Winter is just around the corner, and oranges will be in season. This recipe is rather ordinary in flavour without the extra dimension of orange, because it is only made with cocoa, not chocolate, but nevertheless a plain chocolate version is never rejected by the kids, or the grown-ups.
I've tried using the juice from the orange in this recipe, with less boiling water, as the liquid poured over the top. For some reason this seems to mess up the magic in the way that a sauce materializes at the bottom of the mix, and a solid sponge forms at the top. It tasted OK though.
Lili Marlene’s Chocolate Orange Self Saucing Pudding
Ingredients
1 cup self-raising flour
3 tablespoons of quality cocoa powder
½ cup castor sugar (I have found raw castor sugar on sale in Coles Supermarkets)
Finely grated rind of 1 large orange (use a fork to remove all the rind from a manual grater)
½ cup milk
2 beaten eggs
60g melted butter
¾ cup or 120g brown sugar
(another) 3 tablespoons of quality cocoa powder
2 cups boiling water
Equipment
A large fairly flat Pyrex baking dish (you just can’t have enough Pryrex in the kitchen!)
Method
Pre-heat oven to 160c fan-forced or 180c conventional
Mix first 4 ingredients together (cocoa, flour, sugar, rind)
Pour on the milk and egg, mix till mixture is smooth
Mix in the butter
Pour mix into the baking dish
Sprinkle the brown sugar over the mix, then sprinkle the second lot of cocoa over this
Pour the boiling water over this mix
Bake for around 35 minutes. The top solid layer should be cooked and there should be a liquid layer bubbling up around the sides when it is cooked.
You can serve it with ice cream or whipped cream.
Copyright Lili Marlene 2010.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Lili Marlene’s Easy Chocolate Steamed Pudding
What really matters about family cooking isn’t complicated recipes with dozens of obscure and expensive ingredients. What really matters is how often you actually make nice things for the family, things that they want to eat, putting the hot goodies onto the table for everyone to enjoy. If you have kids, today’s meals are the stuff of childhood memories that will last a lifetime. I think it is preferable that those memories do not consist primarily of foods with names that start with “Mc” or "Nanna's".
Lili Marlene’s Easy Chocolate Steamed Pudding
Ingredients
60g butter
½ cup brown sugar
60-70g quality dark chocolate, broken up into pieces
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 cup boiling water
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup self-raising flour
½ cup ground almonds (omit if you want a moister, more spongy texture)
Special Equipment
A pudding steamer tin with a lid.
A large saucepan with a lid, large enough for the steamer to bob about inside it.
Method
Place the butter, brown sugar, chocolate pieces, vanilla and bicarb into a large heat-resistant mixing bowl.
Pour over the boiling water and stir to mix. Leave it to cool down.
Mix in the beaten eggs, then mix in the flour and the ground almonds.
Grease the steamer tin. Pour the mixture into it and secure the lid. Place the tin into the saucepan with enough boiling water in it to float the tin in it.
Steam pudding for 1 ¾ hours, checking every ½ hour or so to make sure that it is not boiling dry.
Carefully turn the hot pudding out, upside-down onto a plate.
Serve hot with pouring custard.
Copyright Lili Marlene 2010.
Lili Marlene’s Easy Chocolate Steamed Pudding
Ingredients
60g butter
½ cup brown sugar
60-70g quality dark chocolate, broken up into pieces
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 cup boiling water
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup self-raising flour
½ cup ground almonds (omit if you want a moister, more spongy texture)
Special Equipment
A pudding steamer tin with a lid.
A large saucepan with a lid, large enough for the steamer to bob about inside it.
Method
Place the butter, brown sugar, chocolate pieces, vanilla and bicarb into a large heat-resistant mixing bowl.
Pour over the boiling water and stir to mix. Leave it to cool down.
Mix in the beaten eggs, then mix in the flour and the ground almonds.
Grease the steamer tin. Pour the mixture into it and secure the lid. Place the tin into the saucepan with enough boiling water in it to float the tin in it.
Steam pudding for 1 ¾ hours, checking every ½ hour or so to make sure that it is not boiling dry.
Carefully turn the hot pudding out, upside-down onto a plate.
Serve hot with pouring custard.
Copyright Lili Marlene 2010.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Rice Bubble and Date Delight
My working-class grandmother used to make this slice, and I thought it was the best thing ever when I was a littlie. It’s hard to believe that it has been a quarter of a century since Nan departed this world. This easy recipe requires no baking.
Rice Bubble and Date Delight
110g butter
220g chopped dates
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups Rice Bubbles (can use a little bit more if you like a lighter slice)
extra desiccated coconut
A tray suitable for slices (approx. 28.5cm x 18cm x 2cm) (one of the most useful items in the kitchen)
Put the butter, dates and sugar in a saucepan.
Heat it gently while stirring and squashing the dates with the spoon, till the mix is pretty thick and the dates have lost much of their form, a few minutes.
Add the Rice Bubbles and mix gently.
Grease the tray and sprinkle it with coconut.
Turn out the mix onto the tray and smooth it flat.
Sprinkle with more coconut.
Leave to set in fridge.
Turn out onto a board and cut into rectangles.
Rice Bubble and Date Delight
110g butter
220g chopped dates
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups Rice Bubbles (can use a little bit more if you like a lighter slice)
extra desiccated coconut
A tray suitable for slices (approx. 28.5cm x 18cm x 2cm) (one of the most useful items in the kitchen)
Put the butter, dates and sugar in a saucepan.
Heat it gently while stirring and squashing the dates with the spoon, till the mix is pretty thick and the dates have lost much of their form, a few minutes.
Add the Rice Bubbles and mix gently.
Grease the tray and sprinkle it with coconut.
Turn out the mix onto the tray and smooth it flat.
Sprinkle with more coconut.
Leave to set in fridge.
Turn out onto a board and cut into rectangles.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Lili Marlene's Christmas Boiled Fruit Cake with Brandy
This recipe is largely based on the Boiled Whisky Fruit Cake on page 218 of Margaret Fulton's Creative Cookery Course, published by Octopus Books Pty Ltd in 1981. This is a different recipe from the Boiled Whisky Fruit Cake published in a recent book by Margaret Fulton of Christmas recipes. I believe that the characteristic smell of Christmas baking is primarily made up of a combination of the smells of brandy and cloves.
Lili Marlene's Christmas Boiled Fruit Cake with Brandy 750g mixed dried fruit (including mixed peel)
185g butter
¾ cup water
1 ¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar
¼ cup brandy and ½ cup brandy for sprinkling on cake when cooked
3 large eggs
1 cup plain flour
1 ½ cups self-raising flour
½ teaspoon bicarb of soda
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon nutmeg
(optional) blanched whole almonds and halved glace cherries for decorating
Grease and line with greased brown paper a very deep 20cm cake tin (made specifically for fruit cakes). Set the oven at a low to moderate heat (170-180C or less for fan-forced). You could use a larger tin, or bake two smaller cakes with less cooking time.
In a really large saucepan place the fruit, water, butter and brown sugar. Bring to boil slowly while stirring, then boil a couple of minutes. Leave it to cool till lukewarm (this may take some time, you may wish to speed up the process by sitting the lidded saucepan in cold shallow water).
Stir in the brandy with a wooden spoon, then mix in the eggs one at a time. Beat well with spoon. Sift all of the remaining dry ingredients together then stir it into the mixture. Mix well.
Place mixture in the prepared tin. Before baking decorate the top of the cake with blanched almonds and cherries arranged in a pretty pattern. If you only have unblanched almonds - just put them in hot water for a minute or two, drain and leave to cool, and the almond skins will come off easily. If you wish to ice the cake omit this stage. Traditional Christmas cake icing is a layer of marzipan covered in white royal icing made with egg whites.
Bake for 45 minutes, then reduce heat to around 160C and cook for a further 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean from the centre of the cake. Leave the cake to cool for a couple of minutes. Turn out carefully onto a wire rack. Remove the paper with care. Turn right side up. Sprinkle or brush cake with around ½ cup of brandy. You may wish to leave the cake a day before eating. This cake should keep well in an airtight container, in the fridge if necessary.
Lili Marlene's Christmas Boiled Fruit Cake with Brandy 750g mixed dried fruit (including mixed peel)
185g butter
¾ cup water
1 ¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar
¼ cup brandy and ½ cup brandy for sprinkling on cake when cooked
3 large eggs
1 cup plain flour
1 ½ cups self-raising flour
½ teaspoon bicarb of soda
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon nutmeg
(optional) blanched whole almonds and halved glace cherries for decorating
Grease and line with greased brown paper a very deep 20cm cake tin (made specifically for fruit cakes). Set the oven at a low to moderate heat (170-180C or less for fan-forced). You could use a larger tin, or bake two smaller cakes with less cooking time.
In a really large saucepan place the fruit, water, butter and brown sugar. Bring to boil slowly while stirring, then boil a couple of minutes. Leave it to cool till lukewarm (this may take some time, you may wish to speed up the process by sitting the lidded saucepan in cold shallow water).
Stir in the brandy with a wooden spoon, then mix in the eggs one at a time. Beat well with spoon. Sift all of the remaining dry ingredients together then stir it into the mixture. Mix well.
Place mixture in the prepared tin. Before baking decorate the top of the cake with blanched almonds and cherries arranged in a pretty pattern. If you only have unblanched almonds - just put them in hot water for a minute or two, drain and leave to cool, and the almond skins will come off easily. If you wish to ice the cake omit this stage. Traditional Christmas cake icing is a layer of marzipan covered in white royal icing made with egg whites.
Bake for 45 minutes, then reduce heat to around 160C and cook for a further 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean from the centre of the cake. Leave the cake to cool for a couple of minutes. Turn out carefully onto a wire rack. Remove the paper with care. Turn right side up. Sprinkle or brush cake with around ½ cup of brandy. You may wish to leave the cake a day before eating. This cake should keep well in an airtight container, in the fridge if necessary.
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