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

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

You said "customary to offer or put"

If I were offering a range of puddings (inc pies, cakes etc) suited to the time of year and a range of sauces that are customary for at least one of the offered puddings, I don't police what combination my guests would have.

Or if a guest said "I don't like sauce X", I might enumerate the set of sauces I had in that I think might to be more to their taste. It's customary to make guests feel welcome with food they might like, even when their likes are clearly strange and wrong :-)