Canary pudding with lemon sauce

Name: Canary pudding with lemon sauce
Yield: To Serve Four
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: grated rind of 1 lemon; 1 tablespoon Madeira or sweet sherry (optional); 1 tablespoon Madeira or sweet sherry (optional); 2 egg yolks; 100 g (4 oz) sugar; 2 eggs; 50 g (2 oz) self-raising flour; 50 g (2 oz) fresh white breadcrumbs; 25 g (1 oz) castor sugar; 1 lemon; 150 ml (¼ pint) water; 100 g (4 oz) butter or margarine; 100 g (4 oz) butter or margarine

Preparation info

To Serve
Four

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

British Cooking

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

About

This light pudding was originally made with a flavouring of Madeira, the sweet and somewhat sherry-like fortified wine from the Canary Islands/However, it is delicious without any such luxuries.

Ingredients

100 g (4 oz) butter or margarine
100 g (4

Europe
United Kingdom
Spain
Canary Islands
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Remember that this pudding needs room to expand as it cooks if it is to be light, so do not overfill the bowl.

Cream together the butter and sugar until they are light and fluffy. This can be done with an electric beater or by hand. Beat in one egg, then half the" flour, then another egg and the remaining flour. Do not beat more than necessary once the flour starts to go in, as this tou