Syrup Sponge Pudding

Well I made this from scratch - this is what I call real comfort food.

Plain Sponge Pudding

4oz butter or margarine
4oz sugar
2 eggs beaten
A few drops of vanilla essence
6 oz self raising flour
a little milk to mix

Half fill a steamer or a large saucepan with water and put it on to boil.

Meanwhile, grease a 1 1/2 pint pudding basin.

Then cream together the butter and sugar until very pale and very light.  Add in the beaten eggs with the essence and about a tablespoon of the flour beating well after each addition.  Then fold in the rest of the flour  with a little milk once the eggs are incorporated until a dropping consistency is achieved.

Put 2 tablespoons of golden syrup in the bottom of the greased pudding bowl before adding the mixture.

Cover with greased greaseproof paper or foil incorporating a pleat into the greaseproof or the foil as this will allow the pudding to expand.  Put in steamer and put on lid.  Cook for about 1 1/2 hours.

Serve with Syrup Sauce:

4-5 tablespoons golden syrup
3 tablespoons of water
juice of half a lemon

Warm the syrup  and the water in a saucepan and stir well.  Simmer for 2-3 minutes then add the lemon juice.

Serve with the Syrup Pudding

AND

Home made custard

Heres how in pictures:

The made up mixture

Putting the syrup into the greased pudding bowl

Then the made up sponge mixture

 Putting a pleat in the greaseproof

The strung pudding with its lid

Placed ready for cooking in the steamer

making the syrup sauce

The cooked pudding after removal of the greaseproof

The cooked Syrup Sponge after being released from the bowl

And after dribbling some of the extra syrup sauce over it

And served up ready to eat

It was absolutely delicious.

Confort food fix served for while

Catch you soon

Pattypan

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