Orange Steamed English Pudding With Rum Butter Recipes

STEAMED ORANGE PUDDING

Steps:

• Stir together baking soda and orange juice.
• Toss raisins with flour.
• Beat together butter, sugar, and salt with an electric mixer at medium speed until pale and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add orange juice, raisins, marmalade, and bread crumbs and mix at low speed until blended. Spoon batter into lightly buttered mold.
• Cover mold with a sheet of foil and secure it tightly with kitchen string (if mold has a lid, use that instead). Put mold on a metal rack in a deep pot. Add enough boiling-hot water to pot to reach halfway up mold, then cover pot and steam pudding in simmering water, adding more boiling water as needed, until surface of pudding feels dry and firm, about 2 hours. Cool on another rack 5 minutes. Loosen edge of pudding with a thin knife and invert onto a serving plate. Serve warm.
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TRADITIONAL ENGLISH CUMBERLAND RUM BUTTER

Steps:

• Put the butter in a warmed bowl and cream it, either with a wooden spoon or an electric beater or handheld mixer.
• Tip in the sugar and rum and mix everything together.
• Grate in nutmeg to taste, (or mixed spice) and mix again.
• Place in a bowl, an earthenware bowl is traditional, then chill until required.
• Serve with mince pies, Christmas pudding, sweet tarts and pies, sweet biscuits, oatcakes, scones, crumpets, muffins or on toast.

PERSIMMON STEAMED ENGLISH PUDDING

Steps:

• In a large bowl combine persimmon puree, sugar, egg and butter and beat until smooth (an electric mixer really helps!).
• Sift flour, cinnamon and baking soda together and stir into persimmon mixture along with the milk and raisins alternately.
• Turn batter into a well buttered 1 quart steamed pudding mold and cover tightly with a lid or heavy foil secured with kitchen string.
• Place mold on a rack in a kettle with a tight fitting lid.
• Pour boiling water into kettle to reach 2/3 of the way up the sides of the mold and steam pudding covered for 2 hours over medium heat.
• Remove pudding to a rack and cool uncovered for 15 minutes.
• Invert onto a serving plate and serve with vanilla sauce.
• VANILLA SAUCE:.
• In a small saucepan combine sugar, cornstarch, nutmeg and salt.
• Add water in a stream whisking constantly and then simmer sauce over low heat until thickened or just starts to come to a boil (about 3 minutes).
• Off heat, whisk in butter, vanilla and zest.
• Transfer to a serving bowl and serve with warm steamed pudding.
• Makes 2 cups.

STEAMED ORANGE PUDDINGS

Steps:

• Grease 6 3/4 cup size (185ml) dariole moulds - grease well and then blot with kitchen paper or you can spray with oil and blot with kitchen paper.
• Beat the butter and sugar in an electric mixer until pale.
• Sift flour and baking power, then add eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition.
• Add milk and then beat for 1-2 minutes until the mixture is light and combined.
• Divide mixture among greased moulds.
• Cut 6 x15cm squares of baking paper and foil.
• Place the paper on the foil and fold to form a pleat in the centre and place over the moulds, foil side up and then tie with kitchen string to secure.
• Place the moulds in a large baking dish and pour in enough boiling water to come halfway up the sides of the moulds.
• Cover the pan, then boil for 40 minute, keeping an eye that the liquid does not boil out, until pudding are firm or alternatively as we did in class we put the baking tray in a 175C preheated oven and baked the puddings in their water bath for about 35 to 40 minutes.
• Meanwhile for the sauce, place the juice and sugar in a pan with 100ml of cold water and stir over low heat until sugar dissolves.
• Add orange slices and grand marnier if using, then simmer, stirring occassionally, for 45 minutes or until the sauce is thickened and reduced.
• Allow the pudding to stand in the moulds for 5 minutes, then invert onto plates and pour over the sauce and serve drizzled with custard or cream.