Burnt Sugar Pudding - Also known as Marae Pudding

Burnt Sugar Pudding

3 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
¼ cup sugar
125grms butter
Burnt Sugar
1 ½ cups sultanas
¼ cup milk
Put the flour, baking powder, baking soda and sugar in a bowl and mix together.Rub the butter into dry ingredients to make a fine crumbly mixture.Add burnt sugar, add the milk and sultanas and mix to a dropping consistency.
Dampen a clean cotton cloth (calico is good... boil the cloth first then dry and can be used again) and lie over a medium sized bowl.Dust the centre of the cloth lightly with flour.Pour mixture into the floured cloth and pull all sides of the cloth together, making sure the pudding is nicely centred.Tie the cloth with string making sure that it will be absolutely WATER TIGHT !!!!
Gently place the pudding into a large pot of boiling water and boil for 2 ½ hours.

Never let the water go off the boil, keep checking water level in the pot as the water evaporates during the cooking process.Refill the pot, with boiling water as required, adding it slowly to keep pot topped up.If water stops boiling the pudding will come out stodgy.
When cooked carefully remove the pudding from the pot and gently place on a plate or the bench.Cut or untie string and peel the cloth from the pudding.Allow to cool then cut into slice and serve with custard and cream.

To make the burnt sugar.
Place 1 cup of sugar into an old pot and cook slowly until sugar is dark brown.(This is best done outside on the BBQ and you don’t smoke out your kitchen and set off the smoke alarms !!!)

Cool the sugar slightly and SLOWLY add 1 cup of water for thehot mixture doesn’t spit and burn.Stir well.

Burnt Sugar Pudding

3 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
¼ cup sugar
125grms butter
Burnt Sugar
1 ½ cups sultanas
¼ cup milk
Put the flour, baking powder, baking soda and sugar in a bowl and mix together.Rub the butter into dry ingredients to make a fine crumbly mixture.Add burnt sugar, add the milk and sultanas and mix to a dropping consistency.
Dampen a clean cotton cloth (calico is good. boil the cloth first then dry and can be used again) and lie over a medium sized bowl.Dust the centre of the cloth lightly with flour.Pour mixture into the floured cloth and pull all sides of the cloth together, making sure the pudding is nicely centred.Tie the cloth with string making sure that it will be absolutely WATER TIGHT !
Gently place the pudding into a large pot of boiling water and boil for 2 ½ hours.

Never let the water go off the boil, keep checking water level in the pot as the water evaporates during the cooking process.Refill the pot, with boiling water as required, adding it slowly to keep pot topped up.If water stops boiling the pudding will come out stodgy.
When cooked carefully remove the pudding from the pot and gently place on a plate or the bench.Cut or untie string and peel the cloth from the pudding.Allow to cool then cut into slice and serve with custard and cream.

To make the burnt sugar.
Place 1 cup of sugar into an old pot and cook slowly until sugar is dark brown.(This is best done outside on the BBQ and you don’t smoke out your kitchen and set off the smoke alarms !)

Cool the sugar slightly and SLOWLY add 1 cup of water for thehot mixture doesn’t spit and burn.Stir well.

Awesome, will try this tomorrow thanks!

I always wanted this recipe, yummy.thankyou Petal1955.

Thank you very much for sharing. Mihi nui