Steamed Date Pudding Recipes

OLD FASHIONED DATE PUDDING

Steps:

• Mix together 1 cup dates, 1 cup hot water and baking soda. Let stand several minutes.
• Add remaining ingredients (white sugar, butter, egg, flour, baking powder and pecans). Mix well.
• Pour into 9x9 inch greased pan.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Mix brown sugar, 2/3 cup water and 2/3 cup dates in saucepan.
• Cook for 3 minutes over medium heat,stirring constantly.
• Pour on top of date pudding immediately, or it can be spooned on after it is cut into pieces.
• Top with whipped cream.

STEAMED OATMEAL DATE PUDDING

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients.
• Pour into ramekins or pudding molds 2/3rd of the way full.
• Cover with greased aluminum foil.
• Place into steamer.
• Cook for 3 hours, replenishing water as needed.
• Serve with pudding sauce of your choice.

DATE & NUT STEAMED PUDDING

Steps:

• 1. Mix the dry ingredients
• 2. Beat together the butter, milk, and eggs, then add to dry ingredients and mix well
• 3. Butter the mold (the bowl you will be cooking the pudding in) then place the pudding mixture into the mold. Some people also line the mold with parchment paper to make it easier to get the pudding out of the mold after it is cooked.
• 4. After wrapping the mold in buttered grease paper and aluminum foil (see BBC video below) place mold in steamer pan to steam for two or three hours til done
• 5. An English pudding may be steamed in A. A steamer pan (similar to a double boiler with holes in the bottom of the top pan) B. A Slow cooker C. A large stock pot on the stove
• 6. To watch an excellent video from the BBC that explains how to wrap and seal a pudding, then cook it in a stock pot go here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/videos/1060/steaming-a-pudding OR HERE FOR MORE TIPS AND HINTS: http://allrecipes.co.uk/how-to/47/how-to-steam-christmas-pudding.aspx
• 7. It can also be done in a slow cooker: After the pudding is wrapped (see BBC video above) place the pudding mold into the slow cooker. Pour in sufficient water to come 1/2 way up the sides of the pudding bowl. Cover and cook on HIGH for 5-7 hours. (You may need to scrunch up a bit of aluminum foil, or use an inverted saucer to lift the mold off the bottom of the crock pot.)
• 8. No matter the method, be sure to also keep a kettle of hot water on the stove, so you can top up the hot water in the steamer pan every so often. You don't want the steamer pan to go dry, it must have water and steam in it continually to finish steaming the pudding and since steam evaporates, the water level will need to be replenished. Just keep checking it every so often. You also do not want the hot water to bubble into the mold, that would ruin the pudding, so that is why the water level must be kept at half way up the bowl (mold) and the heat must keep the water steaming but not at a rolling boil.