Lost Desserts

[Treaclesandwich]

Sticky toffee pudding now stands astride the nation, from John O’Groats to Lands End. It’s everywhere. But it’s the grey squirrel of desserts. It’s victory has come at a terrible price, namely the wiping out of other desserts.

When did you last see a spotted dick or a jam roly poly? Or anything with suet? Or even a sponge that wasn’t bloody sticky toffee?

Don't get me wrong, I like the sticky toffee, but I’ve been to places where it’s the only dessert on the menu.

So what lost desserts need to come back? Is it even time for BLANCMANCHE to return??

Artic Roll can be bought in the supermarket.
Agree that a lot of these puddings have fallen out of fashion. My MIL makes a lot of them when we have family meals - we regularly have lemon meringue pie, apple crumble, bread & butter pudding etc there.
For those missing them can I suggest Georgie Porgie's puddings? I adore their traditional Christmas Pudding, but they also do steamed puds like spotted dick, lemon, chocolate etc:

georgieporgiespuddings.co.uk/shop/products/traditional-puddings

Oh & recently I ate a chocolate cake that tasted just like a Sara Lee Double Chocolate Gateaux - it was a vegan chocolate cake from Mademoiselle Desserts who are a major cake manufacturer with their factory local to us & sell seconds in their factory shop. It was delicious.

I often make an Eve’s pudding - so quick and easy.
Crumbles are also quick and easy. NB, I never bother peeling the apples.
I keep meaning to try making a Sussex Pond pudding, but have never got around to it.
Re suet, Atora do a vegetable one nowadays, so I can’t use that excuse for not making lovely puds.

jOP, I don’t make it very often, but chocolate blancmange is still a favourite in this house. My DM called it chocolate pudding, and we had it warm, but dh likes it cold, with cream. Another quick and easy one.

Yes please! One of my favourites!

Also love
Semolina
Rice
bread & Butter pudding
Bakewell tart
Steamed ginger syrup pudding

I’ve just picked DM up from a pub lunch and it had Spotted Dick on the menu!

I was given this book by my mum when I was 18 and left home. It was old even then-I think she got it free from the milkman. She taught herself to cook from it and so did I. It's got a whole section on these puddings and dh and I are trying to make one a month. We made a suet based jam roly poly yesterday and it was spot on!

I was right about Queen of Puddings having cubes of bread rather than being made with breadcrumbs - this is from the Reader’s Digest Cookery Year book (1973).

Cherry crumble
Artic roll
Baked Alaska
Black Forest gateau.

Stand by for incoming pudding recipes from one of my 80s books.

Some recipes. I don’t think I can post more images. If you’d like others then message me. I’ve also got a book from the 1920s.

Oooh thank you @MadeOfAllWork I’m definitely going to try Queen of Puddings and Manchester Pudding!

Chocolate bread (well, brioche) and butter pudding was always a winner in my house particularly if you added a splash of rum or amaretto into it.

When I was a child my mother used to make macaroni pudding - essentially a rice pudding made using macaroni - I loved it. I don't know if it was a thing others had or whether my Mum made it up. she also fed us 'banana custard' - (doesn't take too much working out to know that was a sliced up banana with birds custard poured over it - food of the Gods !)

I grew up in the 60's so all food was made from scratch, we didn't
have a freezer until I was 15 so no frozen desserts, but I think we had a pudding of some sort every day.

I still have banana and custard when I want something quick and sweet. Also make little individual apple desserts with the bread on top that someone mentioned up thread (I don't know what they're called - Eve's pudding).
Never heard of queen of puddings but it looks right up my street.
I'd love an old fashioned recipe for spotted dick please. I don't think I've had it for 30 years and could be a winner for Christmas..

@AmyDudley Macaroni pudding was definitely a thing at my primary school. I was a teenager before I encountered it with cheese.

Child of the 70’s here and we used to have macaroni pudding and banana custard regularly at home

Yes, i bought one in Waitrose a couple of months back

I was at junior school in Kent in the 70s too, and lived for the gypsy tart the dinnerladies made 😄 Always served with a wedge of apple.

The Return to the Black Forest roulade is a lovely alternative, it's a Delia

https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/collections/easy-entertaining/a-return-to-the-black-forest

I hate it, and anything with salted caramel sauce.

Lemon Tarte is my favourite.

I can see that recipe book from where I'm sitting, very good!

The worst is tapioca. I hope that never becomes popular again.

I loved it. Sago as well.

YABVU.

That school dinner muck should stay in the 90’s where it belongs. Why must we Brits put currants in everything? Why must every other dessert be grotesquely wobbly? Bring on the stick toffee pudding (which is as British as they come having originated in the Lake District). You can take your raisins and dry cake and do one!

Don’t forget Rice pudding 🤢 that can fuck off too. Who wants beige slop? Who wants a food that grows it’s own skin?

I made lemon meringue pie for pudding this Sunday. It was delicious, I had forgotten how the contrast in textures and sweetness / sour is so good. Might do an Apple Amber next Sunday, or a Tarte Tatin, something appley. 🤔