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Easy Chocolate Pudding
This is a very easy dessert to make as it has 4 of everything. You can make it in a steamer which is the traditional method but it turns out just as nicely done in a greased baking dish.
Easy Chocolate Pudding
Ingredients:
4 arrowroot biscuits
4 cups milk
4 eggs
4 tblsps cocoa
4 tblsps sugar
Method:
- Preheat moderate oven
- Crush biscuits. An easy way to do this is to put them in a plastic bag and roll them with a rolling pin. Then just empty the bag into the mixing bowl.
- Mix crushed biscuits, cocoa and sugar in bowl.
- Warm the milk gently in a saucepan.
- Beat eggs.
- Add milk and beaten eggs to the dry ingredients and stir well.
- Put in a greased ovenproof dish and bake in a moderate oven for around 1 hour. Test it towards the end of the cooking time to see whether it is done. It is ready if a metal skewar (or knife) comes out clean and the mixture is set.
- Alternatively you can put the mixture in a steamer and steam in the oven for an hour.
- Serve with a little cream and stewed apricots.
Tips
I have found that sometimes you end up with a fair amount of liquid in the pudding. This can be caused by having the oven too hot but I think it is more likely caused by not enough arrowroot. This recipe is over 50 years old and arrowroot biscuits back then had more than the 0.1% arrowroot they have today. What I usually do when I make this dessert is to add a couple of teaspoons of arrowroot powder to the dry ingredients and that usually solves the too much liquid problem.
If you find that the pudding is browning too quickly on the top, cover the dish with a lid if it has one, otherwise just use aluminium foil to cover it.
