Traditional British Puddings

Apple Pie

There is something about the Traditional British Puddings. They are easy to make but still things can go wrong. Sometimes they can blow you away on how delicious they can taste with a few simple ingredients required to make the British Puddings.

My love for the British Pudding started when I tasted Sticky Toffee Pudding at one of the Michelin starred restaurant in Torquay. Simon Hulstone sent the sticky toffee pudding as a pre-dessert which was more than enough. I had no space left to eat a refined, dainty looking chocolate tart with pistachio ice-cream but i still managed to eat the whole lot. What a pudding it was! For me, it was a feeling of being in heaven and from then the research for the best of British Pudding started.

Egg custard tart

When we decided to open the cookery school at +Lucknam Park Hotel i was billion percent sure to have the Traditional British Pudding as one of the courses. The course did not sell well and we blamed on the facts that the British puddings are unhealthy, no one wants to cook with lard, what is so good about making a crumble but deep inside me I always felt that one day this course will prove popular like few other courses.

Bakewell tart with a twist

Lemon syllabub with short bread

Our first Traditional British Pudding course we had two blokes which is very unusual but then through word of mouth and the simplicity of the course we picked a few bookings and now it has become one of our popular courses. I enjoy teaching/making the short bread, apple pie, bakewell tarts, sticky toffee pudding, egg and nutmeg custard tart, jam roly-poly and lemon syllabub during the course.

Jam roly-poly and warm custard

They say that 'the proof is in the pudding' and I say 'the traditional British puddings are the real proof of how a good pudding should be'.