Today has been a gloomy weather day in my home town and so I’ve craved comfort food all day long. Myself and Izzy curled up on the sofa this afternoon eating home made cottage pie – I will share this with you another day and then I really fancied some golden syrup suet pudding!
My mum used to make this and I’ve no idea where the recipe originates from plus I’ve made some slight adaptations but however you look at it this is such a simple pudding.
I love fruit and I love cake/puddings but I’m not a fan of combining the two unless its an apple pie or a chocolate orange cake 😉 I don’t like dishes like spotted dick or Christmas pud for example.
My favourite puddings are Treacle, Chocolate or Golden Syrup and today Syrup won.
Is there anything more comforting on a rainy day than hot pudding and custard? How about if I told you that you could make this from scratch and be eating it in 10 minutes?
Golden Syrup Suet Pudding
You will need:
60ml of Lyles golden syrup (4tbsp)
50g of Suet ( I used atora)
50g of caster sugar ( I used vanilla golden caster sugar)
1tsp vanilla ( I used Nielsen Massey)
125g of Self raising flour
1 large egg
100ml of full fat milk
Grease a pudding basin/Pyrex bowl completely. Pour golden syrup into bottom of basin. Mix together flour (sifted), sugar and Suet in a bowl. In a jug mix together milk, egg and vanilla. Add wet ingredients to dry and mix well. Carefully put your mixture on top of your syrup and cook in a microwave on full power for 4.5 minutes. Remove from microwave (carefully as hot) and run a knife gently around the outside of the pudding. Turn onto a serving dish and serve with custard. Drool.
Ok so it may not be the prettiest pudding you have ever seen and next time I shall definitely grease the sides a little more thoroughly but wowzer it tastes good. It’s like my childhood on a plate.
Serve with lashings of custard.
Find my slow cooker version here.
i used to make a syrup pudding like this in the microwave when i was a teen at home but i never used suet (not sure i ever have yet). This type of pud def brings back childhood memories for me too
yum!
thanks for linking up and making me hungry x
wow, 4.5 minutes? that’s brilliant – I think I need to get some suet so I can rustle up some quick puds for the husband & kids, it looks great! thanks for joining in
looks amazing and so quick to make 🙂 x
I’ve been making this for years. I originally found the recipe in a Lyles Golden Syrup booklet. Easy to make. I steam mine as in the original recipe. I don;t find suet pud comes up as soft in a microwave, but if you want it quick it’s a good option. Just to make it more tasty I put syrup at the bottom, add half the mixture and then another layer of syrup, topping off with the rest of the mixture. My lot would rather have a syrup suet pudding than a sponge one any day. In fact they demand this for Christmas sweet every year….Christmas pudding does not get onto the menu!! If you’ve never tried this you do not know what you are missing. Best pudding ever!
One other thing: I hear there is a special place in heaven for the mother of boys for all of those same reasons. Congratulations, lucky mom. I love my boys, too.
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Do I double this to make it for 8 people?
Make two, rather than one 3 pint one. Remember the inside and outside will cook at different rates and with twice the mix you could end up over cooked outside but undercooked in the middle which would ruin a great “duff”.
Anyone know of a similar recipe for a date equivalent of “spotted dick” (sultana sponge pudding) that can also be made in this manner. Don’t fancy mushing the dates up for “sticky date pudding” and want one 1.5 litre rather than a number of small puddings?
If you cling film the top of pudding bowl before cooking in microwave it will rise and be more light also you can reduce your time by half a min otherwise your reciepe is great