Medlar sticky toffee pudding SERVES 6 INGREDIENTS For the sauce 125g unsalted butter 70g golden caster sugar 50g dark muscovado sugar 150ml double cream For the sponge 200g medlar pulp 60g unsalted butter, softened 85g golden caster sugar 70g dark muscovado sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 180g plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp ground cloves ½ tsp salt 85g walnuts, crushed METHOD Preheat the oven to 180°C. Lightly butter a baking dish approximately 24cm x 20cm. Put the sauce ingredients in a pan, and heat gently until the butter melts. Turn the heat up and boil for 5 minutes, stirring frequently, until the sauce coats the back of a spoon. Pour a little over half of the sauce into the dish, allow to cool and refrigerate to firm up the sauce. Beat the butter and sugars together, then add in the eggs, one and a time and beat until combined. Stir in the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cloves and salt until incorporated. Thoroughly stir in the medlar pulp and the walnuts. Spoon the mixture into the dish, over the toffee sauce. Bake for 30 minutes. Turn the grill on to a moderate heat. Make holes in the cake with a knife – just large enough to allow the sauce to soak in to the sponge – and pour over the remaining sauce. Grill for just long enough to bubble the top a little. Serve with a lake of double cream or a skipful of vanilla ice cream.
Looks good, Honey! I don't bake and I try not to eat sweets. Lots of ingredients I've never heard of in it. Mainly the sugar.
If I do recipe full of calories. I invite friends around and we just have a dessert for lunch. My friend has a sweet tooth so I did this for her lunchtime. I can remember years ago I could eat a full meal and a dessert. Not anymore. Must be an age thing.
I've been average most of my life but could never eat like a pig. I'm on the skinnier side now and usually go up or down 3 lbs...depending on how good I'm being. Twice in my life I had to lose 30 lbs. First was after my daughter was born and the second time was after I quit smoking about 9 years ago.
I think I am a healthy weight. I walk, swim and cycle a lot so any excess calories are used up. Once I dieted as I had, had surgery and they put me on steroids. I ballooned and was so glad to stop the steroids. It soon dropped off.
I always wanted to make sticky toffee putdding, but we don't have easy access to those kind of sugars in the US. Also, bicarbonate of soda I would guess is baking soda. I will look sometime and see if I can find a recipe for that using American ingredients. I adore toffee and that recipe really looks like it would be awesome. I can just imagine what it would taste like.
What's medlar pulp? I was rereading the recipe because @K E Gordon reply made me look again. I just thought that I didn't know what the ingredients were since I don't bake but guess we don't even have them here.
I looked it up, interesting fruit and this article even mentions Fresno! http://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/PLANT-OF-THE-WEEK-Medlar-Squishy-fruit-2539694.php
Hi @Chrissy Page. Sorry it's a Spanish recipe. It's a fruit we get here @K E Gordon. I didn't think when I posted so yes I would go with an American recipe x