Summer Pudding
Ingredients:
- Strawberries - 300g
- Blackberries - 250g
- Redcurrants - 100g
- Raspberries - 500g
- Caster Sugar - 175g
- Bread - 7 Slices
Instructions
- Bring out the juices: Wash fruit and gently dry on kitchen paper – keep strawberries separate
- Put sugar and 3 tbsp water into a large pan
- Gently heat until sugar dissolves – stir a few times
- Bring to a boil for 1 min, then tip in the fruit (not strawberries)
- Cook for 3 mins over a low heat, stirring 2-3 times
- The fruit will be softened, mostly intact and surrounded by dark red juice
- Put a sieve over a bowl and tip in the fruit and juice
- Line the bowl with cling film and prepare the bread: Line the 1
- 25-litre basin with cling film as this will help you to turn out the pudding
- Overlap two pieces of cling film in the middle of the bowl as it’s easier than trying to get one sheet to stick to all of the curves
- Let the edges overhang by about 15cm
- Cut the crusts off the bread
- Cut 4 pieces of bread in half, a little on an angle, to give 2 lopsided rectangles per piece
- Cut 2 slices into 4 triangles each and leave the final piece whole
- Build the pud: Dip the whole piece of bread into the juice for a few secs just to coat
- Push this into the bottom of the basin
- Now dip the wonky rectangular pieces one at a time and press around the basin’s sides so that they fit together neatly, alternately placing wide and narrow ends up
- If you can’t quite fit the last piece of bread in it doesn’t matter, just trim into a triangle, dip in juice and slot in
- Now spoon in the softened fruit, adding the strawberries here and there as you go
- Let flavours mingle then serve: Dip the bread triangles in juice and place on top – trim off overhang with scissors
- Keep leftover juice for later
- Bring cling film up and loosely seal
- Put a side plate on top and weight down with cans
- Chill for 6 hrs or overnight
- To serve, open out cling film then put a serving plate upside-down on top and flip over
- serve with leftover juice, any extra berries and cream