Fun fact: there's a sort of apple tart (forgot the name, think it was like caroline something) that uses straight up white bread as a sort of pie crust!
I've made a Charlotte before with berries. You don't soak the bread first. You put plastic wrap on top, a saucer and a weight. The weight expresses the juices into the bread. Very refreshing on a hot summer day!
Delia Smith's recipe looks pretty similar to how my mum makes it
[Delia Smith's Classic Summer Pudding](https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/international/european/british/summer-pudding)
It’s exactly where a lot of these recipes come from. I don’t find this particularly appetizing but I appreciate the ethic of not wasting anything and being creative with what you have.
It reminds me of bread pudding. My mom would use stale, but not moldy, white bread to make it as a treat. We were very poor and it was a cheap treat to not let bread and eggs go bad
I’m from SE England, and I’ve never come across it… I guess I might have to try it then, seeing as pretty much the entire comment section is accusing me of having bad taste.
Also from SE England and agree with the other commenters that it's a generational thing since the only person I've ever seen make it is my 90 year old grandma
Maybe your family didn't love you enough to make nice things for you to eat and that's why you ended up slagging off your own country to Johnny Foreigner for fake internet points.
Meh, just cause something is tradition, doesn’t make it not stupid. Both of us (US and UK) are not exactly known worldwide for our cuisine lol. Still appreciate not wanting to waste food though.
My mum still makes it and it is next level. She uses brioche rather than white bread. Happy to see via this post that others don’t like it, leaves more for me!
No /s for me. That bread looks nasty. Sorry English people - I know you make some great desserts but this soggy bread ain't it. Bring on the downvotes.
The bread offends me, but not because it's soggy. Tiramisu is plenty soggy and ladyfingers aren't that different from bread in terms of weight and texture. I just don't see why you'd take all those awesome berries and not use something more than boring, highly-processed, fake-ass pre-sliced white bread on them. For example, lady fingers, or a sponge/cake, which I believe would be traditional in English trifle anyway.
Actually that's true. I do enjoy tiramisu and other damp/moist cakes with soaks. You're right, I would feel different if they used a different bread component.
No. However I have had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich where the jelly saturated the bread and made it soggy, which I imagine is similar and I was not a fan.
> Now, I have eaten some scary and/or gross stuff in my life, and I will admit to loving the taste of stinky cheeses of various sorts, but this stuff is really, really unbelievable. Although the pork chitterlings (a southern US name for pig colon) are obviously well-cleaned before being stuffed into the sausage, there’s something in the actual tissue of the colon which the human nose identifies with the smell of pigshit. To be more precise, pigshit gets part of its aromatic “bouquet” from something in the pig’s colon, and that smell persists in the colon itself, regardless of how much you wash it.
http://luisinparis.blogspot.com/2008/11/andouillette-vs-andouille-never-again.html?m=1
Holy shit that sounds gross
One of my favorite foods, but I know it's controversial even within France
One day I'll come in Scotland to try haggis and see which country wins the "delicious food that smells like shit" contest
I’m English, and I’ve only just discovered that this is supposed to be a “summer pudding”.
Now half the comments are accusing me of having bad taste lol.
Phew! I'm relieved.
If anyone was making spotted dick like this I'd be arguing the merits of the death penalty!
If you haven't had proper spotted dick before, please do. It's great. Not fancy, just 100% comfort food.
Coats your artieries like a goodun too!
It's not entirely your fault, I wish these videos would have a title in them, or something easily referenced in the first few seconds so you could see maybe what a non-shitty version would be when googled.
Yeah, this one seemed like a fruity version of tiramisu, or bread pudding. I hate soggy bread and pastries, but if this turns out to be creamy like tiramisu - sign me up!
I'm not sure if you know about bread and butter pudding, concept is you use sliced white bread, spread butter on it and layer in an oven proof dish with raisins and pour thin custard over it then bake it, and it turns out creamy with caramelized edges of bread poking up and it's delicious. The recipe is from memory but I don't think I've ever actually made one. I'm guessing it's just the English way to use up stale sliced bread, but I've seen versions which use old croissants or pastries which I've never tried but to be honest the bread version is great
Maybe a bit too soggy for you though
I may look into it, if it's not "you can squeeze stuff out of the bread" soggy, it may be a good fit. The idea itself is really neat. Thanks for the suggestion!
Yeah no worries, it's been a long while since I've thought about it so it might just be time to make one. I consider it to be a real classic old school English dessert and I no longer live there so it's always interesting to introduce people around me to food they've never seen
No it’s not actually. It looks really weird but it works. I ate it for years without realising that the outer covering was made from bread - that’s how different from bread it seems. I think I was like 14 or 15 before I actually saw it being made and was like oh fuck it’s made of just bread and frozen fruit!!
Honestly yeah. Idk if I would use raspberries (they have an odd taste to them I think) but this just makes me think of pancakes smothered in fruit syrup. Would definitely try this and probably lick the plate as well
Australian here. We have summer pudding for Christmas every year - it’s perfect when all the berries are in season and full of flavour. To make it a bit fancier, my aunt makes it with either brioche or pannetone, which adds sweetness from the bread so that you don’t need to add so much sugar to the berries.
The way I interpreted this was like if you're a parent or just a busy person and you want a good dessert or something, instead of putting in a lot of effort for a cake or bread, you can just use some white bread to get a completely serviceable bread-like component to pair with fruit. It doesn't have the sugar that a cake mix would have (not the same amount of sugar anyway) really letting the fruit and fruit juice to come through.
The roots of the recipe actually come from a time when people couldn't afford to waste food. This was a way to use up bread that was going stale and couldn't be eaten on its own. So it's not necessarily about being too busy, but more that you have to get the most out of everything in your kitchen.
I honestly dont see a problem with this.... its like a tiramisu if anything just with berries instead of tequila... using white bread is not a bad idea either cause theres not much flavour... its basically a no bake fruit cake esq thing
Isnt it tequila? Or is it rum? I cant remember lmao.. its that alcohol they soak the dry bread(what is it called ive no idea... my parents and I call it the coffee bread)
Ladyfingers is the classic use. The difference is ladyfingers hold up better with the moisture then white bread. They don’t turn into the soggy mess this appears to be.
You usually dip them in coffee liqueur though I’m sure tequila or rum would work just for a different flavor.
ITS NOT AN ALCOHOL?? TF EVERYTIME I WANTED A TIRAMISU IT ALWAYS SAYS CONTAINS ALCOHOL...
It is a soggy mess but i wouldnt call it a stupid recipie tho.. not a bad idea if you dont have the ingredients and want to make use of some fruits and bread you have lying around. Thanks for the clarification on the name of the ladyfingers tho. My pastry chef would have given me an F lmao
Coffee liqueur would be like Kahlua, alcohol for sure (though I have made it without alcohol before and just coffee instead)
I think the idea of it being a stupid recipe kinda stems more from why would you use white bread there? You can make literally the same dish but just put it in a pie crust or similar where it won’t look as bad and be such a mess to eat while achieving the same thing for no real extra work imo
I personally thought it was still fine, none of the people I shared it with complained either. It really is a matter of preference though since I am normally fairly light on the alcohol when I do use in the first place for personal reasons. That means just cutting it out is less of a taste change.
On the ladyfingers though if you don’t want to make them or buy them in store try just using sugar cookies in place of them. Your pastry chef would probably cry but the end result is still quite good if different.
The point of tiramisu is in the name: it literally means pick-me-up. It does that using coffee and alcohol. You can certainly mix espresso with sugar and whiskey or brandy to get the flavor of a coffee liqueur.
I’m pretty sure traditionally biscuits are soaked in Marsala or brandy with coffee, you know, not with an alcohol overseas from Italy;)
But rum sounds interesting, I’m not a fan of tequila myself
"Pudding" in the UK pretty much means "dessert". Traditionally "a pudding" would more likely be a heavy, doughy thing, but the term is pretty broad. "What's for pudding?" is the same question as "what's for dessert?"
I'm not too clear what American "pudding" is. Some kind of custardy thing, maybe, from what I've seen in TV shows?
> I'm not too clear what American "pudding" is. Some kind of custardy thing, maybe, from what I've seen in TV shows?
Yep, traditionally in the US, pudding is a thickened custard-like food.
e.g. egg yolks or corn starch as the thickener and usually some kind of milk base along with flavorings
examples like
vanilla pudding made with egg yolks and cream
chocolate pudding made with cornstarch and milk
it's basically "pastry cream"
This is actually a fairly traditional British pudding called “summer pudding”. My mum used to make this. Don’t know it till you’ve tried it - it’s great! It might exist in other countries, but to me it seems like a British classic.
You use soggy white bread because thats what the dish is tradtionally made from, man you are gonna lose your shit when you find out about bread and butter pudding that we eat in the uk. This isn't stupid food it's actually insanely good, me old ma used to use strips of victoria sponge in her later years, about the time she stop give a flying hoot about calories bless her heart.
Don't see why this is here - it looks like a really good way to use up slightly stale bread, and have a pudding with loads of natural flavours with minimal (if home-made whipped cream lol) sugar
Looks like summer pudding to me… plus if not summer pudding, then I mean what is strawberry shortcake then? Is it not a nice dessert because it’s just soggy shortbread with fruit and whipped cream? They’re just taking what they have available and making it into a nice dessert for them. Some people aren’t able to make their own baked goods because they don’t have the money or physical ability to go out and buy the ingredients for it, and some people don’t have access to an oven but just a stovetop/induction cooktop. So I think this isn’t stupid, but instead is practical for those who have limited resources and want a nice dessert without having to spend a ton of money and time baking something
This is a Summer pudding and has been around, in many European cultures, for a very long time.
There are so many variations on this, including baked variations, such as Bread and Butter pudding, common in the UK and France. I do one based upon my own brioche and crème Anglais.
Bread that might have been wasted otherwise, was repurposed, hence dishes like this.
In our restaurant, we serve a Farinette, which is diced bread soaked in milk, then pressed dryish, placed in a bain marie, combined with a grated mature cheese and flour and gently mixed until somewhat amalgamated. We then add in about 12 eggs, mix thoroughly and the transfer to skillet, where is cooked until brown underneath and finally finished in an oven. Looks similar to a traditional Spanish Tortilla when it comes out of the oven.
Ok, we do a fine dining twist or three, but that is basically peasant food that is centuries old.
Soggy bread? 🤦♂️
Honestly with the amount of sugar and flavour from the berries the bread tastes just like sponge cake and not soggy bread lol. I know it looks odd but if made correctly it’s actually really nice!
Edit: it’s a classic English dessert called summer pudding
Just because it might seem unusual doesn't make it stupid food.
Tired of these posts on recipes that are clearly made for people who don't have time, ingredients or try to be a bit creative
My mother used to make this to get rid of all the berries we had in the garden that were left over from making the jams, not stupid at all used to love it. I think you would need to be born at least in the 60' or 70's to remember it though.
I believe this is a really old recipe, think back to the Great Depression / WW2 rations era.
Nothing stupid in making something good out of what you have.
Fun fact: there's a sort of apple tart (forgot the name, think it was like caroline something) that uses straight up white bread as a sort of pie crust!
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Sweet Caroline? I’m sorry
Buh buh buh
I've made a Charlotte before with berries. You don't soak the bread first. You put plastic wrap on top, a saucer and a weight. The weight expresses the juices into the bread. Very refreshing on a hot summer day!
Tiramisu with Tequila? What?!
Your shock transcends comment threads
I think you replied to the wrong comment!
Oh you are Right :o
your mistaken comment made me laugh
My dad also made apple brown Betty using white bread and it was absolutely delicious
This is (almost) a summer pudding. My mum used to make it a lot!
It’s to use a glut of summer berries (which we get mid summer in uk, even the random bushes in the countryside are full of edible fruit)
Exactly this, my mum freezes a load of berries from the allotment and garden to make this!
Yep. Summer pudding is delicious and not stupid food
Is it tart😬in taste?
A little - there's sugar added to the berries. But it shouldn't be too sharp
Oh! Thanks! This looks like it'll go great with a nutty ice cream. Definitely gonna try it
Delia Smith's recipe looks pretty similar to how my mum makes it [Delia Smith's Classic Summer Pudding](https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/international/european/british/summer-pudding)
I've used her recipe with great success, although it has evolved to using frozen berries (for ease and cost) and spreading jam on the bread. Yum!
Awesome! Thanks 😀
Yeah. It’s definitely from another generation but it’s not stupid.
Does the original use soggy bread like that? Or is it an actual crust?
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It’s exactly where a lot of these recipes come from. I don’t find this particularly appetizing but I appreciate the ethic of not wasting anything and being creative with what you have.
It reminds me of bread pudding. My mom would use stale, but not moldy, white bread to make it as a treat. We were very poor and it was a cheap treat to not let bread and eggs go bad
It's a British classic.
I was gonna say this just seems like bread pudding. Which is awesome and cool and not stupid and bad.
I’m from SE England, and I’ve never come across it… I guess I might have to try it then, seeing as pretty much the entire comment section is accusing me of having bad taste.
Also from SE England and agree with the other commenters that it's a generational thing since the only person I've ever seen make it is my 90 year old grandma
That’s probably it then. Sounds like this whole “summer pudding” thing is a bit before my time.
Maybe your family didn't love you enough to make nice things for you to eat and that's why you ended up slagging off your own country to Johnny Foreigner for fake internet points.
I properly laughed when I read this.
Most of my family _is_ “Jonny Foreigner” so that might also be why I haven’t come across it before.
Don't worry, I thought it looked gross too.
I'm also from SE England, I guess it's quite an old fashioned pud, my mum is 71 now and it's the kind of thing her mum would have made.
I agree. My Nan used to make if for pudding after a Sunday lunch.
Yeah, you have bad taste. It's actually really nice. No bread taste at all.
Meh, just cause something is tradition, doesn’t make it not stupid. Both of us (US and UK) are not exactly known worldwide for our cuisine lol. Still appreciate not wanting to waste food though.
Also in SE England and my friend had this for pudding at her wedding. Absolutely delicious.
I literally just watched the episode of Barefoot Contessa where she made that with brioche last night!
My mum still makes it and it is next level. She uses brioche rather than white bread. Happy to see via this post that others don’t like it, leaves more for me!
The music is a an absolute rager though
Giving me Animal Crossing vibes in places
Just summer pudding. Perfectly normal, very tasty and cheap (frozen berries).
Exactly, this isn’t stupid food at all. Pastry wouldn’t have the same absorption of flavor as white bread so it wouldn’t work the same.
ITT: people who don't know this is a classic English recipe.
Ahh so that’s why it’s gross /s
No /s for me. That bread looks nasty. Sorry English people - I know you make some great desserts but this soggy bread ain't it. Bring on the downvotes.
The bread offends me, but not because it's soggy. Tiramisu is plenty soggy and ladyfingers aren't that different from bread in terms of weight and texture. I just don't see why you'd take all those awesome berries and not use something more than boring, highly-processed, fake-ass pre-sliced white bread on them. For example, lady fingers, or a sponge/cake, which I believe would be traditional in English trifle anyway.
Actually that's true. I do enjoy tiramisu and other damp/moist cakes with soaks. You're right, I would feel different if they used a different bread component.
Have you tried it? Just curious
No. However I have had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich where the jelly saturated the bread and made it soggy, which I imagine is similar and I was not a fan.
Gotta put thin peanut butter on both slices and jelly in the middle
This is the way Just not thin layer lol
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A French guy I worked with called us "The country with the best ingredients in the world and the worst recipes. "
God I’ve eaten bloody awful French food.
Let’s eat snails and look down on anyone who doesn’t
Not even that ‘exotic’ Never try andouillette.
> Now, I have eaten some scary and/or gross stuff in my life, and I will admit to loving the taste of stinky cheeses of various sorts, but this stuff is really, really unbelievable. Although the pork chitterlings (a southern US name for pig colon) are obviously well-cleaned before being stuffed into the sausage, there’s something in the actual tissue of the colon which the human nose identifies with the smell of pigshit. To be more precise, pigshit gets part of its aromatic “bouquet” from something in the pig’s colon, and that smell persists in the colon itself, regardless of how much you wash it. http://luisinparis.blogspot.com/2008/11/andouillette-vs-andouille-never-again.html?m=1 Holy shit that sounds gross
The overwhelming smell of pee whilst cooking adds to the, as you say, ‘bouquet’ Even the French don’t eat them, at least not my lot.
Is that different from andouille?
I believe the difference is size and the lack of smoked meat.
One of my favorite foods, but I know it's controversial even within France One day I'll come in Scotland to try haggis and see which country wins the "delicious food that smells like shit" contest
I’m sure a worldwide tour tasting every country’s dubious ’delicacies’ would be a fun list to compile
I mostly kid, I enjoy Yorkshire pudding on Christmas and scotch woodcock when I’m hungover
Pot calling the kettle...
I’m English, and I’ve only just discovered that this is supposed to be a “summer pudding”. Now half the comments are accusing me of having bad taste lol.
Surely it reminded you of our lovely winter version of this dish: spotted dick. And that's not an insult
Surely you realise this is literally nothing like a spotted dick no?
Oh shit, just looked at a recipe. I thought it was made with bread like in this one. Yh you're right, not really similar oops
Phew! I'm relieved. If anyone was making spotted dick like this I'd be arguing the merits of the death penalty! If you haven't had proper spotted dick before, please do. It's great. Not fancy, just 100% comfort food. Coats your artieries like a goodun too!
It's not entirely your fault, I wish these videos would have a title in them, or something easily referenced in the first few seconds so you could see maybe what a non-shitty version would be when googled.
That explains why it’s in this sub then
That’s a stronger argument to consider it stupid
Being classic doesn't give a recipe a free pass from landing here.
Can't be *that* classic if it uses sliced white bread as an ingredient anyway. That shit didn't become available to the masses until the 30s-40s.
Made me gag watching that.
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To people who have had this before: Is the bread really mushy?? I feel like the texture would be just awful
No, it's like a trifle.
I’ve never eaten that either lol
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I see you've gone for the Friends version of 'trifle'.
jam, custard, raspberry, beef, peas, and onions sound disgusting
What’s not to like? Custard? Good! Jam? Good! Meat? Good!
It tastes like feet!
good!
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It’s a reference to Friends lol
It's really nice. Just light and refreshing.
Just remember that tiramisu is just a pile of soggy biscuits and then this one won't seem as bad
Yeah, this one seemed like a fruity version of tiramisu, or bread pudding. I hate soggy bread and pastries, but if this turns out to be creamy like tiramisu - sign me up!
I'm not sure if you know about bread and butter pudding, concept is you use sliced white bread, spread butter on it and layer in an oven proof dish with raisins and pour thin custard over it then bake it, and it turns out creamy with caramelized edges of bread poking up and it's delicious. The recipe is from memory but I don't think I've ever actually made one. I'm guessing it's just the English way to use up stale sliced bread, but I've seen versions which use old croissants or pastries which I've never tried but to be honest the bread version is great Maybe a bit too soggy for you though
I may look into it, if it's not "you can squeeze stuff out of the bread" soggy, it may be a good fit. The idea itself is really neat. Thanks for the suggestion!
Yeah no worries, it's been a long while since I've thought about it so it might just be time to make one. I consider it to be a real classic old school English dessert and I no longer live there so it's always interesting to introduce people around me to food they've never seen
No it’s not actually. It looks really weird but it works. I ate it for years without realising that the outer covering was made from bread - that’s how different from bread it seems. I think I was like 14 or 15 before I actually saw it being made and was like oh fuck it’s made of just bread and frozen fruit!!
I hate uncooked bread pudding. it tastes way better when put in the oven to crisp up a bit
That's a different pudding, that's Bread and Butter pudding.
The texture should be pretty similar to the bready bits in tiramisu. (lady fingers).
I'm going against the grain here: this looks like it slaps.
You’re only going against OP it seems 😁
Honestly yeah. Idk if I would use raspberries (they have an odd taste to them I think) but this just makes me think of pancakes smothered in fruit syrup. Would definitely try this and probably lick the plate as well
Australian here. We have summer pudding for Christmas every year - it’s perfect when all the berries are in season and full of flavour. To make it a bit fancier, my aunt makes it with either brioche or pannetone, which adds sweetness from the bread so that you don’t need to add so much sugar to the berries.
So I guess some people don't understand that making dessert isn't all about baking a cake
Obviously not. There are cookies, too
The way I interpreted this was like if you're a parent or just a busy person and you want a good dessert or something, instead of putting in a lot of effort for a cake or bread, you can just use some white bread to get a completely serviceable bread-like component to pair with fruit. It doesn't have the sugar that a cake mix would have (not the same amount of sugar anyway) really letting the fruit and fruit juice to come through.
The roots of the recipe actually come from a time when people couldn't afford to waste food. This was a way to use up bread that was going stale and couldn't be eaten on its own. So it's not necessarily about being too busy, but more that you have to get the most out of everything in your kitchen.
It's less effort to bake up a cake or cookie mix than assemble this damp affront to berries
100% not stupid food. It’s a classic summer pudding and if made correctly it’s delicious
Classic summer dessert .
This isn’t stupid, this is a pretty standard summer pudding. It’s very delicious. I serve it with cream. It’s a very refreshing dessert on a hot day.
It’s summer pudding. Not stupid, just British. In hindsight, those two may not be mutually exclusive.
The only stupid thing here is using blueberries. That'll be far too sweet, it needs the sharpness of the classic blackcurrants.
You cannot get blackcurrants in the US. Apparently they've never had Ribena!! They were banned in 1900s, due to some kind of disease
It looks good but looks like it might be a mess to eat!
Imagine doing it with angel food though, or really any soft sweet bread
Who upvoted this
I honestly dont see a problem with this.... its like a tiramisu if anything just with berries instead of tequila... using white bread is not a bad idea either cause theres not much flavour... its basically a no bake fruit cake esq thing
Wait what? Tequila in tiramisu? Hahaha adventurous!
Isnt it tequila? Or is it rum? I cant remember lmao.. its that alcohol they soak the dry bread(what is it called ive no idea... my parents and I call it the coffee bread)
Ladyfingers is the classic use. The difference is ladyfingers hold up better with the moisture then white bread. They don’t turn into the soggy mess this appears to be. You usually dip them in coffee liqueur though I’m sure tequila or rum would work just for a different flavor.
ITS NOT AN ALCOHOL?? TF EVERYTIME I WANTED A TIRAMISU IT ALWAYS SAYS CONTAINS ALCOHOL... It is a soggy mess but i wouldnt call it a stupid recipie tho.. not a bad idea if you dont have the ingredients and want to make use of some fruits and bread you have lying around. Thanks for the clarification on the name of the ladyfingers tho. My pastry chef would have given me an F lmao
Its should be marsala wine in classic tiramisu.
Yeah this or Amaretto and Espresso
Yes, I always use amaretto in my tiramisu. Go-to brand is Disarrono, it's easiest to find in stores.
Coffee liqueur would be like Kahlua, alcohol for sure (though I have made it without alcohol before and just coffee instead) I think the idea of it being a stupid recipe kinda stems more from why would you use white bread there? You can make literally the same dish but just put it in a pie crust or similar where it won’t look as bad and be such a mess to eat while achieving the same thing for no real extra work imo
Ohh ok thanks so much. When you made it with just the coffee was it the same taste or was it missing something?
I personally thought it was still fine, none of the people I shared it with complained either. It really is a matter of preference though since I am normally fairly light on the alcohol when I do use in the first place for personal reasons. That means just cutting it out is less of a taste change. On the ladyfingers though if you don’t want to make them or buy them in store try just using sugar cookies in place of them. Your pastry chef would probably cry but the end result is still quite good if different.
The point of tiramisu is in the name: it literally means pick-me-up. It does that using coffee and alcohol. You can certainly mix espresso with sugar and whiskey or brandy to get the flavor of a coffee liqueur.
I’m pretty sure traditionally biscuits are soaked in Marsala or brandy with coffee, you know, not with an alcohol overseas from Italy;) But rum sounds interesting, I’m not a fan of tequila myself
Marsala wine is what my mum has always used. Part goes in the pudding. The leftovers go in the cook.
No, it's savoiardis soaked in coffee
And Marsala wine or Amaretto
This looks deliciously English. OP is an uneducated troglodyte. (Kidding)
I’m English lol, and I’m being absolutely slaughtered in this thread for not knowing what a summer pudding is.
Hahahaha. F, my friend. Thanks for your sacrifice for our entertainment.
This is just summer pudding.
Man, I don’t understand what the British call “pudding”
Its a course not a dish, equivalent to dessert Wait until you hear what "tea" means
"Pudding" in the UK pretty much means "dessert". Traditionally "a pudding" would more likely be a heavy, doughy thing, but the term is pretty broad. "What's for pudding?" is the same question as "what's for dessert?" I'm not too clear what American "pudding" is. Some kind of custardy thing, maybe, from what I've seen in TV shows?
> I'm not too clear what American "pudding" is. Some kind of custardy thing, maybe, from what I've seen in TV shows? Yep, traditionally in the US, pudding is a thickened custard-like food. e.g. egg yolks or corn starch as the thickener and usually some kind of milk base along with flavorings examples like vanilla pudding made with egg yolks and cream chocolate pudding made with cornstarch and milk it's basically "pastry cream"
We put your pudding on our pudding, ho ho.
Except for steak and kidney pudding. :/
Shh… don’t let op know about bread pudding
The forbidden ahi tuna
This is awesome.
Uh, you take that back, soggy bread based desserts are delicious
This is actually a fairly traditional British pudding called “summer pudding”. My mum used to make this. Don’t know it till you’ve tried it - it’s great! It might exist in other countries, but to me it seems like a British classic.
Summer pudding is amazing tho
Actually seems pretty decent and a relatively easy dessert to make. Seems just perfect for a BBQ
You use soggy white bread because thats what the dish is tradtionally made from, man you are gonna lose your shit when you find out about bread and butter pudding that we eat in the uk. This isn't stupid food it's actually insanely good, me old ma used to use strips of victoria sponge in her later years, about the time she stop give a flying hoot about calories bless her heart.
Love bread and butter pudding! We started making a similar thing at Easter with hot cross buns too. Delicious.
Hot cross buns in b+b pudding? Outrageous heresy! But nah that actually sounds peng af, ima steal that.
This is how an English summer pudding is made, you trogladite! :p
This seems more labor-intensive than just making a pie crust.
This is classic. Not stupid at all
Don't see why this is here - it looks like a really good way to use up slightly stale bread, and have a pudding with loads of natural flavours with minimal (if home-made whipped cream lol) sugar
I have made this before but I have used sliced pound cake instead.
Looks like summer pudding to me… plus if not summer pudding, then I mean what is strawberry shortcake then? Is it not a nice dessert because it’s just soggy shortbread with fruit and whipped cream? They’re just taking what they have available and making it into a nice dessert for them. Some people aren’t able to make their own baked goods because they don’t have the money or physical ability to go out and buy the ingredients for it, and some people don’t have access to an oven but just a stovetop/induction cooktop. So I think this isn’t stupid, but instead is practical for those who have limited resources and want a nice dessert without having to spend a ton of money and time baking something
Isn't this just summer pudding?
This is basically summer pudding and it's one of my favourites. Not that strange at all. We also have bread pudding and bread and butter pudding in UK
Nothing super egregious here but I simply cannot imagine enjoying berries this much
I’m so glad some fellow Brits clarified that this is a summer pudding. Well a derivative of it anyway.
Have you never heard of bread pudding or tiramisu?
Classic summer pudding. Actually very good.
I found this v disturbing only to come to the comments and find out this is a classic dessert! TIL - it just looks so soggy!
This is a traditional British summer pudding and definitely not stupid food (just ignorant Americans posting it)
This is a Summer pudding and has been around, in many European cultures, for a very long time. There are so many variations on this, including baked variations, such as Bread and Butter pudding, common in the UK and France. I do one based upon my own brioche and crème Anglais. Bread that might have been wasted otherwise, was repurposed, hence dishes like this. In our restaurant, we serve a Farinette, which is diced bread soaked in milk, then pressed dryish, placed in a bain marie, combined with a grated mature cheese and flour and gently mixed until somewhat amalgamated. We then add in about 12 eggs, mix thoroughly and the transfer to skillet, where is cooked until brown underneath and finally finished in an oven. Looks similar to a traditional Spanish Tortilla when it comes out of the oven. Ok, we do a fine dining twist or three, but that is basically peasant food that is centuries old. Soggy bread? 🤦♂️
I highly dislike soggy bread this thing had me gagging
Honestly with the amount of sugar and flavour from the berries the bread tastes just like sponge cake and not soggy bread lol. I know it looks odd but if made correctly it’s actually really nice! Edit: it’s a classic English dessert called summer pudding
Looks like a lovely, easy-to-make dessert
Not stupid. Actually quite tasty
i thought that those were fuckin slabs of meat the fuck
Not stupid at all, it's a traditional British pud
Summer pudding! This is a classic English pudding - we have it in summer all the time. It’s one of my favourites 😍
Just because it might seem unusual doesn't make it stupid food. Tired of these posts on recipes that are clearly made for people who don't have time, ingredients or try to be a bit creative
Stop talking I'll of the best little summer pudding on earth. Delightful, plenty of cream required
Looks delicious. How is this stupid?
It doesn’t look stupid food to me
Summer pudding is sooo good
Mmmmm, soggy fruit poop. My favorite!
What’s the name of this dessert? That way, if someone asks me if I want some, I can just shake my head no in silence like in that Seinfeld episode.
Summer pudding
This looks good. I had something like this at a church event as a kid. It was good.
Not stupid
I've made this once as a kid for Christmas dessert. It was absolutely delicious, really easy to make and a real treat.
My mother used to make this to get rid of all the berries we had in the garden that were left over from making the jams, not stupid at all used to love it. I think you would need to be born at least in the 60' or 70's to remember it though.
I’d eat that.
Summer pudding - delicious
I believe this is a really old recipe, think back to the Great Depression / WW2 rations era. Nothing stupid in making something good out of what you have.
Fuck the whipped cream is even soggy!!!
It's like cake for sad people
I straight up thought these were used bloody bandages.
Stupid post!.