My Darling Clementine

Name: My Darling Clementine
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 3 large eggs (size 1–2); 2–3 tablespoons (2–3 x 15 ml spoon) warm milk; 1 pint (600 ml) water; ½ oz (15 g) gelatine; 6 oz (175 g) butter; 5 oz (150 g) self-raising flour; 1 oz (25 g) cornflour; 1 level teaspoon (5 ml spoon) baking powder; 8–10 oz (225–275 g) small clementines; 9 oz (250 g) caster sugar; 8 oz (225 g) dried apricots

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sweet Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1985

About

Clementines are sweet and seedless and the skin becomes tender when stewed. The mixture of apricot with the slightly marmalade-like taste of the clementines is lovely.

Ingredients

8 oz (225 g) dried apricots
8–10 oz (225–275

Dessert

Method

Rinse the dried apricots and soak them in water for at least 3 hours. Drain them and put in a saucepan. Cut the clementines, unpeeled, into six and add to the apricots. Add 4 oz (100 g) of the caster