Traditional Newfoundland Blueberry Duff and Caramel Sauce
  • Yield: 1
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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Traditional Newfoundland Blueberry Duff and Caramel Sauce

By February 22, 2017

Blueberry Duff and Caramel Sauce
Caramel Sauce

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If you are looking to make a delicious steamed blueberry duff, and caramel sauce you are in the right place.

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Steamed blueberry pudding

Fresh or frozen blueberries work great for this recipe...

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Ingredients

Instructions

1- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in egg, milk , vanilla and sift in dry ingredients. Mix well. Fold in blueberries and place mixture into a prepared cotton pudding bag and tie tightly (allow ½” space at top of bag for expansion).

Cinnamon Sticky Rolls
Freshly picked blueberries

2- Boil for approx 1 hour 15 minutes (medium to high boil). Check boiler to make sure you still have water in pot, NEVER LET BOIL DRY. You can also use a heat proof plastic tub uncovered with a foil bowl at the bottom of your boiler, this is to insure the bowl don't touch the bottom of your boiler, the water level should be half way up the bowl only.

3- After your blueberry duff is cooked remove from pot and place on a plate upside down, remove bowl or cotton bag then cut in 8 to 10 pieces and serve.

Helpful hints:
You can use butter or margarine , prepared cotton bag is when you dip the cotton bag into boiling water and place on a plate to scoop up your mixture and put in bag. You can also put in a heat proof plastic tub with no cover and place in hot water with a spoon or foil bowl on the bottom to keep your plastic container from burning. You can boil it with your jigs dinner or in a pot of boiling water on its own, and you can serve it with your dinner or as a dessert with any topping .

Caramel Sauce:

1 Cup brown sugar
4 Tbsp unsalted butter
1/4 Cup heavy Cream or Carnation milk
Pinch salt
1 Tsp vanilla

In a small saucepan mix brown sugar; cream and salt together on medium heat. Then add butter until completely melted then cook until you see bobbles this will take 5 to 7 minutes. Stirring occasionally until you see the it start to condense and thicken remove from heat then add one tsp of vanilla, serve hot or let cool.

Keep in a mason jar if you don't use all at once then store in your fridge up to a week.

This caramel sauce can be used on any dessert you like or I've put it on my toutons, that is fried pieces of bread made from the dough of your homemade bread mixture. 

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Blueberry Duff and Caramel Sauce
Blueberry Duff with a delicious caramel sauce and freshly picked blueberries steamed in a pot of hot water, in a cotton bag or pudding container.

So many ways to make this delicious blueberry duff, you can steam it or bake in the oven, also microwave. I make it bought ways and it’s equally delicious.

Helpful Hints:  Remember if you use frozen blueberries to always thaw them before using them in your duff or pudding. When blueberries thaw they have a lot of water release from them you don’t need that in your mixture.

You can serve your blueberry duff with a Jiggs dinner or as a dessert topped with caramel sauce and ice cream.

Blueberry Duff and Caramel Sauce
Caramel Sauce

Making blueberry duff was a big thing years ago when people made  Jiggs dinner on Sunday’s, I can remember my dad taking the duff out of the boiler and serving it with our Jiggs dinner, he always cooked the duff or pudding with his Jiggs dinner.

Jiggs Dinner
Jiggs Dinner

He would put peas in a cotton bag, we called it peas pudding bag and place it on top of the potatoes and put the lid on the boiler. The steam in the boiler would lock in and the blueberry duff would start to cook, also you have the flavours from your Jiggs dinner going into your duff. Sometimes our mom would make a caramel sauce and we would have our blueberry duff as a dessert.

Im thinking anyway you have this delicious blueberry duff you will be pleased and you will find yourself going back for seconds.

You don’t have to make a Jiggs dinner to cook this blueberry duff, just fill your boiler half full of water and let it start boiling. When the boiler comes to a boil place a foil bowl at the bottom of your boiler, place the cotton bag, pudding tin with lid, or heat proof bowl full of your blueberry duff mixture and place in the boiler. Let steam for  1 hour and 1/2 never let the water boil dry and never cover fully with water.

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