What a wonderful last 20 minutes of my time on a Friday afternoon starring my two favourite (respectfully) beautiful American ladies Dara and Christa.😍 Personally I could eat all of those, and the coconut one was my favourite. These little vlogs every Friday make my heart happy, and honestly you should have many, many more subscribers, if only more people knew of your channel. Have a nice weekend, Dara, Ian & Christa!
@@MagentaOtterTravels its french well we have had a french king in our. History, at one point french was the official language. And. During our conquering. Days. We controlled some of France, But yeah. Good video Dara. You and your family stay safe 👍
I cannot imagine anything more glorious than Pudding Club! Haha, I didn't expect you to appear! What an entrance! 🤩I don't like coconut so I would have been miffed that the jam sponge included coconut. Apple crumble is never as good as my Mum used to make so I never choose it in a restaurant. STP - yum! Glad to see you had lashings of custard. I have a friend who makes the best sherry trifle. Quite a retro dessert. Lovely drone footage from Ian at the end. Great reviews, Dara & Christa! ❤🤗
@@The_Brit_Girls Yes, when you have a family member who makes wonderful Apple crumble, the restaurant stuff never measures up! My mother used to make a very good apple pie. She wasn't much of a foodie or chef in general, but her apple pie was fantastic!
I had black current cake at Sudeley Castle and Gardens this week… and oh my… so delicious! And went back later in week and had Strawberry Champagne Sorbet. Amazing!
A tasty 7 course meal, Dara and Krista. Hard to vlog and "not talk about the pudding club!" The entree looked delicious and we loved the runway models coming in with the main courses. Stunning views of Mickleton, Ian! Loved the tasty tour.
Oh WOW, 7 puddings. And what an array of choices. I'd like them all including the 'triffle'🤣🤣! You made a grand entrance and indeed STP is THE BEST. I've made a few each time a different recipe as I still haven't found the 'perfect' one. Gosh how can one NOT talk about The Pudding Club 🤣🤣🤣! I thoroughly enjoyed watching you eat those - without me gaining an ounce. Ian, that was superb flying with the drone. What a gorgeous place that was. Great shots from the air. You've become quite a food critic Dara - there are some amazing videos showcasing food on your channel. How lovely too do have this experience and share it with lovely friends. Happy Sunday Dara. 🌹👌🇳🇱🙋♀🥝
@@IamaDutch-Kiwi it was a fun evening, made even more fun because I got to share it with one of my very favourite foodie friends!💖 I had to try a few recipes for sticky toffee pudding, and make some tweaks of my own, to get a recipe I really love.
WOW -- I feel stuffed just watching this, Dara!! But everything did look yummy, and I'm glad that you and Christa "survived" the experience. 😋Ian's drone footage was an added bonus; great, as always. 👍😊
That's one really lovely village! Well done on being able to eat all 7 puddings, even if they were smaller portions that's still a lot of sugar! (I had the bright idea of doing an historic cafes crawl whilst I'm in Trieste and I'm struggling after just 4 cafes, the desserts are amazing but I can't face any of them!)
Seven puddings? 😱 Childs play says Christa! I could probably do seven savoury puddings.. black pudding, suet pudding, etc. lovely Cotswolds. Do not talk about pudding club! Id have to tap out at the second pudding I think! Unless they alternated sweet and savoury. Sherry Triffle? Bread and Butter taken off the menu! Good mixture of hot and cold puds. Sticky Toffee Pudding brought in by style. Like the dishes. The summer pudding would get my vote I think. We do eat a lot of berries so that would be our favourite. Do love Rhubarb too, seems harder to come by nowadays. The rode mic doing a great job muting that background chatter.great drone footage Ian. Id definitely be having a sleep after all that sugar! Looks like a fun outing though. 👍
Never heard of the Pudding Club. The hotel looks lovely. Ew bread and butter pudding is the devils work, thank god it wasn't on the menu - give me a Craster kipper over that! Parade on the puddings was fun. Chocolate mousse would be my favourite! Lovely drone footage, what a gorgeous village. Cheers 🍻
You have good taste. The chocolate mousse was definitely the best! However, definitely not a British pudding! Lol You can have the Craster kippers, give me all the bread and butter pudding! Ha ha
Well this was fun! I'm dying that Ian ate strawberries and sardines! I love that you brought out the STP, and it looked really delicious. I am guessing that STP, chocolate, and summer berries would have been at the top of my list. I'm glad you both did this fun evening, although it did look like a LOT of food. What a delightful way to sample many puddings in one evening.
@@junecaffyn357 thanks so much June! I hope you are doing well, it's always nice to hear from you! Apple crumble is yummy, but I think rhubarb crumble with custard is the best thing ever! 😋
AAH jam and coconut sponge one of the few memorable highlights of my secondary school drudgery Lunchtime, we were lucky enough to have a full kitchen staffed by at least 3 or 4 professional cooks with a hearty and kind support staff Lunchtime and especially desserts were relief time jam and coconut, chocolate and a sponge served with icing/fondant top with sprinkle accompanied by various custards we had ordinary banana with real slices incorporated chocolate and...pink Oh Joy
Such an interesting club to attend 😮 I am amazed you made it through with only a small headache with all that sugar. 😂 kidding you Dara! I am proud of you! Great rating! They each looked amazing! I know I never would make it through all that sweet! But you both did amazing! Fun and delicious! Ian thanks for the drone footage! Hope you enjoyed the sardines 😢 Mmmm not even a little takeaway bag of dessert for you 😱
Trust me, I asked in advance if we were able to take home extra dessert and they said no 🥹. I didn't realise it was a buffet type situation, where the servers just gave you a little scoop. I thought they gave you a tray with seven full desserts, in which case it would've been wonderful to bring home leftovers. That is the way afternoon usually works, which is nice because there's always too much sweet stuff served there as well! Thanks for watching, Donna! 💖
Great video and that pudding club looked like fun! In regards to chocolate mousse, I would say you were wrong about the chocolate mousse not being a traditional British dessert as it is very common here, it's been around forever, and I have my great grandmothers handwritten recipe book that had it's first recipes written in to it in 1879, and towards the back of it it has a few chocolate recipes including chocolate mousse, and although she didn't date her individual recipes, my great grandmother passed away in 1923 so it was written down between 1879 - 1923 sometime. Incidentally, there's a recipe for 'biscuits with broken chocolate pieces' in my great grandmothers recipe book, it's in the chocolate section, that are basically chocolate chip cookies as we would know them nowadays, which supposedly weren't invented until the 1930s, so either she had a time machine and came forward ten years or so after she died, or she -and possibly others- were making them a lot earlier than the stated invention time. But getting back to chocolate mousse, it's probably not made from scratch in most homes any more in the UK, more likely it will come from a ready made yogurt-type pot, or made from a packet like angel delight or instant whip. There is also an aerosol can similar to whipped cream that you can buy, but chocolate flavoured, and that is very much the same as the yogurt pot type mousse, aswell as frozen chocolate mousse. All of which are very different to the real thing, and the fact people don't really make stuff from scratch as much anymore means they are missing out! These pudding clubs are a good thing, they introduce people to new desserts that they might never have tried, plus the old favourites that a lot of people might remember from childhood etc. There isn't a pudding club as such bear me, but there are a lot of dessert only places, and also my family and friends will sometimes have our own, when we have a get-together, and everyone will make a different pudding to bring (pre arranged so nobody brings the same) and then we all just talk and eat all night until we are all full to the brim, and feel very sick, and overly full of carbs and sugar!
I understand that overly full feeling, accompanied by a sugar headache! Lol Thank you so much for sharing the information about your grandmother's recipes. A fascinating personal story as well as some interesting culinary history! As Americans, we are led to believe that tollhouse cookies were the first chocolate chip cookies 😉. I always assumed chocolate mousse originated in France because the name sounds French to me. Whoever invented it, it's great stuff! Next Tuesday we are going to Belgium. The country that claims to have invented "French" fries! Lol😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels I have the added compilation of type 2 diabetes to go with it lol, but most of the desserts we all make, we take this in to account as a few of us are diabetic or other dietary needs, and will use sugar alternatives, honey etc with very minimal sugar where possible, unless it's something like sticky toffee pudding where the sponge will be made with a sugar free sweetener but the toffee sauce will obviously contain sugar. With type 2 you don't have to fully cut out sugar, just reduce your intake to a minimum, having it occasionally. Also with my diabetes, my sugar levels are more often too low rather than too high, it's only ever been high twice in 4 years, and even then it wasn't really high, just slightly higher than normal, so when we have these pudding nights, it can help bring my sugar levels to a normal level. My body tells me if I've had enough and when to stop. Since becoming diabetic, overly sweet things don't appeal to me, I don't like the taste of anything too sweet anymore such as, things like milk chocolate especially cheaper brands. I like dark chocolate, the higher the cocoa content the better, and I only need one small square and that will tide me over for 3 or 4 days. I make all my own cakes, biscuits, donuts and other sweets treats at home with low carb and carb free flour, and use sweetener like canderel instead of sugar, adding dark chocolate or dried fruit, nuts etc, and that way if I fancy something sweet, I can have it without worrying about. But every few months we will have the pudding night and I'll eat the lot! Lol Yeah chocolate mousse could possibly be a french invention, but even if it was, it was probably adopted in Britain very quickly seeing as how chocolate bars were first invented and sold here making anything chocolate a very popular thing. Edit - I just checked on Google, it says that the famous french painter, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, invented in the late 19th century (around the time my great gran started writing her recipe book!) and he calmed it 'mayonnaise de chocolat'. Also, with the chicken chips cookies, it would be silly to think that nobody had put broken pieces of chocolate in to a biscuit/cookie before a commercial company decided to sell them. At some point, most things have been tried by home cooks experimenting with what they have to hand. I know I do. One of the best ways to cook is throw whatever you have got in to the mix and see what comes out! Lol. I must say that I'm enjoying your videos, your hard work doesn't go unappreciated!
A Summer Pudding is quite large and will serve many people but you can easily make it for 2 or 4 people by putting the fruit filling between 2 slices of crustless white bread like a sandwich, wrap with clingfilm. Press it down with weights such as tins of beans. You need to hold it in a container the same shape and size of the bread slices so it can set in a nice shape. Cut it into triangles
@@MagentaOtterTravels I know that you love the fresh English berries but you can make a very nice Summer Pudding with frozen ones, just let them defrost before you compile the filling. It's very, very simple to make. Particularly my 2/4 portion one 😃😃
oh my goodness, I'm pretty sure you're used to Newcastle too, how have you missed our Heavenley Desserts restaurant(Newgate St) , I've even timed 2 of them, I live 24 mins ride from them in an Uber if it's a pudding emergency, the 2nd being Parlour Creams (top of Bigg Market) but currently up for sale
@@davidmcdonagh7756 yes, I was disappointed to not have rhubarb crumble! But maybe it was for the best. Because I would've wanted to eat a lot of it! Lol
"The Pudding Club"!! This is also a euphemism for being pregnant!!😅😅😅😅 it did look lovely...Especially the apple crumble...It's good that puddings aren't too sweet!!😊😊😊😊😊
Up the Duff is another slang term for pregnant. A fairly recent term, doesn’t appear in print until 1941 in Sydney John Baker’s Dictionary of Australian Slang: We also have Plum Duff, Duff being pudding
@@tiggerwood8899 as an American, I think "up the duff" sounds kind of nasty! I know it's a common slang phrase here in Britain, but it just seems a bit shocking to me! Lol
To be fair you did really well to eat that many puddings, i'd be so bloated ..you mentioned rubarb crumble , this reminds me of been a kid where we could pick rubarb in spring/summer from the farmers fields ,& our mum would load it with sugar & crumble with hot custard on ,great memories , we also used to pick the blackberries too & mum would make pies or crumble .the bonus it was pretty much free.!
When I scroll through the thumbnails of your channel videos, I keep thinking your friend has such a striking likeness to Naomi Wolf the American journalist, columnist and author, I thought it was at first and had to double check.
Hiya. Couldn't you have had the trifle and not eaten the sherry soaked sponges at the bottom? Was this at the end of June? Because that's when the English rhubarb season is virtually over and maybe that's why they went with apple for the crumble. Did you say what the price was, I may have missed it? And was the 'light' starter/main compulsory? Stay safe. All the best to you. P. S. - Thanks for showing the flowers at the beginning, now I know the ones in my garden aren't weeds.
@@Andy_U haha glad to help with the flowers 🌸! The cost is £45 which includes a glass of Bucks fizz and the main course ... you can't opt out of those extras. We filmed this at the beginning of June. Today I ate an apple rhubarb custard pasty and it was scrumptious! I finally got my rhubarb!😊😋
Christa, I can be any British berry you want me to be! Seriously, I'm not big on sherry in trifle either, much prefer it without. However, in the dim and distant past - when I was in Germany with the RAF, and invited to a BBQ - I had trifle with Benedictine in it, and I loved it. But sherry trifle... nah!
I was surprized that Dara didn't just take the STP to her table and eat the lot. lol TBH, I would have argued the bill. as they only gave you a sample and not full portion of the desserts. Ian doesn't like Custard!!! are you sure he is English? it was good to see Ian being able to capture some drone footage. it is such a pity that he cant do it more often, due to no fly zones.
Yes, this was his first video with footage from the new drone! But the no fly zones are a problem. Pretty much not even worth trying to fly his drone in Germany. I agree that he should have his passport revoked for not wanting to eat custard!
Maybe he could pour the custard over the ice cream? I was surprised when you said there were currants in the summer pudding as they are commonly in Christmas pudding, but then you specified red currants and everything made sense!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Has Ian had custard made with eggs or just the packet custard where the nearest it's got to eggs is when the lorry went past a poultry farm on the motorway? 😁😁
Hiya Dara, we don't have pudding clubs in the north (that I'm aware of), but it looked nice, your favorite Sticky Toffee Pudding was invented in Keswick in 1969, this is Choppy
We went to the pudding club and my husband had the “trio of puddings” as his dessert thinking that they would be small portions 🤦♀️ NOPE they were full portions of chocolate, syrup and jam and coconut sponge with about 2 pints of custard
@@MagentaOtterTravels the craziest things I’ve seen him do is pull his house down and own a Lamborghini tractor..(aka a Cotswold taxi) his auger PTO dosent fit his accessories..crazy daddio.
Dara. Another great video but did you realise the Pudding Club is a not polite of saying someone is pregnant. Unfortunately some of pudding ingredients are also slang, rhubarb is slang for rubbish, raspberry is for what a fiends young daughter calls a bottom burp, there was a Two Ronnies programme that had a serial sketch called The Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, a sketch based on Jack the Ripper who didn’t kill victim with a weapon but shocked delicate Victorians by blowing raspberries. Shame they didn’t have my favourites, bread & butter pudding and the steamed jam roly-poly,
When l glanced the title l did a double take l'm sure the comments will have explained. We went out for a meal a few weeks ago and the dessert or pudding was one of everything on the menu , just smaller portions. One l particularly enjoyed was rhubarb cooked in ginger syrup no other sugar. It had a crumble top and a blob of clotted cream. Why are my clothes shrinking l have no idea.
@@andrewfitzgerald2327 that rhubarb dessert sounds wonderful! I'm sure that your clothes are shrinking because you washed them on water that was too hot!
@@MagentaOtterTravels it is a four star hotel we were house hunting. They do alter the menu regularly and only use local seasonal food .Way back I did take the mothers there and neither would order lamb because the lambs were in the field looking in. 😄
I assume that you've spent enough time in the UK to know this, but, around here at least, 'in the pudding club' is a colloquial term for being or becoming pregnant. 🙂
@@MagentaOtterTravelsclotted cream lasts longer than ordinary cream - you can send it in the U.K. no worries but to U.S. not sure about that though I know mail can get to destinations there quite quickly!
thought it was great vlog ,but wouldnt you think they use paper plates / bowls so flavours of each different pudding/dessert didnt mix and ian drone footage fab as usual
@@MagentaOtterTravels maybe the three ways hotel would consider a Europud weekend ? I think i would be tempted then.. Maybe with a “who ate it “ murderous mystery weekend thrown in…with characters like Mrs Sticky Toffee ,thats you,and Mr Blown Raspberry, and Monsieur Montellimar..
I am guessing your friend is not still in the UK. But if she is you must introduce her to M&S red diamond strawberries the absolute goat of all strawberries. They are not like regular strawberries they are a variety grown only for M&S
@@what_im_eatin_uk yes we had some strawberries 🍓 a few weeks ago that were like American ones! 😝 I've decided the ones I like best have little white petals by the green leafy tops 😉
@@christabuchanan5889 we are currently in Kent which is famous for cherries. We are in a hotel room and Ian is currently eating cherries we bought from an orchard!
Disappointing they didn't give you fresh plates each time it's all about presentation treating you like royalty that's not right and you should except small portions you should have the choice how much you want to be honest on your experience I wouldn't go as I think it's about an experience and they sadly lack so much especially the plate issue what's that about but I feel they let you down massively with so much ..but lovely people northern people totally different
The portions are smaller because you are there to eat multiple puddings. When we went once all tables had a chance to try all seven, you could go up as many times as you like. My friend starves himself in preparation, as he only goes every few years, and will have more than a dozen helpings.
What a wonderful last 20 minutes of my time on a Friday afternoon starring my two favourite (respectfully) beautiful American ladies Dara and Christa.😍 Personally I could eat all of those, and the coconut one was my favourite. These little vlogs every Friday make my heart happy, and honestly you should have many, many more subscribers, if only more people knew of your channel. Have a nice weekend, Dara, Ian & Christa!
@@iankelly5387 thanks so much, Ian! We appreciate your support 😊
@@MagentaOtterTravels I have seen you popping up on a few other sites. Your being reacted.
@@davidjenkins1003 yes, Natasha did the Aldi reaction video yesterday. We are friends and chat regularly.
Awe, thank you!! It is such a treat to spend time with my friends Dara and Ian. I agree Dara should have many more followers, she is a friend to all ❤
@@MagentaOtterTravels its french well we have had a french king in our. History, at one point french was the official language. And. During our conquering. Days. We controlled some of France,
But yeah. Good video Dara. You and your family stay safe 👍
I cannot imagine anything more glorious than Pudding Club! Haha, I didn't expect you to appear! What an entrance! 🤩I don't like coconut so I would have been miffed that the jam sponge included coconut. Apple crumble is never as good as my Mum used to make so I never choose it in a restaurant. STP - yum! Glad to see you had lashings of custard. I have a friend who makes the best sherry trifle. Quite a retro dessert. Lovely drone footage from Ian at the end. Great reviews, Dara & Christa! ❤🤗
@@The_Brit_Girls Yes, when you have a family member who makes wonderful Apple crumble, the restaurant stuff never measures up! My mother used to make a very good apple pie. She wasn't much of a foodie or chef in general, but her apple pie was fantastic!
Lots of lovely Puds!😍🥧🍨🍮thanks girl's I'm diabetic so I was so glad you enjoyed them.😉
We took the sugar overload for you to spare you! It was fun but quite the over-the-top evening!
I had black current cake at Sudeley Castle and Gardens this week… and oh my… so delicious! And went back later in week and had Strawberry Champagne Sorbet. Amazing!
@@TravelswithTanya so many good desserts here!!! Even GF and Vegan options!
A tasty 7 course meal, Dara and Krista. Hard to vlog and "not talk about the pudding club!" The entree looked delicious and we loved the runway models coming in with the main courses. Stunning views of Mickleton, Ian! Loved the tasty tour.
@@TravelingTramps thanks so much for watching! It was a tasty evening filled with laughter and sugar!
What a fun event! Dara with you being an expert foodie I can tell you were thrilled! Amazing drone shots Ian! Great video! ~Cara 😊
@@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers thanks so much, Cara! We had a blast 😋
Oh WOW, 7 puddings. And what an array of choices. I'd like them all including the 'triffle'🤣🤣! You made a grand entrance and indeed STP is THE BEST. I've made a few each time a different recipe as I still haven't found the 'perfect' one. Gosh how can one NOT talk about The Pudding Club 🤣🤣🤣! I thoroughly enjoyed watching you eat those - without me gaining an ounce. Ian, that was superb flying with the drone. What a gorgeous place that was. Great shots from the air. You've become quite a food critic Dara - there are some amazing videos showcasing food on your channel. How lovely too do have this experience and share it with lovely friends. Happy Sunday Dara. 🌹👌🇳🇱🙋♀🥝
@@IamaDutch-Kiwi it was a fun evening, made even more fun because I got to share it with one of my very favourite foodie friends!💖
I had to try a few recipes for sticky toffee pudding, and make some tweaks of my own, to get a recipe I really love.
hooray you finally found the pudding club, 7 courses each one a desert mmmmmmmmmm heaven!
WOW -- I feel stuffed just watching this, Dara!! But everything did look yummy, and I'm glad that you and Christa "survived" the experience. 😋Ian's drone footage was an added bonus; great, as always. 👍😊
@@bobbyxhilone9953 thank you so much! This is actually the first video I've published with footage from Ian's new drone!
That's one really lovely village! Well done on being able to eat all 7 puddings, even if they were smaller portions that's still a lot of sugar! (I had the bright idea of doing an historic cafes crawl whilst I'm in Trieste and I'm struggling after just 4 cafes, the desserts are amazing but I can't face any of them!)
@@theresabigwideworld2632 I understand! My body is not made for that kind of gluttony anymore 😂
I was stunned when I saw Dara enter with the STP. Wasn't expecting that. I thought she was behind the camera. 😲
@@Poliss95 haha surprise!😄
Seven puddings? 😱 Childs play says Christa! I could probably do seven savoury puddings.. black pudding, suet pudding, etc. lovely Cotswolds. Do not talk about pudding club! Id have to tap out at the second pudding I think! Unless they alternated sweet and savoury. Sherry Triffle? Bread and Butter taken off the menu! Good mixture of hot and cold puds. Sticky Toffee Pudding brought in by style. Like the dishes. The summer pudding would get my vote I think. We do eat a lot of berries so that would be our favourite. Do love Rhubarb too, seems harder to come by nowadays. The rode mic doing a great job muting that background chatter.great drone footage Ian. Id definitely be having a sleep after all that sugar! Looks like a fun outing though. 👍
@@GENerationXplorers it was great fun! Today I ate an apple rhubarb custard pasty.... DELICIOUS!
8:30 love this you are the Queen of Sticky Toffee Pudding Dara! 👑~Cara
@@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers heehee that was fun 🤩
@@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers Queen Toffifee..aka Fifi ..
Well, that was delightful! From one of your “Mighty 8”….Lots of rainstorms in Essex, Connecticut (along the shoreline).
Woo Hoo! Thanks for your support! If it's raining, I suggest having a warm pudding today ;-)
Never heard of the Pudding Club. The hotel looks lovely. Ew bread and butter pudding is the devils work, thank god it wasn't on the menu - give me a Craster kipper over that! Parade on the puddings was fun. Chocolate mousse would be my favourite! Lovely drone footage, what a gorgeous village. Cheers 🍻
You have good taste. The chocolate mousse was definitely the best! However, definitely not a British pudding! Lol
You can have the Craster kippers, give me all the bread and butter pudding! Ha ha
What a fab idea Dara think il book this for my sister and her hubby for next year possibly a stay over as well , thanks for the inspiration 👍
Have fun! And tell them to wear something stretchy... preferably with no waistband ;-)
I've always wanted to go here 😊 Have you ever tried gooseberry crumble?
I think I'd prefer a few suet puddings so I'll have to do it in winter😂
I'm not sure I have had gooseberry crumble. I have had the jam, though. Honestly, I pretty much like all fruit crumbles!
Well this was fun! I'm dying that Ian ate strawberries and sardines! I love that you brought out the STP, and it looked really delicious. I am guessing that STP, chocolate, and summer berries would have been at the top of my list. I'm glad you both did this fun evening, although it did look like a LOT of food. What a delightful way to sample many puddings in one evening.
Can you believe Ian? What a martyr... made me only feel worse for all my gluttony! haha
Yummy - my fav winter puds are treacle pud and custard and apple crumble and custard. Love from Sussex to you Magenta and family and friends!
@@junecaffyn357 thanks so much June! I hope you are doing well, it's always nice to hear from you!
Apple crumble is yummy, but I think rhubarb crumble with custard is the best thing ever! 😋
AAH jam and coconut sponge one of the few memorable highlights of my secondary school drudgery Lunchtime, we were lucky enough to have a full kitchen staffed by at least 3 or 4 professional cooks with a hearty and kind support staff Lunchtime and especially desserts were relief time jam and coconut, chocolate and a sponge served with icing/fondant top with sprinkle accompanied by various custards we had ordinary banana with real slices incorporated chocolate and...pink Oh Joy
@@misolgit69 that does sound wonderful! Thanks for watching, Always good to hear from you. Cheers! Dara
Such an interesting club to attend 😮 I am amazed you made it through with only a small headache with all that sugar. 😂 kidding you Dara! I am proud of you! Great rating! They each looked amazing! I know I never would make it through all that sweet! But you both did amazing! Fun and delicious! Ian thanks for the drone footage! Hope you enjoyed the sardines 😢 Mmmm not even a little takeaway bag of dessert for you 😱
Trust me, I asked in advance if we were able to take home extra dessert and they said no 🥹.
I didn't realise it was a buffet type situation, where the servers just gave you a little scoop. I thought they gave you a tray with seven full desserts, in which case it would've been wonderful to bring home leftovers. That is the way afternoon usually works, which is nice because there's always too much sweet stuff served there as well! Thanks for watching, Donna! 💖
Great video and that pudding club looked like fun! In regards to chocolate mousse, I would say you were wrong about the chocolate mousse not being a traditional British dessert as it is very common here, it's been around forever, and I have my great grandmothers handwritten recipe book that had it's first recipes written in to it in 1879, and towards the back of it it has a few chocolate recipes including chocolate mousse, and although she didn't date her individual recipes, my great grandmother passed away in 1923 so it was written down between 1879 - 1923 sometime.
Incidentally, there's a recipe for 'biscuits with broken chocolate pieces' in my great grandmothers recipe book, it's in the chocolate section, that are basically chocolate chip cookies as we would know them nowadays, which supposedly weren't invented until the 1930s, so either she had a time machine and came forward ten years or so after she died, or she -and possibly others- were making them a lot earlier than the stated invention time.
But getting back to chocolate mousse, it's probably not made from scratch in most homes any more in the UK, more likely it will come from a ready made yogurt-type pot, or made from a packet like angel delight or instant whip. There is also an aerosol can similar to whipped cream that you can buy, but chocolate flavoured, and that is very much the same as the yogurt pot type mousse, aswell as frozen chocolate mousse. All of which are very different to the real thing, and the fact people don't really make stuff from scratch as much anymore means they are missing out!
These pudding clubs are a good thing, they introduce people to new desserts that they might never have tried, plus the old favourites that a lot of people might remember from childhood etc. There isn't a pudding club as such bear me, but there are a lot of dessert only places, and also my family and friends will sometimes have our own, when we have a get-together, and everyone will make a different pudding to bring (pre arranged so nobody brings the same) and then we all just talk and eat all night until we are all full to the brim, and feel very sick, and overly full of carbs and sugar!
I understand that overly full feeling, accompanied by a sugar headache! Lol
Thank you so much for sharing the information about your grandmother's recipes. A fascinating personal story as well as some interesting culinary history! As Americans, we are led to believe that tollhouse cookies were the first chocolate chip cookies 😉. I always assumed chocolate mousse originated in France because the name sounds French to me. Whoever invented it, it's great stuff! Next Tuesday we are going to Belgium. The country that claims to have invented "French" fries! Lol😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels I have the added compilation of type 2 diabetes to go with it lol, but most of the desserts we all make, we take this in to account as a few of us are diabetic or other dietary needs, and will use sugar alternatives, honey etc with very minimal sugar where possible, unless it's something like sticky toffee pudding where the sponge will be made with a sugar free sweetener but the toffee sauce will obviously contain sugar. With type 2 you don't have to fully cut out sugar, just reduce your intake to a minimum, having it occasionally.
Also with my diabetes, my sugar levels are more often too low rather than too high, it's only ever been high twice in 4 years, and even then it wasn't really high, just slightly higher than normal, so when we have these pudding nights, it can help bring my sugar levels to a normal level. My body tells me if I've had enough and when to stop.
Since becoming diabetic, overly sweet things don't appeal to me, I don't like the taste of anything too sweet anymore such as, things like milk chocolate especially cheaper brands. I like dark chocolate, the higher the cocoa content the better, and I only need one small square and that will tide me over for 3 or 4 days.
I make all my own cakes, biscuits, donuts and other sweets treats at home with low carb and carb free flour, and use sweetener like canderel instead of sugar, adding dark chocolate or dried fruit, nuts etc, and that way if I fancy something sweet, I can have it without worrying about. But every few months we will have the pudding night and I'll eat the lot! Lol
Yeah chocolate mousse could possibly be a french invention, but even if it was, it was probably adopted in Britain very quickly seeing as how chocolate bars were first invented and sold here making anything chocolate a very popular thing.
Edit - I just checked on Google, it says that the famous french painter, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, invented in the late 19th century (around the time my great gran started writing her recipe book!) and he calmed it 'mayonnaise de chocolat'. Also, with the chicken chips cookies, it would be silly to think that nobody had put broken pieces of chocolate in to a biscuit/cookie before a commercial company decided to sell them. At some point, most things have been tried by home cooks experimenting with what they have to hand. I know I do. One of the best ways to cook is throw whatever you have got in to the mix and see what comes out! Lol.
I must say that I'm enjoying your videos, your hard work doesn't go unappreciated!
@@JacknVictor why thank you so much! That is very kind of you to say!
A Summer Pudding is quite large and will serve many people but you can easily make it for 2 or 4 people by putting the fruit filling between 2 slices of crustless white bread like a sandwich, wrap with clingfilm. Press it down with weights such as tins of beans. You need to hold it in a container the same shape and size of the bread slices so it can set in a nice shape. Cut it into triangles
That's a good idea! We don't have anything like it in the US.
@@MagentaOtterTravels I know that you love the fresh English berries but you can make a very nice Summer Pudding with frozen ones, just let them defrost before you compile the filling. It's very, very simple to make. Particularly my 2/4 portion one 😃😃
oh my goodness, I'm pretty sure you're used to Newcastle too, how have you missed our Heavenley Desserts restaurant(Newgate St) , I've even timed 2 of them, I live 24 mins ride from them in an Uber if it's a pudding emergency, the 2nd being Parlour Creams (top of Bigg Market) but currently up for sale
That sounds like fun!
Apple crumble got DROWNED in custard lol
@@WITYTRAVELS best way to do it!
That looked amazing!!
It was SO fun! And yummy!!
Yummy, yummy yummy but there isn't enough space in the tummy.
@@gerrymccartney3561 yes that's the challenge!
My favourite Desserts which are Bread & Butter Pudding, Rice Pudding as in Rice Custard, Both Chocolate Pudding & Chocolate Custard, Christmas (Xmas) Pudding, Steamed Puddings, Banana Au Rhum, Trifle, Crème Brûlée, Crème Caramel, Sticky Date Pudding, Vanilla Pudding & Vanilla Custard, Strawberry Pudding & Strawberry Custard, Banana Pudding & Banana Custard, Fruit Flavoured Pies, Fruit Flavoured Crumbles, Butterscotch Pudding & Butterscotch Custard, Caramel Pudding & Caramel Custard, Choclate Mousse &/or Chocolate Cream, Egg Custard, of course.
That is a lot of desserts! And they all sound delicious!
Great fun guys 👍 pudding club 👌👌
Chips, puddings and cakes the best food. I like trifle without sherry. Rhubarb crumble with custard the best.
@@davidmcdonagh7756 yes, I was disappointed to not have rhubarb crumble! But maybe it was for the best. Because I would've wanted to eat a lot of it! Lol
"The Pudding Club"!! This is also a euphemism for being pregnant!!😅😅😅😅 it did look lovely...Especially the apple crumble...It's good that puddings aren't too sweet!!😊😊😊😊😊
They were great! I would have probably felt less guilty eating them if I had been pregnant!
Up the Duff is another slang term for pregnant. A fairly recent term, doesn’t appear in print until 1941 in Sydney John Baker’s Dictionary of Australian Slang:
We also have Plum Duff, Duff being pudding
@@tiggerwood8899 as an American, I think "up the duff" sounds kind of nasty! I know it's a common slang phrase here in Britain, but it just seems a bit shocking to me! Lol
@MagentaOtterTravels
Also, bun in the oven
@@tiggerwood8899 ha ha, we have the same one in the states. I like that one!
To be fair you did really well to eat that many puddings, i'd be so bloated ..you mentioned rubarb crumble , this reminds me of been a kid where we could pick rubarb in spring/summer from the farmers fields ,& our mum would load it with sugar & crumble with hot custard on ,great memories , we also used to pick the blackberries too & mum would make pies or crumble .the bonus it was pretty much free.!
Yes blackberries and rhubarb... the joys of summer! 💖
Looks really good now hungry
@@grahambaker9377 there was definitely something for everyone in that range of puddings!
When I scroll through the thumbnails of your channel videos, I keep thinking your friend has such a striking likeness to Naomi Wolf the American journalist, columnist and author, I thought it was at first and had to double check.
That's funny! I don't see it, but they both have great hair 👩🦰
Hiya. Couldn't you have had the trifle and not eaten the sherry soaked sponges at the bottom? Was this at the end of June? Because that's when the English rhubarb season is virtually over and maybe that's why they went with apple for the crumble. Did you say what the price was, I may have missed it? And was the 'light' starter/main compulsory? Stay safe. All the best to you.
P. S. - Thanks for showing the flowers at the beginning, now I know the ones in my garden aren't weeds.
@@Andy_U haha glad to help with the flowers 🌸!
The cost is £45 which includes a glass of Bucks fizz and the main course ... you can't opt out of those extras.
We filmed this at the beginning of June. Today I ate an apple rhubarb custard pasty and it was scrumptious! I finally got my rhubarb!😊😋
Christa, I can be any British berry you want me to be! Seriously, I'm not big on sherry in trifle either, much prefer it without. However, in the dim and distant past - when I was in Germany with the RAF, and invited to a BBQ - I had trifle with Benedictine in it, and I loved it. But sherry trifle... nah!
I was surprized that Dara didn't just take the STP to her table and eat the lot. lol
TBH, I would have argued the bill. as they only gave you a sample and not full portion of the desserts.
Ian doesn't like Custard!!! are you sure he is English?
it was good to see Ian being able to capture some drone footage. it is such a pity that he cant do it more often, due to no fly zones.
Yes, this was his first video with footage from the new drone! But the no fly zones are a problem. Pretty much not even worth trying to fly his drone in Germany.
I agree that he should have his passport revoked for not wanting to eat custard!
Strawberries and a can of sardines!!! Ha ha ha!
He is a frugal man who likes to keep slim and trim ;-)
I'm with you on the Bread and Butter pudding....plus whoever is in charge at the hotel needs to clean their blackboard better and spell ...😂
A sweet video.
🙂
@@davidjenkins1003 definitely! 🍰
No wonder lan didn’t join in, there was no ice cream!
@@lizbignell7813 true! And he doesn't like custard!
Maybe he could pour the custard over the ice cream?
I was surprised when you said there were currants in the summer pudding as they are commonly in Christmas pudding, but then you specified red currants and everything made sense!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Has Ian had custard made with eggs or just the packet custard where the nearest it's got to eggs is when the lorry went past a poultry farm on the motorway? 😁😁
Is banoffee pie a pudding? And someone should tell The Pudding Club that there are two M's in summer pudding. :-)
I think banoffee pie is a pudding. And yes, summer def has two M's and trifle def has one F ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels Maybe they're fans of Midsomer Murders? 😁
@@Poliss95 lol 😂
Ad to the right of my screen says------> 'Save on MOT essentials'. 😂😂
@@Poliss95 hilarious 😆!!
I wonder how they decide what to put on the pudding menu ?
@@dominique8233 since they do those rating sheets, they probably look at what is most popular with the guests.
I make a mean rhubarb crumble, just saying 😊, yummy
Feel free to invite me round for dinner!
Hiya Dara, we don't have pudding clubs in the north (that I'm aware of), but it looked nice, your favorite Sticky Toffee Pudding was invented in Keswick in 1969, this is Choppy
@@paulguise698 yes, I was hoping to get to the birthplace of STP this summer and try some there, but I didn't get the chance!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Never Mind, there's a recipe book its a gluten free that's got the recipe for Sticky Toffee Pudding
Lol we do but it usually means you are pregnant, yr in the pudding club etc 😂
We went to the pudding club and my husband had the “trio of puddings” as his dessert thinking that they would be small portions 🤦♀️ NOPE they were full portions of chocolate, syrup and jam and coconut sponge with about 2 pints of custard
Ha ha, how did he manage with all that? Did you help him?
@@MagentaOtterTravels he managed 2 before I nobly stepped in to help 🤭
@@susansmiles2242 bless you 😇
STP could not have had a better carrier!
@@WITYTRAVELS why thank you so much! I was glad that I got to be part of the parade, and carry my favourite pudding!
The Sticky Toffee Pudding waitress looked familiar…
Yes, I got a good gig that night!
Your friend is a cutie!
@@akula9713 yes she is!!
Jeremy clarkson is opening a pub called the Windmill in Burford…he might want to put you in his Pudding Club
Oh goodness, he does so many crazy things!
@@MagentaOtterTravels the craziest things I’ve seen him do is pull his house down and own a Lamborghini tractor..(aka a Cotswold taxi) his auger PTO dosent fit his accessories..crazy daddio.
@@griswald7156 yes, he's a nut! By the way, I think we drove by the Windmill today!
Hmm, so you’re in the pudding club. Different connotation here Magenta
I can assure you that neither of us is pregnant ;-)
I have to admit I thought the Pudding Club was older than 1985, but if that's what the poster says it must be so
@@richardjames3022 I was surprised as well. But I think it's because I assume everything in Britain is extremely old! Lol
I was in a French home once…after we’d finished the main course the dessert was served on the dirty plate…
Yuk!
£45 for tiny portions and they don't give you fresh plates!? Ye Olde Cotswolds con! 🙂
😬😬
Tart is good, you can have pudding too sweet sometimes.
@@stephentaylor1476 yes, for sure. Contrast is good... like rhubarb crumble with custard!
You are aware that in the pudding club is slang for being pregnant. As in “John had to marry his girlfriend after he put her in the pudding club.”
@@NickfromNLondon yes I learnt that yesterday when I published this video 😂
Dara. Another great video but did you realise the Pudding Club is a not polite of saying someone is pregnant. Unfortunately some of pudding ingredients are also slang, rhubarb is slang for rubbish, raspberry is for what a fiends young daughter calls a bottom burp, there was a Two Ronnies programme that had a serial sketch called The Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, a sketch based on Jack the Ripper who didn’t kill victim with a weapon but shocked delicate Victorians by blowing raspberries. Shame they didn’t have my favourites, bread & butter pudding and the steamed jam roly-poly,
@@Peterraymond67 you British people make it so dangerous to say anything! Lol
Bottom burp... that's funny! 😆
Looks like whoever wrote out the menu board had been sampling the sherry a tad too enthusiastically 😅
@@gothicwilderness LOL! 😂
When l glanced the title l did a double take l'm sure the comments will have explained. We went out for a meal a few weeks ago and the dessert or pudding was one of everything on the menu , just smaller portions. One l particularly enjoyed was rhubarb cooked in ginger syrup no other sugar. It had a crumble top and a blob of clotted cream. Why are my clothes shrinking l have no idea.
@@andrewfitzgerald2327 that rhubarb dessert sounds wonderful! I'm sure that your clothes are shrinking because you washed them on water that was too hot!
@@andrewfitzgerald2327 Ian wants to know where this restaurant was. I think he feels the need to go there!
@@MagentaOtterTravels The peacock hotel near Chatsworth.
@@andrewfitzgerald2327 oooh lovely place to visit!
@@MagentaOtterTravels it is a four star hotel we were house hunting. They do alter the menu regularly and only use local seasonal food .Way back I did take the mothers there and neither would order lamb because the lambs were in the field looking in. 😄
I find using the same plate to be very odd.
It’s a sloppy show…as opposed to a sloppy Joe which is a jumper..
Yes 😉
@@Poliss95 they need a delivery ofDenby ware and a “Classic Washdisher”
@@Poliss95 it’s unhygienic..I would imagine it be a one trick pony for most punters..
I assume that you've spent enough time in the UK to know this, but, around here at least, 'in the pudding club' is a colloquial term for being or becoming pregnant. 🙂
@@the_yorkshire_pudding actually, I didn't know that until I published this video! I have now learnt my lesson! Lol
I think it would be good to send clotted cream by post from Devon to America..
@@griswald7156 would need to be express post on dry ice 🧊
@@MagentaOtterTravelsclotted cream lasts longer than ordinary cream - you can send it in the U.K. no worries but to U.S. not sure about that though I know mail can get to destinations there quite quickly!
@@dianarolph1770 blow fly cheese could become popular..
In the Pudding club = pregnant 😅
@@jillybrooke29 I can assure you that neither of us are in that pudding club!
@@MagentaOtterTravels 😄
@@MagentaOtterTravels😂😂😂
thought it was great vlog ,but wouldnt you think they use paper plates / bowls so flavours of each different pudding/dessert didnt mix and ian drone footage fab as usual
Thank you! This video actually is the debut of footage from Ian's new drone.☺️
They didn’t have my favourites…..Paklava and Crème Brûlée
@@griswald7156 both good but also not British puddings 😉
@@MagentaOtterTravels maybe the three ways hotel would consider a Europud weekend ? I think i would be tempted then..
Maybe with a “who ate it “ murderous mystery weekend thrown in…with characters like Mrs Sticky Toffee ,thats you,and Mr Blown Raspberry,
and Monsieur Montellimar..
@@griswald7156 very creative idea, Gris!
I think the pudding club majors in Eton Mess..
Baklava is a Middle Eastern dessert.
European Vacation..
Did you have the same plate for every pudding ?!!!!….euwww…
Yes, it was not optimal.
[n the sixties if you were in the PUDDING CLUB, YOU WHERE PREGNANT.
Yeah, I think someone was having a laugh when they named this thing!
Question, are you related to Joyce Vance ?
I don't know who that is
You do know what being in the pudding club in Britain means don't you.
@@stephentaylor1476 I do now! 😂
Don't tell men that you want to be in the pudding club.
At my age, I don't think I will be in THAT pudding club anymore!!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Ignore my smuttiness and just concentrate on your great videos. x
I am guessing your friend is not still in the UK. But if she is you must introduce her to M&S red diamond strawberries the absolute goat of all strawberries. They are not like regular strawberries they are a variety grown only for M&S
We had some!! She LOVED them! I thought of you 💖
It's weird as UK berries vary so much in taste and quality. You would think how different can they be but they are.
@@what_im_eatin_uk yes we had some strawberries 🍓 a few weeks ago that were like American ones! 😝
I've decided the ones I like best have little white petals by the green leafy tops 😉
I am STILL missing those berries!
@@christabuchanan5889 we are currently in Kent which is famous for cherries. We are in a hotel room and Ian is currently eating cherries we bought from an orchard!
Disappointing they didn't give you fresh plates each time it's all about presentation treating you like royalty that's not right and you should except small portions you should have the choice how much you want to be honest on your experience I wouldn't go as I think it's about an experience and they sadly lack so much especially the plate issue what's that about but I feel they let you down massively with so much ..but lovely people northern people totally different
There were over 60 people in the room... I think the kitchen simply couldn't cope with 400 dirty dishes.😳
The portions are smaller because you are there to eat multiple puddings. When we went once all tables had a chance to try all seven, you could go up as many times as you like.
My friend starves himself in preparation, as he only goes every few years, and will have more than a dozen helpings.
@@EvilSoupDragon wow that's impressive! 😲
I would have gone back for seconds 🍰🧁🥧🍦🍧🍮🎂😛
One guy had 30 servings once! I am impressed!