INDIVIDUAL SUMMER PUDDINGS
Ingredients
- 175g/6oz sugar
- 100ml/3½fl oz water
- 1 vanilla pod
- seeds scraped out
- 100g/3½oz blueberries
- 100g/3½oz strawberries
- hulls removed
- quartered
- 100g/3½oz raspberries
- 2 tbsp orange liqueur
- 12 slices white bread
- crusts removed
- sliced in half
- 3 tbsp finely chopped rose-flavoured Turkish delight
- icing sugar
- clotted cream
- 3 tbsp finely chopped rose-flavoured Turkish delight
Directions
- Place the sugar
- water and vanilla pod and seeds into a pan and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 7-8 minutes
- then add the berries and orange liqueur. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside to cool.
- When cooled
- strain the berries through a sieve
- reserving both the liquid and the fruit in separate bowls. Discard the vanilla pod.
- Dip the bread slices in the fruit juice
- then use a third of the soaked bread slices to line four small dariole moulds. Spoon some of the berries into the bottoms of each mould
- then divide half of the chopped Turkish delight among them. Top with half of the remaining soaked bread
- then spoon over the remaining berries and top with the remaining soaked bread. Press down to pack the bread and berries into the moulds.
- Cover the moulds with cling film and chill in the fridge overnight.
- To serve
- turn the puddings out onto serving plates
- dust with icing sugar and top with a dollop of clotted cream. Sprinkle over the chopped Turkish delight and serve.

