Selfridges Dukeshill Christmas Pudding

Purchased: Dec 2009
Best Before: 30th June 2010
Cooked: Microwave
Lit Up: Yes
Cream or Custard: Ice Cream
Packaging: Red plastic tub wraped in muslin
Appearance: Mid coloured
Texture: A little cakey, soft, not very exciting. No nuts.
Taste: Fairly tasteless to be honest, it's a pretty non-descript pudding. Fairly fruity. Not really a great lasting taste either. Very disappointing given the 15 pounds original price tag.

Score: 4/10

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Cole's Foods Christmas Puddings

This is a selection pac of 4 puds. I tried the English Privilege and Brandy, Port and Walnut puds.

Purchased: Gift 2008 or 2007
Best before: July 2009
Cooked: Microwave
Lit up: No
Cream or Custard: Custard
Packaging: Silver tub containing 4 small puds. Each pud in it's own plastic tub.
Apearance: EP is a fairly light coloured pud with a dull appearance. BPW is dark and a litle shiney.
Texture: EP rather dry, cakey kind of texture. BPW much softer and a bit gooey.
Taste: EP flavour is quite nice, but the dryness of it makes it hard to really work it out! Quite fruity in general, with a nice bit of spice. Slightly odd after flavour though that lingers a bit too long. BPW noticeably different in that it has an alcoholic flavour to it and not a lot else. Overall both puds are quite disappointing.

Score: EP - 3, BPW - 4

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Sainsbury's vs ALDI

I was away at the weekend with a group of friends and one evening we had Christmas Pudding for pudding. There were two pudding brought, both 900g sized ones, one from ALDI and one from Sainsbury's. I mentioned that I'd had Sainsbury's selection from the last year and not enjoyed them, but hadn't tried an ALDI one yet. People were surprised to hear that I reviewed puddings... and were sceptical about the Sainsbury's pud being so poor. They were both cooked in the microwave and served with cream. I don't know exact details of the puddings, but they were both "luxury" ones. ALDI up first and it was really nice. It crumbled away, which is a bit of a shame, but the taste was good. It was also nice a nutty (which didn't please E too much). I can't post a full review as I don't have the full details of the pudding.

Anyway, so ALDI's pud was enjoyed and all who had it agreed it was nice... the Sainsbury's pud was cooked next and passed around. I was not wrong with my reviews shortly before Christmas on this one. It was horrible still. I've no idea what they did to their puddings this last year, but they got it wrong. Cue much amazement from some others that it could be so poor and I may have just got a couple of new readers of the blog this year (bringing the total readership up to about 3 people!).

New Year's Resolutions

1. Eat more Christmas Puddings this year

2. Remember to review them and post them on the blog