Old Fashioned Apple Pudding

“This recipe comes from The Blue Ribbon Cookbook - a $0.25 cookbook my mum’s mum gave her when she got married. That cookbook has many many good old recipes in it that my mum still uses today.”
— My mum
 
 

“At that point in time, apples were one of the few things you could get during the winter.”

Apple pudding is a simple, 50’s style desert that’s delicious with ice cream or regular cream. It’s a simple dough and with a little bit of butter and a couple of apples, you can make desert for 8!

MAKES

9 servings

TOTAL TIME

Prep: 30min + 30 min bake

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 cup flour

  • 2 tablespoons butter

  • 1 tablespoon baking powder

  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

  • 1 teaspoon sugar

  • 1/2 cup milk

  • 2 apples peeled and thinly sliced

  • sugar & cinnamon

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar

  • 1 tablespoon flour

  • pinch of salt

  • 1 cup boiling water

  • 2 tablespoons butter

  • 2 teaspoons vanilla

METHOD

Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F

Combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.

Cut in butter with a pastry cutter.

Add the milk and make a dough. Roll into a rectangular shape. Spread a bit of additional butter all over the dough.

Place apples on top of dough in a single layer, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Roll up like cinnamon bun

Slice into 9 sections and put into a greased square cake pan.

Create the caramel sauce.

Combine brown sugar, flour and salt in small sauce pan. Pour 1 cup boiling water over the sugar mixture. Stir until thickened.

Add 2 TBSP butter and stir over low hear until it melts.

Remove from heat add 2Tsp vanilla

Pour sauce over apple roll-ups in cake pan. 

Place in the oven for 30 minutes at 375 degrees until bubbling and lightly golden.

Pour cereal cream on top or serve with ice cream and enjoy.