| Where: | Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire at the Community Centre off Caldene Avenue |
| When: | 3rd Weekend in April (or near) |
| Time: | 1 pm |
Dock Pudding is a local delicacy little-known outside the Calder Valley area of Yorkshire and the Competition was founded in 1971 to help preserve it. The Pudding is made from the leaves of Polygonum Bistorta (which is not the same as Common Dock ,though they look alike) mixed with nettles, oatmeal, onions and seasoning, and served with bacon and eggs. Competitors cook a whole cooked breakfast including the Dock Pudding and the winner receives a cup; the judging takes place behind closed doors so that the competitors are unknown to the judges, while the audience can watch the cooking on stage in the hall. Expect traditional Yorkshire brass band accompaniment.
Helpful Hints
In 2024 it was on Sunday 21st April.- 2025 date is yet to be announced.
The event is dependent upon a supply of suitable plants and in 2018 it had to be cancelled as the long winter meant that there were too few to run it, but this is a rare occurrence.
You can buy samples of Dock Pudding from a stall at the entrance to the event – it’s a bit like spinach (and reminded me also of the flavour of crispy seaweed) – and plenty of delicious cakes are also on offer. If you can’t make it to the competition, you can also buy Dock Pudding at the Midgley Spaw Sunday walk (see Calderdale Spaw Sunday article).
Click here for the venue: https://www.facebook.com/MythomlroydCommunityCentre
Click here to find out more : https://www.visitcalderdale.com/whats-on/
and here for the event’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wdpc2016/
Venue contact details: Telephone 01422 – 883023
My mother was born in Mytholmroid over 100 years ago. Every April relatives would visit us in Preston with earthenware bowls of dock pudding. We did find two sources one , in Houghton, and another near Coniston so each year afterwards contributed our own supply of docks. I live in Kent and wonder if there is any supply of frozen pudding I can buy by mail order. Much as I search I have never found docks anywhere else. if I had a choice dock pudding would be my last meal !!! Please help. Thank you
Hi Bette,
Sounds like you need a supply of dock pudding! I live a good distance from Mytholmroyd myself, well outside the area for dock pudding making but if you contact the good folk at the Mytholmroyd Community Association I expect they may be able to help out. You can contact them on 01422 883023 (phone)or visit their website at http://www.mytholmroydcommunityassociation.co.uk/ then scroll down the page – you’ll find a contact form link at the bottom on the right hand side. Their community centre is where the championship is held so if anybody can supply a mail order pudding, it’ll be likely they’ll know about it!
Best of luck,
Averil
Hi, Please note, the event in 2017 is being held on Sunday 23rd April.
Thanks Lisa!
I’ve out the date up on the website with a link to the Facebook page. Thanks again,
Averil
Can you let us know the date for 2018 please so that we can publish it in the lists of events on the BBC Radio Leeds Sunday Gardening Facebook page
Hi Graham,
You’ve got through to calendarcustoms rather than the Mytholmroyd Dock Pudding organisers – they don’t seem to have confirmed the date yet for this year but if you head to their Facebook page they should know by now I expect…When I find out I’ll let you know.
Best wishes,
Averil
Just found out it’s Sunday 15th April this year ( I messaged the Mytholmroyd Community and Leisure Centre page on Facebook)
Averil