Cooking and Recipes

[Farseer]

A simple but nice, almost damper-like dessert which I ate only last week...dedicated to Nuytsia who just loves to rub butter into flour !!

At an obsessive stretch, it even has a Hobb-like connection in that a version of the dessert was made in Beatrix Potter's story 'The Roly-Poly Pudding'...a story about cats and kittens, one of whom was Tom Kitten/Tom Cat !

Roly-Poly Pudding

Pudding:
½ cup butter
1 cup self-raising flour
Water/milk
Jam

Sauce/Syrup:
¼ cup sugar
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup boiling water
Vanilla extract

1. Rub butter into flour and then add enough cold water or milk to make a smooth pastry
2. Roll out with rolling pin
3. Spread with jam
4. Roll up
5. Place in greased ovenproof dish
6. Dissolve sugar and butter in boiling water then add vanilla
8. Pour over roly-poly and bake 180 degrees C for about ½ hour or until cooked

Serve hot or cold with ice-cream, custard or cream.

Notes: If all of the syrup doesn’t fit into the dish before cooking, pour it over when it comes out of the oven and it will be soaked up by the hot pudding. Instead of making the syrup, the rolled pastry may be glazed with beaten egg yolk and baked like a pie. Turn the ends up to prevent jam leaking.