Today, we ate the last of the Quorn Casserole I made a couple of weeks ago. I bought Quorn chunks on offer for £1 a bag and made 6 portions out of that. To make Quorn casserole, I use a chopped onion, half a head of celery, 6 carrots, a green pepper and made a casserole. I used veggie gravy mix to thicken and cooked it in the oven. We ate it with rice. So far so good and very healthy. That's where our good intentions ended.
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| Frugal advice, cook in the microwave, steaming uses too much gas. |
The suet pudding mix that I bought will make pastry, dumplings, jam roly poly, spotted dick, and also, as I made today, Treacle Pudding - it's actually made with golden syrup, I buy half a litre from Tesco for 89p.
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| Bought from Approved foods for £1.50 and should last us for months and has many uses. |
To make Treacle Pudding, mix 250g of dumpling mix with 145 ml of milk, one egg and three tablespoons of sugar. Pour plenty of golden syrup into the bottom of a pudding basin, pour pudding mix over the top and place in the steamer. It will need an hour to steam. I gave up after 30 minutes and was concerned about the cost of the gas, so I microwaved the pudding for 5 minutes. Insert a clean skewer into the pudding at a angle, if it comes out clean, then the pudding is cooked. It's the same way to test sponge cake.
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| All hail the golden pudding |
The finished results are a thing of beauty. I'm sure suet puddings are unique to Britain and places where Brits settled. Don't even start me on the calories, it has beef suet in it!!!
We had ours with cream, as Morrisons had loads going at 25p, so I picked some up last night. I don't recommend this to anyone with a weak heart, or high cholesterol or if you don't own elasticated trousers. However, puddings of any sort, make Dearly Beloved go weak at the knees and as he's forgoing meat in the name of frugality, then at least I can do is make the poor bloke a sticky pudding xxx
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