Eve's Pudding

Thursday, November 04, 2010

I've recently signed the family up for organic food delivery. It's a little like a co-op, they deliver a box of mostly local organic produce at the door every Thursday. I plan to get local milk delivered as well, once Will starts drinking it.

The boxes have apples it it every week. I really needed to use them, so Daren introduced me to an English dessert called Eve's Pudding. I've made it a couple of times now, with apples and once with plums. It's basically stewed fruit with sponge cake on top served warm. Daren likes to top it with custard, but ice cream would be just as good

Eve's Pudding:
2 - 3 large cooking apples, thickly sliced (or tart plums)
1/3 cup sugar
1 tbsp. water

Sponge Cake:
½ cup butter or margarine
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup milk
1½ cups self-raising flour (or all-purpose flour with 1½ tsp. baking powder)

Oven: Pre-heat to 375F

Put the apples in an oven-proof dish. Sprinkle over one third of the sugar and all of the water. Cover loosely with aluminum foil, and put in the oven for about 10 - 15 minutes.

While the apples are stewing, cream the butter or margarine with the remaining sugar. Mix in the eggs. Mix in the vanilla and milk. Then add the flour. Mix to a not-too-stiff batter (add a little more milk if it is too thick).

Spread the batter over the top of the apples. Return the dish to the oven and bake for about half an hour, or until the top is golden brown.

Serves about 4-6