[Hey Jude]

Right, here we go then - 'Ginger Spice Magic Pudding' aka 'Splodge Pudding' which is the name my boys have given it! A fab sponge pud which forms it's own pool of sauce underneath - it'll take no more than 10 mins to get this in the oven.

150g self raising flour
100g light muscovado sugar plus another 200g
1 teas baking powder
2 teas ground ginger
2 teas mixed spice
125 ml full fat milk
60 ml veg or sunflower oil
1 egg
6 teas butter
500 ml boiling water

1. Oven on at 220c/200c fan/gas 7.

2. Grease round dish 9 inch diameter and at least 2 inches deep but preferably 3 inches

3. Throw flour,  the 100g sugar, baking powder, 1 teas ginger and 1 teas mixed spice into a  bowl and then beat in the egg, milk and oil.

4. Put the mix into dish, and vaguely smooth the top.

5. In another bowl or jug, mix the remaining 200g of sugar with the other teaspoons of ginger and mixed and then sprinkle it over the mix, then dot the butter over it. Put your dish on a baking tray/sheet, and then pour the 500mls boiling water over the sugar - it looks like mud pie mix from your childhood, but honestly, it's right.

6. Into the oven for 30 mins, then leave it to cool for at least 10 mins unless you fancy a trip to the burns unit.

7. When you serve it makes sure you spoon some of the sauce out at the bottom of the dish - personally I think this is best served with fresh cream, but my sons would say custard, and husband would say both!

Serves 8 according to my sister in law, but we finished it between 6 of us on Sunday.

I know it seems way way too much sugar but it's this with the water and butter that forms the sauce, and it is sweet but not temple achingly so.... and anyway, no calories, no point!

[mumofstig]

Thank you...........another recipe to try 

[TheSpartacat]

Ooooh thank you thank you thank you!!!

If I make this for after dinner, then I may be able to distract my other half from the rather large seed delivery thats just arrived, and the escalating Christmas spuds that are taking over the patio!!!
(He hasn't noticed them yet... but he just commented recently how nice it was to have the patio reclaimed back after the summer potato-triffids were harvested!! lol oooops! )

I'll take your husbands advice on both custard and cream... I need to employ some major food-based buttering up/warfare/distraction techniques ha ha ha 

[Hey Jude]

Spartacat I think the pud may well do the trick - last night my husband asked if there was any leftover pud, even though he'd scraped the bowl clean on Sunday and tonight I've been asked why I haven't made another one yet!!

[wighty]

Our first 'winter warmer' was a complete 'no no'.We call it beef bogitoff and I'm sure you all know what I mean as I can't spell the 'proper version'. We forgot to check the red wine used and we 'tried' to eat beef cooked in red wine vinegar! Not pleasant!!!

[catllar]

oh you lucky thing    i'm not jealous, i'm not jealous  

Sorry about that - but living here does have some advantages!  :happy:

[soaplady]

I made a chicken stew with leeks, potatoes, carrots, onions and butternut squash, as I didn't have any other root veg, and wasn't going to the shop for them. Also made dumplings too. Yum yum.   

Sadly I didn't grow any parsnips or anything this year. (Extension being done), but next year wil be different.

Made a lovely eve's pudding with the bramleys though.

Soaplady