- Hearty & Grounding
- Desserts
- Prep 25 min
- Cook 2 h 30 min
- Serves 8
An old-fashioned pudding for a cold table. It contains beef suet, which is what makes the texture light and rich, so it is not vegetarian.
Ingredients
For the pudding
- 150 g self-raising flour
- 100 g fresh white breadcrumbs
- 150 g shredded beef suet
- 100 g dark brown sugar
- 250 g mixed dried fruit
- Zest and juice of 1 orange
- 1 apple, grated
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 2 eggs
- 100 ml milk
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- Butter, for the basin
To serve
- 500 ml warm custard
Method
- Butter a 1.2 litre pudding basin and spoon the golden syrup into the bottom.
- Mix the flour, breadcrumbs, suet, sugar, dried fruit, orange zest, apple and spice.
- Beat the eggs with the milk and orange juice, then stir into the dry mix. It should drop off a spoon.
- Spoon into the basin. Cover with a pleated layer of baking parchment and foil and tie with string.
- Steam in a pan of simmering water, halfway up the basin, for 2 1/2 hours, topping up the water when needed.
- Turn out onto a warm plate and serve with custard.
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