Date pudding - vegetarian lifestyle recipe book

serves 4

8 oz / 200 g wholemeal flour

4 oz / 100 g chopped dates

2 oz / 50 g hard vegetable fat

1 egg

water

salt to taste

• Mix all the dry ingredients together with the fat.
• Beat in the egg
• Add sufficient water for the ingredients to form a soft dough.
• Place the mixture in a 1 3/4 pint / 1 litre pudding bowl.
• Cover the bowl with a sheet of greaseproof paper and then with a clean cotton cloth. Tie securely round under the lip of the bowl with string.
• Lower the bowl into a steamer over boiling water and steam for 2 hours.
• Serve hot.

• Include sultanas, chopped apricots, chopped figs, stem ginger.
• Place two tablespoons of molasses in the pudding bowl before adding the soft dough.