Summer pudding

English dessert

Summer pudding

Alternative names| Summer fruit pudding
Type| Pudding
Course| Dessert
Place of origin| England
Main ingredients| Sliced white bread, fruit, sugar, fruit juice

*   Media: Summer pudding

Summer pudding or summer fruit pudding is an English dessert made of sliced white bread, layered in a deep bowl with fruit and fruit juice. It is left to soak overnight and turned out onto a plate.[1] The dessert was most popular from the late 19th to the early 20th century.[2] It first appears in print with its current name in 1904, but identical recipes for 'hydropathic pudding' and 'Malvern pudding' from as far back as 1868 have been found.[3]

Making summer pudding is much easier if the bread is somewhat stale. This helps the fruit juices soak through the bread, which makes the pudding more pleasant. Summer pudding can be served with cream.

The fruits typically used in summer pudding are raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, whitecurrants, and blackberries. Less commonly used are tayberries, loganberries, cherries and blueberries.

## History

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Discovering early recipes for summer pudding, or finding out when the name was first used, is difficult.[4]

Queens Pudding first appeared in print, with its current name, in 1904 in the book Sweets (Part one), No 6 in the Queen Cookery Books series, collected and described by S. Beaty-Pownall. Similar recipes though appear earlier. Examples are Hydropathic pudding, Malvern Pudding Rhode Island and Wakefield Pudding.[3][5]

Hydropathic pudding was popular in nineteenth century health spas. Cassell's New Universal Cookery from 1896 includes a Hydropatic Pudding recipe which is layers of fruit and bread sliced thinly. The author notes that the pudding has alternative names. Unlike other puddings which use pastry or suet crust the lighter bread casing, made it a suitable treat for ladies who were health-conscious or even where pastry was completely forbidden.[6][1][4]

By the 1920s it is said to have become a classic British pudding. One 1920s book stated "everyone knows this dish, all like it."[7]

## Photo gallery

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* Summer pudding made with currants, in a bowl

* Pan de Mie soaked with raspberries and blackberries. Topped with whipped cream mixed with creme fraiche and buttermilk and garnished with granola.

## See also

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* Food portal

Cassell's New Universal Cookery Book 1896 by Lizzie Heritage.

* List of fruit dishes

## References

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1. ^ a b Alan Davidson (21 August 2014). The Oxford Companion to Food. OUP Oxford. pp. 793–. ISBN 978-0-19-104072-6.
2. ^ Alan Davidson, Helen Saberi, ed. (2002). The Wilder Shores of Gastronomy: Twenty Years of Food Writing. Ten Speed Press. pp. 59–60. ISBN 1-58008-417-6.
3. ^ a b Mary-Anne Boermans (7 November 2013). Great British Bakes: Forgotten treasures for modern bakers. Random House. pp. 263–. ISBN 978-1-4481-5501-9.
4. ^ a b Goldstein, Darra (2015-01-01). The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199313396.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-931339-6.
5. ^ Levy, Audrey (August 1999). "Het of Atworth's Purple Mountain". Petit Propos Culinaires - Essays and Notes on Food, Cookery and Cookery Books. (62).
6. ^ Ysewijn, Regula (2016). Pride and Pudding. Britain: Murdoch Books. ISBN 9781922616210.
7. ^ Gray, Annie (2019). The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook. Weldon Owen. ISBN 9781681885933.

## External links

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Wikibooks Cookbook has a recipe/module on

* Summer pudding

* "Summer Pudding". Delia Online. 9 November 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-03-02.

* "Spiced Summer Pudding". Schwartz. Archived from the original on 2022-03-02.

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Puddings

Sweet|

* Abbot of Priscos
* Ábrystir
* Annin tofu
* Ashure
* Asida
* Banana pudding
* Bánh chuối
* Bebinca
* Blancmange
* Bread and butter pudding
* Bread pudding
* Brown Betty
* Cabinet pudding
* Carrot pudding
* Chè
* Cheese pudding
* Chia pudding
* Chireta
* Chocolate biscuit pudding
* Chocolate pudding
* Christmas pudding
* Clootie dumpling
* Corn pudding
* Cottage pudding
* Crème brûlée
* Crème caramel
* Diplomat pudding
* Douhua
* Dutch baby pancake
* Eton mess
* Eve's pudding
* Figgy duff
* Flummery
* Fruit pudding
* Frumenty
* Gajar Ka Halwa
* Ginger milk curd
* Goody
* Got fan
* Haupia
* Herrencreme
* Instant pudding
* Jam Roly-Poly
* Jam tart
* Junket
* Kalamai
* Kalamay
* Kānga waru
* Kazandibi
* Keşkül
* Kheer
* Kig ha farz
* Kōʻelepālau
* Kue asida
* Kue lapis
* Kulolo
* Kutia
* Lemon delicious pudding
* Mahallebi
* Maja blanca
* Malva pudding (Cape brandy pudding)
* Malvern pudding
* Mango pudding
* Panna cotta
* Pepeçura
* Persimmon pudding
* Pistachio pudding
* Platinum Pudding
* Po'e
* Puding Diraja
* Put chai ko
* Queen of Puddings
* Rice pudding
* Rødgrød
* Rožata
* Sago pudding
* Spotted dick
* Sticky toffee pudding
* Summer pudding
* Supangle
* Sussex Pond Pudding
* Tavuk göğsü
* Tapioca pudding
* Tembleque
* Tibok-tibok
* Treacle sponge pudding
* Ube halaya
* Welf pudding

Savoury|

* Black pudding
* Dock pudding
* Drisheen
* Flummadiddle
* Groaty pudding
* Haggis
* Hasty pudding
* Hog's pudding
* Kačamak
* Moin moin
* Pease pudding
* Pudding corn
* Rag pudding
* Red pudding
* Scrapple
* Spoonbread
* Tiết canh
* White pudding
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* v
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English cuisine

Roman times|

| Dishes|

* Sausages

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Middle Ages
to 15th century|

| Exemplars|

* Utilis Coquinario (c. 1300)
* The Forme of Cury (c. 1390)

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Dishes|

* Apple pie
* Bacon
* Banbury cake
* Cheesecake
* Custard
* Game pie
* Gingerbread
* Kippers
* Mince pie
* Mortis
* Pasty
* Pease pudding
* Pie
* Pottage

16th century|

| Exemplars|

* Richard Pynson (The Boke of Cokery, 1500)
* Thomas Dawson (The Good Huswifes Jewell, 1585)

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Dishes|

* Black pudding
* Fruit fool
* Pancake
* Scones
* Syllabub
* Trifle (without jelly)

17th century|

| Exemplars|

* Elinor Fettiplace (Receipt Book, 1604)
* Gervase Markham (The English Huswife, 1615)
* Robert May (The Accomplisht Cook, 1660)
* Hannah Woolley (The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet 1670)
* John Evelyn (Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets 1699)
* Kenelm Digby (The Closet Opened 1699)

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Dishes|

* Battalia pie
* Currant bun
* Queen of Puddings
* Sponge cake
* Sussex pond pudding
* Sweet and sour
* Tea

18th century|

| Exemplars|

* Mary Kettilby (A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery 1714)
* Mary Eales (Mrs Mary Eales's Receipts 1718)
* John Nott (The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary, 1723)
* Eliza Smith (The Compleat Housewife 1727)
* Hannah Glasse (The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy 1747)
* Ann Cook (Professed Cookery, 1754)
* Martha Bradley (The British Housewife 1758)
* Primitive Cookery (1767)
* Elizabeth Raffald (The Experienced English Housekeeper 1769)
* Richard Briggs (The English Art of Cookery 1788)
* William Augustus Henderson (The Housekeeper's Instructor 1791)

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Dishes|

* Bread and butter pudding
* Christmas pudding
* Chutney
* Curry
* In UK
* Cottage or Shepherd's pie
* Cumberland rum nicky
* Eccles cake
* Jellied eels
* Jugged hare
* Ketchup
* Marmalade
* Parkin
* Piccalilli
* Pork pie
* Roast beef
* Sandwich
* Scouse
* Suet pudding
* Toad in the hole
* Trifle (with jelly)
* Welsh rarebit
* Yorkshire pudding

19th century|

| Exemplars|

* Maria Rundell (A New System of Domestic Cookery 1806)
* Martha Brotherton (Vegetable Cookery 1812)
* Eliza Acton (Modern Cookery for Private Families 1845)
* Charles Elmé Francatelli (The Modern Cook 1846)
* Isabella Beeton (Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management 1861)

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Dishes|

* Bubble and squeak
* Cauliflower cheese
* Cobbler
* Devilled kidneys
* Faggots
* Fish and chips
* Full English breakfast
* HP Sauce
* Ice cream cone
* Lancashire hotpot
* Potted shrimps
* Sausage roll
* Steak and kidney pudding
* Battenberg cake
* Eton mess
* Eve's pudding
* Jam roly-poly
* Lardy cake
* Madeira cake
* Summer pudding
* Windsor soup
* Worcestershire sauce

20th century|

| Exemplars|

* Florence Petty
* Elizabeth David (A Book of Mediterranean Food 1950)
* Dorothy Hartley (Food in England 1954)
* Constance Spry
* Fanny Cradock
* Marguerite Patten
* Jane Grigson
* Delia Smith
* Rick Stein
* Nigel Slater
* Keith Floyd
* Marco Pierre White
* Nigella Lawson
* Jamie Oliver
* Fergus Henderson (The Whole Beast 1999)
* Gordon Ramsay
* Gary Rhodes
* Mary Berry

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Dishes|

* Bakewell tart
* Beef Wellington
* Carrot cake
* Chicken tikka masala
* Coronation chicken
* Crumble
* Knickerbocker glory
* Ploughman's lunch
* Salad cream
* Sticky toffee pudding

21st century|

| Exemplars|

* Heston Blumenthal (The Fat Duck)
* Lizzie Collingham
* Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (River Cottage)
* Rachel Khoo
* Michel Roux Jr. (Le Gavroche)
* Antony Worrall Thompson
* Clarissa Dickson Wright (A History of English Food 2011)

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Dishes|

* Coronation quiche
* Platinum Pudding

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* List of English dishes
* List of English cheeses
* List of savoury puddings
* List of sweet puddings
* Rationing in the United Kingdom

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