Steamed Pear And Ginger Pudding

Steamed pear and ginger pudding

I love steamed puddings. They're light and lovely and comforting, they often contain wonderful things, like ginger or blackberries or jam, and they have names like "sticky toffee pudding" which tells you pretty much everything you want to know about the pudding in question.*

They're also very hard to get wrong. It's very difficult to burn a steamed pudding, and I've never had one come out badly, ever.

This recipe was the desert for the family lunch, so it's suitable for 8-12 people. Amounts for the ginger and pear topping are approximate-- it's to taste and to amount, so if you want a lot of topping, add more pears, if you want more ginger, add more.

For this much mixture, I used a 1.5 litre pudding basin. Butter it well before you start.


( Pear and ginger topping )

( Basic Steamed Pudding Mixture (for 8-12) )

*let's ignore Spotted Dick for the moment, whose name (thankfully) tells you nothing about how nice the actual pudding is.
Crossposted to palacedomestica.