Treacle Sponge

Name: Treacle Sponge
Yield: For 6
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon caraway seeds; juice of ½ lemon; 2-3 tablespoons golden syrup; pinch of salt, milk to mix; 5 oz self-raising flour; teaspoon grated lemon rind; 2 eggs, beaten; 4 oz butter, 4 oz sugar; small handful breadcrumbs

Preparation info

For
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Poor Cook

By Susan Campbell and Caroline Conran

Published 1971

About

Ingredients

For Top of Pudding

2-3 tablespoons golden syrup
juice of ½ lemon
½

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Mix the syrup, lemon juice, caraway seeds and breadcrumbs in the bottom of a buttered two-pint pudding basin. Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy, add the beaten eggs and the lemon rind and then the flour with a pinch of salt. Add a little milk to bring the mixture to a dropping consistency. Turn it into the basin, on top of the treacle and lemon juice mixture, cover well with a do