Black cap pudding with golden syrup

Black Cap Pudding

A delicious sponge pudding dessert topped with a little black hat of currants and served with a sauce of your choice.

Ingredients

4 eggs

self raising flour

milk vanilla essence

2tbsp sugar

1/2 cup currants

butter or margarine for greasing your pudding tin

sauce of your choice, maple syrup, golden syrup, caramel sauce and orange sauce would all work well

This recipe makes 6-8 serves

 Method

Grease your pudding tin and put the currants in the bottom

Whisk your eggs, add the sugar and add enough flour to make a thick batter.

Add the milk. Add enough to make it look like thick cream.

Add the vanilla.

Pour the batter into the pudding bowl.

Add the lid or secure a floured cloth over the top with string.

Put into a saucepan of boiling water and cook on the stovetop for one hour. Check every 15 minutes or so to make sure there is enough water.

Let the pudding cool down completely before removing the lid.

Serve with a sweet sauce or golden syrup.

Peanut butter and onion sandwiches

Peanut Butter and Onion Sandwiches

Will our heroic cook survive the horror that is – Peanut Butter and Onion Sandwiches? (insert spooky music here)

OK, so there aren’t a lot of vintage Halloween recipes out there that aren’t haggis~ shudder ~ so I delved into the realm of the weird for this week’s recipe :)

Ingredients

smooth peanut butter

traditional mayonnaise

onion

white bread (with the crusts cut off unless you’re completely uncouth. Like me)

butter

 Method

Mix 4 parts of peanut butter to 1 part mayonnaise. For example, 4 teaspoons of peanut butter and 1 teaspoon of mayonnaise.

Butter the bread.

Spread on the peanut butter mix.

Top with fine slices of onions.

Eat it before you chicken out!