[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Puddings

[Janette]

>
> Tonks:
>
> It seems to me that 'pudding' in the UK is something that uses flour
> and is not sweet. If you are eating it with gravy, it is not a desert,
> it is, IMO, a bread like substance because it uses flour and water and
> is not sweet.  Pudding in the U.S. has milk and sugar and flavoring
> such as chocolate and something to thicken it, but not flour. It is
> sweet and like, as someone else said, a custard. Or think of it as
> somewhat like a cross between custard and Jello. Not in taste, but in
> texture. Sometimes it has egg in it, maybe.. I am not a cook. Most
> pudding these days come in a little cup, one serving, already made or
> in a can.


montims:
not strictly accurate - a pudding in the UK (unless it is a savoury pudding
like steak and kidney, or blood, or yorkshire, for example) is no more or
less than the sweet course that follows the meal.  It can be elaborate or
simple, and it can include those instant whip type of desserts.  Trifle is a
pudding, as can be stewed fruit - neither of those contain flour...

On another tack, I am delighted to find Worcestershire sauce in the shops
here, and also in some steak restaurants, and I love asking for it, as the
server always needs to clarify - "Woo -ss - ss - ss - sh - ss?"  In England,
it's pronounced Wooster, pure and simple...


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