Plum Duff
Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 3 hrs
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup breadcrumb, pressed down firmly
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon mixed spice, heaping
- 1 1/2 cups sultanas and currants
- 2 tablespoons golden syrup
- 125 g melted butter
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup milk, to mix
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- essence of 1 lemons or the rind of a lemon, grated
Recipe
- 1 mix all dry ingredients except baking soda and make a well in the middle.
- 2 add golden syrup and melted butter.
- 3 dissolve baking soda in milk, add lemon rind or essence and mix together.
- 4 scald a pudding cloth and flour generously.
- 5 to do this you will need a piece of calico or a cotton tea towel at least 65cm in diameter.
- 6 scald the cloth in boiling water then wring out and lay cloth out on a flat surface.
- 7 sprinkle both sides lightly with flour.
- 8 place the cloth over a large bowl and push it into the bowl from the center to form a lining.
- 9 or you can use a greased pudding basin.
- 10 add mixture, then tie up the cloth but not too tightly.
- 11 have a pot of water boiling and place a plate, such as a saucer, upended in the bottom to keep the pudding off the base of the pot and add the pudding.
- 12 boil for 3 hours.
- 13 the flour on the cloth should give pudding a lovely thick skin.
- 14 this plum duff is delicious with custard or cream.
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