Just Desserts For A Brave, Amusing Recreation Of British Puddings | Letters

It was a awesome shame to spot our awesome classical puds being done double disservice – erstwhile successful Tim Dowling’s cooking and past in his penning (Steam, stodge – and truthful overmuch suet: I made 10 endangered British puddings. Are immoderate really worthy saving?, 23 September).

I americium nan caput cook astatine a backstage members’ nine successful London, and I tin guarantee you that these “endangered” British puddings perfectly thrive successful specified establishments. I fishy that is not only down to our clientele, but besides because we navigator them properly. I’m acrophobic nan photos accompanying nan article show that nan writer made alternatively a mediocre effort astatine recreating these awesome British classics, and truthful I’m not amazed that he gives them specified bad reviews.

A jam roly-poly, pinch homemade jam (plum aliases damson astatine this clip of twelvemonth is excellent), good made and decently cooked, and served pinch custard and possibly immoderate stewed fruit, is an absolute delight.
Simon Conyers
Head chef, Buck’s Club

I americium now 82 and grew up eating puddings (with custard) each day, either astatine location aliases arsenic a portion of schoolhouse dinners. They were bully for filling quiet bellies and adding that spot of sweetness that we each seemed to crave aft nan war, but they were not exciting. I americium happy capable to do without them now, pinch 1 exception, which is nan glorious Sussex pond pudding, overmuch maligned by Tim Dowling.

The operation of seasonal consequence (not needfully apple), ray suet pastry and nan delicious lemon-flavoured syrup is perfectly mouth-watering. And you don’t person to hold 3 and a half hours for it. Hasn’t he heard of a unit cooker?
Margaret Kiloh
Battle, East Sussex

I must protest. Tim Dowling whitethorn beryllium a brave and amusing experimenter, but he should ne'er person cooked Sussex pond pudding pinch pome successful it. The filling should beryllium a citrus trim into quarters, brownish sweetener and butter, which, aft nan agelong steaming, results successful a luscious citrus marmalade, contrasting pinch nan crisp suet casing. It was my precocious husband’s favourite pudding, served pinch plentifulness of cream, of course.
Valerie Pedlar
Southport, Merseyside

Tim Dowling missed a instrumentality pinch bread-and-butter pudding that elevates it to a 5 connected his sensation scale: alternatively of bread, usage sandwiches made pinch food and marmalade arsenic nan guidelines material, aliases moreover croissants, divided and stuck together pinch food and marmalade and past sliced.
Matthew Lowy
Drayton, Oxfordshire