Pudding inspiration for walking weekend please.

[SlubberdeGurnard]

6 Adults in holiday cottage post tramping about for the day in the Peaks next weekend.

I'm doing dinner on the Saturday night.

So far I have got planned (although am not totally decided)

Courgette and dolcelatte soup
Shepherd's pie with spiced parsnip mash with something green and maybe braised red cabbage too.

Am stuck on pudding.

It has to be hearty, but maybe not a crumble (looks too similar to the main). Attractive and sophisticated not a requirement.

Made in advance or very VERY easy to throw together with all ingredients weighed out and transported the day before. If made in advance it's going to be going on a long drive in the car so needs to quite robust..

Not chocolate.

Taste spectacular

tia

I'm making panettone pudding tonight (posh bread and butter! very hearty but very easy.

And panettone is half-price everywhere round here at the moment (though mine is left from Christmas!)

We're not going walking first though!

Co-op sticky toffee pudding with a dash of mendacity (ie you tell 'em you made it yourself)

or, or, or - the forced rhubarb is out now and that is delectable so rhubarb creme brulee (normal creme brulee with half an inch of rhubarb in the bottom - it's in the first or second Naked Chef book)

Tilly I did a panettone b&b pudding at Christmas and was seriously underwhelmed. Maybe I was expecting bready wonders considering the cost of the stuff. Might not rule b&b pud out though as it ticks the hearty category

Lol @ mendacious sticky toffee pud. I have a rep to protect here Seth, they will KNOW if it's not home made.

Rhubarb is good suggestion though.

Pineapple upside-down cake, served hot with cream? (take ready-made still in the cooking tin)
Apple tarte tatin (ditto)
Sussex pond pudding

Off to google Sussex pond pudding

Cor. I LOVE puddings like that Blu and could do with using up a load of my left over Christmas suet.

Could I make the whole thing the day before and just do the steaming the following evening? Would anything odd happen to the pastry if left uncooked for that long?

I have always wanted to do Sussex Pond Pudding. You should def do it, it would be hearty yet spectacular.

agree re pannetone B&B pudding - the best B&B puds are made with normal good quality stale white bread.

I wondered whether sussex pond pud could be assembled ready to steam in advance.

As long as it was kept v cool, I don't see why not, really. Pastry can keep in the fridge, and suet is only a different form of fat / flour mix. Might make the suet tough, for the flour to have been kept damp for ages?

I reckon it woud be OK.

Serve with pouring cream, I suppose?

or do the 3 hour steaming in advance then reheat in microwave on the day? I mean, it works with Christmas pudding and other suet puddings.

delia sticky toffee pudding cooked in a baking dish rather than in lots of little ramekins. Transports really well. Reheat in warm oven. Take all sauce ingredients ready weighed and warm in small saucepan.

Sticky toffee puddig or tart tatin get my recommendation.
Or what little chocolate pots? Nigella has a great recipe in jow tk ear which you prep before and bang into the oven for 11 mins when you are ready

Delia's chocolate bread and butter pudding, can make up to 3 days in advance.

You could try apple cake? Really lovely comfort food - can be made in advance - served with cream/clotted cream or custard?

is there a microwave, you could do a syrup sponge pudding very easily.

I can't find my recipe, but this is similar

and you could easily posh it up with stem ginger and a lovely vanilla custard, or keep it simple with a lovely dod of syrup in the bottom of the dish

oh my friend did the most amazing apple cake (for hungry hillwalkers) from Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries.

I think the only problem with steaming then re-heating a sussex pond pud would be that the idea is that the cooking creates a liquid 'pond' in the centre- which may not cool, travel and re-heat too well. But you never know.

Thank you all for your suggestions.

I'm so inspired by the Sussex pond pudding I'm doing it today for lunch, and will see how easy it would be to recreate on site.

Catsmamma I'll note down the microwave pudding recipe, what a doodle that is. ta for that.

I'm already making and taking apple cake, any pretense I will be burning more calories than I consume has gone out the window.

So it's between the Sussex pond, sticky toffee or something with rhubarb. Keep coming back to the rhubarb ....

Any reason why I couldn't do the plum duff but use rhubarb instead of plums?

I have a real hankering now for steamed suet puddings (with custard).

Good grief - is anyone else doing any catering for this w/e?
You are a kitchen heroine, Slubber!

Heh heh

Yes I only have to to the one dinner and am therefore absolved from cooked breakfasts and the feeding of the children.

It really isn't a walking weekend tbh. It is an eating and drinking weekend with walks shoved in around the feasting to assist with digestion.

Sussex pond is steaming away as I type

Oh my.

The Sussex Pond Pudding was good.

very good.

Thanks Blu for that recommendation.

please tell us more about it

how easy was it? what is your strategy going to be (take ingredients or make in advance?)

It was wonderful, in the old style proper pudding, school dinner reminiscence, ooh this will put hairs on your chest, warming of the cockles on a wet cold January Sunday kinda way.

It was a doodle to make. Felt odd not adding any sugar to the suet pastry but the sweet lemony syrup that is created inside seeps into the outer casing until it all tastes wonderful.

It came out onto the plate beautifully too (presentation is always my downfall) and sure enough when you cut into it the liquid seeps out until it really is sitting in a little pond.

Dds had two helpings at lunch and finished it at supper .

Only downside it that it doesn't half steam up your kitchen.

Can't decide between pond pudding and the duff one, with rhubarb if I can get my hands on some.