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 'Malvern Pudding' as now commonly made is well described by Information Britain as "little more than stewed apple and custard really", but earlier versions describe a much more sophisticated dish, being either a Charlotte-type pudding of fruit inside a bread lining, baked, or an all-in boiled pudding very heavy in mixed fruits.  Original Receipt from Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 03 April 1979 MALVERN PUDDING INGREDIENTS: 450 g (1lb.) peeled and cored cooking apples, a few drops saccharin solution, 5ml (1 teaspoon) ground cinnamon, 5ml (1 teaspoon) ground mixed spice, 15g (1 tablespoon) custard powder, 250m1. (1/2 pint) reconstituted Marvel, 25g (1 oz) cornflakes, 12.5 g (1/2 oz) hazlenuts, finely chopped. Six ramekins or small ovenproof dishes. METHOD: Slice the apples into a saucepan. Add a little water and 2.5 mi (1/2 teaspoon) cinnamon and mixed spice. Cook until soft. Sweeten to taste with saccharin. Divide the fruit between the dishes. Make up the custard using the custard powder and Marvel. Sweeten to taste. Pour on to the apple. Lightly crush the cornflakes and mix with the hazelnuts and remaining spices. Sprinkle a little on to the top of each pudding. Place under a hot grill for a few minutes until topping is golden brown. Serves 6; 81 calories per portion. Original Receipt in Cookery, Rational, Practical and Economical (p12) by Hartelaw Reid - 1855;A Malvern Pudding is made as a Charlotte but with the bread not buttered and the apples or other fruit stewed and put in hot. It is not baked but merely allowed to stand with the weight on the top till cold and congealed when it is ready for use. Prunes stoned and figs may be employed in this way. Malvern Pudding Image: Alex Bray... Original Receipt from 'Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery' (Cassell 1883)Malvern Apple Pudding. - To a pound of finely-grated bread-crumbs and an equal weight of good russet apples - peeled, cored, and chopped small - add four ounces of moist sugar, a tea-spoonful of grated lemon-peel, or the rind of half a lemon, minced as small as possible, and four well-beaten eggs. Mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon, and throw in from time to time, while beating the mixture, a pound and a half, or more, of clean dry currants, and a glass of brandy. Boil in a floured cloth, which should be tied quite tight, without any space Those who have time to read things other than cookery books report that Malvern pudding features prominently in Carol Shields' novel 'The Stone Diaries'. Malvern Pudding was listed as one of the 'ten most threatened puddings' after a survey conducted by UKTV Food in 2008.  |
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