English Summer Pudding

About English Summer Pudding

Ingredients

• White bread slices, borders trimmed 10 to 12
• Melted butter 6 to 7 tbsps
• Sugar 1 cup
• Pineapple slices 1 cup
• Whole green grapes 1 cup
• Green grapes, halved ¼ cup
• Whole black grapes 1 cup
• Black grapes, halved ¼ cup

How to Make English Summer Pudding (Stepwise Photos)

Method

1. Grease the base and the sides of a baking dish with butter.
2. Apply butter on both sides of all bread slices. Layer the greased dish with buttered bread slices covering the sides as well.
3. Heat sugar with 2 tbsps water in a non-stick pan till the sugar caramelizes.
4. Add pineapple slices, whole green and whole black grapes, mix and saute on medium heat for 4-5 minutes.
5. Put these stewed fruits into the bread bowl and pack tightly by pressing it firmly. Place remaining bread slices on top of the fruit mixture to cover the fruits completely.
6. Place a heavy dish on top of it and refrigerate for 24 hours.
7. To demould, place the pudding dish in a bigger bowl containing hot water for 1-2 minutes.
8. Overturn the bowl on a serving plate in one go.
9. Decorate with chopped green and black grapes and serve chilled.

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Chaitrali Deshmukh

Thank you for the amazing instructions.

I have success w/ my dosa but does not last long stored in the refrigerator.

Maybe I am fermenting for too long, or add the salt before the rise?

I also was wondering if it is important to blend separately or can it be blended all together?

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Chef Saransh Goila

Hi Chaitrali,
Yes, cut down the fermentation time and add salt only to the required portion at the time of making the dosa. Also storing in smaller containers just enough for a day helps. Once the batter in a larger container is disturbed (by stirring or scooping out a little etc), I feel it turns sour faster. You can blend them together if you want. But we do it separately because we want the dal batter to become fluffy and the rice batter slightly coarse. Fluffy dal batter makes the dosas light and coarse rice batter makes them extra crispy without making the dosas hard. Hope this helps