I have been having a lot of fun deep diving into the history of pudding and making the recipes, but there is a group of recipes that are quite annoying. Pudding is supposed to meet 3 criteria:

I have lost track of how many contemporary recipes have ingredients such as “organic free range eggs”, “organic raw milk”, “lard rendered from a heritage breed pig”, “reduced fat yoghurt”. I have seen this crime committed by “celebrity chefs” as well as everyday food bloggers. There is no excuse for this.

If you are composing a recipe and it is full of such ingredients: STOP. Go back. Look at what you have written, then re-write it to list “eggs”, “milk”, “lard”, “yoghurt”.

Write the recipe without any fancy language or fancy ingredients and trust your readers to make the recipe with what they have in their home. Surely this is the whole point of home cooking?

A recipe is there to help someone break away from fast food and convenience food. Please, for the love of all that’s holy, stop making it harder for people.

EDIT TO ADD
Daniel at Casual Kitchen coined a nice phrase for this: “ingredient bragging“, and he expands nicely on my rant here.