Chocolate Sauce Pudding

Gran’s Family Table by Natalie Oldfield
HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand

(Serves 6–8)

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ cup sugar
• 4 heaped tbsp cocoa
• 4 tbsp melted butter
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 4 heaped tbsp cocoa
• 2 cups boiling water

Method

Preheat oven to 180 °C.

To make pudding, sift flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cocoa into a mixing bowl. Add butter, milk and vanilla and mix well. Pour into a deep buttered dish. Combine brown sugar and cocoa and sprinkle over pudding. Pour over boiling water and bake for 40 minutes.

John Hawkesby’s wine recommendation

Dessert Wine
Johanneshof Noble Late Harvest Riesling 2008

Dolcetto & Syrah
Brown Bros. 2010