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Individual queen of puddings with meringue tops
Photo: Süti Sári, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 (cropped)

Desserts · Recipe No. 248

Queen of puddings

Queen of puddings made with milk, egg, caster sugar and breadcrumbs. The recipe serves 4; change the portions and units below and the amounts update.

  • Serves 4

Method

  1. Boil the milk, Pour on to 2 yolks, 1egg, 50g sugar and the vinilla.

  2. Whisk, Place the crumbs in a buttered pie dish.

  3. Strain the custard on to the crumbs.

  4. Bake in a bain marie, until set, for 30 mins.

  5. Allow to cool, stifly beat the egg whites and add the rest of the sugar.

  6. Spread the jam over the baked mixture.

  7. Using a star shaped tube, Pipe over the meringue.

  8. Brown in a hot oven reg 7 and dust with icing sugar.

  9. Present on a doiled side plate.

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Shopping list for 4 portions

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Converted from the Cookeryonline Excel workbook “SR248”.