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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal416
  • fat20g
  • saturates11g
  • carbs58g
  • sugars35g
  • fibre2g
  • protein6g
  • salt0.34g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    Cook the rhubarb with 75g/2¾oz of the sugar and the ginger over a gentle heat for 2-3 mins until just starting to soften. Remove from heat.

  • step 2

    Grease a 900ml pudding basin. Put butter and remaining sugar in a bowl and cream together. Stir in vanilla extract, then beat in eggs, a little at a time. Sift in flour and carefully fold into the mixture.

  • step 3

    Spoon rhubarb into the bottom of the basin, then spoon the sponge mixture on top and level off surface.

  • step 4

    Butter a piece of greaseproof paper slightly bigger than the top of the pudding basin. Make a pleat in the centre and secure over the top of basin. Repeat with a piece of foil, then secure the whole thing with string. Place in a pan half filled with simmering water. Cover and cook for 1½ hrs, checking regularly that the pan does not boil dry. Remove cover, invert the pudding onto a plate, then carefully lift off the pudding basin. Serve with crème fraîche or single cream.

Recipe from Good Food Vegetarian Christmas, December 2006

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A star rating of 4.5 out of 5.12 ratings

juju061279

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Straightforward and tasty recipe. I substituted the flour for GF flour and added some xantham gum to keep the sponge spongey. It worked a treat. I also didn’t have medium eggs so used the large I had . The result was really good. It’s a matter of personal taste naturally but I feel that the sponge…

mbslynne

I would really appreciate imperial measures in all the recipes. All my scales, measures etc are in imperial and I prefer it. I know a lot of other people feel the same way. it's a nuisance to find a good recipe and then to have to mess about 'translating' it before you can actually start. I will put…

kittykat163.lg36749

Rhubarb csn be frozen it works just fine in a lot of recipes.

Crumbortwo

A star rating of 3 out of 5.

As others have said, this reminds me of my childhood. The sponge was lovely but for me, the flavour of the rhubarb was overpowered by the ginger. I appreciate lots of recipes blend these two ingredients together, but I eat rhubarb for the flavour of rhubarb, not ginger. I will cook this again but…

cliffe

What's a 2.5 cm medium egg? Do you mean 2 medium eggs or 2 and a half medium eggs?

aimps_t

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

First time I've made a steamed pudding and it was a sound success. I made 6 individual puddings and it only took about 35mins to steam. I used 2 eggs as per the other recipe and it turned out fine.

I was worried that there was too much sugar in the recipe but you can still taste the tartness of the…

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