Traditional Newfoundland Steamed Molasses Pudding
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If you are looking for a delicious steamed molasses pudding look no further, I have a full step by step video and a recipe waiting for you to get started.
If you don't own a pudding tin it would be a good investment, I was looking forever for one and used every tub, bowl and tin I could find. But when I finally got the right type of pudding tin my pudding days and many.... 🙂
I hope I've made you excited to make this delicious, Traditional Newfoundland Steamed Molasses Pudding. One of many I have available here on my website and I will share a couple of links with you. Microwave Style Blueberry Duff
Please continue on to my recipe and I will share more links for you if you wish, I also will share a link to my cookbook if you wish to check it out. https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/cookbook
Ingredients
- Egg - 1 large
- Dark molasses - 3/4 cup
- Water - 1/2 cup
- Flour - 1 1/2 cups less 1/4 for raisins
- Raisins - 1 cup
- Oil - 2 tbsp
- Baking soda - 1 tsp
- Salt - 1/2 tsp
- Ground cloves - 1 tsp
Instructions
Traditional Newfoundland Steamed Molasses Pudding
- Beat egg and add molasses, then dissolve baking soda in water and stir into mixture.
- Stuff together flour, ground clove and salt, fold into mixture.
- In a small bowl add raisins or currants, and toss in 1/4 cup flour, this will help keep them from sinking to the bottom while steaming.
- Fold the raisins into mixture, then add oil, continue mixing until combine.
- Grease a pudding mold or mold of choice, pour batter into mold and cover.
- Place in a boiler with 1/4 of water, start to boil and add pudding mold inside. Let steam for 1 1/2 hours then remove and serve with a hot sauce and thick cream, or jigs dinner with gravy.
WHITE CREAM SAUCE:
-2 tbsp butter to margarine        -1/2 cup warm water        1/8 tsp nutmeg    Orange Zest
-1/2 cup milk                   - 1/2 tsp almond extract     lemon zest
1/3 cup white sugar              - 2 tbsp flour or corn starch with 1/4 cup cold water ( mix in mason jar )
In a small saucepan add butter, milk, water and sugar let warm and stir occasionally.
In a mason jar add flour and cold water, shack together until no lumps seen.
Slowly mix in with saucepan hot mixture, until it starts to go thick. Remove from heat add almond extract, nutmeg, lemon and orange zest continue stirring. Cover put to the side for pouring over easter pudding, while hot.
Allergens
If you are like me you can’t get enough of puddings of any type, this one is so delicious and soft, not a lot of work. Making to right pudding when you are expecting company or just for yourselves, this is the one for that comfort food you may be looking for.Â
Again not a lot of work but so delicious.
I hope you have enjoyed the video and recipe we have posted here for you today, making this steamed molasses pudding for any occasion or just because you will love it. This is a recipe we would make on a Sunday to have with our Jiggs Dinner or to have as a dessert with a delicious helping if white cream sauce over the top.
Traditional Newfoundland Jiggs Dinner
Please take a few minutes to check out this video on how to make your JIGGS DINNER, you don’t have to be a Newfoundlander to enjoy this meal. Plus you don’t have to visit Newfoundland to enjoy this delicious home cooked meal, follow the recipe and video and you too can enjoy this meal.
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We just finished off our Christmas supper with your steamed molasses pudding for dessert. I added blackberries (crow berries) and partridgeberries instead of the raisins for a more festive touch. It was the best steamed pudding I’ve ever made. I should also thank you for your help in locating a pudding tin. I got one for Christmas. That definitely added to my success. 😉 Merry Christmas!
Oh my you are very welcome and I’m so glad to help, thank you for following up with us regrading your delicious molasses pudding. It make me feel so proud to be apart of your Christmas Day meal, have a wonderful day. God Bless Bonita
Greetings from Alberta. My first ever steamed pudding is in the boiler as we speak. I am hoping for great things, so thank you. You are a very good teacher, Bonita, you make every technique seem simple and easy to accomplish. So, many thanks for that as well.
Hi Karen: You are very welcome and thank you for stopping by and leaving a lovely message, I’m glad you are enjoying our channel and recipes. This molasses steamed pudding is one of my favourites, enjoy to the fullest and stay safe, message any time and share our recipes with your Facebook friends and family. 🙂 Bonita
Hi Bonita! How much ground cloves do I need to use? Looking forward to making this for Christmas.
Hi Susannah, Thank you for your message and for stopping by, I’m so sorry about that sometimes an ingredient is missing in my recipes, its a over site of mine. I used 1 tsp of ground cloves, you can use a little more it you wish. This is a lovely pudding and enjoy to the fullest. I did fix the error in the recipe and my video do tell you all of the ingredients needed. 🙂 Bonita
This was absolutely delicious! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe. We were trying to recreate my great grandmother’s Christmas menu and this is one of the desserts she would have made. I didn’t have a pudding mold so I used a loaf pan covered with aluminum foil and tied with a rubber band. Presentation wasn’t as pretty as yours but it was fine. I did not add raisins and used lemon zest only for the sauce, not orange. Hope you’re having a great Christmas!
Hi Susannah, Thank you for your message and for stopping by, thats ok to use whatever pan you have available, just as long as the pudding don’t go in the water “only steam” I’m glad you made the molasses pudding the way you like it. 🙂 Happy New Year…Bonita
Hi Bonita, I’ve been following you for years and great having some good home style meals that my mom used to make me as I’ve been in Alberta now for 16yrs.
I’ve been looking for a similar molasses/rasin pudding similar to the one above but my mom use to boil it in a pudding bag with Sunday dinner and when she took the bag off it, it would have thin smooth skin on it. Do you happen to know how this one is made? Thanks a million.
Hi Mark: Thank you for your message and I’m sorry I’m just getting to your message. I’m so glad you are enjoying our channel and its bringing back fond memories. This recipe for steamed molasses pudding can be cooked with your dinner in the boiler using a pudding bag. You can also steam it on its own in a seperate boiler so the liquor don’t get sweet, this will change the taste of your gravy. Also you can play with the recipe if you like less sugar or molasses, just make the batter and scoop into your pudding bag, leaving some room in the bag to expand, this recipe could be more for a pudding bag but make two. https://youtu.be/XtT9-AebkrY This recipe is a boiled raisin cake that also can be made in the pudding bag. Enjoy Bonita