Soups, salads, potatoes and other hot vegetables, hot puddings, fruit and yoghurt are fixed-priced items: main courses and the 'grill bar special' are among those which can be adjusted.

His crème brûlée tastes good but instead of cool against hot, crunchy against smooth, we are served hot pudding.

Turn out hot puddings into serving bowls.

"Och, ye ken Abernathy's fine," his wife interrupted, pausing in her instructions to a servant for the preparation of the hot pudding.

On the menu: steak, casseroles, spaghetti and sauce, a roast of game, potatoes, rice, fresh or canned vegetables, and, for dessert, cake, hot puddings, stewed or fresh fruit.

The main restaurant of the Aton Hotel is year-round dependable for friendly service and good Egyptian cuisine, from lentil soup and grills to hot bread-and-milk pudding.

Just round the corner from the herbalist's was a stall that sold hot black puddings.

I didn't think you'd want a hot pudding.