Treacle Sponge & Custard

Name: Treacle Sponge & Custard
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 175 g Sugar; 175 g unsalted butter; 3 Eggs; 175 g Self-raising flour; 1/2 Lemon; 1/2 Orange; 75 g Golden syrup; 1.5 tbsp Stem ginger; 6 Egg yolks; 100 g Golden sugar; 500 ml Whole milk; 1 Vanilla pod

Pub Grub, Episode 25 - In this series, I’ll be showing you how to cook Delicious British Pub Food! Sticky, warming, and nostalgic – golden sponge steamed in ramekins with syrup and chopped stem ginger at the base, then drowned in proper vanilla custard. Like school dinners, but better.

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20m

Cook

50m

Total

1h 10m

Ingredients

Method

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Step 1

Beat the sugar and eggs in a large bowl until pale and fluffy, then gently fold in the flour along with the lemon and orange zest.

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Ingredients (Serves 4):

175

Sugar

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unsalted butter

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Treacle Sponge & Custard

Pub Grub, Episode 25 - In this series, I’ll be showing you how to cook Delicious British Pub Food! Sticky, warming, and nostalgic – golden sponge steamed in ramekins with syrup and chopped stem ginger at the base, then drowned in proper vanilla custard. Like school dinners, but better.

Prep

20m

Cook

50m

Total

1h 10m

Ingredients

Method

Turn cooking mode on

Step 1

Beat the sugar and eggs in a large bowl until pale and fluffy, then gently fold in the flour along with the lemon and orange zest.

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Ingredients (Serves 4):

175

Sugar

175

unsalted butter

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