Sticky date pudding

Name: Sticky date pudding
Yield: Serves 6–8
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 75 g butter, plus extra for greasing; 200 g dates, stoned and chopped; 175 g caster sugar; 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 175 g self-raising flour; 2 eggs; 300 ml double cream; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 50 g butter; 75 g demarara sugar

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Winter Food

By Jill Norman

Published 2005

About

A really sticky, rich pudding that originated at the Sharrow Bay Hotel in the Lake District.

Ingredients

75 g butter, plus extra for greasing
200 g dates, stoned and chopped
1

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4 and butter a 22cm square baking tin. Boil the dates in 250ml