You said you'd feed me brandy and Christmas cake

[venta]

Of course, the other day's question about my leftover red wine missed the most important detail. So did I until now. There was me worrying about red wine when there was also leftover prosecco in the fridge (slack bastards, my dinner guests, never finish anything).

Anyway, I'm now addressing the issue. It's not as fizzy as it might be, but is otherwise surprisingly decent.

However: settle an important conundrum for us, will you?

I want to know what you think is usual to put on Christmas pudding. Not necessarily what you want on your pud, or that weird thing that your family's done for years, but the list of things you might consider it customary to offer, or put, on Christmas pud. (Why yes, the use of the pejorative word "normal" in the poll does indicate that I have an axe to grind ;)

[Poll #1948620]

If, like me, your answer is different based on whether the pud is hot or cold, this one is being served hot.

Comments

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

Ice cream? Surely they jest!
There's a thing like custard but not quite so thick or vanillaish (vanilline?) and also completely white. I think it's called white sauce, but that might be something that goes on the turkey - or is that bread sauce?
Anyhow, this white nearly-custard is acceptable as a normal thing to put on Christmas pudding. However, I don't like it! It sometimes has an unintended metallic aftertaste for some reason.

For me, you can't beat really thick custard or sensible single cream.

beckyc loses a kudo for spelling it with an X.

[venta.livejournal.com]

White sauce could be almost anything! Rum sauce, for example, is basically white sauce. But with rum in.

[lnr]

I think my mum adds a tiny bit of lemon juice too, which makes it a bit whiter than plain white sauce,

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Also: do not confuse sweet and savoury white sauces.

Rice milk turns a savoury white sauce into a sweet white sauce. This is less than ideal if you are using it as a base for mushroom sauce and are feeding it to guests.