Yesterday was a heavy drinking session for myself, but I caught that Top 10 Christmas Foods... at number two was Christmas Pudding.... was it me and the alcohol, or did I really hear some of our great English Chefs saying they FRY CHRISTMAS PUDDING... arrrrgh, that sounds a little odd.... were they being serious....?

Fried in butter with some bacon and eggs......delicious.......you should try it some time. Might be a good hangover cure!!

Hope you are feeling much better today.

Not with bacon and eggs - please! That sounds rather like kippers and custard!
Fry in a little butter and serve with a lemony sauce, to cut the richness. Lemon Sorbet is good. Or you could simply reheat in the microwave.

Victoria....

Don't knock it until you have tried it!!

we fry our "clootie-dumpling " up sameway livewire-think its a regional thing!

Arthur - what is clootie dumpling? My stepfather used to make a horrid pudding every Sunday, it was a big suet dumpling thing boiled in a cloth, and eaten with jam or syrup. We all hated it. My step-sister and I were talking about it only the other day, and it must be over 50 years since we were obliged to eat it!

Hi Arthur -

I love Cloutie Dumpling, on it's own, with custard, or fried like the Christmas Pudding. I'm in west central Scotland, near Glasgow. I think I read somewhere that you are further up north. Maybe it is a "Scottish" trait.

Victoria, all I can say is your stepdad could not have been very good at making a Cloutie Dumpling. Properly made it is delicious. You don't know what you are missing!!

thats it livewire-exactly-yes its a scottish thing and very nice to.

I like my fry ups people and I like my puddings... but frying them..... maybe I might try it on Boxing Day.... that's of course if I have any Christmas pudding left over.... What is the recipe for this Cloutie Dumpling? As a West Indian we have dumplings.... but I've yet to eat one wth Jam or Treacle....

I think what we hated most about the pud was that it was boiled in a cloth, and when you tipped it out, it had a slimy sort of coating. It was rather heavy, rib-sticking stuff, not what we wanted after a good roast dinner. Also, getting the cloth clean afterwards was absolute hell!