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Microwave Apple Sponge Pudding

5 oz Self Raising Flour
snitch of cinnamon powder
4 oz Sugar
4 oz Sunflower Spread
1 large egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 nice juicy apple grated (with or without peel)

Soften the spread and add the sugar to it.
Beat well.
Add the egg with a little of the flour to prevent curdling.
Beat in well.
Add remaining flour and cinnamon.
Mix all together.
Add milk.
Add grated apple and gently stir this in.

800 watts (England Electric)microwave.
Cook for 2 minutes and take out to sit.
It's still cooking slightly so the top will look slightly undercooked when you take it out.  That's O.K.

Make up a packet of instant custard and serve this over the apple sponge pud. or use thick fresh cream..or ice cream......Mmmnnn! Lovely! Especially when it's still hot or warm.

Line the base of the dish with kitchen paper, or use a microwave dish.

You can delete the apple and put treacle on top of the plain sponge as an alternative. Lovely with hot custard. Like steamed pudding

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As another alternative add 2 tablespoons of chocolate powder to the flour.

My children loved this.

Wow!  Jenny, that sounds so good.  It sounds very, very English as well!  LOL

I'm going to try it.

But you only cook it for 2 minutes???

Oh Jenny this sounds soooo good, but what is "treacle"?

Treacle is molasses, Marilyn.

Pat......2 minutes on full in an 800watt microwave.  North Americans have new fangled stuff so I'm not sure but I usually pop this pud  on full and take  out early because its still cooking. With this it doesn't matter if it's a bit underdone with hot custard on.

If you want to freeze this, sit the hot pud in its dish, in a bowl of cold water. Cool quickly or it hardens.

Have you tried making fresh custard in the microwave?........3 - 4 minutes on full with 1 pint of milk, custard powder, sugar etc., Do keep stopping and stirring it, or it does boil over  and wow, what a mess. Blancmanges make well in micro too.

Marilyn........Treacle?........Syrup, molasses....or try any nice jam (or is that Jello?) ...Translate please Pat!

Jenny, this sounds sooooo good and refreshing.  I love apple anything!!!

BTW, I put the title in bold with the text....easier to copy and paste and then print for later...

Jenny, I use the microwave for custard (Bird's Custard Powder) a lot but I just boil my milk in there or on the stove top.

I mix the custard powder with a bit of cold milk and when the milk is rolling boiling, I quickly pour it into the custard powder in a large bowl and whisk it briskly and it's terrific.  I never make custard anymore on the stove.  Too often it stuck!

With Jack being from N. Ireland, we always had hot custard on top of apple pies.  Mmmmmmm......


(No, not jello but in the states, they tend to call jam, jelly.  Jello is a name brand of jelly powder to make jelly with 2 cups of water.)

How do I sub with A.P. flour?  also, what is Sunflower paste?  What can I use in place of that?  I don't recall ever seeing that in our stores.

- Judy

It's sunflower marg I think, Judy.  Jenny says, "Sunflower Spread" so I think it's marg made from sunflower oil.

I use Self Raising flour all the time.  Zehrs sells it.

Jenny.England. 3.20p.m.

Etta Sue....Ouch!..Sorry!...I'll learn one day!.

I don't have a printer or any new fangled stuff. I've only been computing for 2 months approx. so bear with me folks please. I'm doing my best......."Jennifer tries hard.  It is a long uphill climb all the way" said the Report book from school.....Poor little thing!

Oh Pat, you are so politically correct.  I use Bird's custard powder, when I do it properly.   It's the best.

To make any apple pud or pie "Anglicised" you must eat it with a nice lump of cheese. My Lincolnshire roots here.  Yorkies are the same.

Judy, can you get Stork Soft Margarine or any Sunflower or Soya marg will do.

Gosh it's like learning a foreign language folks.

I am chuckling....I didn't realize we sometimes need an interpreter for recipes and English to English, no less!!!  

And Jenny...no problem.  We are here to help.  Just keep on keeping on and I think you are doing great with your computer skills!!!!  Two months....WOW!

Now, I'm giggling.

Can you imagine how I felt in 1962, being a new bride from Canada and being plunked into Northern Ireland and trying to learn all this new stuff?  I was so "confooooosed"!  

Ohhhhhh the memories and the longing to return!