Puddings

The British repertoire of puddings - the steamed puds, pies, tarts, trifles, flans, flummeries and fools - is unequalled anywhere. From early times it seems the English nation had a sweet tooth and today even French gastronomes, normally so unfairly critical’ of British food, admit that our Variety of puddings is probably greater than in any part of the world’; and visitors to English homes always hope to get, for pudding at least a crisp treacle tart or apple pie with a dollop of incomparable English cream.