Summer Postcards: Summer Pudding
Suzanne presents Muriel with the magnificent dome of scarlet studded with berries that is summer pudding and reveals the dessert's intriguing origins, which lie in 19th-century hydropathy. What inspired the British to deploy a plain, uncompromising pudding made of bread and native fruit as a health food? Suzanne seeks out the original recipe of the pudding, which turns out to be the tip of the iceberg of a history of spa towns and hydropathic hotels powered by the idea of water as a cure-all, and its eccentric and sometimes fanatical Victorian promoters. Fashionable in the 1920s, summer…
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