Equality pudding
This recipe is for 4.
(You may need to use a conversion chart for the weights. I halved the ingredients as there are only two of us.)
2oz cooking fat or margarine
8oz plain flour
1-2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons jam
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Approx 1/4 pint of milk and water mixed. (Women used to fill emptied milk bottles with water and used this milky water for baking.)
Rub the margarine or fat into the flour and mix in the sugar. Add the jam. dissolve soda in the milk mixture and mix the pudding to a soft dropping consistency. Turn into a greased basin, one and a half pint size, and steam for 2 hours. Serve with custard or a sweet sauce.
I tried topping mine with jam but all that did was make it hard to remove from the basin. Maybe next time I'll experiment making it with a jammy centre, or maybe not mix the jam in quite as thoroughly to see if it leaves little pockets of jammy bits!
I also used my kitchen top steamer rather than a hob steamer as I could just leave it for the 2 hours and wait for it to go ping while I got on with making the fish cakes and sticking them in the George Forman grill. Although a usual grill would have been just as good, I like the convenience and the fact I could sit back and enjoy one of my three steeped cups of tea a day and a couple of homemade digestive biscuits without having to keep a constant vigil on everything.
Using modern kitchen equipment is the key to this rationing plan as no one has as much time for food preparation as they once did, and something that once took hours can take half the time or less, with careful planning, preparation and use of kitchen equipment.
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