Clarification of puddings 🍮

=> Sean Connor discussed things called pudding.

There's a few things I may be able to clear up.

The main meaning of pudding is a sweet course at the end of a meal. You could also call this dessert, but that's usually a restaurant menu term. My grandmother called it 'sweet' or 'afters'.

The archetypal pudding course food is a steamed pudding. You won't see it eaten much, but it helps to understand why all the non-sweet puddings got their name. Steak and kidney pudding is a different thing to steak and kidney pie. The pudding case is stodgy and spongy, whereas the pie case is pastry.

I agree with the article that ice cream isn't a pudding, but you could have it for pudding, which is a nice quirk of language.

Yorkshire pudding is just baked batter: mix four, eggs and milk, and put it in the oven. It's light and risen around the edges where it's cooked more, but the stodgy middle makes it a pudding.

That's enough about pudding.

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