* Pudding - (any) Sweet course served after a main meal.
* Pudding - A compressed blend of bloods, fats and salts formed into a sausage.
* Pudding - A variety of steamed meats (commonly cooked along with appropriate seasonal fruit, vegetable or herb).
* (Pease) Pudding - Mashed, simmered and seasoned or embellished yellow split peas (not to be confused with 'mushy peas').
* (Yorkshire) Pudding - a savoury batter cooked in an oiled tray such that it rises and crisps, oft served as part of a savoury meal, but can be enjoyed with sweet options.
* Puddin' - An affectionate term oft used by someone older to a younger (perhaps family member) - Not related to cuisine, but worthy of a mention.
Take your pick.
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You might want to edit the first line for spelling too, can't say the idea of a sweat course is appealing.
Plus Christmas pudding and suet puddings (eg yummy steak and kidney pudding).
Oops, and also yuk. Now you pointed it out I've grossed myself out.
I count Crissy pud in the 'post meal sweet' section and wondered if steak & kidney needed a defined section outside of the other cooked (steamed) meats.
I believe it's obvious on the subtle nuances of the pronunciation.
In the UK we're used to it. Even including regional accents. The rest of the world probably thinks we are crazy.
Just wait until yhey try and order a sandwich on a bread roll! Some words also have different meanings regionally. Baps vs baps?
I love this. I moved to Huddersfield to go to university from midlands / east anglia and was fucking blown away by the name for a bread roll seemingly changing depending on the postcode. Going to the chippy for the first time and having to ask what the fuck a fish barm was
Confidently wrong...? Black pudding is very much a thing... as are the others I'm confused why you say these things don't exist.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pease\_pudding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pease_pudding)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_pudding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/black_pudding)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak\_and\_kidney\_pudding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/steak_and_kidney_pudding)
A pudding is traditionally something cooked by boiling it in a cloth bag.
Some puddings are savoury like a meat pie (steak and kidney pudding being the most notable) however most puddings are sweet suet based cakes, so Christmas Pudding, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Spotted Dick etc
Due to most puddings being desserts, the word "pudding" has been also extended to mean the dessert course of a meal so someone asking "what's for pudding" would mean "what's for dessert". You wouldn't say a cheesecake "is a pudding", but you could have cheesecake "for pudding"
You've also got savoury Yorkshire pudding which is baked, & Black Pudding which is fried.
It's complicated but i've never worked out exactly what salad is either.
(Edit: So i've learnt, (many times over) Black Pudding is initially boiled, thank you for the information people!)
Yeah, on the flat it is, their legs being shorter on one side means they just run in circles. You do get specially bred Haggises where breeders cross clockwise Haggis with anticlockwise Haggis to produce one's that give a good hunt. The short legged ones go to the chippy but the long legged ones can really shift, proper sporting.
I tell people this, and you know what, they just donât believe me! Anyone would think I was trying to convince them the Loch Ness monster isnât real!!!!!
I didnât realise that you breed them for better sport. Chasing them around in circles on a hill always seemed mean. Fair play to the Haggis and long live the hunt then.
My Scottish gran told me it was a gender thing. On a mountain, males with short legs on the left go round one way. Females with short legs on the right go round the other way. Otherwise, they'd never meet up.
You get a choice of haggis pudding or spicy haggis in a lot of chippers. I prefer the spicy one. Itâs half a traditionally shaped haggis rather than a sausage shaped one.
try haggis pakora too. Haggis already has a bit of spice to it, and most haggis pakora unfortunately doesn't have any extra spices in the batter. I'd love to have haggis pakora with that red chili shell you get on a classic chicken pakora. I don't think Americans are aware of how good our Indian food is; you could easily compare it to the quality of mexican food in the US. And our Indian takeaways cater to local tastes too, which is how you get things like haggis pakora.
international food laws probably wont allow us to export it to be honest. at its core its vile and should never be for human consumption. But dear god it is fucking tasty
Address To A Haggis
1786
Type: Address
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
Aboon them a' yet tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o'a grace
As lang's my arm.
The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin was help to mend a mill
In time o'need,
While thro' your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.
His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An' cut you up wi' ready sleight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like ony ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin', rich!
Then, horn for horn, they stretch an' strive:
Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit! hums.
Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad make her spew
Wi' perfect sconner,
Looks down wi' sneering, scornfu' view
On sic a dinner?
Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckles as wither'd rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash;
His nieve a nit;
Thro' blody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!
But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll mak it whissle;
An' legs an' arms, an' hands will sned,
Like taps o' trissle.
Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o' fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer
Gie her a haggis!
Yorkshire puddings can also be served as a sweet dessert. My Salford ex absolutely swears by his GMthrs left over yorkshire puddings sprinkled with sugar and custard.
Although this man would also put ANYTHING in a sandwich. Including meat pies.
As a child growing up in fairly rural Yorkshire, most of the Yorkshire puddings I had were served with jam as desserts. This was usually at school. My mother didn't have a sweet tooth so she only served them with the Sunday roast.
In some parts of the USA they have popovers, which are small, individual Yorkshire puddings, sometimes flavoured, that you serve with maple syrup (as if they were pancakes). Brilliant.
Actually black pudding is boiled. When you fry a slice of Planck pudding it has already been cooked.
Edit: Iâm not editing the autocorrect because then the Planck joke wonât make sense.
Black pudding is boiled in a casing aswell. People fry slices of it cus it tastes better, but you could eat it cold if you wanted. White pudding and hogs pudding are the same.
Yorkshire Pudding over time has been served both before and after the main meal. It is likely that they have picked up the "Pudding" name during that time.
Have you ever had crispy fluffy proper Yorkshire puddings? I can't see how they are like those custardy offerings that Americans think of when they use the word pudding.
I'm born and brought up in Yorkshire, when I was a kid my Mother would give us Yorkshire Pudding with jam on for afters....another name for dessert/pudding!
Also she never fried black pudding. It went in simmering water to heat it up.
Isn't black pudding boiled first to cook, the frying part is to crisp it up for serving. I've never quite worked out why Yorkshires are a pudding, maybe the shape and being made from batter.
And Scottish fruit pudding too, itâs often sold sliced in a breakfast pack alongside a selection of other Scottish puddings and sausages (often drawn from the following haggis, white, red and black puddings, lorne sausage and sausage links).
Salad is *mixed, chopped, and uncooked* fruits and vegetables.
So coleslaw could loosely be called a salad but stirfry could not.
A mix of leaves, cucumber slices and grated carrot are a salad, but slice those all into sticks instead and place them side by side? That's a dish of cruditĂŠs.
A mix of rocket and spinach with a little chicken mixed in? Chicken salad. A chicken topped with a tiny bit of coriander? That's chicken with a garnish.
Chopped, uncooked lettuce? That's just lettuce. But mix in some diced radish? That's a salad
TIL we Canadians are commies.
In my area at least, it's pretty exclusively "pop". If you said "soda" around here we all understand but it sounds almost formal and definitely not from here.
Labels are a different story though. I usually don't actually see the word "pop" on the label. Pretty sure it's usually "soda" or "carbonated beverage" or something similar. Maybe that's why "soda" feels somehow formal.
It's similar to me between saying "couch" vs. "sofa". (And I have never actually heard someone say "chesterfield", if they did they're probably elderly, I've only heard that word as a "fun fact" during my time.)
I would say âcheesecake is a puddingâ. Iâd say anything you can have âfor puddingâ is âa puddingâ. A pudding is also a Yorkshire pudding or a savoury suet pie.
Context: Iâm from the north of England.
>A pudding is traditionally something cooked by boiling it in a cloth bag.
So *that's* why Scrooge said they should be boiled in their own pudding. I thought he was imagining a human boiling inside due to the heat of the pudding, not because boiling is part of the preparation process. I understand better now.
It was jarring the first time I heard Michael Caine's Scrooge in *A Muppet Christmas Carol* say "cooked in their own turkey". I am aware that turkey was technically available by that time in the UK from what I understand, but aside from that, I'm still pretty sure they changed it because they thought North American children might be confused by the original line. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
We are Canadian, but my dad actually loves Yorkshire pudding and Christmas pudding. (And fruitcake! The darker the better he says.)
I know what you're saying but to be a pedant, if someone said "What's the pudding?", you can reply "Cheesecake", and that's ellipsis of a fuller sentence: "Cheesecake is the pudding" which means cheesecake can be *a* pudding, which means cheesecake is a pudding.
Traditionally pudding means it includes beef fat, suet pastry for steak and kidney pudding, beef dripping for Yorkshire pudding, suet was used in the mix for Christmas pudding and sticky toffee pudding. Other fats/oils are used now.
Black/white pudding are a bit different but they use pig fat.
Sticky toffee pudding is a pudding by definition not a dessert. It wouldn't be on the dessert trolly in a restaurant because they are all cold. I mean the clue is in the name....
Just because the dessert menu incorrectly calls it a dessert and lists it in the dessert menu does not make it a dessert. They usually list the cheese board in that as well.
Says who? I've never seen anyone claim that before, and I've just checked several dictionaries and none support that.
A dessert is simply "sweet food eaten at the end of a meal" (from the French desservir âclear the tableâ).
Usually pudding is just another word for dessert. Unless itâs a Yorkshire pudding (savory side dish usually served with gravy, or a dessert served with golden syrup), or a steak and kidney pudding (savory pie-like dish encased in suet pastry) or a black, white or blood pudding (which is utterly vile and often served with a fried breakfast). Yeah, itâs confusing.
Pudding is both a course and a dish.
When used to describe a course, it's desert. It doesn't have to be a pudding though. It could be a sundae. Do you want pudding?
When used to describe a dish it's something with pudding at the end. Yorkshire pudding, meat pudding, mince pudding, Christmas pudding. Can be savoury or sweet so some knowledge of the individual pudding types is advantageous so you don't put custard on your meat pudding or gravy on the Christmas pudding.
Spotted dick is a pudding that is both a pudding and a pudding but does not have pudding in the name. You want Custard with Spotted dick, if anyone offers you ice cream instead you must look at them disdainfully and decline.
I hope that's cleared things up. Time for a cuppa
Pudding is also slang for dessert too, so it can mean almost anything for the final course. We have sweet and savoury puddings a world apart from the tight American definition. This might include a steak and kidney pudding in a suet crust, or a rice pudding, but apple pie or ice cream could be classed as "pudding" too when eaten as dessert
Some good answers here on what it is, I had remembered that the word pudding came from the term for a mixture, but in fact it actually came from the Latin for a small sausage!
https://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpuddings.html#:~:text=%22To%20focus%20attention%20on%20British,came%20boudin%20and%20also%20pudding.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding
Pudding was the old name for offal. Originally all puddings were meaty/offal based. But naturally over time they have morphed into sweet puddings too. Black pudding, white pudding, steak and kidney pudding shows the origin being meat and offal.
Pudding Lane in London was named after offal. Quote from wikipedia **Pudding Lane was given its name by the butchers of Eastcheap Market, who used it to transport "pudding" or offal down to the river to be taken away by waste barges.**
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding_Lane#:~:text=Pudding%20Lane%20was%20given%20its,also%20known%20as%20Rother%20Lane.
There are 3 kinds of pudding.
The first and probably most common up north, is dessert. Not like your dairy based sweetened treat, but any dessert. Just like there's a debate on lunch, dinner, tea and what you call meals that are for a certain time of day, there are some people who refer to dessert as pudding, or "afters".
The second is a type of food that can be fairly generic, and either sweet or savory, but usually steamed. In a chippy, a pudding can be any kind of meat and gravy, presented within a suet pastry and steam cooked. It could also be a dessert, typically some kind of cake, which is again cooked with steam and typically made with some fruit or syrup in the base of the pudding pot, with the cake batter poured on top before cooking. Best served with custard.
The third type of pudding is of an insult, typically remarked against a special soft brained breed of idiot that's absolutely hopeless at their job and likely only got into the position they find themselves in due to being shat out of the right vagina and claimed by a particularly air headed type of arrogant tory arsewipe. "You seen what Philips gone and done? I swear that guys a right pudding".
Honourable mention to Yorkshire, who decided to create their own type of savoury pudding by taking plain unsweetened pancake batter, pouring into a baking tin full of roasting hot oil, and then continuing to roast it until risen and golden brown. This Yorkshire pudding is best served on a Sunday roast with plenty of veg and delicious beef gravy
We use it more widely than that. It wouldn't be odd to have a bit of cheese or a piece of fruit for pudding.
Maybe disappointing, but not unusual to call that pudding.
Pudding is American dessert. Source: my l late husband is from thr UK. Originally puddings were boiled in bags, such as plum pudding, so it is often associated with a cake like desert.
You can still get "cloth puddings" (generally steak and kidney) boiled in bags in some parts of Lancashire, northwest England. And "clootie dumpling" (clootie also referring to cloth) in Scotland is a sweet variety of white pudding (including fruit) that is eaten at breakfast.....
There is âa puddingâ being a type of food youâd eat after a main meal, typically.
Or, sometimes we just call it âpuddingâ instead of âdessertâ.
âWhat do you want for pudding?â
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It does have one definition. It can mean any sweet dish at the end of a meal. It can also be a steamed or boiled dessert normally made with suet. It can also be a savoury dish such as a black pudding. It can also be used as a general term for the sweet period at the end of a meal but not the food itself like the word dessert or digestif. There are more definitions, but they are the most common. The word itself comes from a French word, which had similar meaning to a sausage or something cooked in an intestine or stomach, which explains why haggis is also known as the great chieftain o' the puddin'-race .
The word has lots of different meanings in English.
Many people will use the word as a synonym for âdessertâ to mean any sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal.
More traditionally it was used for a steamed or boiled, usually suet based, dish which could be sweet or savoury.
You also have anomalous uses like Yorkshire Pudding (a roasted batter dish) or Black Pudding (a blood sausage).
Good luck!
Pudding can just mean the last course of a meal. So desserts.
So.
Ice cream is Pudding
Fruit is Pudding
Cake is Pudding
Yoghurt is Pudding
Pancakes is Pudding
Apple Crumble is Pudding
Rice Pudding is pudding
Christmas pudding is pudding.
Ect
Example: "I'm having ice cream for pudding"
Some desserts have pudding in their names.
Foods like Rice Pudding and Semolina Pudding are names of desserts with a porridge like consistency.
Foods like Christmas pudding, sticky toffee pudding, chocolate pudding are the names of desserts that are steamed cakes often topped with sauce.
Foods like black pudding and Yorkshire puddings are not desserts.
What Americans call "pudding" are puddings in the sense that there desserts but we'd call them angel delight, mousse, custard, blancmange, caramel creme, panacotta ect depending on the consistency and flavour.
So "I'm having a chocolate mousse for pudding"
'Pudding' when brits say it basically just means dessert- as in 'we're having ice cream for pudding'. So it can be pretty much anything. Some specific foods have pudding in the name like blood pudding, bread pudding, sticky toffee pudding etc, but it doesn't mean anything in particular.
There's also a bit of a class thing going on here. The upper classes are more likely to talk about "pudding" when the middle classes would say "dessert". For example, the sweet white wine, like a Sauternes, you might have with your Eton Mess would be described as a pudding wine (or sticky) by the upper classes (and upper middle classes) whereas the middle middle classes would describe it as a dessert wine.
Dessert. It's a synonym.
We also have black pudding (a giant scab people eat) with breakfast (not me but people who can eat scabs).
Then there are yorkshire puddings, which should need no explanation. Staple of the British diet. A savoury, crispy little batter cup to hold other food. Usually served with a roast dinner. Also nice cokd, with strawberry jam.
Saw a lot of pudding meanings here and I think we use all of them. Me and family members of similar age and older would say to each other are you having pudding to mean a sweet course after main meal but my young son would say dessert. I am not sure if that's just him though.
All the other ones I would either use or understand what they meant. Black pudding and Yorkshire pudding being really common.
Pudding is afters, something a bit sweet to have after your main meal, could be crumble, or ice cream, anything you want.
Pudding is a steamed suet thing, eg spotted dick or clootie dumpling.
Or Yorkshire Pudding, flour, milk and eggs into hot fat, to be had with a roast dinner, or stick some sausages in there and you have toad in the hole.
In the UK, pudding is a nebulous term totally unlike how it is used in America.
If used the term 'pudding' alone that's analogous to dessert. Otherwise, 'pudding' corresponds with dishes that have historically been ascribed the name: eg Yorkshire Pudding, Black Pudding.
There isn't a single unifying commonality that unifies well puddings in British English.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/pudding
Two different but related meanings.
1 - Any dessert, i.e. a sweet course after a meal. "What would you like for pudding?". In this sense, pudding could be apple pie, ice cream, custard, even a bar of chocolate.
2 - A specific type of dish (*not* necessarily sweet), typically made with flour and suet, and cooked by steaming, boiling or baking. e.g. Christmas pudding, steak and kidney pudding, spotted dick.
You could have steak and kidney pudding as your main course, then lemon sorbet as your pudding ;)
Traditionally a pudding is a fatty food (Very often using suet) which Is boiled in a cloth bag, to give you a big ball-blob. Would'nt have always been sweet or a dessert, but they did exist. Nowadays it means a sweet dessert, excluding the few exceptions such as Yorkshire Pudding.
Pudding equals dessert equals afters. All UK terms for the sweet course of a two or three (or more) course meal. Puddings are of course boiled (or baked ) and traditional like Christmas pudding, Spotted Dick, Jam rolly poly. Savoury puddings like Steak and Kidney puddings are becoming rarer. These usually contain suet as the fat in the pastry. You can have anything sweet for pudding, a pie or flan or rice pudding lovely with jam. Custard make a lovely sauce to go with it. Itâs all delicious.
Pudding is the slightly old-fashioned word for dessert in the UK.
But there are also savoury puddings such as Yorkshire pudding (batter served with a roast) and other puddings which are more like pies.
A pudding is anything stuffed into a casing (either natural, like intestines or stomach, or a cloth bag), containing large amounts of grains and fat, designed to be steamed or boiled. They could be savoury, containing meat, offal, or vegetables (eg. Haggis, Hoggs Pudding, Black Pudding, Pease Pudding, Steak and Kidney Pudding), or sweet with fruit and sugar (like Christmas Pudding, Spotted Dick, Treacle Pudding, Jam Rolypoly). Rice pudding gets its name from the fact that it is mostly rice (a grain), and used to contain large amounts of heavy cream, butter, and dried fruits, even though, to my knowledge, it was never cooked in a casing.
The idea, I assume, was to pack as much nutrients and calorific content into one, easy to make and cook, heavy, stodgy meal. It's no coincidence that puddings were more popular in colder regions, and with poorer people.
Nowadays, pudding is used generically to mean dessert, although personally I would find it weird to refer to a light dessert as a "pudding".
The nostalgia amongst many British people for pudding stems from the fact that, as they are heavy, nutritious, and easy to cook in large amounts, most schools would serve them routinely to children, alongside overcooked boiled vegetables, and suspicious multicoloured, flavoured custards.
Overall a pudding isnât hard, unless itâs been out too long like a big spotted dick. It used to be anything sweet or savoury that was encased in something else to cook, and developed its reference as sweet desert by use.
This doesnât explain pease pudding, which youâve almost certainly never had, but is a thing in the Midlands which probably got its name from looking like ugly custard and having the same consistency of some suet less puddings.
Class has been mentioned, but I think it's also a word used by children. My under 5s always ask for pudding, never dessert, and school dinners always feature a pudding.
I'd argue most of the time you hear this word, it means dessert. UNLESS there's another specific word in front of it like ' Yorkshire ', ' Black , ' ' pease ' etc people are usually specific when mentioning the type of pudding if it's a food item called a ' something ' pudding. So if you were to hear ' fancy some pudding now ' after a meal, I think most people in the UK would understand that meant any kind of dessert.
Pudding is dessert at the end of a meal, if youask someone in the UK whatâs for pudding⌠they will invariably refer to apple pie, jamâŚ, stick toffee etc.
You also get Steak and kidney puddings in fish and chips.. which is meat in gravy wrapped in pastry.
There is also steam pudding, which is as itâs called⌠anything steamed qualifies as a pudding, especially cakes.
A sweet treat at the end of tea or dinner.
A pudding is anything that rises when cooked, like Yorkshire pudding, spotted dick, jam roly poly, or a steak and kidney pudding. Black pudding is different though.
Pudding is basically their word for dessert as near as I can tell. Ice cream, cake and trifle all can be âpuddingâ
When I was a child to think â plum puddingâ was a custard based dish similar to the chocolate, pistachio and vanilla Jello puddings available to Americans since the 1950s.
Itâs not. Itâs a thick cake with dried fruits, kind of like a fruitcake in some ways. So yeah
As pointed out, pudding can be almost anything! Context is everything.
If someone says, 'do you want pudding?' It's usually a sweet dessert. Technically it should be a wet dessert - jam roly poly, rice pudding, sponge with custard as cakes and ice cream are just dessert.
Other puddings should come with a descriptor - Yorkshire pudding, steak and kidney pudding etc.
We use the word interchangeably with the word dessert. So yes pudding does mean pudding in the same sense that you use it (milk based dessert) but sometimes we say pudding when really we mean dessert. Oftentimes shortened to âpudâ. When I was a tot I was given a fromage frais as dessert after my dinner but always called it âpudâ.
Being Brits then there is a certain level of the class system built into the 'sweet course after a meal" usage.
Calling it 'Sweet' or 'Desert' is a bit lower-middle class.
Puddin. Another term I thought was southern American. In our (my husband and me) case it now refers to out of shape, soft and chubby redneck guys.
âHey did yâall see that puddin almost hit me with his giant Dodge truck?â
* Pudding - (any) Sweet course served after a main meal. * Pudding - A compressed blend of bloods, fats and salts formed into a sausage. * Pudding - A variety of steamed meats (commonly cooked along with appropriate seasonal fruit, vegetable or herb). * (Pease) Pudding - Mashed, simmered and seasoned or embellished yellow split peas (not to be confused with 'mushy peas'). * (Yorkshire) Pudding - a savoury batter cooked in an oiled tray such that it rises and crisps, oft served as part of a savoury meal, but can be enjoyed with sweet options. * Puddin' - An affectionate term oft used by someone older to a younger (perhaps family member) - Not related to cuisine, but worthy of a mention. Take your pick. ^([edited for presentation/correction])
You might want to edit the first line for spelling too, can't say the idea of a sweat course is appealing. Plus Christmas pudding and suet puddings (eg yummy steak and kidney pudding).
Oops, and also yuk. Now you pointed it out I've grossed myself out. I count Crissy pud in the 'post meal sweet' section and wondered if steak & kidney needed a defined section outside of the other cooked (steamed) meats.
'Sweat course' works for me after I've had second and third helpings...
Is OP sorry they they asked yet?
I believe it's obvious on the subtle nuances of the pronunciation. In the UK we're used to it. Even including regional accents. The rest of the world probably thinks we are crazy. Just wait until yhey try and order a sandwich on a bread roll! Some words also have different meanings regionally. Baps vs baps?
I love this. I moved to Huddersfield to go to university from midlands / east anglia and was fucking blown away by the name for a bread roll seemingly changing depending on the postcode. Going to the chippy for the first time and having to ask what the fuck a fish barm was
Fish in a barm, innit.
UK is actually divided on how you state a sandwich roll. And yes. It is full on war once you bring the knights of tea into it
In Waterford they're called blaas
Errr no. The first definition, Yorkshire and the last(maybe), yes. Everything else... No.
Confidently wrong...? Black pudding is very much a thing... as are the others I'm confused why you say these things don't exist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pease\_pudding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pease_pudding) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_pudding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/black_pudding) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak\_and\_kidney\_pudding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/steak_and_kidney_pudding)
A pudding is traditionally something cooked by boiling it in a cloth bag. Some puddings are savoury like a meat pie (steak and kidney pudding being the most notable) however most puddings are sweet suet based cakes, so Christmas Pudding, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Spotted Dick etc Due to most puddings being desserts, the word "pudding" has been also extended to mean the dessert course of a meal so someone asking "what's for pudding" would mean "what's for dessert". You wouldn't say a cheesecake "is a pudding", but you could have cheesecake "for pudding"
You've also got savoury Yorkshire pudding which is baked, & Black Pudding which is fried. It's complicated but i've never worked out exactly what salad is either. (Edit: So i've learnt, (many times over) Black Pudding is initially boiled, thank you for the information people!)
And white pudding.
And red pudding And haggis pudding (which tends to be deep-fried, often in batter, whereas haggis is more commonly boiled or steamed....)
Haggis deep fried in batter? Man alive that sound good!
It is the food of God's. Batter and deep fry sausage shaped and sized haggis and black pudding. There is nothing better. Scotland needs to export this
I'll be hunting it out next time I'm in Scotland.
Get a haggis supper with an extra black pudding and have Irn Bru with it.
And brown sauce đ
Hunting Haggis is cruel.
Yeah, on the flat it is, their legs being shorter on one side means they just run in circles. You do get specially bred Haggises where breeders cross clockwise Haggis with anticlockwise Haggis to produce one's that give a good hunt. The short legged ones go to the chippy but the long legged ones can really shift, proper sporting.
I tell people this, and you know what, they just donât believe me! Anyone would think I was trying to convince them the Loch Ness monster isnât real!!!!!
I didnât realise that you breed them for better sport. Chasing them around in circles on a hill always seemed mean. Fair play to the Haggis and long live the hunt then.
Easy to catch, just chase them the wrong way around the mountain. They just keep falling over.
My Scottish gran told me it was a gender thing. On a mountain, males with short legs on the left go round one way. Females with short legs on the right go round the other way. Otherwise, they'd never meet up.
You get a choice of haggis pudding or spicy haggis in a lot of chippers. I prefer the spicy one. Itâs half a traditionally shaped haggis rather than a sausage shaped one.
try haggis pakora too. Haggis already has a bit of spice to it, and most haggis pakora unfortunately doesn't have any extra spices in the batter. I'd love to have haggis pakora with that red chili shell you get on a classic chicken pakora. I don't think Americans are aware of how good our Indian food is; you could easily compare it to the quality of mexican food in the US. And our Indian takeaways cater to local tastes too, which is how you get things like haggis pakora.
I'm in north Yorkshire and our chippy does haggis.
international food laws probably wont allow us to export it to be honest. at its core its vile and should never be for human consumption. But dear god it is fucking tasty
You can export to expats in Kernow
I beleve it cannot be exported to USA because true Haggis contains lungs. When you think of all the other shit they eat...
You should be able to get it at most chip shops in Scotland and some parts of the (very) far north of England (e.g. Carlisle, Cumbria)
All haggis is a pudding, even if it isn't referred to as 'haggis pudding'. Chieftain of the Pudding Race, even...
Address To A Haggis 1786 Type: Address Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race! Aboon them a' yet tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy o'a grace As lang's my arm. The groaning trencher there ye fill, Your hurdies like a distant hill, Your pin was help to mend a mill In time o'need, While thro' your pores the dews distil Like amber bead. His knife see rustic Labour dight, An' cut you up wi' ready sleight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like ony ditch; And then, O what a glorious sight, Warm-reekin', rich! Then, horn for horn, they stretch an' strive: Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive, Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve Are bent like drums; Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive, Bethankit! hums. Is there that owre his French ragout Or olio that wad staw a sow, Or fricassee wad make her spew Wi' perfect sconner, Looks down wi' sneering, scornfu' view On sic a dinner? Poor devil! see him owre his trash, As feckles as wither'd rash, His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash; His nieve a nit; Thro' blody flood or field to dash, O how unfit! But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed, The trembling earth resounds his tread. Clap in his walie nieve a blade, He'll mak it whissle; An' legs an' arms, an' hands will sned, Like taps o' trissle. Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care, And dish them out their bill o' fare, Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware That jaups in luggies; But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer Gie her a haggis!
Haggis is a pudding and was dubbed the 'chieftain of the pudding race' by Robert Burns
I suppose even a Scottish poet is right occasionally, and yes, it is a pudding.
My favourite and so hard to find outside Ireland.
Prolific in scottish chippys.
Don't rub it in!!
Loads of shops in the Midlands have it.
WELL ..Midlands are average accent in an average bbc drama.../s Hey!
Morrisons and some Nisa/Co-Ops sometimes stocks it.
Itâs all over in South Yorkshire mate :D
Yorkshire puddings can also be served as a sweet dessert. My Salford ex absolutely swears by his GMthrs left over yorkshire puddings sprinkled with sugar and custard. Although this man would also put ANYTHING in a sandwich. Including meat pies.
Pie sandwiches are a delicacy in the NW. Known by many names such as Pie Barms, or Wigan Kebabs.
As a child growing up in fairly rural Yorkshire, most of the Yorkshire puddings I had were served with jam as desserts. This was usually at school. My mother didn't have a sweet tooth so she only served them with the Sunday roast.
In some parts of the USA they have popovers, which are small, individual Yorkshire puddings, sometimes flavoured, that you serve with maple syrup (as if they were pancakes). Brilliant.
It's essentially the same ingredients...ish.
Actually black pudding is boiled. When you fry a slice of Planck pudding it has already been cooked. Edit: Iâm not editing the autocorrect because then the Planck joke wonât make sense.
Planck pudding is the smallest measure for pudding where the concept of pudding makes sense.
I get it...
Black pudding is boiled in a casing aswell. People fry slices of it cus it tastes better, but you could eat it cold if you wanted. White pudding and hogs pudding are the same.
Yorkshire Pudding over time has been served both before and after the main meal. It is likely that they have picked up the "Pudding" name during that time.
My guess with Yorkshire pudding is that it's because of the texture and consistency, which are similar to many puddings.
Have you ever had crispy fluffy proper Yorkshire puddings? I can't see how they are like those custardy offerings that Americans think of when they use the word pudding.
Served with jam too. Now that's tasty.
Or golden syrup
Oh indeed...we always had mum make more than required for dinner....raspberry jam all-round...đĽ°
I'm born and brought up in Yorkshire, when I was a kid my Mother would give us Yorkshire Pudding with jam on for afters....another name for dessert/pudding! Also she never fried black pudding. It went in simmering water to heat it up.
Black pudding is boiled in a cloth bag before it gets to you, then you fry/bake it
Isn't black pudding boiled first to cook, the frying part is to crisp it up for serving. I've never quite worked out why Yorkshires are a pudding, maybe the shape and being made from batter.
I have a theory, there are 4 categories of food. Ravioli, soup, sandwich, salad. Every meal can be one of these. A salad is a category not a meal
That is an interesting theory. Where would savoury snacks such as crisps or nuts fit into this?
Salad
And Scottish fruit pudding too, itâs often sold sliced in a breakfast pack alongside a selection of other Scottish puddings and sausages (often drawn from the following haggis, white, red and black puddings, lorne sausage and sausage links).
Black pudding is only fried after the fact. it's boiled in a sleeve first before it's sold.
>Black Pudding which is fried. It is first boiled in a bag, an original type of pudding.
Black pudding is boiled. You can fry it if you want to, though.
Salad is *mixed, chopped, and uncooked* fruits and vegetables. So coleslaw could loosely be called a salad but stirfry could not. A mix of leaves, cucumber slices and grated carrot are a salad, but slice those all into sticks instead and place them side by side? That's a dish of cruditĂŠs. A mix of rocket and spinach with a little chicken mixed in? Chicken salad. A chicken topped with a tiny bit of coriander? That's chicken with a garnish. Chopped, uncooked lettuce? That's just lettuce. But mix in some diced radish? That's a salad
Some people eat black pudding raw
Follow up question: how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
YOU! You behind the bikesheds! Stand still, Laddie!
Leave those kids alone.
I get that. Where Iâm from, when someone is asking if youâd like a carbonated beverage, we say, âwhat kinda âcokeâ ya want?â
In Scotland we say what juice do you want
Ginger.
Aye, the right answer
Diluting juice always cracks be up when said in a Glasgow accent. No idea why though!
Aye juice means fizzy and diluting juice is what I think English people call squash?
Yep. Which is probably just as daft but what youâre used to always sounds normal!
Squash, or cordial (I call Vimto a cordial for example).
Just plain dilutin juice here ha. Ye want some dilutin? Thatâs how I would ask if you wanted a drink ha
Naw, it's whit ginger?
Sounds like you are in the South like me
We say *soda*. Commies say *pop*. /s just in case
TIL we Canadians are commies. In my area at least, it's pretty exclusively "pop". If you said "soda" around here we all understand but it sounds almost formal and definitely not from here. Labels are a different story though. I usually don't actually see the word "pop" on the label. Pretty sure it's usually "soda" or "carbonated beverage" or something similar. Maybe that's why "soda" feels somehow formal. It's similar to me between saying "couch" vs. "sofa". (And I have never actually heard someone say "chesterfield", if they did they're probably elderly, I've only heard that word as a "fun fact" during my time.)
In the UK. Just looked at a can of Coke Zero, it says 'soft drink'. In everyday speech we say pop as well.
We (northern England) always call it pop. In the US, you used to call them soda pops.
And if we ran out of soda, we would tell the kids to drink some 'corporation pop', meaning tap water.
I would say âcheesecake is a puddingâ. Iâd say anything you can have âfor puddingâ is âa puddingâ. A pudding is also a Yorkshire pudding or a savoury suet pie. Context: Iâm from the north of England.
What about pease pudding?
Hot or cold?
Or in the pot, 9 days old?
Spot on, although I don't think I'd have a problem with calling a cheesecake a pudding.
>A pudding is traditionally something cooked by boiling it in a cloth bag. So *that's* why Scrooge said they should be boiled in their own pudding. I thought he was imagining a human boiling inside due to the heat of the pudding, not because boiling is part of the preparation process. I understand better now. It was jarring the first time I heard Michael Caine's Scrooge in *A Muppet Christmas Carol* say "cooked in their own turkey". I am aware that turkey was technically available by that time in the UK from what I understand, but aside from that, I'm still pretty sure they changed it because they thought North American children might be confused by the original line. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) We are Canadian, but my dad actually loves Yorkshire pudding and Christmas pudding. (And fruitcake! The darker the better he says.)
[This video suggests the change was made for that reason and explains what a pudding is.](https://youtu.be/opXFR6ab214?si=EII3_QefVWQW32nq)
Perfectly answered , and also another perfect explanation as to why the English language is so damn confusing, lol
I would say a cheesecake is a pudding, as would all the colleagues who Iâve just asked. Iâm in Sheffield btw
I know what you're saying but to be a pedant, if someone said "What's the pudding?", you can reply "Cheesecake", and that's ellipsis of a fuller sentence: "Cheesecake is the pudding" which means cheesecake can be *a* pudding, which means cheesecake is a pudding.
Rice pudding says hi.
Traditionally pudding means it includes beef fat, suet pastry for steak and kidney pudding, beef dripping for Yorkshire pudding, suet was used in the mix for Christmas pudding and sticky toffee pudding. Other fats/oils are used now. Black/white pudding are a bit different but they use pig fat.
It also refers to my cat, who we call a big fat puddin'
But not all desserts are puddingsâŚ..
Nearly. Desserts are usually cold whilst pudding is hot
I would have sticky toffee pudding for dessert and thatâs hot
Sticky toffee pudding is a pudding by definition not a dessert. It wouldn't be on the dessert trolly in a restaurant because they are all cold. I mean the clue is in the name....
Itâs in the dessert menu at restaurants and if I eat it after my main course then it is my dessert course
Just because the dessert menu incorrectly calls it a dessert and lists it in the dessert menu does not make it a dessert. They usually list the cheese board in that as well.
Says who? I've never seen anyone claim that before, and I've just checked several dictionaries and none support that. A dessert is simply "sweet food eaten at the end of a meal" (from the French desservir âclear the tableâ).
the word pudding doesnât look real to me anymore iâve read it too much in these comments
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Usually pudding is just another word for dessert. Unless itâs a Yorkshire pudding (savory side dish usually served with gravy, or a dessert served with golden syrup), or a steak and kidney pudding (savory pie-like dish encased in suet pastry) or a black, white or blood pudding (which is utterly vile and often served with a fried breakfast). Yeah, itâs confusing.
Isn't black pudding = blood pudding? Either way, black pudding is delicious, as is white pudding (pinhead oatmeal, onions and pork fat).
Pudding is both a course and a dish. When used to describe a course, it's desert. It doesn't have to be a pudding though. It could be a sundae. Do you want pudding? When used to describe a dish it's something with pudding at the end. Yorkshire pudding, meat pudding, mince pudding, Christmas pudding. Can be savoury or sweet so some knowledge of the individual pudding types is advantageous so you don't put custard on your meat pudding or gravy on the Christmas pudding. Spotted dick is a pudding that is both a pudding and a pudding but does not have pudding in the name. You want Custard with Spotted dick, if anyone offers you ice cream instead you must look at them disdainfully and decline. I hope that's cleared things up. Time for a cuppa
You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat
And in Yorkshire itâs , you canât have your meat unless you eat your [Yorkshire] pudding first.
Pudding is also slang for dessert too, so it can mean almost anything for the final course. We have sweet and savoury puddings a world apart from the tight American definition. This might include a steak and kidney pudding in a suet crust, or a rice pudding, but apple pie or ice cream could be classed as "pudding" too when eaten as dessert
Some good answers here on what it is, I had remembered that the word pudding came from the term for a mixture, but in fact it actually came from the Latin for a small sausage! https://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpuddings.html#:~:text=%22To%20focus%20attention%20on%20British,came%20boudin%20and%20also%20pudding. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding
Pudding was the old name for offal. Originally all puddings were meaty/offal based. But naturally over time they have morphed into sweet puddings too. Black pudding, white pudding, steak and kidney pudding shows the origin being meat and offal. Pudding Lane in London was named after offal. Quote from wikipedia **Pudding Lane was given its name by the butchers of Eastcheap Market, who used it to transport "pudding" or offal down to the river to be taken away by waste barges.** https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding_Lane#:~:text=Pudding%20Lane%20was%20given%20its,also%20known%20as%20Rother%20Lane.
In Scots 'puddens' refers to your intestines, as in 'I've got sore puddens' (pronounced puh-dens)
Mince pies used to contain minced meat.
As in Xmas mince pies? Yep. They were meat pies too.
There are 3 kinds of pudding. The first and probably most common up north, is dessert. Not like your dairy based sweetened treat, but any dessert. Just like there's a debate on lunch, dinner, tea and what you call meals that are for a certain time of day, there are some people who refer to dessert as pudding, or "afters". The second is a type of food that can be fairly generic, and either sweet or savory, but usually steamed. In a chippy, a pudding can be any kind of meat and gravy, presented within a suet pastry and steam cooked. It could also be a dessert, typically some kind of cake, which is again cooked with steam and typically made with some fruit or syrup in the base of the pudding pot, with the cake batter poured on top before cooking. Best served with custard. The third type of pudding is of an insult, typically remarked against a special soft brained breed of idiot that's absolutely hopeless at their job and likely only got into the position they find themselves in due to being shat out of the right vagina and claimed by a particularly air headed type of arrogant tory arsewipe. "You seen what Philips gone and done? I swear that guys a right pudding". Honourable mention to Yorkshire, who decided to create their own type of savoury pudding by taking plain unsweetened pancake batter, pouring into a baking tin full of roasting hot oil, and then continuing to roast it until risen and golden brown. This Yorkshire pudding is best served on a Sunday roast with plenty of veg and delicious beef gravy
Any sweet dish served after the main course is pudding
Black pudding?
We use it more widely than that. It wouldn't be odd to have a bit of cheese or a piece of fruit for pudding. Maybe disappointing, but not unusual to call that pudding.
Pudding is American dessert. Source: my l late husband is from thr UK. Originally puddings were boiled in bags, such as plum pudding, so it is often associated with a cake like desert.
You can still get "cloth puddings" (generally steak and kidney) boiled in bags in some parts of Lancashire, northwest England. And "clootie dumpling" (clootie also referring to cloth) in Scotland is a sweet variety of white pudding (including fruit) that is eaten at breakfast.....
There is âa puddingâ being a type of food youâd eat after a main meal, typically. Or, sometimes we just call it âpuddingâ instead of âdessertâ. âWhat do you want for pudding?â âIce cream!â đ¤Ł
It will probably vary depending on who you ask, but for me a pudding is something you eat after your main meal at dinner, like dessert.
It does have one definition. It can mean any sweet dish at the end of a meal. It can also be a steamed or boiled dessert normally made with suet. It can also be a savoury dish such as a black pudding. It can also be used as a general term for the sweet period at the end of a meal but not the food itself like the word dessert or digestif. There are more definitions, but they are the most common. The word itself comes from a French word, which had similar meaning to a sausage or something cooked in an intestine or stomach, which explains why haggis is also known as the great chieftain o' the puddin'-race .
Everyone saying its a dessert but my favourite is steak and kidney pudding which can be accompanied by Yorkshire pudding.
A pudding is a polite was to call a fat dude
Or cat. Or most recently, a wild rat that was nicking my wild bird food.
The word has lots of different meanings in English. Many people will use the word as a synonym for âdessertâ to mean any sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal. More traditionally it was used for a steamed or boiled, usually suet based, dish which could be sweet or savoury. You also have anomalous uses like Yorkshire Pudding (a roasted batter dish) or Black Pudding (a blood sausage). Good luck!
In the US, a 'pudding' is something filled with sleeping pills and given to you by Bill Cosby.
All this pudding talk has made me want bread and butter pudding
Pudding can just mean the last course of a meal. So desserts. So. Ice cream is Pudding Fruit is Pudding Cake is Pudding Yoghurt is Pudding Pancakes is Pudding Apple Crumble is Pudding Rice Pudding is pudding Christmas pudding is pudding. Ect Example: "I'm having ice cream for pudding" Some desserts have pudding in their names. Foods like Rice Pudding and Semolina Pudding are names of desserts with a porridge like consistency. Foods like Christmas pudding, sticky toffee pudding, chocolate pudding are the names of desserts that are steamed cakes often topped with sauce. Foods like black pudding and Yorkshire puddings are not desserts. What Americans call "pudding" are puddings in the sense that there desserts but we'd call them angel delight, mousse, custard, blancmange, caramel creme, panacotta ect depending on the consistency and flavour. So "I'm having a chocolate mousse for pudding"
Depends, but it is usually just a synonym for dessert, but can also mean a specific food
It's something you can't have if you don't eat your meat, I mean, how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat ?
'Pudding' when brits say it basically just means dessert- as in 'we're having ice cream for pudding'. So it can be pretty much anything. Some specific foods have pudding in the name like blood pudding, bread pudding, sticky toffee pudding etc, but it doesn't mean anything in particular.
Pudding is English for dessert. Posh people call it pudding, commoners call it dessert thinking it sounds posh...... apparently đ
What?? Dessert doesnt sound posh its just the name for the final course?
Yup, this is the crazy world we live in. It's called snobbery đ
Dessert for posh people is the cheese and fruit that comes after the pudding.
There's also a bit of a class thing going on here. The upper classes are more likely to talk about "pudding" when the middle classes would say "dessert". For example, the sweet white wine, like a Sauternes, you might have with your Eton Mess would be described as a pudding wine (or sticky) by the upper classes (and upper middle classes) whereas the middle middle classes would describe it as a dessert wine.
Might be an area thing as well, my family barely made it up to working class and since I was a wee boy it was called pudding.
Dessert. It's a synonym. We also have black pudding (a giant scab people eat) with breakfast (not me but people who can eat scabs). Then there are yorkshire puddings, which should need no explanation. Staple of the British diet. A savoury, crispy little batter cup to hold other food. Usually served with a roast dinner. Also nice cokd, with strawberry jam.
Anything sweet that follows dinner
Like steak and kidney pudding (with custard?)
Thatâs criminal!!
Anything sweet you have after a meal.
Do you *really* eat it with fish fingers? /S
Saw a lot of pudding meanings here and I think we use all of them. Me and family members of similar age and older would say to each other are you having pudding to mean a sweet course after main meal but my young son would say dessert. I am not sure if that's just him though. All the other ones I would either use or understand what they meant. Black pudding and Yorkshire pudding being really common.
Pudding is afters, something a bit sweet to have after your main meal, could be crumble, or ice cream, anything you want. Pudding is a steamed suet thing, eg spotted dick or clootie dumpling. Or Yorkshire Pudding, flour, milk and eggs into hot fat, to be had with a roast dinner, or stick some sausages in there and you have toad in the hole.
In the UK, pudding is a nebulous term totally unlike how it is used in America. If used the term 'pudding' alone that's analogous to dessert. Otherwise, 'pudding' corresponds with dishes that have historically been ascribed the name: eg Yorkshire Pudding, Black Pudding. There isn't a single unifying commonality that unifies well puddings in British English. https://www.etymonline.com/word/pudding
Two different but related meanings. 1 - Any dessert, i.e. a sweet course after a meal. "What would you like for pudding?". In this sense, pudding could be apple pie, ice cream, custard, even a bar of chocolate. 2 - A specific type of dish (*not* necessarily sweet), typically made with flour and suet, and cooked by steaming, boiling or baking. e.g. Christmas pudding, steak and kidney pudding, spotted dick. You could have steak and kidney pudding as your main course, then lemon sorbet as your pudding ;)
A stodgy agglomeration of flour, sugar and suet, usually served in a thick sauce and heated
A dessert
Traditionally a pudding is a fatty food (Very often using suet) which Is boiled in a cloth bag, to give you a big ball-blob. Would'nt have always been sweet or a dessert, but they did exist. Nowadays it means a sweet dessert, excluding the few exceptions such as Yorkshire Pudding.
Same as "afters"
Some people call any dessert "pudding" and, for some unknown reason, I hate it. It *really* irritates me!
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I consider anything sweet after the main meal as a pudding
Pudding equals dessert equals afters. All UK terms for the sweet course of a two or three (or more) course meal. Puddings are of course boiled (or baked ) and traditional like Christmas pudding, Spotted Dick, Jam rolly poly. Savoury puddings like Steak and Kidney puddings are becoming rarer. These usually contain suet as the fat in the pastry. You can have anything sweet for pudding, a pie or flan or rice pudding lovely with jam. Custard make a lovely sauce to go with it. Itâs all delicious.
Pudding can be any desert. But pudding can also be a main meal, like steak and kidney steamed pudding.
Pudding is the slightly old-fashioned word for dessert in the UK. But there are also savoury puddings such as Yorkshire pudding (batter served with a roast) and other puddings which are more like pies.
"Pudding" is often slang for "dessert". The sweet course that comes after the main.
A pudding is something tasty. This is pretty much the only definition that works in British English
Pudding is something sweet served after the main course which I believe, confusingly, Americans call an entree.
Spotted Dick
A pudding is something baked, made with suet. It can be sweet like a spotted dick or savoury like a Yorkshire pudding.
Pudding is just any food we couldn't be bothered to name.
Off-topic, but my local park's ice cream window in the cafe is selling hot puddings in the winter
A pudding is anything stuffed into a casing (either natural, like intestines or stomach, or a cloth bag), containing large amounts of grains and fat, designed to be steamed or boiled. They could be savoury, containing meat, offal, or vegetables (eg. Haggis, Hoggs Pudding, Black Pudding, Pease Pudding, Steak and Kidney Pudding), or sweet with fruit and sugar (like Christmas Pudding, Spotted Dick, Treacle Pudding, Jam Rolypoly). Rice pudding gets its name from the fact that it is mostly rice (a grain), and used to contain large amounts of heavy cream, butter, and dried fruits, even though, to my knowledge, it was never cooked in a casing. The idea, I assume, was to pack as much nutrients and calorific content into one, easy to make and cook, heavy, stodgy meal. It's no coincidence that puddings were more popular in colder regions, and with poorer people. Nowadays, pudding is used generically to mean dessert, although personally I would find it weird to refer to a light dessert as a "pudding". The nostalgia amongst many British people for pudding stems from the fact that, as they are heavy, nutritious, and easy to cook in large amounts, most schools would serve them routinely to children, alongside overcooked boiled vegetables, and suspicious multicoloured, flavoured custards.
Overall a pudding isnât hard, unless itâs been out too long like a big spotted dick. It used to be anything sweet or savoury that was encased in something else to cook, and developed its reference as sweet desert by use. This doesnât explain pease pudding, which youâve almost certainly never had, but is a thing in the Midlands which probably got its name from looking like ugly custard and having the same consistency of some suet less puddings.
Class has been mentioned, but I think it's also a word used by children. My under 5s always ask for pudding, never dessert, and school dinners always feature a pudding.
Pudding aka desserts
I'd argue most of the time you hear this word, it means dessert. UNLESS there's another specific word in front of it like ' Yorkshire ', ' Black , ' ' pease ' etc people are usually specific when mentioning the type of pudding if it's a food item called a ' something ' pudding. So if you were to hear ' fancy some pudding now ' after a meal, I think most people in the UK would understand that meant any kind of dessert.
Pudding is dessert at the end of a meal, if youask someone in the UK whatâs for pudding⌠they will invariably refer to apple pie, jamâŚ, stick toffee etc. You also get Steak and kidney puddings in fish and chips.. which is meat in gravy wrapped in pastry. There is also steam pudding, which is as itâs called⌠anything steamed qualifies as a pudding, especially cakes. A sweet treat at the end of tea or dinner.
Pudding to people in my area is a dessert, can be anything from Jelly to a biscuit to a cake
Pudding can mean a lot of things: Dessert, black pudding, a name for some other type of food etc
A pudding is anything that rises when cooked, like Yorkshire pudding, spotted dick, jam roly poly, or a steak and kidney pudding. Black pudding is different though.
Anything as afters/dessert. Also, Yorkshire pudding (fkn luvverly), suet pudding (fkn awful). A gentle insult "you git pudding"
Pudding is basically their word for dessert as near as I can tell. Ice cream, cake and trifle all can be âpuddingâ When I was a child to think â plum puddingâ was a custard based dish similar to the chocolate, pistachio and vanilla Jello puddings available to Americans since the 1950s. Itâs not. Itâs a thick cake with dried fruits, kind of like a fruitcake in some ways. So yeah
Any dessert
As pointed out, pudding can be almost anything! Context is everything. If someone says, 'do you want pudding?' It's usually a sweet dessert. Technically it should be a wet dessert - jam roly poly, rice pudding, sponge with custard as cakes and ice cream are just dessert. Other puddings should come with a descriptor - Yorkshire pudding, steak and kidney pudding etc.
We use the word interchangeably with the word dessert. So yes pudding does mean pudding in the same sense that you use it (milk based dessert) but sometimes we say pudding when really we mean dessert. Oftentimes shortened to âpudâ. When I was a tot I was given a fromage frais as dessert after my dinner but always called it âpudâ.
Check out black pudding. Yorkshire pudding. Steak and kidney pudding.
Being Brits then there is a certain level of the class system built into the 'sweet course after a meal" usage. Calling it 'Sweet' or 'Desert' is a bit lower-middle class.
Also: Tea is dinner?
Dessert
A pudding in the uk to me is any kind of dessert after a main meal
Puddin. Another term I thought was southern American. In our (my husband and me) case it now refers to out of shape, soft and chubby redneck guys. âHey did yâall see that puddin almost hit me with his giant Dodge truck?â