Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Food & Drink => Topic started by: Canardly on 07 January, 2020, 11:49:53 am
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C'mon then admit it. Who does not like Christmas pudding? Sales are down 16% year on year.
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We love it!
But we didn't buy one, we still had one from two year ago.
There's some left in the fridge. I might just go fry it now...
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I haven't stopped buying it so much as never started. Well, I did one year, I think it might have been 2003.
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David doesn't like Christmas pudding much so I didn't buy any, intending either to make a low-cal fruit dessert or home-made syrup sponge but he went out on Christmas Eve and brought back two reduced 'Taste the Difference' puds from Sainsbury's.
We shared each one, serving one with custard and one with ice cream, on different days.
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I am a big fan of Christmas pudding. It's the dried-fruit bliss-neutronium of the dessert universe. Served submerged in a deep ocean of brandy sauce, it's a bathyspheric pud of choice. Grab a spoon, blow the ballast, and prepare to dive, dive, dive.
The problem, generally, is that by the time I've stuffed myself with the starters and main course, my stomach has lit the 'no vacancies' sign. As a normally no-dessert person, I'm rarely prepared to navigate any third course.
Which means our Christmas pud is still in the cupboard.
I am of the view that all the modern Christmas Pudding variants (no nuts! gluten free! alcohol-free! etc.) should be banned and the makers hunted with dogs. Suet, fruit, the output of a small distillery. It should flambé à la Deepwater Horizon, like it's been sponsored by BP.
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I've never been a fan, even of my mother's home made ones that sat on top of the wardrobe for the year. I'm not sure why I don't like it, as I love the rich fruit cake we make each year for Christmas, and I don't suppose the recipe is too different. Maybe it's the addition of barley wine / stout that makes it less palatable to me.
Plus I'd much rather fill up on savoury than sweet.
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I’d rather fill up on savoury then sweet.
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I thoroughly enjoy Christmas pudding and ate it on four occasions over the Christmas period.
When doing the weekly supermarket shop last Sunday, Mrs. Blade observed that the Christmas puddings were on sale at a vastly reduced price. We bought three :thumbsup:
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+1
We got a couple of reduced price ones. No doubt the will be soon consumed.
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I went into Tesco last week to snap up leftover puddings...
...none were available. They'd sold out.
Waitrose only had a few of the really expensive ones left.
Maybe demand is a regional thing.
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I used one from two years ago. Best Before Jan 2020.
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Bought a Lidl one this year, £3.39. Tasted as good as more expensive ones, the ingredients list contained no nasties, just ubiquitous palm oil :-\
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I used one from two years ago. Best Before Jan 2020.
Mr R bought a job lot about 5/6 years ago. We finished them about 6 months ago. They were 'out of date' but perfectly edible. :thumbsup:
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I only got to have a small piece (and a little of the brandy sauce) as I was driving shortly after. A visit to my Dad's did not produce more christmas pudding with his homemade brandy butter. I want to have a go at making my own though. I have fond memories of my mum cleaning out a large toy box so that all the ingredients for many christmas puddings could be mixed together. It even became traditional to eat one Easter Sunday!
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MrsC makes really nice Christmas puddings. Trouble is (like others have mentioned) we're too full to enjoy them. This year's has gone into the freezer1 having had about three tablespoon fulls removed from it.
When I was small, we used to have one on Christmas Day, one on Boxing Day, one at Easter and one for my Dad's birthday in July. Until one year when the birthday one had dried up and been reduced to dust.
[1] I know they keep perfectly well out of a freezer, it's just easier when they're out of the way.
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My wife makes them too, so we don't help sales at all.
Christmas would not be the same without them ;D
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We've been too full for a dessert after Christmas dinner so any pudding is usually eaten after an interval of several hours, or the next day.
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I love it. Had double portions for dessert on Christmas Day. ;D
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I bought 3. We had one on Christmas day, one on 3rd Jan when two siblings & an in-law visited. I don't yet know when we will have the other. I think Christmas puds are excellent and I never have trouble shovelling a good sized chunk down my gullet after a large first course of something roast.
One has to buy Christmas pud. I mean, what else is one to do with the blended whisky that one is occasionally given or wins in a raffle?
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I love the stuff, and treacle pudding too. Both are total anathema under my thou-shalt-not-enjoy diabetic diet and MrsT scorns them, so we had a run-of-the-mill "exotic" fruit salad which was about as exotic as Maggie's knickers. :(
Not that we'd have bought one anyway. Back in the Stone Age before I was diabetic, the Inlaw Paw (great lover of puddings) was still with us and MrsT still ate like a human being, she always made ours, and bloody good they were too.
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Treacle pudding is something entirely different (and eaten on different occasions)! Although it is a bit skool dinnerz.
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Syrup sponge & custard is our home-made favourite.
D probably prefers it to Xmas pud but is strongly traditionalist, even for traditions he does not enjoy.
But he is watching hid weight...
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I don't know what treacle pudding is. We had either treacle sponge, or treacle tart. I could tolerate the former, with custard, but the latter was just sugar overload.
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Treacle [sponge] pudding innit. You take sponge, soak in treacle, drown in custard. If there's a way to get more sugar into it, I'm open to exploring it.
Is it still available in cans, that was a home treat? You were supposed to share it which was, of course, nonsense.
I'm a big fan of any kind of food in a can.
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Ecce puddo!
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/food/ic/food_16x9_1600/recipes/treacle_pudding_80920_16x9.jpg)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/treacle_pudding_80920
Served hot, of course. That one there is starting to congeal.
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Sainsbury's stopped selling syrup sponge in tins a few years ago.
The alternatives they sell are MUCH more pricy (which is why I molish my own).
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I think all supermarkets have wised up to the fact that people will pay three times as much for exactly the same product in 'fresh' packaging from a fridge.
This will be our downfall. None of this stuff is going to keep once civilization falls.
ETA: it also means we end up with screeds of difficult or non-recyclable packaging and the curse of sell-by and use-by dates that mean a lot of decent food ends up in the bin.
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My Mum made a steamed ginger pudding; the usual sponge mix flavoured with ground ginger. She served it with golden syrup, heated to make it runny. No custard, thobut.
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Christmas Pudding is like coffee: I have a fondness for the smell, but wouldn't want to eat it.
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Christmas Pudding is like coffee: I have a fondness for the smell, but wouldn't want to eat it.
Eating coffee is just weird.
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Chocolate-covered coffee beans are quite, er, interesting.
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Christmas Pudding is like coffee: I have a fondness for the smell, but wouldn't want to eat it.
Eating coffee is just weird.
Even in cake with a walnut on top?
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We demolished our pud last night (the brandy sauce had started to bleat about its use-by date and we hate wasting food).
Preceded by cheese and crackers, another post-Cringle casualty. We overstocked on cheese. Ordinarily not a bad thing because I live for cheese, but I reckon I could do with a break. Surely it's Nocheesanuary somewhere.
Actually that sounds awful. I could be, perhaps, a day without cheese. A month. The horror, the horror.
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We demolished our pud last night (the brandy sauce had started to bleat about its use-by date and we hate wasting food).
Preceded by cheese and crackers, another post-Cringle casualty. We overstocked on cheese. Ordinarily not a bad thing because I live for cheese, but I reckon I could do with a break. Surely it's Nocheesanuary somewhere.
Actually that sounds awful. I could be, perhaps, a day without cheese. A month. The horror, the horror.
Professor Larrington spotted a meme at New Year, the caption of which being:
"STEP AWAY FROM THE CHEESE, FATSO!"
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Sainsbury's stopped selling syrup sponge in tins a few years ago.
The alternatives they sell are MUCH more pricy (which is why I molish my own).
Yep, us too on the odd occasion, the microwave method is pretty good, but required quick and total consumption lest they collapse.
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I think with tins, it was rumoured that if you boiled them without making a hole in the tin, they'd blow up and take out a city block.
That said, at the time of my childhood, in our crappy house a loud sneeze could have been calamitous.
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I do like a good CP, but I'm the only one in the family who likes it. Actually, that's not quite true: Mrs W also does but she's gluten intolerant and allergic to (tree) nuts. We could make our own sans those ingredients but I'd rather eat more cheese, TBH.
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Sainsbury's stopped selling syrup sponge in tins a few years ago.
The alternatives they sell are MUCH more pricy (which is why I molish my own).
They seem to do a syrup sponge in plastic packaging for 70p (on phone and can't work out how to link directly, but it's SKU no 7566949), but if it's not stocked in the store which delivers to you I don't think it'll appear to you while you're logged in.
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Sainsbury's stopped selling syrup sponge in tins a few years ago.
The alternatives they sell are MUCH more pricy (which is why I molish my own).
They seem to do a syrup sponge in plastic packaging for 70p (on phone and can't work out how to link directly, but it's SKU no 7566949), but if it's not stocked in the store which delivers to you I don't think it'll appear to you while you're logged in.
I think you can also get them at Aldi. I'm going later, I'll have a look 8).
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Sainsbury's stopped selling syrup sponge in tins a few years ago.
The alternatives they sell are MUCH more pricy (which is why I molish my own).
They seem to do a syrup sponge in plastic packaging for 70p (on phone and can't work out how to link directly, but it's SKU no 7566949), but if it's not stocked in the store which delivers to you I don't think it'll appear to you while you're logged in.
I see the 70p ones but 1 egg, 50g sugar, 50g flour, 50g oil and syrup add up to <70p and would serve >2, not one.
he tins were 55p and served 2.
Not on my diet anyway, but thanks!
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I'm not a fan of sponge puddings. A good suet pudding with syrup, however...
I think I will make one of those over the weekend. It was always my favourite and my mum used to make them. Very easy to do! Just use multiples of the dumpling recipe on the back of the suet pack, but don't add any herbs. I always use veg suet these days. I made one once for Charlotte & Julian. Charlotte was very suspicious initially but came back for seconds.
I'll be immodest enough to suggest that I make a better suet pud than my mum did. She immersed the pudding within its cloth in the boiling water. I perch mine above on a trivet so it's properly steamed. The difference is that the surface of the steamed pudding has a less slimy texture. I think the inside is slightly lighter as well.
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I think with tins, it was rumoured that if you boiled them without making a hole in the tin, they'd blow up and take out a city block.
I'm a Scout leader. One of our Patrols once chucked a can of peaches on their fire, because they didn't want it. I checked with the PL that he had opened it first, and he said, "Of course".
A few minutes later there was a massive bang. Their entire fire was blown out of the altar, and bits of burning wood descended around the site. We were finding small, blackened holes in tents for days afterwards.
Clearly his definition of open was different from mine. It transpires that various Scout leaders have stories like this.
Burning tins to get rid of small remnants of food is good practice, but it's usual to take off the lid and empty them first...
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Yes, never underestimate a steam explosion.
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I'm an empiricist so chucking stuff on a fire and running away is part of the MO.
If it's a can of black spray paint, run fast, that's all I can say, unless you really want to attend the same parties as a young Justin Trudeau.
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don't think we have had a traditional xmas pud for years, but we bought one this year on the strength of the wonderful 'Edgar the Dragon' (not that I am ever influenced by ads)
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One of Scaryduck's "Tales of Mirth and Woe" concerned the effects of adding much of the contents of mate's Dad's garage to Very Large November 5th Bonfire. 'splodey Mirth and Woe in equal measure.
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C'mon then admit it. Who does not like Christmas pudding? Sales are down 16% year on year.
Disgusting filth. The drop is not down to me, I never eat them.
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C'mon then admit it. Who does not like Christmas pudding? Sales are down 16% year on year.
I like Christmas Pudding!
Alas it's one of the many, many things I'm no longer allowed :-( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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Our bike to the pub club xmas dinner - with 16 people had the option of xmas pudding. Noone selected it. I had cheesecake.
For my own xmas dinner I made baked cheesecake