Pegasus Post: September 30, 2021

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Mouth-watering traditional puddings
There’s nothing
quite like a hearty
pudding to go with
the evening meal.
Try these two fruit
puddings before
warm summer
weather calls for cold
desserts
Fruit pudding
Serves 8
Ingredients
600gm dried fruit, place in
largest casserole dish with
¼ cup sherry
125gm butter, melt, then add
Finely grated rind of 1 large
orange
1 egg, beaten with a fork
2 cups flour sifted with one
teaspoon baking soda, one
teaspoon mixed spice and one
teaspoon ground cloves
½ cup brown sugar
Directions
Select a heatproof bowl (or loaf
tin) which will hold five cups and
will fit into crockpot.
Grease the bowl/tin with butter,
then line with microwave-proof
cling film.
Microwave fruit/sherry for five
minutes or until all the fruit is
hot, plump and shiny. The
liquid will soak into the fruit as it
cools.
Cool the fruit mixture to room
temperature before using it.
Turn the crockpot onto high
and fill with two cups hot water.
Add brown sugar to the flour/
baking soda/mixed spice/ground
cloves, then tip butter/orange
rind/egg into dry ingredients and
mix well.
Add the fruit mixture and mix
gently, but thoroughly.
Spoon mixture into prepared
bowl/tin and level off the top.
Cover with tin foil, folding the
edges down over the bowl.
Lower the bowl/tin into the
crockpot and put the lid on.
Cook on high to eight to 12
hours.
Take out while still warm as it
will be less likely to stick to the
container at this stage, then wrap
and cool completely.
Serve with brandy sauce,
custard and/or whipped cream.
Caramel sticky date
pudding
Serves 8
Ingredients
RICH:
Dried fruit
is a sweet
ingredient
to use in a
pudding and
the taste is
divine.
1 cup water, place in largest
casserole dish with
400gm pitted dates, chopped
roughly
150gm butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup plain flour, sifted with two
teaspoons cinnamon
2 eggs, lightly beaten
Directions
Microwave water/dates/butter/
golden syrup/sugar for 5min, stir,
zap for another 5min, stir (liquid
needs to have reduced right
down, leaving dates just moist).
Remove from microwave and
leave to cool for 15min, while still
warm add baking soda to the date
mixture and stir to combine, then
add flour/cinnamon and the eggs,
stirring until everything is evenly
combined.
Pour into small springform pan
that has been well greased and
lined with baking paper, and bake
at 180 deg C for 50min.
While it is baking, make
caramel sauce, as follows:
½ cup brown sugar, place in
largest casserole dish with
½ cup golden syrup
50gm butter
1 cup cream
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Microwave for a minute at a
time until all the ingredients have
dissolved, stirring in-between.
Keep heating and stirring until
sauce turns a golden caramel
colour. Pour over the pudding.
Serve with ice cream.
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