The Pudding Club syrup sponge

John Dory with raspberry salad

Ingredients

120 g (4 oz) each of butter, caster sugar and SR flour 
2 eggs, beaten
2 tbsp Lyle’s Golden Syrup
For sauce: 
1 dessertspoon cornflour
2 tbsp Lyle’s Golden Syrup
  Juice of ˝ lemon

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Sift flour and add to butter mix with eggs, a little at a time, beating well. Pour syrup into base of a buttered 1.1 ltr (2 pt) pudding basin then top with sponge mix. Cover securely and steam for one and a half to two hours. Meanwhile, pour 150 ml water into a pan. Mix cornflour with a little water and add to pan with syrup and lemon juice and heat until thickened. Serve sauce with pudding.

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