Jamie Oliver says of Pride and Pudding: 'A truly wonderful thing of
beauty, a very tasty masterpiece!'
BLESSED BE HE THAT INVENTED PUDDING
The great British pudding, versatile and wonderful in all its guises,
has been a source of nourishment and delight since the days of the Roman
occupation, and probably even before then. By faithfully recreating
recipes from historical cookery texts and updating them for today's
kitchens and ingredients, Regula Ysewijn has revived over 80 beautiful
puddings for the modern home cook.
There are ancient savoury dishes such as the Scottish haggis or humble
beef pudding, traditional sweet and savoury pies, pastries, jellies,
ices, flummeries, junkets, jam roly-poly and, of course, the iconic
Christmas pudding. Regula tells the story of each one, sharing the
original recipe alongside her own version, while paying homage to the
cooks, writers and moments in history that helped shape them.