Mascarpone and Gorgonzola cheeses sweetened and mixed with crushed walnuts and sugar, folded into whipped cream and served chilled.

Christmas pudding

A sort of bread pudding made with stale bread cut up and mixed with nuts, raisins and custard, baked until set. It is often sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and browned and then cooled before serving.

Pasta pudding

Peach pudding

"Diplomatic pudding." Cabinet pudding, made with lady fingers, sponge fingers, filled with custard and candied fruits.

Plum pudding. In Italy this describes a pie case filled with plums, dried fruits, nuts, lemon peel and Marsala with cream.

"Ricotta pudding." A pudding made with creamed Ricotta cheese sweetened and flavoured with cocoa and vanilla and poured into a mould lined with lady fingers.

Rice pudding

An iced chestnut pudding.