A Traditional South African Pud Recipe - bilingual, flop-free, people-pleaser.

Warning:  too many cals, so if you manage to resist, dish up small portions, Sweet Tooth (self-talk).
Serve hot or at room temperature or cold - depending on your weather conditions.
And may your hospitality warm and encourage hearts!

We often take a Malva Pud to parties, or bake on special occasions such as tomorrow when we are expecting our very dear Michael, Izo, Josie, Evie and Dani.  Dani is Gordon's cousin's daughter: petite and blonde and we like her - and our Schmidt clan!    Hoping the snow will allow for safe travel....from London and Milton Keynes and even for us to St Albans Spicer Street in the morning.

Malva Poeding (Malva can be translated either marshmellow or geranium - there are no marshmellows in  recipe.  The "v" is pronounced as "f" in family.  We have renamed the pud at our Bible Study group:  Geranium Pud, to avoid unfamiliar pronunciation.

Malva Pudding

Ingredients:
250 ml Meelblom (flour - one cup)
5 ml Koeksoda (1 teasp biacarb)
5 ml Bakpoeier (1 teasp bakingpowder)
15 ml Appelkooskonfyt (apricot jam - 3 teaspoons)
15 ml Botter/Margarien (3 teaspoons)
250 ml Melk (1 cup milk)
1 Eier (egg)
250 ml Suiker (1 cup sugar)
5 ml Suurlemoensap lemon juice (1 teasp lemon juice)

So maak mens!  Method:
1. Meng botter en suiker. (mix butter/marge and sugar)
2. Voeg eier by. (add egg)
3. Voeg suurlemoensap, koeksoda & appelkooskonfyt by.  (add lemon juice, bicarb, bakinp and apricot jam)
4. Voeg meelblom & melk om die beurt by.  (add flour and milk - a bit of the one, then a bit of the other etc).  The dough is runny....
5. Bak vir een uur in n oondvaste bak teen 180grade C. (bake 1 hr 180 C)

Karamelsous (Caramel sauce)
250 ml Room of Ingedampte Melk (Ideal milk)   250 ml Ideal milk
125 ml Margarien /Botter  (1/2 c marge)
250 ml Suiker (1 cup sugar)
125 ml Kookwater (1/2 cup boiling water)
So maak mens!  method
1. Kook al die bestanddele saam vir twee minute & gooi warm oor die poeding wanneer dit uit die oond   kom.  (Boil all the ingredients for 2 minutes, pour while hot over pud as soon as it comes out of the oven)
2. Bak verder tot gekarameliseerd. (so 5 min) (put back in the oven for another 5 min)
3. Bedien warm met room en/of vanilla roomys.  (Serve at temp of choice with ice-cream or custard)..Freezes well.