Birthday Greetings.

[curiouswombat]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO calturner AND zanthinegirl!

Here is a summer pudding for you to share....

I hope that you both have a lovely day and a very, very good year.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I realised that I hadn't mentioned the whole set of savoury puddings - steak and kidney pudding is very traditional. blood pudding is called 'black pudding' in the UK, and eaten fried in slices with bacon, saisage etc.

Fudge here is very rich too - the main ingredients are sugar and butter, but then flavourings are added; vanilla, or chocolate (sometimes by adding cocoa, sometimes by adding actual chocolate to the mix), rum and raisin, cherry and walnut and so on. Our local shop does a very good peppermint.

Looking at pictures on Google, and recipes, I think it must be pretty similar on both sides of the Atlantic - I had to check each time to see whether the picture was a UK one or a US one - although I think yours always looks like the softest of the British stuff - so some of the British stuff is slightly more crumbly than yours.

Then there is 'Tablet' which is the Scottish version and is much more crumbly, a 'shorter' texture - you can break a piece of tablet in two, but fudge would just bend and stretch. Actually I like tablet even more!

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I don't think I could eat steak and kidney pie/pudding. I'm not really one for organ meat. No one my age (twentysomethings and younger) in America really eats organ meat--that's more for the "old farts" who like liver and onions.

Fudge is the same? All right then. I had heard from other Brits that your fudge isn't all that good. Guess they were wrong!

I would like to try tablet. It sounds good! What sort of flavors does it come in?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Tablet is usually vanilla, or just sugar flavoured(!) although I have seen recipes that include chocolate. I have just posted my tablet recipe as a new post, so that it is easier for me to refer back to anytime.

This icon is ironic when discussing tablet!