Pudding

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In the British Isles and many Commonwealth countries, pudding is another name for Dessert.

Pudding is either of two general types of food, the second deriving from the first.

The older puddings were foods that were presented in a solid mass formed by the amalgamation of various ingredients with a binder, which might include batter (as in Yorkshire pudding), blood (black pudding), eggs (bread pudding), or a mixture of suet and flour or some other cereal (plum pudding). These kinds of puddings could be either baked, steamed, or boiled. This older type of pudding, still commonly made today in the British Isles, was often a main-course type of dish. Boiled puddings, in particular, were a common meal on board ships in the British Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the usual manner in which daily rations of flour and suet were prepared.

The newer type of pudding is almost exclusively a dessert-type dish. The usual form is for milk with sugar and other added ingredients to be solidified by means of some gelling or structural agent, including cornstarch, gelatin, eggs, tapioca (cassava), and other starches. Forms of these include custard and blanc-mange. They are available in forms which require cooking or in instant form. Related foods include gelatin desserts such as Jell-O and aspics.

The Danish society Royale Danske Buddingentusiaster (Royal Danish Pudding Enthusiasts) was founded in 2005 and is organizing the promotion of the Danish type of pudding, i.e. using boiled milk, sugar and starch or gelatine as the base of flavours ranging from the classic vanilla and chocolate to the newer tequila and ginger. Official website: www.budding.dk

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