Summer pudding is much easier to make than you think. Try our step-by-step video recipe for a perfect pudding. Equipment and preparation: You'll need a 1 litre/2 pint pudding basin.

Rob: Yes, that』s right.In the old days, people used to say 『the proof of the pudding is in the eating』 – which means you have to eat the pudding to know what』s inside it.

He says the inn serves the pudding because it's a part of the area's history. The inn even uses stone-ground cornmeal, made on-site on an 18th century replica grist mill.

With or without the booze, a bowl of homemade butterscotch pudding is about as soothing as dessert gets, a sweet, creamy comfort to any pandemic-weary soul. Recipe: Old-Fashioned Butterscotch Pudding.