Best Date Nut Pudding Recipes

DATE-NUT PUDDING

Steps:

• Pour boiling water over dates and set aside to cool.
• Cream together sugars, egg and butter or margarine.
• Combine dry ingredients and blend into creamed batter.
• Stir in dates and nuts.
• Pour into a greased baking pan, 11"X 7"X 1 1/2".
• Top with sauce and bake at 350 degrees F for 40 to 45 minutes.
• Serve warm or cold, topped with whipped cream, if desired.
• Sauce: Mix together until smooth and syrupy.
• Pour over batter and bake.

STICKY DATE NUT PUDDING DESSERT WITH CARAMEL OR TOFFEE SAUCE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
• Mix boiling water, baking soda and butter together and pour over dates. Let cool slightly.
• In a separate bowl mix cake batter: sugar, egg, vanilla, flour and chopped nuts.
• Combine the cake batter with date mixture and mix well.
• Pour the batter into a greased 8x8" pan (or use a 9x13" pan if doubling recipe).
• Bake at 350 F for approximately 20-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• For Caramel Sauce: Combine sugar, water and butter in a saucepan, bring to a boil, stirring, reduce heat and simmer for approximately five minutes while adding cornstarch or flour to thicken sauce. (Mix cornstarch or flour with small amounts of cold water and add to sauce).
• For Toffee Sauce: Combine sugar, cream and butter in a saucepan, bring to a boil, stirring, reduce heat and simmer for five minutes until thickened.
• Cut the cooled cake into very small square pieces.
• In a pudding bowl - layer 1/2 of the cake pieces, then 1/2 sauce and 1/2 tub Cool Whip. Repeat layer. Chill and serve!

DATE & NUT STEAMED PUDDING

Steps:

• 1. Mix the dry ingredients
• 2. Beat together the butter, milk, and eggs, then add to dry ingredients and mix well
• 3. Butter the mold (the bowl you will be cooking the pudding in) then place the pudding mixture into the mold. Some people also line the mold with parchment paper to make it easier to get the pudding out of the mold after it is cooked.
• 4. After wrapping the mold in buttered grease paper and aluminum foil (see BBC video below) place mold in steamer pan to steam for two or three hours til done
• 5. An English pudding may be steamed in A. A steamer pan (similar to a double boiler with holes in the bottom of the top pan) B. A Slow cooker C. A large stock pot on the stove
• 6. To watch an excellent video from the BBC that explains how to wrap and seal a pudding, then cook it in a stock pot go here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/videos/1060/steaming-a-pudding OR HERE FOR MORE TIPS AND HINTS: http://allrecipes.co.uk/how-to/47/how-to-steam-christmas-pudding.aspx
• 7. It can also be done in a slow cooker: After the pudding is wrapped (see BBC video above) place the pudding mold into the slow cooker. Pour in sufficient water to come 1/2 way up the sides of the pudding bowl. Cover and cook on HIGH for 5-7 hours. (You may need to scrunch up a bit of aluminum foil, or use an inverted saucer to lift the mold off the bottom of the crock pot.)
• 8. No matter the method, be sure to also keep a kettle of hot water on the stove, so you can top up the hot water in the steamer pan every so often. You don't want the steamer pan to go dry, it must have water and steam in it continually to finish steaming the pudding and since steam evaporates, the water level will need to be replenished. Just keep checking it every so often. You also do not want the hot water to bubble into the mold, that would ruin the pudding, so that is why the water level must be kept at half way up the bowl (mold) and the heat must keep the water steaming but not at a rolling boil.

NANA'S (ELEANOR JOHNSON) DATE-NUT PUDDING

Steps:

• Mix granulated sugar and 1T of butter. Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Blend in with sugar mixture alternately with milk. Stir in dates, walnuts, vanilla and orange rind. Pour into buttered dish. Combine boiling water, brown sugar and 2T remaining butter in a sauce pan; heat to bubbling stage; pour over batter; bake at 350 for 45 minutes and or until top is firm.

APPLE-DATE NUT PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour 9 x 13 baking pan
• Cream sugar and shortening.
• Add eggs and vanilla and beat well.
• Sift dry ingrediants together three times.
• Add alternately with apples, dates, and nuts to sugar mixture.
• Press into prepared pan.
• Bake for 30 minutes, or till tests done when a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Can be served warm or cold. Can be topped with ice cream or whipped topping, if desired.

DATE-NUT PUDDING

Steps:

• Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry set aside. Beat egg yolks add sugar and beat well. Mix in cracker crumbs, baking powder, dates and walnuts. Fold in egg whites. Bake in greased 8-inch square pan in a preheated 375° F oven for 45 minutes. Beat cream with sugar until soft peaks form. Cut pudding into squares and serve with a dollop of sweetened whipped cream.

DATE NUT PUDDING

Steps:

• Pudding Mix together and bake in muffin tins in moderate oven at 350 degrees Serve with Sauce poured over. Sauce: Cook until thickened: add 1 tsp vanilla. Serve over warm pudding.