4 STEAK & KIDNEY PUDDING

Helen Graves is a barbecue expert and award-winning recipe writer (helengraves.co.uk). She is the co-founder of Pit, a magazine dedicated to live-fire cooking. She lives in south London.

‘Mine is steak and kidney pudding. I made it for the first time recently and

This pudding has such a simple flavour

it wasn’t until I tasted it that I realised how much it reminded me of my childhood. Mum used to cook it all the time. It’s so comforting and different to food I usually cook as I tend to add a lot of flavour. But this pudding has such a simple flavour. It’s really nostalgic.

‘Mine didn’t taste as good as Mum’s. They never do, do they?’