Grapevine Pudding Recipes

[pickledtink]

PT
You have my sympathy but how about this low cal icecream?
150g fruit (sharp flavours work best, blackcurrants especially fab)
350g yoghurt
100ml single cream or creme fraiche
sugar to taste (or can use fructose)

put in a blender and whizz up together and put in an icecream maker to churn. Then freeze.

I use various flavours of yoghurt, vanilla and coconut work well. Eat this a lot in the summer, good use for allotment produce too, get about 6 servings from the above recipe.

I also love fruit cooked gently in orange juice with a nob of butter and sugar/honey to taste to eat with yoghurt, add something like chopped almonds, chocolate chips or coconut for a topping.
Sue

Thanks for the kind thought Sue but to be honest ice cream just doesn't float my boat at this time of year. I love all those scrumptious winter puddings. It has to be said, the British do mighty fine puddings.
* Now I am NOT coming into this thread again - definitely*

[dexterdoglancashire]

Thanks Bramble! After my disaster last weekend, will try it again, but this time just for me and OH! I also had a thought - what do you think about stuffing the apples with mincemeat? I think that would work as well. DDL

[Mrs Dobby]

Mincemeat sounbds like a great idea DDL! May have to try that myself!! Pouring in a little brandy or something else also springs to my mind, Mmmmm!

[Lesley Jay]

Mincemeat works well as a filling for baked apples.

[Waffler]

Yeah it's fab. You can also mix in broken off bits of marzipan with the mincemeat: a good way to use the trimmings from the Christmas cake!

[monkeybum]

The RC plum bread and butter pudding. Although it is a bit moreish and extremely fattening and i can't eat it anymore because of my coeliacs...argghhhhhh!

[Earthbabe]

Yeah it's fab. You can also mix in broken off bits of marzipan with the mincemeat: a good way to use the trimmings from the Christmas cake!

Or for real decadence add some good quality broken chocolate or choc chips and top with whipped cream.

Very calorie laden but at this time of year it can be justified I think.

[dinah gale]

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Here's the recipe I use for sticky toffee pud, Dexterdog . I'll take a look at the cartmel site though - can't have too many versions of stp.

6 oz dates, stoned and chopped
1 level teaspoon bicarb
2 oz butter
6 oz caster sugar
2 eggs
6 oz self-raising flour
half teaspoon vanilla essence

sauce:
7oz soft brown sugar
6 tablespoons double cream
4 and 1/2 oz butter
half teaspoon vanilla essence

To make pud: grease a 7 inch square cake tin.

Pour half pint of water over the dates and bring to the boil then remove pan from the heat. Add bicarb and leave to stand.

Cream sugar and butter, add eggs a bit at a time, beating well, then fold in flour, stir in dates with their liquid and vanilla essence.

Bake in prepared tin at Gas mark 4 (180C) for 30-40 minutes. You can freeze it at this stage if you want to.

For the sauce: mix sugar, cream, butter and vanilla esence together in a pan. Bring to the boil and simmer for 3 minutes. Pour a little of the sauce over the cooked pud then put it back in the oven to let the sauce soak in and bubble to a golden sort of colour.

Serve the rest of sauce separately. This is enough for 6-8 servings (depending on whether you're feeding teenage boys or not)

Really easy to make. Enjoy!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Thank you dinah - going to a "dinner party" next weekend, know this will go down a treat! DDL

[shirley]

I don't do xmas pud as I am the only one to eat it. As an alternative this year I will be cooking this.....

Christmas spiced cranberry, rum and orange pudding.

serves 4

100g softened butter
100g molases sugar
100g self raising flour
2 large eggs
2 tablspoons rum
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
zest of 1 orange oil for greasing
4 tablespoons good/home made cranberry sauce

for orange sauce
100 golden icing sugar juice 1 orange


Preheat oven gas 4 180c .fan 160c
cream butter and sugar together until the mixture becomes paler and fluffy. Add flour, eggs, rum, cinnamon and zest and mix well.
Grease 4 individual pudding moulds with oil and place a tablespoon of cranberry sauce in each.
Divide the pudding mixture evenly between the moulds. Place on a tray in the oven for 25-30 mins.

Meanwhile make the orange sauce by placing the icing sugar and 2 tablespoons of the juice into a saucepan, add more juice if a runnier sauce is needed. gently heat on low for 2 mins.
Remove the puddings from the oven and allow to stand for 5 mins. Loosen the sponges from the pudding moulds with a knife then turn them onto plates. Spoon over the orange sauce.

I also thought that I might serve with a grand marniere flavoured cream rather than the orange sauce.

[dexterdoglancashire]

ooohhh! shirley that sounds lovely! DDL

[Earthbabe]

Shirley I can feel a drool coming on as I read

[dexterdoglancashire]

sorry......just cleaning the keyboard! LOL DDL

[Earthbabe]

I've had the suction equipment out!!! LOL

[shirley]

Now then watch the dribbles.