Autumn Pudding

This juice-stained beauty was originally known as ‘hydropathic pudding’, a rather clinical, dour name for such a splendid confection. But as it contained no pastry, it was seen as the sort of thing well suited to the diet of a spa. So after the enema, Scotch hose and Swiss shower, I’m pretty sure that this would come as sweet relief. I’ve changed the summer pudding to an autumn one, because I think all those blackberries, plums and redcurrants work even better than raspberries. The key is a