During a recent family meal at a local hostelry, a fellow guest and I were thrilled to see that Bread & Butter Pudding was on the dessert menu. We ordered it with anticipation and greeted it's arrival with celebration.
.. Sadly, Bread & Butter Pudding is seen by many nowadays as a poor mans meal and for it to warrant inclusion on even the humblest of menus, it has to be meddled with, tampered wi
th or otherwise 'pimped'.
.. So, it was with some incredulity that we greeted our deserts, complete with large dollop of marmalade! At that moment .. my fellow diner and I realised that we were Bread & Butter Pudding purists ... and the North Staffordshire and East Cheshire Bread& Butter Pudding Appreciation Society was born. My fellow diner (now Vice-President) and I decided that there was a need to seek out, sample and document the state of one of our nations treasured pud's. When you enter a restaurant, be sure to ask if they have Bread & Butter Pudding on the menu. If the staff inform you that they haven't, be sure to greet this news with a disapproving groan. If nothing else, the staff will realise that they have customers who know what they want and know how they like it (Cant be a bad thing). Who knows, If enough people ask for Bread & Butter Pudding, this traditional gem of a pud might just be appearing on more menus and getting the credit that it deserves.
