BLESSED BE HE THAT INVENTED PUDDING

The great British pudding, versatile and wonderful in all its guises, has been a source of nourishment and delight since the days of the Roman occupation, and probably even before then. By faithfully recreating recipes from historical cookery texts and updating them for today’s kitchens and ingredients, Regula Ysewijn has revived over 80 beautiful puddings for the modern home cook.

There are ancient savoury dishes such as the Scottish haggis or humble beef pudding, traditional sweet and savoury pies, pastries, jellies, ices, flummeries, junkets, jam roly-poly and, of course, the iconic Christmas pudding. Regula tells the story of each one, sharing the original recipe alongside her own version, while paying homage to the cooks, writers and moments in history that helped shape them.

REGULA YSEWIJN is a photographer and graphic designer from Belgium. She was born and raised in Antwerp where she went to art school and taught herself to cook. Her photography is inspired by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance paintings she grew up with. She is the editor of the award-winning blog Miss Foodwise, which is dedicated to the subject of British food history and culture.

BRUNO VERGAUWEN is an illustrator, art director and creator of the beautiful illustrations in this book that help tell the story of British pudding.