Dessert Recipes > Blackberry Upside Down Pudding

This recipe is part of the October 2007 Recipes Menu


Starter - Garlic Mushroom Patties
Main Course - Curried Mince and Apple Bake
Dessert - Blackberry Upside-down Pudding

How to make blackberry upside down pudding:
Pick your blackberries from the hedgerows (not too near a road) and try this tangy Upside Down Pudding. it is really worth the effort. Eat it hot or cold preferably with a good dollop of Clotted Cream.



Ingredients


Upside Down Blackberry Pudding

for the topping:

6 tablespoons raspberry jam
12oz blackberries
1 large eating apple, peeled, cored and roughly chopped

for the cake:

6oz self raising flour
1 level teaspoon baking powder
1 egg
finely grated rind and juice of 1 large lemon
2 tablespoons milk
3oz butter
3oz caster/superfine sugar
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Grease a suitable pyrex dish or cake tin.
- Heat the jam gently in a small saucepan and pour into the prepared cake tin.
- Arrange the blackberries and apple on top of the jam.
- Put all the cake ingredients into a large bowl and beat until smooth and glossy.
- Carefully spread the cake mix over the fruit.
- Bake at 190 degrees C.
- After 40 minutes cover with a double piece of greaseproof paper to prevent burning.
- Bake for a further 20 minutes.
- The cake should be well risen and firm to the touch.
- Allow to cool a little and then turn out onto serving dish.
- Serve with Clotted Cream.

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I wonder just how much land it would take to feed a family of, say, 4? I know that if my family didn't buy fruit and veg we wouldn't have enough to eat but is self sufficiency down to amount of land or method of growing? Last year I overcrowded my small veg plot with counter-productive results like mildew and snail infestation that went unnoticed until we came to pick the tomatoes (all holes!). I wonder if anyone has ever been totally self providing or whether the local market and barter played...