Puddings should be
Full of currants, for me:
Boiled in a pail,
Tied in the tail
Of an old bleached shirt:
So hot that they hurt,
So huge that they last
From the dim, distant past
Until the crack o' doom
Lift the roof off the room.
From 'Poets, Painters, Puddings' By Richard Arthur Warren Hughes
Inventive cooks are being invited to make a pudding that could be served up at street parties and other celebrations up and down the country to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, her 70 years as monarch. Click here to find out more and how to enter the competition which is open to UK residents aged eight and over. (February 4 is the closing date for entry).
I was brought up on puddings. My mum would make something sweet to finish off most meals: bread and butter, rice and Eve's puddings, steamed sponge, apple Charlotte, apple meringue, baked egg custard, fruit pies and always trifle at Christmas. School dinners offered up such delights as 'Dead Man's Leg' (jam roly poly) and 'Flies' Graveyard' (Spotted Dick), all served with a generous dollop of thick custard. Nowadays puddings seem less fashionable as we become more conscious of fat and sugar content, but I suppose in the 1950s and 60s they were a good way to fill up hungry children.
Click here for Mary's recipe for Queen of Puddings.
Writing prompt:
- You may not want to enter the competition, but click on the link above and have a look at the guidelines, then invent your pudding. Write down a list of ingredients and how you will use them. (There's nothing to say is has to be sweet).
- Did you enjoy puddings as a child? If so, what was you favourite? Write about an occasion when you ate it.
- Imagine you are inventing a 'pudding for life'. What combination of 'ingredients' would you include to make an all-round successful pudding - maybe love, compassion, patience, bravery, tolerance? Write about it, and who you would serve it to.
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