Pudding Ingredients:

  • 20 ml butter
  • 210 g (250 ml) caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 15 ml smooth apricot jam
  • 5 ml bicarbonate of soda
  • 125 ml lukewarm, strong Honeybush tea
  • 140 g (250 ml) cake flour
  • 1 ml salt
  • 5 ml white vinegar

Cream Sauce Ingredients:

  • 250 ml cream
  • 150 g (180 ml) white sugar
  • 125 g (135 ml) butter
  • 125 ml hot, strong Honeybush tea
  • 5 ml vanilla essence

Directions:

Pudding:

  1. Preheat your oven to 180°C. Lightly grease a 1.5-liter baking dish or tin with butter.
  2. Cream the butter and caster sugar together until well combined. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing thoroughly after each addition until the mixture becomes light and airy.
  3. Mix in the apricot jam.
  4. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the lukewarm Honeybush tea, then add this to the egg mixture.
  5. Sift the flour and salt together, then gently fold them into the mixture. Lastly, stir in the vinegar.
  6. Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish and bake for 45 minutes, or until fully cooked.

Cream Sauce:

  1. While the pudding is baking, combine all the sauce ingredients in a small saucepan. Heat gently, stirring continuously until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved. Once the pudding is out of the oven, pour this hot sauce over it.
  2. Serve with homemade custard or vanilla ice cream.

Serves 8