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400g pears
300g apples
500g ripe plums
450 g fresh blackberries
15g butter
200g caster sugar
sunflower oil, for greasing
12 slices of white bread, without crust
optional whipped cream
We make a typical British pudding - with a recipe from the Hairy Bikers - that resembles a French Charlotte. It is also a bread pudding filled with fruit with 1 big difference: there is no oven involved. Because we like to eat Autumn fruit, we think it would be a nice recipe to make, but we will taste whether it really is that good. Make the pudding on Saturday, then it is Sunday at it's best!
How to make an Autumn Pudding
Day 1
Peel apples and pears then remove the cores, cut in four.
Wash the plums, cut in halves and remove the stones.
Wash the balckberries too and put all fruit in a pan.
Add the butter and sugar to the fruit.
Put the pan on low heat then bring the fruit to the boil.
Let the fruit simmer for approximately 15 minutes until soft but not mushy.
Put a colander in a big bowl and let the fruit drain for 10 minutes.
Pour the juice back in the pan and let it simmer until you have about half the volume (+/- 600ml)
Allow the fruit juice to cool, pour it optional in a cold bowl.
Line the greased mold with cling film.
Cut a circle out of the bread and cut the rest in half.
We will later make breadcrumbs from the cut off crusts.
Dip the circle in the juice and place in the mold.
Do the same with the halves of bread.l
Then spoon the fruit in the mold.
Drizzle a little fruit juice over the fruit then dip the last pieces of bread in the rest of it
Press the last halves of bread on top of the pudding.
Cover the top of the pudding with cling film.
Place a fitting plate on top of the pudding.
Place a few weights on top, like food cans.
Place the pudding overnight in the fridge like this
Day 2
Beat the 500 ml double cream with the sugar.
Spoon the cream into a piping bag.
Take the pudding from the mold.
This is how to do it: Put a platter on top of the mold, flip the mold and remove the cling film
We pipe small roses of cream around the pudding, just for fun :))
When cutting the pudding everyone can have as much cream as she / he wants.
The pudding is really super delicious, there are no left overs this time, Happy Autumn!