South African Telephone Pudding Food

TELEPHONE PUDDING

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar, beat in egg.
• Sieve in flour, salt, ginger and bicarb.
• Beat to a soft consistency with half the milk.
• Add to jam to other half of milk and beat well into a dough.
• Mix 2 cups of milk and 1 cup of sugar and a little vanilla essence.
• Pour over dough placed in a deep serving dish.
• Bake in a 350 C oven for about 30 minutes.

SOUTH AFRICAN PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). In a small saucepan over low heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter or margarine together with vinegar and milk. Remove from heat, and set aside. Meanwhile, sift flour, baking soda, and salt together into a separate bowl.
• Beat 1 cup sugar and eggs with an electric mixer on high speed until fluffy and light colored, about 5 minutes. Gradually mix in the apricot jam. Fold the dry ingredients into the egg mixture alternately with warmed milk mixture using a spatula. Pour batter into a greased, 1 quart oven-proof baking dish.
• Bake approximately 45 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Place cream, butter, 1/2 cup sugar, and water in a saucepan and stir over moderate heat until the butter has melted and sugar is dissolved. Do not allow the mixture to boil.
• Remove pudding from the oven, pierce several times with a skewer or fork, and pour the hot cream mixture immediately over the pudding. Serve hot or cold.

SOUTH AFRICAN BANANA CAKE DESSERT

Steps:

• Buy one those slabs of un-iced cake in a supermarket for this.
• Pour the warm milk over the cake crumbs and leave for 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 deg F/180 deg. Celsius.
• Whisk milk mixture to make sure there are no clumps. You could put it in a processor to get a really smooth mixture.
• Add all the other ingredients to the milk mixture.
• Mix well, and pour into either greased individual bowls, or into a large greased oven dish.
• Place the bowl(s) in a pan with water (which comes about 1/3 up the sides) and bake about 40 minutes or until set.
• Remove from oven and let stand 5 minutes.
• Turn out and serve with a cream or butter sauce. (Whatever that means. I copied this from "Cook and Enjoy It", the South African cooking bible!).