Just Desserts, puddings Galore

We are a family pudding. There is something satisfactory to the word pudding. Brings connotations of comfort, and things palates-irritating, rich and full bodied. Dessert suggests something elegant, delicate, restrained - a sweet morsel of a meal, finally. Dessert just did not do it for me.

Our family and goes into puddings, festivals and Sunday lunch. We do not have them every day, so when we do, we all want: more comforting indulgence at its best - not clean twiddles and cakes here, though not steaming, the material is boring. There are several recipes that are family favorites and business must take into account the waiting list and recipes for cooking the books to try - so sweet to prevent the main course, the focus of debate and decision making.

Dictate when the main course - roast lamb at Easter, Christmas turkey and ham, no problem there. Selecting only a few quarks family of software, however, is a painful process. Christmas and New Year close to each other to facilitate the puzzle ... what we do not have Christmas, we can make the New Year, but in other cases were excluded from particular favorite recipe is too difficult. Always end up with a range of four puddings (even before you're too scared, we are usually fed twelve or more persons) and, therefore, feel satisfied, and the gills at a later time, such as greed will inevitably win with caution, and all four samples.

Two staple of our family recipes come from my mother-in-law, a mother of six with a limited budget we had to use the design to feed his family. silly Guava (guava puree mixed with condensed milk and cream) is one of his recipes, high prices have a new list through the winter, when the fruit pulp during the period. Choccie pudding is definitely the chocolate sauce poured over boudoir biscuits to soak and dissolve Gloop delectably velvety.

I am proud to add a hit list of essential family pudding recipes - Summer Pudding. My mother is still collected more often and hedges, as well as the traditional red currants and raspberries. Here in South Africa we have a range of fruits works and especially the use of mulberry youngberries a few strawberries (strawberries they do not work, harshness of some dark berries). Heres the recipe:

Summer Pudding

1 loaf of white bread, slightly stale

About 1 kg of berries: blackberries, raspberries, youngberries, blackberries, currants choice is yours. Apple may be added if you are far from the berries.

Sugar

Put the fruit with a liberal pinch of sugar in a saucepan and slowly bring to a boil. (You can cook directly from frozen low heat). The fruits are sweet because at this point to check, apples are needed more time to soften. The amount of sugar depends on how the fruit is sweet - that after a cake with fresh fruit juice, but not too boring. Cut the bread into thick slices, remove crusts and line a pie pan with it. It should be snug but not crush it. You can make a patchwork of odd-shaped pieces, the important thing is that no holes are left. Keep three slices to cover. When fruit is cooked, use a slotted spoon to transfer the fruit into the bread pan doubled. Most of the juices left behind, but is poured over the cake later. Fill the container with the fruit and cover with a tight layer of bread. Place a plate or saucer on top and weight, then compresses and fruit juices soak the bread.Place a plate or saucer on top, weight it, then compresses and baths juice into the bread. Refrigerate for at least a few hours, better overnight. Turn onto a serving platter with the extra juice is poured on a bit of white bread is still shown. Eat lots of cream.

Now our biggest problem on our small farm implements fruit trees and berry plants enough to ensure a year-round supply of potential pudding into our offices, but perhaps it would make them less special. The seasonality of guava and berries means excitement when they return in the season, gluttony, a few weeks, until common sense sets in. Then we have a supply in the freezer for a special treatment of some more Later this year, the season ends and is followed by the following. A pudding for each season, a season for each coil.