"pudding" news and stories

Happy National Rice Pudding Day!

Perhaps you're a rice pudding fanatic, but I'll admit this: I tend to associate rice pudding with one of those bland, taste-deficient foods for picky kids. There's something about the tasteless, chewy orbs (rice) floating around what strikes me more as a puddle than pudding that really leaves little thrill for the palate.

However, our Slashfood contributors may have changed my mind. Pictured at left, this sophisticated coconut rice pudding with pineapple piqued my interest with its cardamon scent and pistachio topping. And there's a plethora of astoundingly appetizing flavored puddings that follow suit -- banana and ginger, chocolate with rhubarb coulis, strawberry and lavender -- featured on the Slashfood flickr pool. Bon appétit!

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Nutella brioche pudding. Photo: No Recipes.

Sweet bread pudding tends to be delicious, and this one looks to be no exception -- a fair assumption considering it's made with bananas, milk, cream, eggs, Nutella -- Nutella! -- and not just any old bread, but brioche. But what if we said it also smelled like roses? Marc from No Recipes added three tablespoons of rose water to the recipe because ... why not?

Though he pulled this bread pudding together from scraps in his kitchen, Marc writes that the result was "swaths of buttery brioche crust enrobed in a fragrant chocolaty custard, holding bits of tender sweet fruit in its folds." We couldn't have said it better ourselves -- unless, of course, we'd had a chance to taste it.

[Via No Recipes]

Spotted Dick. Photo: Slashfood.

A Welsh municipality has renamed a British pudding because workers tired of the snickers caused from its double-entendre name.

Spotted Dick is now Spotted Richard on the menu in the government cafeteria in the North Wales town of Flintshire, the Daily Mail reports.

"It just seemed political correctness gone mad," Klaus Armstrong-Braun, a local politician told the Daily Mail. "There was a sign in the dining room for things like rice pudding and then this Spotted Richard -- I had to ask what it was. Whoever has changed it needs to be told they are being silly."

From Good Dishes from Tinned Food (1939), Ambrose Heath

I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century cookbooks. There will be aspic. There will be mousse. There will be various gelatins. All will be semi-solid and of debatable degrees of edibility.

Please feel free to shimmy and shake your way to the comments section to share your very own magical, masticable molds of yore.

Previously - Jellied Veal Salad

I've never considered myself a pudding person, as I'm not generally a fan of very soft or mushy foods. Bread pudding is wonderful, but pudding puddings always remind me of baby food or having my wisdom teeth. Recently, though, I've seen some very classy puddings pop up in the food blogosphere. Nothing gooey about them, they look sophisticated and absolutely delightful. Check some out:

Creamy and Cold Banana Pudding from Bakerella

Effortless Banana Pudding from Su Good Sweets

Steamed Lemon Pudding via Oh Joy

Real Butterscotch Pudding from Jumbo Empanadas

Banana Pudding Smackdown (reviews) from Mac & Cheese

Steamed Blueberry Puddings from Morsels and Musings

Banana Pudding Ice Cream from Joy the Baker

Rich Risotto Rice Pudding from Sticky, Chewy, Messy Gooey, via Hostess with the Mostess