Pear Parkin Pudding With Custard

This easy and comforting pud is the perfect way to round off a family lunch

• Cooking Time Prep 25 mins
  Cook 1 hr
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Serves 8

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  538

• Protein

  9g

• Carbs

  81g

• Fat

  22g

• Saturates

  13g

• Fibre

  5g

• Sugar

  45g

• Salt

  0.91g

Ingredients

• 200g porridge oats
• 200g self-raising flour
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• ¼ tsp salt
• 175g treacle
• 140g butter, plus extra for the dish and dotting over
• 140g light muscovado sugar, plus a bit more
• 2 balls stem ginger from a jar, chopped, plus some of the syrup to serve
• 1 large egg
• 150ml milk
• 4 ripe pears, peeled, stalks cut off, cored and halved
• custard, to serve (see recipe below)

Directions

1. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Butter a 30 x 20cm baking dish. Mix the first four ingredients together. Melt the treacle, butter and sugar together in a large saucepan, then stir in the dry ingredients, half of the chopped ginger, the egg and milk to give a smooth batter.
2. Spoon into the baking dish, then sit the pear halves in the batter. Dot more butter over each pear half and sprinkle with a little more sugar. Bake for 1 hr until risen all over and a skewer inserted into the middle of the pudding comes out clean.
3. To serve, scatter the rest of the ginger over the fruit, then drizzle all over with syrup from the jar. Serve in rectangles with custard, below.

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