My daughter came home from school and showed me a book she had found on the way. “It’s a pudding book!”
As we flipped through the pages together, I realized that this was not the wobbly custard pudding I first imagined, but British-style puddings. I had learned about British pudding before from @shanibeer on Hive, and I had been wanting to make one for a while. What a coincidence!
We didn’t have enough sugar in the kitchen, so I said, “Let’s make one this weekend.” Then I went out to a meeting at the cultural center.
When I came home, there was an apple pudding already baked. My partner had gone out to buy the ingredients, and my daughter had made it herself 😮
We cut into the pudding while it was still warm and ate it together in the night as a family. What a happy peaceful moment! It was full of chunky pieces of apple with exactly the texture I love. It was completely my kind of cake, which my mother used to love too.
We all had some again for breakfast this morning, and now there is hardly any left 😌
The design of the book looks rather old-fashioned, so I assumed it was from the 1980s, but it actually turned out to be from the 2000s. Well, I suppose something over twenty years old can already be called old-fashioned.
Since it is an old cookbook, I expected the recipes to contain huge amounts of sugar and butter. But when we made half the recipe, the quantities were almost exactly the same as what I normally use for a pound cake: 60 g of sugar and 60 g of oil. It was perfectly sweet enough. A timeless recipe that still works very well today. My daughter really found a good book 👏
I was a little sad that I missed her first time baking a cake on her own. But if I had been there, I probably would have interfered and helped too much. Maybe it was better this way. Ja kids grow up like this.
Here in Germany, autumn is already beginning to make itself felt, and it is exactly the season when warm puddings taste especially good. My daughter has already picked up the next recipe to try. This autumn and winter, I will simply watch and enjoy her exploration of puddings 😉
子供が学校の帰り道に「プディング」の本を拾ったよと見せてくれました。一緒にページをめくっていくと、いわゆるプルプルした日本的プリンではなくて、イギリス式のプディングではないですか。これ、以前 @shanibeer さんとやりとりする中で知って、作りたかったんです。おおお、なんて偶然。
台所にある砂糖が足りなかったのもあって、「週末に作りたいね」と言って、カルチャーセンターの会合に出かけて帰ってきたら、りんごのプディングが焼いてあるではないですか。相方が材料を買いに行って子供が作ったとのこと。
まだほかほかしているプディングを家族で切って食べました。私が大好きな食感のあるりんごがごろごろ入っていて、好みのど真ん中でした。母もこういうのが好きだったんだよなあ。今日の朝ごはんにもみんなで食べて、もうほとんど残っていません 😌
本の装丁はオールドファッションで80年代くらいのものかなと思いきや2000年代のもの。まあでももう20年以上前であれば十分オールドファッションですね。昔の本なので、砂糖もバターもどかっと入っているのかと思いきや、うちにちょうど良い半量だと、私がパウンドケーキを作る時と同じくらいの分量でびっくり（砂糖60g、油60g）。味も十分甘くて現在でも通じるタイムレスなレシピ。子供はいい本を拾ってきましたね。
それにしても、子供の初めてのケーキ作りに立ち会えなかったのは残念ですが、私がいたら手を出していたかもしれないと思うと、今回のような感じでよかったのかな。こうして子供って大きくなるんだなとちょっと感慨深いです。
ドイツはもう秋の足音が聞こえていて、プディングがおいしい季節で、この秋冬はプディングの探究に励む子供を見守ろうと思います。
