Clarke Family "Plum Duff"

Vi and I sat together eating our salad lunch today while Glenn is playing golf. Afterwards we had a piece of the Plum Duff she made for our Christmas Dinner and then didn't have the room to eat yesterday.

"Ah Ha!" I thought "An entry I will make on her blog!"

CLARKE FAMILY PLUM DUFF

3 cups flour

1 1/4 cups brown sugar

150g margerine/butter grated into dry mixture

1 Tablespoon cooking oil

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

3 cups (about 500g) dried fruit (Dates, cherries, sultanas)

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence

3 eggs

milk to make dropping consistency (about 3/4 cup?)

mix all together

pour into greased bowl

cover with doubled greaseproof paper held in place with string/elastic band

steam about 2 1/2 to 3 hours.

Take out of steaming pot, knife around to loose the edges, turn out onto a plate.

Heat 1/2 cup golden syrup and spoon over to soak into pudding.

This recipe used to be poured into a pillowslip corner and steamed when Vi was a child. We used a bowl this year and it worked well. We also made a 1-cup-of-flour mixture for the three of us.