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TradPuds

    Sticky date and ginger pudding

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200g dates, pitted and chopped
200ml milk 
140g self-raising flour
85g dark muscovado sugar for pudding
100g dark muscovado sugar for topping
85g butter
2 eggs
2 balls stem ginger, chopped
1 tsp vanilla essence 
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

    Heat oven to l60C and butter a deep 2-litre oval baking dish.

    Tip the dates into a pan with the milk and bring to scalding point. Remove from the heat, add the vanilla essence and bicarb, then leave to one side.

    Sift the flour and ginger into a bowl, then add the sugar (85g), the butter and the eggs. Whisk until thick then fold in the date mixture and the stem ginger. Pour into the baking dish and sprinkle with the other sugar(100g).

    Drizzle 3 tbsp of syrup from the stem ginger jar over the top. Finally pour 250ml boiling water over the top, BUT DO NOT STIR.

    Bake for 40 minutes until the pudding is firm to the touch.