Name: Summer Pudding
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 7 square slices stale white bread; 1½ pints (500 g) fresh raspberries; ¾ cup plus 2 tbsp (175 g) superfine sugar; 1 pint (300 g) fresh strawberries, hulled and halved (big ones quartered); ⅓ pint (100 g) fresh red currants; ⅔ pint (250 g) fresh blackberries; crème fraîche or sour cream for serving; 3 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home Made Summer

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2013

About

In Home Made Winter I gave you the winter version of this pudding, but this is the original. You can use any combination of about 3½ pints (1.25 kg) mixed berries, but this is my favorite combination.

Ingredients

1 pint (300 g) fresh strawberries, hulled and halved (big ones quartered)
⅔ pint (25

Method

Keeping the strawberries separate, wash the berries and carefully pat them dry with a paper towel.

In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine the sugar and lemon juice and bring to a gentle boil. Cook until the sugar is dissolved, stirring occasionally.

Add all the fruit except the strawberries and boil for 3 minutes tops, stirring, until the berries are soft and release thei