Baked Raspberry Puddings

The raspberry is one of our greatest soft fruits, and it grows best in Scotland, both wild and cultivated. Raspberries used to be eaten in crumbles and pies, never raw as we would today, and here I have used them in a baked pudding. Baked puddings were introduced in the early seventeenth century as an alternative way of cooking the traditional pudding mixture other than boiling it in a pudding bag. It tended to be more of a rich man’s method, as the fuel for ovens was more expensive than th