The Perfect Summer Pudding

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

  • About

Nothing captures the flavour of summer better than this uniquely English pudding. When there is a glut of fruit, it is worth making extras in lidded, plastic Christmas pudding containers and freezing them.

Ingredients

    You Need

  • For each pudding, a generously heaped basinful of prepared fruit, of which redcurrants and raspberries are essential, blackcurrants a good idea, gooseberries too, but strawberries and cherries less good; sugar to sweeten, and several slice

Method

Tip the fruit into a saucepan, gooseberries before the others, if using them. Sprinkle with sugar, add 2-3 tablespoons of water and simmer gently for a few minutes before adding the rest of the fruit and barely cooking, just until the juices run. Add more sugar as necessary. Cut eac