemon meringue pie. Home made, not the shop bought ones. With cream.
Good shout. Shop bought ones are a bit too sugary in the meringue and probably in the filling too. I'd still eat a shop bought one and be happy but I'd be even happier with a home made one :)
Real sour lemon.
Yes my favourite along with treacle sponge
Nice......
A real tang to the lemon but a crisp baked meringue to sweeten, loved it at school and loved my mum's but the shop ones aren't the same.
Amanda try blackberry (or bramble) and apple crumble!
I'm still recovering from the shock of being given squirty cream (instead of clotted cream) with scones and jam when I was in the US!
Lol
Disgusting stuff!!!! (Squirty cream I mean)
That was a traumatic experience/ You'll need a second lifetime to recover.
My childhood favourite, was Eve's Pudding. It's a sponge base, with apple in the middle, and crumble mix on top.
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Summer pudding is lovely. It's summer fruits (raspberries, strawberries, redcurrants, loganberries). Any mixture of soft fruits and bread. Loads of recipes out there. You need to make it in advance so the juices soak into the bread. Sussex Pond pudding is lovely too.
That sounds lovely! I’m definitely going to give it a go 😊
My wife was a Sussex Lass and used to use a Seville Orange instead of a Lemon, needed a ton of sugar in it to counter the bitterness of the Orange. It was delicious.
@@LADYRAEUK It is so easy to make.
@@bryandavies6074 apple crumble is still a good pudding!
AMANDA RAE Hi A, so just on a general topic,puddings,cakes,biscuits etc that you chat so eloquently about...a quick funny for you regarding Scottish biscuits...two young lassies go in to flame haired, Jock Mc T’s shop, only to find him high up a stepladder, reloading the high shelves, as he was leant forward, the two girls peeped up his kilt and both said at once..Ach, we see ya have ginger nuts Mc Tavish!
Apple and Blackberry crumble, yes it's seasonal, but well worth waiting til late summer.
That sounds so yummy
@@LADYRAEUK Tip: only pick blackberries growing ABOVE waist level!
Also, this isn’t a dessert but it reminded me - have you heard of or tried Pease Pudding? It’s lovely in a ham sandwich! Look it up on Wikipedia it’s a North Eastern English spread. It’s sooo good! Might be a good one for future videos!
Pease pudding and faggots with onion gravy. I first had this as a "take out" in Ramsgate, Kent where they also serve the pud' with saveloys. Both are what you would call "poor folks" food, I get my current faggots from a local farm shop and cook at home. Obviously these are savoury. My late wife cooked a spotted dick for our dive group while we were camped at a dive site in the wilds of Scotland, one guy had never had a home made one. There were fourteen in the group and we were there for a week while she did the catering for three meals a day on a couple of two burner camping stoves. (Camp fires not allowed because of the fire risk) Heroic and epic, most of us actually put weight on!
Love your videos your voice is so comforting it’s like a vocal hug lol. There isn’t just uk deserts you will find regional deserts to
Eccles cakes and Chorley cakes are both known as Fly pie around here.
And both are scrumptious!
Haha my grandad calls them flys graveyards haha
Love a bit of Eccles or Chorley cake. 👍
Garibaldi biscuits were always known as Dead Fly Biscuits in our house.
Nancy Pelosi was over in the UK a few months ago in Chorley attending a Speakers Conference hosted at Astley Park, I believe they were offered Chorley Cakes as part of the Lancashire fayre during their stay. I wonder what Nancy thought of what we fondly call Fly Pie!! 🪰🥧 😀
Warm Bilberry pie with carnation milk is my favourite ,Rhubarb pie/ crumble was a staple around my Nana's back in day most families had a Rhubarb plant in the back garden years ago .
Eton Mess is my favourite (or raspberry pavlova, which is the same thing in my stomach), but as far as Christmas Puddings go, I was always told (by my granny) that you should make a Christmas Pudding between Christmas Day and New Year's Day. It's then left to ferment (fermenti?) for a whole year before being eaten on Christmas Day the following year. Dunno if people still do that or not.
I let my Christmas puddings “mature” for up to 2 years. They get darker and more complex with age. Always better than shop-bought.
That sounds like it would be strong lol
@@LADYRAEUK I think that's the idea lol
@@LADYRAEUK the pudding gets blacker as it ages, and the flavours get more complex, but I don’t think I would say it gets a stronger flavour. The amount of sugar in it preserves it completely. You should make your own Christmas pudding someday and try it out. If you’re interested, I have a recipe that I adapted from a traditional old one from Mrs Beeton.
Hi Amanda!
Like you I absolutely love apple crumble! But my absolute favourite? Either sticky toffee pudding or chocolate profiteroles. Oh and not forgetting cooked banana fritters with warm toffee poured over or/and ice cream! 😋 mmm lol
When I was at school they served Billbury pie with pink custard, it was so gorgeous I'd try to get seconds every time it was on the menu.
I love bilberry pie. We used to go bilberry picking on the Mendips when I was a kid and then my mum would use them to make home made bilberry pie. It would leave you with a purple tongue and lips afterwards. Delicious!
That sounds interesting lol😊
Not sure if you can still get it, but I loved Arctic Roll... ice cream wrapped in sponge. .... with Angel Delight... oooh so classy..🤪
lol I’ve never had that!
I'd never heard that about Eton Mess and the dog. It's silly enough to be true but I love it as a desert.
Derbyshire = a place Americans can't say correctly ;o)
Just like Worcestershire 😄
Thing is it's pronounced Darbyshire as if there is an "a" so when Amanda says Derbyshire with an "e" that is certainly how it looks to be pronounced LOL!!
@@blackvulcan100 yeh, its us brits that spell it wrong, just like clerk
I was told that Eton Mess was invented simply because it was dropped on the floor at the school!
Many English place names have idiosyncratic pronunciations which many native born folk get wrong. For example few know that (the Somerset, I think,) village of Prinknash, is pronounced Prinnish. Buggering about with names of places and people seems to be another peculiar English hobby designed to confuse both native and visitor alike.
Banoffie Pie was invented in the Hungry Monk restaurant in the East Sussex village of Jevington on the South Downs. The chef was Ian Dowding, if I remember correctly. Sadly Nigel McKenzie died a few years ago and the restaurant was closed. The recipe is in one of the Hungry Monk cookbooks.
Correct I can confirm as we used to live nearby and still have the book you mention.
@@stephensimmons5261 Where did you live?
Most of the tome near Henfield west Sx but wife family Polegate and Eastbourne you?
@@stephensimmons5261I used to be in Polegate then Eastbourne
I know it's an odd comment to make, but I really loved all the research you did on this.
My favourite puddings are savoury ones. Traditionally there's steak and kidney but I prefer steak, onion and mushroom or if you're in the north west of England, rag pudding (minced meat and onions) which I had a long time ago when I was working up there (late 90s, I think).
I’ve not had those 👍🏻
Another few puddings or deserts are Triffle, Knickerbocker Glory, Manchester Tart, Jam Roly Poly and treacle, syrup or ginger sponge oh and not forgetting Eve's Pudding.
I’ve not heard of a few of those, I’ll have to check them outb😊
Jam roly poly all day long
@@LADYRAEUK try Yorkshire pudding.
Quite agree Susan
Bread Pudding, when done well is a joy to eat... when done badly you can grout your bathroom with it.
You might want to try Summer Pudding as well... but wait until summer for the best fruit and enjoy it outside with a glass of Pimms No.7 to wash it down with.
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Apple crumble made with Bramley apples, flour and butter…with custard is food of the gods.
I love apple crumble
Apple and rhubarb, or apple and Blackberry, are great variations. In cold weather it has to be with custard, but in the summer I prefer to have it with cream or ice-cream.
Bread pudding with a cup of tea is lovely and my Nan made the best. When I see a bakers selling them I have to go inside to get a slice. Rhubarb and ginger crumble with custard is another really good pudding. But then there are so many I like and enjoy.
There are so many great ones 😊
Egg custard tart is one of my faves, from Sayers or even the Tesco one tbh. Also Eton Mess and Bakewell Tart, though 🔥
Trouble with the Tesco one is the pastry is always soggy, filling ok though
@@Grahammon yeah, that's a fair comment. Getting them from a bakers is always best, rather than ones that have been sitting in a fridge
My favourite pudding is most definitely not a dessert because it is Steak & Kidney Pudding! A bit like steak & kidney pie but made with suet pastry and then steamed. Marvellous!
I’ve never tried it
As you mentioned shoofly pie & Xmas pudding, you might just like a Scottish kind-of- mishmash of the two. It’s called “flies’ cemetery (or flies’ graveyard) & are sweet pastries filled with raisins, currants, etc.
In Medieval times, pastry shells were called coffins. The pastry wasn't always meant to be eaten, & it was rather hard; it was simply used as a receptacle for the food so you could take it with you.
That sounds really yummy!
My dad didn’t like Christmas pudding but loved Clootie dumpling which I assume is Scottish as he was a Scott.
This is what Sunday evenings are all about. I love chilling out watching your videos
I’m so glad 😊
My wife’s bread and butter pudding made with Brioche, absolutely delicious,-- nothing like the one made with ordinary bread!
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My kids used to love a Knickerbocker Glory, first recorded in England in the 1920s. It's a very indulgent form of sundae. When I used to visit my roomie's home in Wales whilst I was at school in London, his mom used to make Snowdon Pudding (Pwdin yr Wyddfa), made of suet, marmalade, and lemon zest, and served with lemon sauce. 😋🍧
That you're calling them "puddings" and not "desserts" shows you're settling in nicely.
You can also call them "afters".
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_afters_ is used only in reference to the meal dessert course, _pudding_ and _dessert_ can be used for the course or for any foodstuff that could be a dessert.
@@samhilton4173 There's pudding that is actually an individual dish, such as summer pudding, then there's pudding which is another name for dessert, also known as afters, or "sweet". Now I'm showing my age.... 😉
Also says shire as sheer and not shyer but not sure about the Derby pronunciation, nearly fully intergrated😘😘😘
@@TheFatwelder sometimes heard counties pronounced as sher. I was born & brought up in Hampshire. Never heard it pronounced as Hampsheer
As a savoury man I really only have 2 puddings up my cooking sleave.. Bread and butter plus rice pudding but I trying to master cheesecake atm.. That laugh always slips in and we love it lady, have a great week👍
Lol I’m so glad 😊
Personally I prefer bread pudding over bread and butter pudding, it's more cake like and can be eaten hot (best) or cold
@@garystroud6153 true but I'm hit and miss on bread pudding it's either stunning or wrecked
Love a fruit crumble, but custard is essential. Jam roly poly too. Making me hungry just thinking of them :)
I do like a jam rolly poly 😊
just wondering have you try clotted cream yet? it go great with any dessert it is much more thicker and richer than the normal cream, if you buy scones in a cafe the cream inside the scone is made from clotted cream
For me has to be rhubarb crumble and custard and I know it's not a pudding I used to live in Bavaria and I got to try a genuine black Forest gateau and it was divine nothing like what is served over here in the UK.
I’ve never had it, I’ll have to give it a go 😊
Gooseberry crumble is a good alternative too.
My gran was the master of crumbles. She used to take us kids out blackberry picking with plastic bags so she had enough to freeze for the year. Apple and blackberry, apple, rhubarb, gooseberry (goosegogs she used to call them).
All served with a thick custard or ice cream if we were very lucky.
There is definitely an art to a good crumble.
Sticky toffee pudding is the best. I reckon it’s Cumbrian Cumbrian and Cumbrian. I’d never seen it until i come to Grasmere. I live Christmas pudding but as you say you can only eat it at Christmas. Over the 49 years I’ve been a chef I was always led to believe that banoffee was American but I might have been told wrong. But I have to say I do like chocolate fondant pudding, you know the one that is set chocolate sponge on the outside but when you put spoon in it the hot molten chocolate floods out, best served with white chocolate sauce or white chocolate ice cream.
Great compilation and great mentions from subscribers, up here in the North west , Manchester start, Eccles cake, Chorley cake worth a look, tried Kendal mint cake once....over the Pennines in Yorkshire anything from Bettys Teashop in Harrogate or York ,,best to order online....thankfully have just had our Sunday roast otherwise it would be a pudding fest, as always Amanda a great post, best wishes from the wirral....E
I’ve not heard of any of those, I’m definitely going to try them when I’m up north 😊 thank uoi
Kendal mint cake isn’t really a pudding. It’s more like a sweet, or in modern terms, an energy bar.
@@langdalepaul quite agree, just thought people would take an interest in it,as in buying and trying
A Kent favourite is Gypsy Tart. It's made with dark muscovado sugar and evaporated milk, poured into a sweet pastry base then baked. I love it! 😊
Sounds yummy!
Rhubarb crumble, bread and butter pudding 😍 or a Cornflake tart (ah the school dinner memories!) I believe some call it a Manchester tart? Also, be careful Amanda - your accent is beginning to change!
Trcle sponge and custard or Rhubarb crumble, Gooseberry Crumble, Apple crumble.
Eton Mess was invented when a waiter/waitress dropped the pavlova but the recipients still ate it and loved it.
It's Bakewell Pudding as all those in Bakewell will inform you
Sticky Toffee Pudding Everytime. Number:1. You should try British Trifle traditionally made with strawberries, lady fingers/ sponge custard and whipped fresh cream.
Traditional trifle, oh yes please, my all time fave!
That sounds so delicious! 😊
STP every time for me.
Even more traditional recipe is:
Layer of cubed maderia cake soaked with Sherry in the base.
Top with proper egg custard and allow to set.
Spread jam or fruit on top of the custard, then finish off with a layer of lemon syllabub.
Very rich!
Ice cream and hot custard is a treat. But I am recently addicted to small sponge puddings. Various flavours like raspberry and toffee etc. Great with ice cream. Available from most good supermarkets who do their own brand as well as Mr Kipling,
Bread pudding. Not to be confused with Bread & Butter Pudding!
The Bakewell Tart was originally called Bakewell pudding, got one from the shop in Bakewell that first created and sold them, still there to this day :) Beautiful part of the country as you also have Matlock And Matlock bath amongst other places of interest.
If I see bread and butter pudding on a menu then I’m planning my order backwards!
Lol! 🤣 it’s so filling!
My missus always does that. She looks at the desserts 1st them plans her main around that. She'd even skip a starter for a good pud.
@@LADYRAEUK Are you thinking of Bread Pudding and not Bread and Butter Pudding? They're quite different. Bread Pudding is like a fruit cake and Bread and Butter pudding is very light, an egg custard with sultanas and the slices of bread change into a sort of light cake.
I do that no matter what. The dessert course is the most important course on the menu, always need to plan your steps on how to get there.
@@corleth2868 a lot of people mix up the two. They are quite different, as you say. Bread pudding is also traditionally made with suet, which makes it richer as well as denser.
Any sponge pudding with chocolate being my most favourite of all. A trifle can be fab too
Apple crumble is my favourite. My mum used to make it only on special occasions and the smell around the house was awesome.
my mother used to make a mean apple tart , she was an excellent pastry cook ,used to claim to make pastry you need cool hands ,
Try Manchester tart delicious its more a cake but absolutely fantastic.
Being a chocolate fun my self, I would go for the sticky toffee pudding.
When I was in the US, I would get chocolate Ice cream with chocolate chips and chocolate sauce over it. Needles to say that all the "salad only" girls were looking at it with envy. As far as I was concerned, after 3 hours of daily soccer practice, I needed the calories.
Ahh I’m not worried about calories 🤣🤣
Try "Eve's Pudding" which is a sponge and apple cake in a pudding bowl. Much like an upside down cake, you place the apple on top of the (thick) cake mix and then put in the oven and the apple ends up on the bottom fully cooked.
Serve with thick custard.
At school in the 1950s we had a pudding called gypsy tart it was evaporated milk from the fridge whisked up with a soft brown sugar . I can't remember the name of the sugar but I think it had a k in the name after whisking it is put in a flan case and cooked for about 20 mins at 180 when cool put in the fridge to thicken . It is so yummy
As a proud scot I need to give a shout out for Cranachan.
Raspberries, cream, oats, honey and whiskey.
Best had when the raspberries are in season.
A sort of Scottish trifle.
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If you're a proud Scot, why do you think Cranachan contains whiskey? It's whisky!
@@alanj9391 Cause I originally spelled it whisky but my autocorrect kicked in and changed it to whiskey and I couldn't be bothered to change it.
Hi Amanda, any dessert pie/pudding that you are going to serve with ice cream may I recommend using Cornish Ice Cream, there are a number of different brands and recipes to try, I would start with one made with clotted cream as this is the more traditional recipe.
Christmas Crumble. Home made, look online for recipes but, beware it’s Christmas so full of alcohol! Adjust as you deem necessary.
Summer Pudding/Summer Fruit Pudding. Some people find this a bit gritty because of the amount of seeds from all those berries so, if you want to try a variation on this look for Wimbledon Summer Pudding recipe online.
Jam Roly-Poly.
I’m a sucker for Ambrosia Devon Custard and Rice Pudding, could literally eat it till the cows come home, and if you look at me you could say I’ve been doing just that!
Treacle Pudding, Treacle Tart.
Syrup Sponge Pudding.
There are more but, I can’t remember them all, my mum, aunts, and grans used to make home made puddings all of the time, we were spoiled for choice.
I believe the UK is the best place for puddings and deserts. I have tried lots of foreign puddings and desserts not normally served here and they are not generally as good as ours EXCEPT where they have been adopted as regulars on our menus. So I do accept the a kulfi or a tiramisu can be every bit as good as what we have to offer. So with the good stuff that is home grown and the foreign stuff we have appropriated England is the best place for puddings and desserts. Sadly, with only occasional exceptions, that is not true generally of ice cream and chocolate. We have a few top-notch producers but, in general, the Europeans have us beat on those. Some foreigners taste our factory-produced chocolate and ice cream and don't even recognise what it is - because a lot of it is rubbish. But let us not forget that a lot of Americans think Hershey bars are chocolate. Delicious yes: chocolate no.
re: Hersheys. Chocolate NO. Delicious NO.
They are yummy lol
@@rogerjenkinson7979 not chocolate all
I’m from South Wales and here we have Welsh Cakes. Not technically a pudding it’s a scone type cake with currents in and about 3 inch in diameter and ¼ to ½ inch thick. Cooked on a griddle. Being from a coal mining area the griddles were made by blacksmiths and metal workers in the coal mines. The griddle was about a foot wide and a ¼ inch thick with a handle cut in, then put on top of the stove. They can be bought in shops now and supermarkets these days. As an option you can get them split in half and jam or nutella added.
Another mining area speciallity was bread pudding. Made with left over or stale bread and with milk, eggs, dried fruit. Cooked in a deep tray and we knew it as “Sticky Ribs”.
I’ve lived in South Wales and in North Wales, and yes, Welsh cakes are very popular in both regions. I often get the bought ones, but I have made my own occasionally - much better hot and freshly made. Taste good with maple syrup! Bread pudding also a staple that I sometimes make.
The Eton Mess origins story that I was told was different.
Apparently students from Eton college were having a dinner party and made Pavlova for dessert.
Just before serving it was accidentally dropped on the floor by someone. Rather than own up and tell his/her guests what had happened this person scooped up Pavlova onto a serving tray and proceeded to serve the guests.
When the guests asked what on earth this trampled dessert was called, the reply “Eton Mess”
Maybe true maybe not! Who knows?
That's what I heard too and much more plausible..I can just see them scooping it all up, and shoving it all in a bowl..😆
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Right? I mean waste not want not, 10 seconds rule and all that!
Plus all the students were probably too drunk to care that it had been on the floor! 😆
Yeah, the 'dog sat on it' sounds way too much like a "pavlov(a)'s dogs" joke.
Yorkshire Curd Tart ... as the name suggests, it's a specialty of Yorkshire ... and also popular in the Northeast, ie.Teesside (where I'm from) & Durham regions.
A sweet pastry tart filled with milk curds mixed with egg yolk, currants & sweet spices, then baked.
Semi-sweet, slightly savoury ... all heavenly. I'm salivating now ... but can't get them in Scotland (where I live) ... have to make them at home instead!
That sounds nice
Fantastic video, Amanda! I learned a lot! Very interesting. I never heard these cool names. So, puddings mean basically desserts in the UK... ? I always thought that puddings are custards. lol ... But I don't know if British people use the word "custard" like in the US. lol Cheers! Have a good one!
Yes Harry we do say custard which is either cold in a pudding like trifle or hot poured over a sponge or pastry dessert. We usually say pudding for all of them even milk based ones like rice pudding or semolina, but some people say whats for afters as well.
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@@kimtaylor212 Thanks so much!
@@LADYRAEUK Cool!
There is (as usual!) something class-related around what you call the sweet course of a meal.
Posh people would never call it 'dessert', they would be very unlikely to call it 'afters', they might say 'sweet', but they're overwhelmingly most likely to say 'pudding' (and that means for everything, not just things with pudding in the name, so it includes pies, tarts, crumbles, cakes, trifles, the whole lot).
So what you call it will very much 'place' you in terms of class/social structure.
That Bakewell Pudding with white and pink icing on top we also get in UK or we used to do but the pink was brown. It was also known as Bakewell Tart.
Best British pudding, got to be rhubarb crumble, needs to be hot, and served with ice cream
I haven’t tried that one yet! 😊
Definitely best pudding, but I think it's best with custard
Yeah rhubarb crumble 😁 the best 👌
@@davidcopplestone6266 I love it with ice cream because it sends taste buds into overdrive, hot cake and cold ice-cream, then the sour of the rhubarb with the sweet of the ice-cream.
But that's not to say that I don't like it with custard, I actually do, but for me ice cream takes it up a level lol
Euch. Rhubarb is a stringy mess
Any crumble but Rhubarb is the best with Apple and Blackberry a runner up, must be served with proper Birds Custard 😊😊😊😊😊. My favourite desert when I lived in the States was Cherry Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream.
Oh I love cherry pie!
Christmas pudding also has a tradition of adding 2 or 3 sixpence’s in the mix.
Of course sixpence was a coin before decimalisation in the UK. I suppose the kids would expect to find a fiver nowadays 😂
Back in the day we used silver threepenny pieces. They were about half the size of a sixpence and real silver, dated from quite a while back. Ideal for choking small children.
@@TheArgieH Yeah, not much in the line of health and safety back then eh? I wonder how many people choked or broke teeth on Christmas Day back then.
@@horace9341Quite so. Folk tend to remember the year I overdid the volume of flaming brandy. As per best practice I heated the spirit to just bubbling in a pan and poured it on. By the time I got a splint alight the flammable vapour had rather built up rather more than was wise. WHOOOMP! and scorched eyebrows time. Certainly distracted from the secreted small change in the pud. My good brandy too!
@@TheArgieH Yikes, so not so much the aroma of flaming brandy atop the sweet scent of matured mixed exotic fruit, but rather the unmistakable pungent smell of singed hair.
@@horace9341 Should have remembered to remove the sprig of holly too.
Love the video; I can hear your gradual change to a more British sounding voice.
My wife lived in Plymouth for about 5 years before she returned prior to us meeting. She, too, had developed a somewhat British accent but her mom also came from Cumbria in the 60's so she had lots of exposure to the British accent.
One of my favorite British desserts, although I don't think it would be classified as a pudding, is trifle.
Keep up the great videos and work. I look forward to the next one!
I would class trifle as a pudding.
@@malcolmsleight9334 Trifle from either Waitrose or Marks and Spencers
I like apple pie and custard. It always amuses me when I hear the phrase “American as apple pie” because it’s from England. I like a custard tart too, not the cheap shop bought one though, they’re dry and horrible.
Another fantastic video Amanda. I love puddings too. My favourite dessert is trifle. Its got everything I like in it, sponge, jelly, custard and whipped cream. Heaven in a bowl. Love Christmas pudding too. Lush!!! ☺☺☺
They are yummy! 😊
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Let's not forget Manchester Tart, especially as it's coconut covered
That sounds yummy
I once went out with a tart from Manchester. It didn't end well.
6-cup pudding,bread pudding,apple charlotte,do love a bread & butter pudding,especially when it's cold.
Bachelor's Pudding, oh man I can taste it just thinking about it. Haven't had it in years. Same for her steamed pudding (Spotted Dick), but with a boiled brown sugar sauce instead of custard.
English, and some German, ancestry, so I'm not sure what other desserts my mother makes/made are purely British. She makes so many delicious things. While growing up it wasn't "What are we having for supper?" it was "What is for dessert?". Then you could decide some much room to leave for dessert. :-)
what is bachelors pudding?
I’ve not heard of that one