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10.05.08 (15 review reads) |
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Advantages: Scrummy, cheap AND good for you
Disadvantages: None
It's finally getting warm, so it's time for me to drag out the summer pudding recipe.
Exact measurements vary on this because this is an "ensure food does not go to waste" recipe. It originated in a need to ensure that left over bread was used before it got stale, and berries were used before they went off.
Take some white bread. Cut off all crusts, and use it to line a large bowl.
Take some berries. This can include strawberries, raspberries,
blueberries, blackberries, cherries, and I've heard of people using
gooseberries though I've never tried it. Wash them, and in the case of fruit like cherries de-stone them. Cut larger ones, like strawberries, into pieces.
Set in a pan, and put roughly one-part water to every eight-part of berries you've got in there. Add sugar to taste - remember, you can always add sugar later on if its too sour, but you can't take it out if it's too sweet.
Stir the fruit on a low heat and let it stew. This can take anything
between 30 minutes and an hour. You can test sweetness at this point by tasting the juice, and see if more sugar is needed.
Spoon the fruit into your breadlined bowl, Layer it - an inch or two of berries, then another layer of bread. How many layers you'll need depends on how deep your bowl is, but I usually do two. Don't forget to put a layer of bread over the top when you're done!
You will probably end up with some juice left. Drink this. It is good for you.
Put the bowl on a plate. Then cover the top in clingfilm, put another plate on top, and put something heavy on top of the plate.
DO NOT FORGET TO PUT THE BOWL ON A PLATE. Juice expamds in the night and you will wake to a fridge stained with red juice. This does not generally put you in a pudding eating mood.
Leave pudding for 24 hours in the fridge. Justignore it. It'll get on
with its work of letting the juice soak into the bread without any
help from you.
Professional cooks will tell you that at this point if you turn the
bowl upside-down onto a plate it will come out smoothly and stand up without falling apart. I have never tested this, suspecting that professional cooks lie.Just spoon it out of the bowl. It'll taste just as good that way.
Eat with cream, whipped cream, ice cream or anything else you feel like.
(also posted to livejournal)
Summary: A healthy pudding for summer fruit
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