Review: Delicious, but less than exhaustive.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2013
Jane Romsey, Traditional British Pudding Recipes (No press listed, 2012)Points off: no press listed.Warning: this is not a book to read when you're trying to eat healthier...Fifty-two pages chock full of delicious dessert recipes from rice pudding to bread-and-butter pudding (which is different than bread pudding--for which there is also a recipe here) to just about any other sweet pudding you can think of. I'm not sure why I had thought this book was going to be exhaustive, and in the preface Romsey says that since she's a vegetarian, she specifically left out steak and kidney pie, but what she neglected to go on and say is that she left out all the savory puddings, which I was really looking forward to seeing recipes for--no white pudding, no haggis, no groaty pudding, no traditional blancmange (which, yes, in its original form was a chicken dish, viz. The Forme of Cury). Hoping there's a sequel that covers those. But if you're looking for the desserty stuff, and your waistline can handle it, hop to, there is a bounty of steamed and baked puddings awaiting you here. This is a recommend despite the low rating (which comes as a function of the author not including relevant information in the file or on the Amazon page). **