Summer Pudding

Name: Summer Pudding
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: 5 slices of white bread, crusts cut off; 5 slices of white bread, crusts cut off; 100 g sugar; 50 g redcurrants; 100 g blackcurrants; 100 g blueberries; 200 g raspberries; 200 g strawberries

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

Perthshire has been famous for its soft fruit farms for as long as the Nivens have farmed at Gloagburn, and it’s always a treat to see the first berries come into the shops. Summer Pudding is what I make when the season is at its height; sweet and tart in flavour, it looks beautiful and is deceptively straightforward to make.

Ingredients

200 g strawberries
200 g raspberries
100 g

United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegan
Summer
Scotland

Method

Put the fruit in a saucepan with the sugar and 4 tablespoons of water. Cook over a medium heat for about 5 minutes, until the fruit is soft but before it collapses into a pulp. Strain through a sieve set over a bowl to catch the fruit juices.
Cut two of the slices of bread in half to give you four rectangles. Cut another two slices in half on the diagonal to gi