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Festival of Puddings
This is an annual event, generally held on the last Sunday in June, started by my mother (Diana) sometime back in the last millennium and held every year since, apart from the Covid affected years (2020 & 2021). Originally they were held at my mother's cottage in Handcross but, after she moved to sheltered accomodation in Horsham, there were held at our house in Dorking. Following her death in 2020 we continue to hold them in her memory.
The original intention was to celebrate traditional British puddings but over the years this has modified to accommodate more modern offerings and puddings oiginating from many different countries around the world. However, the traditional will always remain core.
In the beginning my mother provided all the puddings but this changed when the venue moved with Yvonne taking an increasing share of the preparation. For some years there had been a few contributions from other attendees but from 2013, with my mother's declining health, the event become much more co-operative with attendees being asked if they might contribute a pudding.
That all puddings be home made is the one inflexible criteria. Beyond that the choice is up to the contributor, though I maintain a web page (links below) to ensure there are no duplicates. We also only have only two ovens, so there are practical limitations as to how many hot puddings can be prepared.
These are puddings we've had in previous years
- Amour caché
- Apple Charlotte
- Apple Crumble
- Apricot & Almond Tart
- Apricot Frangipane Tar
- Apricot & Lemon Pudding
- Baileys Mousse
- Baked Custard with Apricots
- Banana & Ginger Pavlova
- Banoffee Pie
- Black Forest Gateau
- Blackcurrent Pie
- Blueberry Pie
- Boodles Orange Fool
- Bread & Butter Pudding
- Butterscotch & Banana Trifle
- Caramelised Orange Trifle
- Cherry Clafoutis
- Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding
- Chocolate Cheesecake
- Chocolate Juliette Pudding
- Chocolate Mocha Cake
- Chocolate Mousse
- Chocolate Pavlova with coconut cream
- Chocolate & Pear Brioche Pudding
- Chocolate, Pear & Rum Trifle
- Chocolate & Rum Trifle
- Clafoutis
- Colchester Pudding
- Dad's chocolate cake
- Drunken Plum Desert
- Eton Mess
- Eve's Pudding
- French Apple Cake
- Fruits of the Forest Pie
- Fruit Salad
- Gin & tonic cheesecake
- Gooseberry Crumble
- Gooseberry Pie
- Greengage Crumble
- Hazelnut, Raspberry & Chocolate Vacherin
- Jamaican Crunch Pie
- Lemon Meringue Pie
- Lockshen Pudding
- Marmalade Pudding
- Meringues and Chocolate Eclairs
- Mincemeat Bread & Butter Pudding
- Mont Blanc
- Orange Blossom, Elderflower & Lemon Thyme Roulade
- Orange Cream Pie
- Pavlova (various fillings)
- Peach Flan
- Pineapple & Elderflower Cake
- Pineapple Upsidedown Pudding
- Plum Crumble
- Raspberry milk jelly with raspberries
- Rhubarb Crumble
- Rhubarb Fool
- Rice Pudding
- Sherry Trifle
- Spotted Dick
- St. Clements Pie
- Stem ginger cheesecake
- Sticky Toffee Pudding<
- Strawberries & Cream Gateau
- Strawberries & Meringues
- Strawberries & Pavlova
- Summer Pudding
- Sussex Pond
- Tiramisu
- Treacle Sponge
- Treacle Tart
- Tarte Tatin
- White Chocolate Cheesecake
- White Chocolate Tart with Fruit
This and previous year's menus