QUICK STEAMED PUDDING
1 c milk
3/4 c brown sugar
1 dess butter
1/2-3/4 c raisins or dates
1 tsp bicarb
1 heaped cup SR
Put first 4 ingredients into a large saucepan, bring to boil then remove from heat.
Then stir in bicarb. Then add SR.
Put into basin without lid, steam in saucepan with water in to go up 1/3 of basin.
Put lid on saucepan and cook 30 mins.
Variations –
Lemon: Replace raisins with dates or lemon: (use juice 1/2 lemon in saucepan, then put juice of 1.5 lemons mixed with some sugar. Put this into basin first, then add batter, then cook.
Orange: with or without dates, add sugar to orange juice in basin before adding to batter