A delicious pudding with a fruity sauce.
Ingredients
- ingredients for pudding:
- 2 tsp butter
- 250 ml milk
- 100 g digestive biscuits (crushed finely)
- 2 tblsp granulated sugar
- 2 eggs (well-beaten)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
- ingredients for sauce:
- 8 canned apricot halves (drained and chopped)
- 4 canned apricot halves (drained)
- 165 ml reserved juice
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 tsp cornflour (dissolved in 1 tablespoon apricot juice)
Method
- Grease a 850ml/1.5 pint pudding basin, using 1 teaspoon of the butter.
- Bring the milk to just below boiling point in a saucepan, over moderate heat.
- Remove the pan from the heat and add the crumbed biscuits, stirring until soft.
- Beat in the sugar, eggs and vanilla essence until well blended.
- Pour the mixture into the greased pudding bowl.
- Cut a circle of baking parchment and one of aluminium foil about 10cm/4in larger than the diameter of the pudding bowl.
- Tie these securely with string (foil uppermost) around the rim of the bowl.
- Place a large, deep saucepan, half-filled with water, over a high heat, and bring to the boil.
- Put the bowl in the pan, cover it and reduce the heat to low.
- Boil for 45-50 minutes, or until the pudding is firm, adding more water if necessary.
- Apricot Sauce: Although imported apricots are available at this time of the year they are completely tasteless, and like cotton wool to the touch so canned apricots are best.
- Pour the reserved apricot juice into a small saucepan and add the chopped apricots, ginger and lemon juice.
- Bring to the boil over a moderate heat.
- Add the dissolved cornflour, stirring constantly.
- Reduce the heat and stir for 2 – 3 minutes until the sauce has thickened.
- Remove from the heat and keep warm.
- Remove the large saucepan from the heat and lift out the pudding bowl.
- Discard the covering, invert a serving dish over the top of the pudding bowl, and reverse them.
- The pudding should slide out easily onto the plate.
- Decorate the top with the reserved apricot halves and pour the sauce over.
- Serve immediately.
