Pudding to feed 30???!

nabowla

Now, I know you guys like a challenge! Can anyone come up with a good pudding suggestion to feed 30 this Sunday?

Background: every 3 months or so I cook Sunday lunch for 30 at my local church. The food has to be fairly traditional (the majority of guests are older people), home-made and cheap. Oh, and it's got to be something that I can prepare at home and carry in without falling to bits. I usually end up making trifle or tiramisu in large tupperware boxes as it seems to survive the journey reasonably well. I did once have a go at doing apple crumble (stewed the apple & made the topping at home, then cooked it in the oven at church) but it took me hours (and I mean hours!) to peel all the flipping apples. I'm not doing that again!

I really want to do something different this time. I thought about doing Eton Mess but the strawberries seem terribly expensive. Apart from that, my mind's gone blank. Please, please can someone rescue me?!

Trow

What about a plum crumble? No need to peel, just half the plums, remove the stone and place in the overnproof dish, sprinkle with sugar and cover with the crumble topping. Bung in the oven till cooked. Its lovely and very easy.

cymro1170

Bread and butter pudding....

Lucie_2

Gooseberry crumble. No peeling, chopping or removing of stones. Is it still gooseberry season?

Katgoddess

My canteen at work serves sponge pudding with custard in catering trays.

Sarahsaver

if you can get hold of a deep bun tin make 30 individual mini bread puddings

MATH

The sponge pudding would be quite easy if you have a food mixer. You could offer people a choice of dibbing into the syrup sponge tray or the jam sponge tray, the ginger sponge or chocolate. Bulk custard is also fairly easy.

Cheese cake can also be mass produced in catering trays but you need a large fridge to chill them all.

We also have lunches at our Church quite freqeuntly but we have this rule that everyone turns up with one dish so that some poor soul (you in your Church obviously) doesn't end up with all the cooking. We call them Faith Lunches ie you have to have faith that 30 odd people arn't all going to turn up with a pasta salad:rotfl: It does happen

squeaky

How about the cornflake and treacle pie that we all used to have at school (and custard, of course. In fact, there's quite a few of those old school puds that would do, I reckon.

School puddings

Lillibet_2

cymro1170 wrote:

Bread and butter pudding....

Throw in a couple of tins of cheap peaches & use apricot jam on alternate slices and spinkle a little nutmeg on top for a STUNNING pudding which will have everyone clamering for the recipe;)

skintchick

MATH wrote:

The sponge pudding would be quite easy if you have a food mixer. You could offer people a choice of dibbing into the syrup sponge tray or the jam sponge tray, the ginger sponge or chocolate. Bulk custard is also fairly easy.

Cheese cake can also be mass produced in catering trays but you need a large fridge to chill them all.

We also have lunches at our Church quite freqeuntly but we have this rule that everyone turns up with one dish so that some poor soul (you in your Church obviously) doesn't end up with all the cooking. We call them Faith Lunches ie you have to have faith that 30 odd people arn't all going to turn up with a pasta salad:rotfl: It does happen

We call ours 'bring and share', cos that's what you do

But we do have a co-ordinator who makes sure there's variety.

nabowla

You guys are the tops! Less than an hour after my post I've got enough ideas to use every time it's my turn for the next year! I'm a happy bunny :-)

I think I'll do bread & butter pudding as no-one's done that before (someone did crumble last week). We've got large metal catering trays which are definitely big enough for the ingredients. Do you think that using metal trays will alter the cooking times though? On the few occasions that I've made bread & butter pudding at home I've used a china pudding bowl.

BTW, Lillibet, I'm holding you entirely responsible for ruining my diet. In the interests of scientific research I'm going to have to try making that peach/apricot bread & butter pudding this evening...................