Summer Pudding

Prepare

1. 🥄Bring out the juices: Wash fruit and gently dry on kitchen paper – keep strawberries separate.
2. 🔥Put sugar and 3 tbsp water into a large pan.

Steps

1. 🔥Gently heat until sugar dissolves – stir a few times.

Cook

1. 🧂Bring to a boil for 1 min, then tip in the fruit (not strawberries).
2. 🍳Cook for 3 mins over a low heat, stirring 2-3 times.

Steps

1. 🍳The fruit will be softened, mostly intact and surrounded by dark red juice.
2. 🫇Put a sieve over a bowl and tip in the fruit and juice.

Prepare

1. 🫇Line the bowl with cling film and prepare the bread: Line the 1.25-litre basin with cling film as this will help you to turn out the pudding.

Steps

1. 🍽️Overlap two pieces of cling film in the middle of the bowl as it’s easier than trying to get one sheet to stick to all of the curves.
2. 🌿Let the edges overhang by about 15cm.

Prepare

1. 🌿Cut the crusts off the bread.
2. ✨Cut 4 pieces of bread in half, a little on an angle, to give 2 lopsided rectangles per piece.
3. 🥄Cut 2 slices into 4 triangles each and leave the final piece whole.

Steps

1. ✨Build the pud: Dip the whole piece of bread into the juice for a few secs just to coat.
2. 🥄Push this into the bottom of the basin.
3. 🔥Now dip the wonky rectangular pieces one at a time and press around the basin’s sides so that they fit together neatly, alternately placing wide and narrow ends up.
4. 🧂If you can’t quite fit the last piece of bread in it doesn’t matter, just trim into a triangle, dip in juice and slot in.
5. 🍳Now spoon in the softened fruit, adding the strawberries here and there as you go.

Serve

1. 🥄Let flavours mingle then serve: Dip the bread triangles in juice and place on top – trim off overhang with scissors.

Steps

1. 🔥Keep leftover juice for later.
2. 🧂Bring cling film up and loosely seal.

Serve

1. 🧂Put a side plate on top and weight down with cans.

Steps

1. 🍳Chill for 6 hrs or overnight.

Serve

1. 🫇To serve, open out cling film then put a serving plate upside-down on top and flip over.
2. 🍽️serve with leftover juice, any extra berries and cream.