Date Nut Pudding Food

DATE PUDDING CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1 tablespoon butter. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon; add dates and nuts. Add flour mixture alternately with milk to creamed mixture; set aside. , In a saucepan, combine water with remaining brown sugar and butter. Bring to a boil; boil 5 minutes. Pour into a 9-in. round baking pan. Spoon batter on top of sauce. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Serve warm or cold with whipped cream or ice cream.

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.

OLD FASHIONED DATE PUDDING

Steps:

• In a saucepan, bring 1 cup brown sugar and water to a boil. Cook and stir for 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and add butter; set aside. In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and remaining brown sugar. Stir in milk until smooth. add dates and walnuts., Pour hot brown sugar syrup into an 8-in. square baking dish. Spoon batter over syrup. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of cake topping comes out clean. Serve warm with whipped cream.

DATE PUDDING

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the dates, walnuts and sugar. In another bowl, beat egg, milk and vanilla. Add to date mixture; mix well. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to the date mixture. , Spread into a greased 1-qt. baking dish; dot with butter. Bake at 325° for 30 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve with whipped cream.

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.

RAISIN DATE BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• In a large bowl, pour milk over bread. Add sugar, eggs, butter, dates, raisins, vanilla, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg; stir to mix well. Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. If desired, sprinkle top with additional sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Bake at 350° until golden brown and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. If desired, serve warm with whipped cream.

STICKY DATE NUT PUDDING DESSERT WITH CARAMEL OR TOFFEE SAUCE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
• Mix boiling water, baking soda and butter together and pour over dates. Let cool slightly.
• In a separate bowl mix cake batter: sugar, egg, vanilla, flour and chopped nuts.
• Combine the cake batter with date mixture and mix well.
• Pour the batter into a greased 8x8" pan (or use a 9x13" pan if doubling recipe).
• Bake at 350 F for approximately 20-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• For Caramel Sauce: Combine sugar, water and butter in a saucepan, bring to a boil, stirring, reduce heat and simmer for approximately five minutes while adding cornstarch or flour to thicken sauce. (Mix cornstarch or flour with small amounts of cold water and add to sauce).
• For Toffee Sauce: Combine sugar, cream and butter in a saucepan, bring to a boil, stirring, reduce heat and simmer for five minutes until thickened.
• Cut the cooled cake into very small square pieces.
• In a pudding bowl - layer 1/2 of the cake pieces, then 1/2 sauce and 1/2 tub Cool Whip. Repeat layer. Chill and serve!

GRANDMA NESTLEROAD'S DATE NUT PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• For the Dough: Mix the Part 1 ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
• Mix the Part 2 ingredients in another large bowl.
• Now add the Part 2 to the Part 1 ingredients.
• Mix well.
• For the Syrup: Mix all the syrup ingredients in a non-reactive sauce pan.
• Bring the syrup to a fast boil.
• Pour the syrup into a large oven-safe dish.
• (We use a large deep Visions cookware casserole dish) Baking: Put the dough mixture into the middle of the syrup.
• Just mound it there.
• DO NOT SPREAD IT.
• Take a sheet of foil and double it up and place on the center rack.
• This is to protect from any run off or overflow.
• Place the dish into the oven on center rack on top of foil.
• Bake for 35 minutes.
• Remove, cover, and let cool.
• Serve in small portions with Whipped cream, it will cut the sweetness and complement the richness best.

DATE PUDDING

Steps:

• In a saucepan combine 1 cup brown sugar, water, and bring to a boil, cook for 3 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add butter.
• In a bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, 1/2 cup sugar.
• Stir in milk until smooth.
• Add dates and walnuts.
• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Pour syrup into a 8 or 9-inch baking pan; add batter and bake for 45 minutes.
• Serve warm with whipped cream.

STICKY DATE PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12 cup muffin tin. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, and chocolate in a small bowl, and set aside.
• Bring the dates and water to a boil in a saucepan over high heat. Remove from the heat, and stir in the baking soda. Allow the mixture to stand for 5 minutes, then scrape into a blender, and carefully puree until smooth; set aside.
• Cream 1/4 cup of butter together with the superfine sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition. Fold in the flour mixture and the date puree until well blended. Spoon into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes. Meanwhile, stir together the cream, brown sugar, and 1 cup of butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat until the butter melts; set aside.
• When the puddings have baked for 25 minutes, remove them from the oven, and cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Remove the puddings from the muffin tin, and place them onto a baking sheet. Spoon 2 tablespoons of the sauce over each pudding, then return to the oven and bake for 5 minutes more.
• To serve, spoon some of the sauce onto the bottom of a dessert plate, and place a pudding on top. Lightly dust with confectioners' sugar, and top with a 1/4 cup scoop of ice cream. Repeat with the remaining date puddings.

STICKY DATE & GINGER PUDDING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Lightly grease a deep 2-litre (about 28 x 20cm) oval baking dish. Tip the dates into a pan, pour over the milk and bring up to scalding point. Remove from the heat, add the vanilla essence and bicarbonate of soda, then leave to one side. Sift the flour and ginger into a bowl, then add the sugar, butter and eggs. Beat with an electric whisk for about 5 mins. Fold in the date mixture and stem ginger, then pour into the baking dish.
• For the sauce, sprinkle the sugar over the pudding batter, then drizzle with the syrup. Pour 250ml boiling water over (do not stir), then bake for 40-45 mins until the pudding is firm to the touch. Serve spoonfuls of the pudding with a generous helping of syrupy sauce from the bottom of the dish. Great with vanilla ice cream or pouring cream.

DATE-NUT PUDDING

Steps:

• Pour boiling water over dates and set aside to cool.
• Cream together sugars, egg and butter or margarine.
• Combine dry ingredients and blend into creamed batter.
• Stir in dates and nuts.
• Pour into a greased baking pan, 11"X 7"X 1 1/2".
• Top with sauce and bake at 350 degrees F for 40 to 45 minutes.
• Serve warm or cold, topped with whipped cream, if desired.
• Sauce: Mix together until smooth and syrupy.
• Pour over batter and bake.