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

have I told you about the eighteenth century re-enactment I did where we made bag pudding every day?

the kitchen was, of course, not steamed up, because the cooking took place in a massive fireplace and any steam not contained by the lid of the cauldron simply went up the chimney

No you have not, well not about the bag pudding anyway, what is it?

The only other thing about the pond pudding is if you combine it with a bracing walk you HAVE to have a late afternoon nap. Resistance is futile.

suet pudding boiled in a pudding cloth rather than a basin.
though I have to confess doing historical re-enactments might be rather like camping with regard to food - ie it all tastes better when you are sitting in front of the fire in a medieval farmhouse wearing an apron just like it all tastes better in the open air....

Yes I bet it does. Did you have non reenactment folk come and watch you steam your puddings? We go to Erdigg quite a lot and I'm quite envious of the cooks doing their period cookery stuff (but surprisingly not of the laundry ladies).

yes and they hadn't invented health and safety in those days so sometimes we would even let them taste it too.

If you don't thin it needs be hot try Nigella's recent lemon polenta cake ( On the BBC website currently) with clotted cream maybe .....

Or her quick and easy fruit tart also there ...

Both simple and great

can highly recommend nigel slater's lemon surprise pudding. Rich yet light and vry refreshing. With double cream for those who have walked many miles