How to “steam” a #spongepudding. Was listening on Fathers Day to a recording I’d made of my late father talking about the food he ate growing up in #Worksop #Nottinghamshire in the 1930s, and he was talking about how is mother would make a steamed #spotteddicksponge pudding by boiling the mixture in a cloth, so the filling was tied in like a knapsack: the last picture above is me at @st.john.restaurant in 1994 cooking a spotted dick sponge in that way.
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But today it’s more usual to put the mixture inside a @masoncashuk pudding basin like I’m using here, well-buttered and with a generous dollop of jam or syrup in the base, with a square of paper on the base to stop the bowl cracking if it bubbles about, and boiling water poured 3/4 way up the sides from a kettle. My mother told me recently that she’s stopped tying the top with paper or foil as you can check on the pudding’s progress easier that way.
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So if you’ve never made a steamed pudding, here’s your chance. Get to @goodfoodau for the recipe online now.
