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babyshoes

Very Easy Microwave sponge pudding

(measurements are approximate)

4 tablespoons SR flour (or plain with a tsp of baking powder)
4 tablespoons sugar
4 tablespoons butter/marg (I just eyeball it)
1 egg
splash of milk
2-4 tablespoons Jam / syrup / choc spread / stewed fruit etc for topping

Mix the butter and sugar together well, add the egg and stir it as best you can - it will look curdled at this stage - then mix in the flour one spoonful at a time. Add enough milk to make a thick pouring batter. Put your chosen topping in the bottom of a pudding bowl (large enough for the mixture to double in size) and pour the batter on top. Microwave for 2 mins initially, then in 30 sec bursts until the sponge is cooked. Turn out so the topping is actually on top, should you care about such things. I tend not to bother as our microwave makes it rise unevenly, but it still tastes good!

Serve with custard or cream.

pinkladyvenus

I make this, and serve with 6p a sachet instant custard (morrisons)

Banana cake

4oz margarine or butter
4oz sugar
2 Bananas (the over ripe ones work best)
5oz self raising flour

Beat marg and sugar to pale and creamy, mash bananas and beat in.
Fold in self raising flour
Put mixture into greased loaf tin bake for 35 to 40 minutes
bake at 180c.
Stand in tin for 20 minutes before turning out.

Pink.

Hi Minority,

I don't have a sweet tooth in my head (give me savoury food every time ) so I can't really advise as we rarely have a pudding, but these threads may give you some ideas:

cheap tasty puddings

Cheap, fast pudding

Quick mid week puddings/desserts

Pudding and dessert recipes

puddings?

Old Puddings.

Forgotten Puddings?

Once you've had more input I'll add your thread to the first link to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

Skint_yet_Again

Babyshoes, thats similar to the pudding I made at the weekend. I used pineapple with a drizzle of golden syrup, but you could use just golden syrup if buying a tin for flapjack

2oz butter or spread suitable for baking
2oz sugar
1 egg
3oz self raising flour

cake mix = Cream butter and sugar together
Slowly mix in 1 beaten egg a bit at a time.
Fold in flour.

Grease a microwaveable bowl (I have a small pyrex one) with a little butter/spread. Add syrup, jam etc
Pour in cake mix
Cover with cling film *make small hole for air vent in top
Cook for 5 mins on medium high

LameWolf

Fruit crumble.

If you can find hedgerow fruit for free, so much the better. I use value oats for the crumble, with a little sugar, you can add mixed spice or cinnamon if you have it, bind it all with sunflower margarine (at least that's what I do.)

A large Bramley apple, 8 oz oats, a smidge over 4 oz marg and a sprinkling of sugar makes a crumble that does the 2 of us for 4 days; there's no reason you couldn't portion it up and freeze it once it's made, if you're on your own.

I've also used the apples I got free from local common ground and added free blackberries to make up the amount of fruit.

We also have cherry plums growing locally, which make a nice crumble, for a change.

In fact, pretty much any fruit you can pick free, or scrounge from a friend who has a glut, would probably do the job.

Mr LW, always the exponent of the ancient joke, calls it my Oat Cuisine.:cool:

[Deleted User]

Banana custard specially if the bananas are getting a bit soft - I always use the cheapest instant custard powder I can find from any of the big supermarkets currently using 6p packets. It tastes fine and you can have it hot or it's just as nice cold. Baked apple with a few raisins/sultanas in is cheap and nice too. Hope that helps. Lyn.

Boodle

A mashed banana in yoghurt. Or stir in some jam or dried fruit.

UHT milks are cheaper than chilled if you wanted to treat yourself to a milky pud occasionally: things like semolina or rice pud would be cheaper than the packets of angel delight in the long run so could off-set that milk spend.

You could make up a batch of buns using an egg-less, milkless batter. Like this one (only cooking for 20 minutes at 180C in muffin tins instead of a cake tin.)

Minority_2

Excellent! Thank you very much for all of your suggestions, exactly what I was looking for! Will be trying out quite a few of these and will report back with my "creations"

Taadaa

pinkladyvenus wrote: »

I make this, and serve with 6p a sachet instant custard (morrisons)

Banana cake

4oz margarine or butter
4oz sugar
2 Bananas (the over ripe ones work best)
5oz self raising flour

Beat marg and sugar to pale and creamy, mash bananas and beat in.
Fold in self raising flour
Put mixture into greased loaf tin bake for 35 to 40 minutes
bake at 180c.
Stand in tin for 20 minutes before turning out.

I'm not one to boast but this is in my oven as I type and it smells ah-mazing, very easy to make too

cat_g_83

Buy a tin of evaporated milk (48p from tesco) and whisk into it a jelly sachet dissolved in a tiny bit of boiled water until thick and frothy. Pour it into a mould lined with cling film and you can turn it out to slice when it's set.

If you put a base in the mould of crushed digestives and melted butter it takes the place of a moussey, jelly like cheesecake.

Or you can just pour it into a big bowl, stick it in the fridge and devour it with a spoon.