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Desserts and Pastries
C
HRISTMAS
P
UDDING
Serves: 6 to 8
Ingredients:
1 cooking apple, peeled and grated
1 carrot, peeled and grated
1 orange, juice and grated rind
400
g
mixed dried fruit
45 ml brandy
15 ml black treacle
50
g
self-raising À our
pinch of salt
15 ml cocoa
5 ml mixed spice
3 ml nutmeg
100
g
shredded suet
150
g
fresh breadcrumbs
50
g
mixed peel
50
g
À aked almonds
2 eggs, beaten
Method:
1. Place apple and carrot in a large bowl. Place on
the base of the oven and cook on 1000 W for
5 minutes. Beat well to make a thick puree.
2. Stir in juice, rind and mixed fruit. Cook on
1000 W for 2 minutes.
3. Stir in brandy and treacle. Stand for 5 minutes.
Beat in rest of ingredients. Press into the pudding
basin. Cover and cook on 600 W for 5 minutes.
4. Stand for 5 minutes. Cook on 1000 W for another
2 to 3 minutes or until just ¿ rm.
NOTE
:
One of the advantages of using your Microwave to
make this traditional pudding is that it can be made
the week before Christmas and stored in a cool dry
place. Do not attempt to make the pudding earlier
than this, since the À avour will not improve with
keeping, unlike a traditionally steamed pudding.
C
HOCOLATE
F
UDGE
P
UDDING
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
50
g
margarine
100
g
self-raising À our
100
g
caster sugar
pinch of salt
25
g
cocoa or drinking chocolate
1 egg, beaten
5 ml vanilla essence
60 ml milk
Sauce:
100
g
soft brown sugar
25
g
cocoa or drinking chocolate
150 ml hot water
Method:
1. Melt margarine in a small dish on the base of the
oven on 600 W for 40 seconds to 1 minutes or
until melted.
2. In a large bowl place À our, sugar, salt and cocoa.
Add melted margarine along with egg, vanila
essence and milk. Beat well. Pour mixture into
soufÀ e dish.
3. Mix together brown sugar and cocoa and sprinkle
over mixture. Fill water tank. Pour over hot water
and cook on 1000 W for 5 to 6 minutes, after 4
minutes of cooking set Steam Shot for 3 minutes.
The pudding will separate on cooking, giving a
chocolate fudge sauce at the bottom.
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