Baking Challenge 3 - Traditional British Pudding

BLOG-CHECKING LINES: The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet.


The pudding concoction I made was flavoured with raisins, grated apple and lemon zest... pretty tasty. I had originally wanted to make steak and kidney pudding, but didn't take into account that most of the butchers would be shut for the ANZAC day weekend. The lady at AC butchery seemed fairly insulted when I asked for suet and ox kidney - she informed me in no uncertain terms that they do not sell offal there!

Cooking Challenge 2 - Brunswick Stew

BLOG-CHECKING LINES: The 2010 April Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Wolf of Wolf’s Den. She chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make Brunswick Stew. Wolf chose recipes for her challenge from The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt Lee and Ted Lee, and from the Callaway, Virginia Ruritan Club.


This one was a tad disappointing... I added the full amount of stock called for in the recipe and it ended up more like a soup than a stew. It tasted pretty exciting up until adding the vinegar and lemon juice at the last stage, which seemed to erase a lot of the depth of flavour.