Mind Your Pudding Trivia Quiz

Answer: Currants

Spotted Dick is a suet pudding made with dried fruit, the most common being either currants or sultanas. This is best served up with a nice, warm custard. Whilst the fruit is the basis for the "spotted" in the dessert's name, the origins of the "dick" is not so clear. Possible explanations include it being a derivative of the German word for thick or it is simply a corruption of "ding", the second syllable in pudding.

Answer: Almond Jelly

The southern Chinese almond, the basis for this recipe, is really an apricot kernel that produces a flavour very similar to almonds. The milk is first extracted, a sweetening device is added and it is then heated with agar, a gelling agent, to make it set.

Answer: Caramel

Originating from Sussex (really) this is a very heavy and extremely rich dessert that is certainly not one for the health conscious. It is a suet pastry shell that is wrapped around a whole lemon along with butter and sugar, which forms the caramel, and then steamed for several hours. Once the pastry is cut the caramel oozes out and forms a pond around the pudding.

Answer: Blancmange

Blancmange has its origins in the Middle Ages where its recipe contained rice, chicken and almond milk. Consequently it was thought to be ideal to cater to those who were ill. Today it is primarily cream and sugar thickened with gelatine or cornstarch and flavoured with almonds. It is then allowed to set in a mould and served cold.

Answer: No

Trust the Canadians to name a pudding without figs "figgy". It is a traditional bag pudding which means it is boiled in a bag and it is built around butter, flour, molasses, sugar, raisins and spices. The end result is a moist and dark, not overly sweet, chewy pudding that is served with a "coady", a molasses based sauce.

Answer: Yorkshire Pudding

The alternate names for this dessert are Poffertje, German Pancakes and Bismarcks. Made from eggs, flour and milk, it is seasoned with vanilla and cinnamon. It has since become a popular breakfast dish and can be served with a variety of fruit toppings, syrup or lemon juice.

Answer: Bread

For this dish, sometimes also called a Manchester Pudding, breadcrumbs are mixed with hot milk to provide a thickening agent for the base. The base is also flavoured with lemon zest and sugar and once set is topped with jam and a meringue before being served.

Answer: Eve's Pudding

I would hazard a wager that the tongue was firmly in cheek when an apple pudding was named after the first woman. For this delicious pudding apples are placed at the base of the cooking tin where they quietly stew while the cake mix gently cooks on top. The first known recipe for this cake appeared in 1823.

Answer: Cooked Cream

Coming from the Piedmont region in northern Italy, this dessert is basically cream, milk and sugar simmered together with gelatine to make it set. A very popular dessert, not just in Italy but worldwide, it is ideally served with a fruit coulis. Alternatively it can be dished up with a caramel sauce or fresh berries.

Answer: Summer Pudding

Stale bread is layered into a deep bowl and then filled with a variety of berries and their juices. The most commonly used are strawberry, blackberry, red currant, raspberry and black currant. This is then left to soak overnight so that it seeps through the bread and builds flavour. Though the origins of this pudding are not clear it did achieve great popularity during the later years of the nineteenth century.