Steamed Pudding with Golden Syrup

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 90 g butter
• 3 tablespoons caster sugar - fine grained white sugar
• ⅓ cup milk
• 1 cup self rising flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 tablespoons golden syrup

Procedures

1. Cream the butter and Sugar.
2. Beat in the egg.
3. Fold in the flour alternately with milk and vanilla.
4. Put the golden syrup in the bottom of a 4 cup pudding basin or ordinary ceramic basin.
5. Spoon the pudding mixture on to the top of the golden syrup.
6. Cover with a lid or pudding cap, or use greaseproof paper or aluminium foil fastened with string or a rubber band.
7. Put the bowl in a large saucepan with about 10 cm of water.
8. The water should come halfway up the side of the pudding bowl.
9. Simmer gently for about 1½ hours.
10. Remove the water, let it rest for 5 minutes and then turn it out onto a dish.
11. Serve with cream or ice cream or, more traditionally, custard (hot in winter).