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Spinašu pudiņš

Sweet spinach pudding with currants

  • Serves 6
  • about 1¾ hours
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1796Spinnaschu puddinsch.

Modernizētslpp. 210 · PDF 224
6 porcijas

The book gives 12 eggs and "a good amount" of spinach; it gives no other amounts. We use half: 6 eggs.

Method

6 soļi
  1. Wash fresh spinach well, drop it into a large pan of boiling water and drain it as soon as the water comes back to the boil. Cool it under cold water. (Frozen spinach needs no cooking.)
  2. Squeeze the spinach as dry as you can in your hands or a clean cloth; you should have about 300 g. Chop it finely.
  3. Beat the soft butter with the eggs, sugar and salt, then stir in the spinach, currants and breadcrumbs.
  4. To steam: butter a 1.2 l pudding basin, fill it, cover with pleated buttered baking paper and foil and tie tightly. Steam on a trivet in a covered pan of simmering water, two thirds of the way up the basin, for 1–1¼ hours, until set and at least 72 °C in the centre.
  5. To bake: butter a 1.2 l ovenproof dish, fill it and stand it in a roasting tin with hot water halfway up. Bake at 170 °C (150 °C fan) for 40–50 minutes, until set and at least 72 °C in the centre.
  6. Turn the pudding out into a dish, or serve it in its dish, and pour the melted butter over.

Notes

What the book says vs. what we added

the book washes a good amount of spinach, brings it to the boil once in water, dries and chops it finely, and mixes in washed butter, 12 eggs, sugar, currants and grated white bread. It is boiled in a napkin or baked in a saucepan, and served with melted butter or another sauce. The amounts other than the eggs, the salt, the water bath and the times are ours.

Sweet spinach

spinach with sugar and currants was common in 18th-century cooking, in puddings and tarts. For a savoury version, leave out the sugar and currants and add nutmeg (not in the book).

Washed butter

see 04-007; unsalted butter does the same job.

Squeeze well

any water left in the spinach makes the pudding weep and stops it setting.

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