Steamed Date Pudding With Almond Cream Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Grease a 2qrt pudding mold or any bowl that will fit in a bigger pot to steam it.
• 2. Sift flour, salt, and baking soda.
• 3. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Add raw veggie along with dates and nuts till just blended. Add dry flour mix and blend till incorporated.
• 4. Turn into greased mold and cover with plastic wrap. put mold in bigger pot. The water should come up half way in the sides. Cover with lid and cook on med/low for 3 hours. Serve warm with sauce of your choice. I like Almond Cream Sauce.
• 5. I have posted Almond Cream Sauce for you to enjoy with this dish

Steps:

• 1. Mix sugar, salt and cornstarch in a sauce pan and mix thoroughly. Gradually stir in milk and blend till smooth.
• 2. Set over med. heat stirring constantly until it bubbles. Remove from heat
• 3. In a separate bowl whisk eggs and then gradually add hot mix in, whisking while you do it to prevent the eggs from scrambling. Put the mixture back on the heat till it bubbles once again. Remove and add Almond extract and butter. Stir just till the butter in melted and combined.
• 4. Place plastic wrap directly on the sauce to prevent a skin forming. Place in fridge till cold.
• 5. When your ready to serve. Whip the whipping cream till stiff (don't add sugar, the sauce will have enough sweetness) fold the whip cream into the almond cream and server over Warm Date Pudding
• 6. You can use this for any cake or tarts, ect. Enjoy
• 7. *time for me to get on the tredmill*

Steps:

• 1. Mix the dry ingredients
• 2. Beat together the butter, milk, and eggs, then add to dry ingredients and mix well
• 3. Butter the mold (the bowl you will be cooking the pudding in) then place the pudding mixture into the mold. Some people also line the mold with parchment paper to make it easier to get the pudding out of the mold after it is cooked.
• 4. After wrapping the mold in buttered grease paper and aluminum foil (see BBC video below) place mold in steamer pan to steam for two or three hours til done
• 5. An English pudding may be steamed in A. A steamer pan (similar to a double boiler with holes in the bottom of the top pan) B. A Slow cooker C. A large stock pot on the stove
• 6. To watch an excellent video from the BBC that explains how to wrap and seal a pudding, then cook it in a stock pot go here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/videos/1060/steaming-a-pudding OR HERE FOR MORE TIPS AND HINTS: http://allrecipes.co.uk/how-to/47/how-to-steam-christmas-pudding.aspx
• 7. It can also be done in a slow cooker: After the pudding is wrapped (see BBC video above) place the pudding mold into the slow cooker. Pour in sufficient water to come 1/2 way up the sides of the pudding bowl. Cover and cook on HIGH for 5-7 hours. (You may need to scrunch up a bit of aluminum foil, or use an inverted saucer to lift the mold off the bottom of the crock pot.)
• 8. No matter the method, be sure to also keep a kettle of hot water on the stove, so you can top up the hot water in the steamer pan every so often. You don't want the steamer pan to go dry, it must have water and steam in it continually to finish steaming the pudding and since steam evaporates, the water level will need to be replenished. Just keep checking it every so often. You also do not want the hot water to bubble into the mold, that would ruin the pudding, so that is why the water level must be kept at half way up the bowl (mold) and the heat must keep the water steaming but not at a rolling boil.

Steps:

• In a saucepan, bring 1 cup brown sugar and water to a boil. Cook and stir for 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and add butter; set aside. In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and remaining brown sugar. Stir in milk until smooth. add dates and walnuts., Pour hot brown sugar syrup into an 8-in. square baking dish. Spoon batter over syrup. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of cake topping comes out clean. Serve warm with whipped cream.

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the dates, walnuts and sugar. In another bowl, beat egg, milk and vanilla. Add to date mixture; mix well. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to the date mixture. , Spread into a greased 1-qt. baking dish; dot with butter. Bake at 325° for 30 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve with whipped cream.