I was reading in the newspapers today about something called “coorie”. In many ways this is the Scottish version of hygge. To “coorie in” means to snuggle up and applies to everything from log fires and sheepskins to food, exploring the outdoors – in fact everything that gives a sense of well-being.
Chocolate Pear Pudding is a great coorie dish. I love it as a Sunday lunch pudding. I can imagine it as an old fashioned nursery pudding in a story book like Peter Pan or Mary Poppins. Homely, comforting, easy to make and involves chocolate – what more could you want? I certainly would have no problem in snuggling/coorie in to it with its soft chocolatey sponge and unctuous, juicy pears. If you are a chocoholic serve it with more chocolate in the form of a sauce (homemade or your favourite bought one), although it does make a little sauce of its own where the pears juice mixes with the chocolate sauce at the bottom, or try it with cream or icecream and while you are at it why not both? Can you ever have too much coorie after all?