Summer Pudding or Summer Fruit Pudding is a British

United Kingdom

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 dessert

Dessert

In cultures around the world, dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food. The word comes from the French language as dessert and this from Old French desservir, "to clear the table" and "to serve." Common Western desserts include cakes, biscuits,...

 made of sliced white bread

Bread

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, layered in a deep bowl with fruit

Fruit

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 and fruit juice. It is left to soak overnight and turned out onto a plate. The dessert was most popular from the late 19th to the early 20th century. However, there is no clear record of its origin.

Making summer pudding is much easier if the bread

Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared by cooking a dough of flour and water and often additional ingredients. Doughs are usually baked, but in some cuisines breads are steamed , fried , or baked on an unoiled frying pan . It may be leavened or unleavened...

 is somewhat stale

Staling

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. This helps the fruit juices soak through the bread, which makes the pudding more pleasant. Summer pudding can be served with Cream.

Typical fruits used in Summer pudding

• Raspberries
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• Strawberries
• Blackcurrants
• Redcurrant
  Redcurrant
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• Whitecurrants
• Blackberries

And less commonly:

• Tayberries
  Tayberry
  Tayberry is a cultivated shrub in the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae patented in 1979 as a cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry, and named after the river Tay in Scotland. The fruit is sweeter, much larger, and more aromatic than that of the loganberry, itself a blackberry and red...
  
  
• Loganberries
  Loganberry
  The loganberry is an hexaploid hybrid produced from crossing an octaploid blackberry and a diploid red raspberry. The plant and the fruit resemble the blackberry more than the raspberry, but the fruit colour is a dark red, rather than black...
  
  
• Cherries
• Blueberries

External links

• Summer Pudding recipe from Delia online.
• Summer Pudding recipe from Schwartz in the United Kingdom.