It is also a delicious dessert vinegar, suitable for pouring over dark, heavy puddings (such as fruit pudding).
Yet Winslet manages to overegg an already very custard-heavy pudding.
The Independent's tasters were not utterly bowled over ('for a heavier pudding, it is rather nice') but there is no denying the generosity of its melting mass of fruit and alcoholic heft - 5 per cent brandy, 3.5 per cent sherry, 2 per cent cognac (which raises questions about the previous brandy) and 1 per cent rum.
Heavy bread pudding, quaintly described as "Our" Classic French Bread Pudding, was the only dessert that really bombed.
The mascarpone-rich tiramisù was appealing, too, but we should have skipped the dense, heavy bread pudding and the rather prosaic warm flourless chocolate cake.
But banana, baked in hardened pizza dough, seemed pointless, and creme brulee under a thick topping of torched sugar was as heavy as pudding.
Tender rose-pink grilled squab rates a better garnish than the overly heavy corn pudding, but for a flawless finish opt for any of the warm fruit pies with buttermilk ice cream, or the world's most unctuously chocolatey tiramisù.
You take out all of the regular supplies – these are meant to last over the festive period, and therefore include an ominously heavy Christmas pudding – before removing them, the orange sleeve glowing up at you.
For dessert, the vanilla-heavy bread pudding wowed me the first time but not the second — it was too thick, too reminiscent of yellow cake.
Add 1 cup heavy cream to pudding mix.
