Name: Autumn Fruits with Sloe Gin and Creamy Rice Pudding
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 300 ml milk; ½ vanilla pod, split; 4 cloves; a few strips of orange peel; 1 bay leaf; 120 g brown sugar; 50 g pudding rice; 4 ripe plums, quartered and stoned; 200-250 g blackberries, elderberries or blueberries; pinch of freshly grated nutmeg; 100 ml sloe gin, or to taste; 75 ml thick Jersey or double cream; 200 ml water; 25 g caster sugar; 75 ml evaporated milk

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

British Seasonal Food

By Mark Hix

Published 2008

About

If you’re a fan of sloe gin, then you might like to experiment with it in recipes. Here it is used rather like mulled wine, and you can add as little or as much as you wish. If you haven’t any sloe gin, then substitute a fruity full-bodied red wine, using 300ml in place of the water and gin.

The choice of fruit is up to you - any plums will work, even greengages, and you can add pears, peeled and cut into wedges if you like. There are often late berries like loganberries still on th