I have to admit that the very lovely Mrs Godders makes a mean Summer Pudding and is a dab hand at Eton Mess and her upside down puddings are to die for. No wonder I am a little on the plump side and need a walking stick. Whilst in Germany as a young single man I got to really like apfelstrudel and then when I was in Austria I fell in love with Salzburg Nockerln. In France I couldn't get enough tarte tatin but never mind all that foreign stuff I still love tapioca and semolina and my mother used to fill us up as children with bread and butter pudding. As a boy the only reason I went to school was for the puddings with school dinner.
Pavlova with raspberries and blueberries (and really good vanilla ice cream) - Summer Cherry pie with cream Apple and Rhubarb (underrated) crumble with ice cream (again good stuff, like Mackeys) Galab Jamun (not sure on spelling) with creme fresh. Did an amazing one in a South Indian restaurant in Peckham Rye when I used to live there. Don't like hot custard, strange one, never liked it as a kid and I'm not particularly fussy. However, that dairy one is nice, cold though! Love food.
This is a much better thread than football and it's highs and lows - only highs! SUET PUDDING WITH TATE AND LYLES GOLDEN SYRUP!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yep I'm over 50 - it's probably banned now)
My you have brought back so many mouth watering memories I am tempted to go and make some right this minute! You do know you can make this very quickly in a microwave. My mother used to steam the bloody things for hours.
Oh my Le God, Suet puddings..! I haven't had anything suet for so long. Dumplings, Jam Roly-Poly, I used to LOVE suet based pastry. Probably a good job I stopped eating it though. Must go out and get some vegetable based suet.
I was in Sorrento a few years back and they make Torta di Limone which is not only delicous but is actually shaped likely a woman's bosom. Truly erotic food.
The Water Margin, Gunwharf Quays, does all you can eat, which means, unlimited Banana Fritters (I ate 8 last time!) with about half a pint of warm Golden Syrup, which is handily located right next to them on a mini hotplate. Do not despise the snake for having no horns. For who is to say, it will not become, a Dragon!
Form of crumbly beef fat used to make rich heavy puddings on which the British Empire was founded. It is not a coinicidence that we lost our influence in the world when people started eating yogurt.
Who knows what would have happened, to the map of the world after WWII, if the Japanese had roared into battle crying, Atora Atora Atora!!
I could tell you but hell your generation was brought up with Google to find all of the answers to your questions whereas I had to spend hour upon hour in the local library. We needed suet puddings to sustain us in the late forties and early fifties. With many mouths to feed and very little money you ate offal based meat dishes (heart, liver, etc) followed by milk based puddings. We weren't allowed to swim for an hour after we were fed as mother said we would drown. The very lovely Mrs Godders still makes suet dumplings to go in our stew on Mondays. You needed the energy when we were young as we used to PLAY football with a real ball for hours and hours in our local rec. We didn't sit all day at a computer playing FIFA manager 2219 or whatever it is called slowly getting fatter and fatter.
I think those old balls had suet in them, as well. On rainy afternoons during P.E. it felt like heading an extremely soggy plum duff, if you were unlucky enough to have it come your way, during proceedings.
I am embarrassed to admit that this is my eldest grandaughter's favourite place to eat. I find it noisy and a bit like a works canteen but the food is great. Personally I like their sweet and sour Hong Kong style. Please don't tell anyone I go to Portsmouth occasionally even if it is at my grandaughter's insistance.
