Steamed Rhubarb Pudding

Steamed rhubarb pudding – Simon Rimmer, Sunday Brunch

Ingredients

• 450g forced rhubarb
• 125g sugar
• zest of 1 orange
• 1/2 teaspoon ground star anise
• 75g syrup
• 100g butter
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 100g self raising flour
• 50ml milk

500ml good quality ready made custard
100ml condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

• Chop rhubarb into bite size pieces. Cook for 5 minutes with 25g sugar and zest. Cool.
• Butter a 1 litre pudding basin
• Mix the syrup and rhubarb, spoon into the basin.
• Beat the butter and the sugar, then add the eggs, then flour and vanilla and milk.
• Spoon onto the rhubarb.
• Cover with parchment. Tie.
• Put in a large pot with water. 2/3
• Steam for 1.5 hours, cool slightly
• Turn out
• Heat custard, milk & vanilla
• Serve pudding with lashings of custard