Silver and Gold Have I None....

Christmas puddings; made, boiled and wrapped.. ready for Christmas and then our Winter, 2016.

Nanna's Apple Pudding.

Every year for husband E's birthday; I make his mother's apple pudding recipe.  Homemade pastry, filled with apple and cinamon and sugar and then a syrup of butter, water and sugar poured over it.  Baking reveals a pudding with crispy pastry combined with a doughy (almost caramalised) syrup with dough part.  Very nice with icecream.

Pudding was Requested.

...and made our Sunday roast dinner extra special. The recipe can be found here.

Bread and Butter Pudding.

Bread and Butter Pudding:

About 8 slices of raisin bread (buttered and crusts removed for a nicer pudding.)

Mix a custard-4 eggs and 500mL milk with a sprinkling of sugar.

Pour over and let sit for 30 minutes.

Bake in a bain marie for 40 minutes -ish.

For a yummy twist: pour over some blueberries (tinned best as they are very moist) and glaze the pudding with lime marmalade before baking.

Apple Pudding.

Every year for husband E's birthday, I attempt to recreate his Mother's apple pudding. Each year I write new notes to remember for the following year. The first year of marriage, we had the challenge of trying to find the recipe. In the last month a friend gave me a recipe that her husband's Aunt in England used. They were the same! I am not able to ask my Mother in Law for her tips as she died just before we were married.

Last night husband E thought it tasted just right, even though it did not look as he remembered!

Apple Crumble.

I will quickly post this quick and easy recipe. It helped to make soup and bread become a warm, comforting meal.

Apple Crumble

820g tin of pie apple (last night's had cinnamon in it)

120g butter

3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup brown sugar.

Pour apple into baking dish. In another bowl, melt butter and mix in flour and butter. Spread on top of pie apple and bake in medium oven for about 20 minutes. Delicious with vanilla icecream.

This recipe came from someone who I think got it from Mrs H. It might have changed in translation a little.....

The tree bears fruit

E's dad gave us some lemons, another sister in law had gathered 250 from his tree before our bag full! Tonight we had lemon pudding.

Lemon pudding

50g butter

130g sugar

4 tablespoons flour

4 eggs

juice of 4 lemons

500 mL milk

Mix and bake in a pudding bowl in an oven 180 degrees for about 50 minutes.

This recipe came from a newspaper supplement.

Saturday night roast

"There is nothing like a roast dinner." is a frequent comment from me. Tonight we had roast beef and vegetables. We have a tradition of always having a candle on the table when we have a roast. The children then all take turns to blow it out. We often have a pudding too, tonight it was chocolate.

Chocolate pudding

1 tablespoon butter

150g dark chocolate

85g sugar

4 eggs

1 tablespoon flour

Melt butter and chocolate, add other ingredients and then bake in oven for about 20minutes. The centre should be soft and gooey. Delicious. I got this recipe from the newspaper a few years ago.