May 25, 2008: Standard Mandarin Maple Pudding

complete disaster. (You know what they enjoin almost men together with baking recipes - don't endeavour to alter them.) Dishes were thrown, things were said - nosotros clearly needed approximately other interruption from each other.

With wintertime returning in i lawsuit again I wanted to discovery out if this pudding together with I could perish 'just expert friends'. I develop almost recreating the comfortable surround of our starting fourth dimension meeting. Grind, grate, beat, fold: everything seemed to survive running smoothly together with I started to relax. Then I'd simply seat the pudding into the oven when I realised I'd forgotten to add together the baking powder. Crap. So it was a hasty trip dorsum out in i lawsuit again for a highly unconventional stirring of the pulverisation into the batter, spell trying my best non to disturb the underlayer of maple syrup.

You know what? Everything turned out fine. Crisp peak (all cratered from the belated baking powder), moist together with slightly coarse interior alongside hints of Mandarin together with almond, together with a sugariness together with glutinous maple base. We've been coming together cheerfully over cups of tea for a total week!

Mandarin maple pudding
(credited to Matthew Evans, together with most probable taken from the Good Living department of the SMH inwards 2005 or 2006)

200g butter, softened
150g castor sugar
2 tablespoons golden syrup
3 eggs
1 tablespoon Mandarin zest
150g self-raising flour, sifted
50g almond meal
125mL maple syrup

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Use an electrical mixer to cream together the butter, saccharide together with golden syrup. Beat inwards the eggs, i at a time, until good mixed. Fold inwards the zest, flour together with almond meal.

Grease a 2L casserole or pudding dish, together with thence spread the pudding batter evenly over it. Pour the maple syrup over the batter equally evenly equally you lot can. Cover the dish alongside foil.

Fill a baking tray alongside hot water, 2cm deep. Place the pudding dish into it, together with thence seat the lot inwards the oven to bake for an hour.

Take off the foil, plough the oven downward to 180 degrees C together with bake for 20-30 to a greater extent than minutes - until the peak is golden together with firm, together with a skewer comes out cleanly.

Serve warm alongside cream.