Name: Sticky date & ginger pudding
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: English
Ingredients: 85g butter plus extra for greasing; 200g medjool dates pitted and roughly chopped; 200ml milk; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 140g self-raising flour; 2 tsp ground ginger; 85g dark muscovado sugar; 2 egg beaten; 2 balls stem ginger chopped; 100g dark muscovado sugar; 3 tbsp syrup from the ginger jar

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Sticky date & ginger pudding

Sticky date & ginger pudding

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Serves 6

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 50 mins

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The perfect pud - warming, comforting, rich, and easy. Serve with lots of custard.

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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85g butter

plus extra for greasing
200g medjool dates

pitted and roughly chopped
200ml milk
1 tsp vanilla

essence
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
140g self-raising flour
2 tsp ground ginger
85g dark muscovado sugar
2 egg

beaten
2 balls stem ginger

chopped

For the sauce

100g dark muscovado sugar
3 tbsp syrup

from the ginger jar

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal480
fat16g
saturates9g
carbs82g
sugars62g
fibre2g
protein7g
salt1.15g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Lightly grease a deep 2-litre (about 28 x 20cm) oval baking dish. Tip the dates into a pan, pour over the milk and bring up to scalding point. Remove from the heat, add the vanilla essence and bicarbonate of soda, then leave to one side. Sift the flour and ginger into a bowl, then add the sugar, butter and eggs. Beat with an electric whisk for about 5 mins. Fold in the date mixture and stem ginger, then pour into the baking dish.
step 2

For the sauce, sprinkle the sugar over the pudding batter, then drizzle with the syrup. Pour 250ml boiling water over (do not stir), then bake for 40-45 mins until the pudding is firm to the touch. Serve spoonfuls of the pudding with a generous helping of syrupy sauce from the bottom of the dish. Great with vanilla ice cream or pouring cream.

RECIPE TIPS

FAIRTRADE SUGAR

Billington’s, Co-op, Equal Exchange, Traidcraft and Whitworths all make a range of Fairtrade sugar. For this recipe, we used Traidcraft dark muscovado sugar, available in health food stores, wholefood shops, by mail order and online from Traidcraft at traidcraftshop.co.uk

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2007

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