Sticky toffee pudding, known as sticky date pudding in Australia
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consisting of a moist
sponge cake
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covered in a
toffee
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sauce
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, often served with a vanilla
custard
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or vanilla
ice cream
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. It is widely served in the
Lake District
The Lake District, also known as ''the Lakes'' or ''Lakeland'', is a mountainous region and National parks of the United Kingdom, national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and mou ...
in northwest England, where it is a culinary symbol.
Composition
Sticky toffee pudding has two essential components, sponge cake and toffee sauce. The first is a moist
sponge cake
Sponge cake is a light cake made with egg whites, flour and sugar, sometimes leavened with baking powder. Some sponge cakes do not contain egg yolks, like angel food cake, but most do. Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during ...
which contains finely chopped
dates.
The sponge is usually light and fluffy, closer to a
muffin
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consistency rather than a heavier traditional British sponge, and is often lightly flavoured with nuts or spices such as
cloves
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.
The toffee sauce is usually made from double cream and different dark sugars (
brown sugar
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,
jaggery
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,
molasses sugar,
muscovado,
panela
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,
peen tong).
Sticky toffee pudding is most commonly served with
custard
Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with Eggs as food, egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin. Depending on the recipe, custard may vary in con ...
or
vanilla ice cream
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, the vanilla flavour of these complementing the richer flavours of the pudding.
It may also be served with
single cream.
Origins
The origins of sticky toffee pudding are disputed. Owners of pubs including the Gait Inn in
Millington, East Riding of Yorkshire (claimed to 1907) and the Udny Arms Hotel in
Newburgh, Aberdeenshire
Newburgh is a coastal village in Aberdeenshire (unitary), Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village dates to 1261 AD, when William St. Clair, 6th Baron of Roslin, wanted to establish a chapel in the area. Originally built as a school, somewhat lat ...
(1960s) claim to have invented it.
The pudding was popularised in the 1970s by Francis Coulson and Robert Lee, who developed and served it at the
Sharrow Bay Country House Hotel in
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...
. The food critic
Simon Hopkinson said Coulson told him he received the recipe from a Patricia Martin of
Claughton in
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...
,
and that Martin had received it from Canadian air force officers who lodged at her hotel during the Second World War.
It is widely served in the
Lake District
The Lake District, also known as ''the Lakes'' or ''Lakeland'', is a mountainous region and National parks of the United Kingdom, national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and mou ...
in northwest England, where it is a culinary symbol.
A take-home version to heat, either in oven or microwave, was developed in 1989 by the owners of the Village Shop in
Cartmel
Cartmel is a village in Furness (traditionally "Lancashire-over-the-Sands" (and in the ceremonial county of Cumbria), England, northwest of Grange-over-Sands close to the River Eea. The village takes its name from the Cartmel Peninsula, a ...
, Cumbria.
Their dish became popular, and by the late 1990s was being sold in supermarkets across the UK.
The dish is now widely available from multiple manufacturers to bake at home.
References
External links
Rock Recipes Perfect English Sticky Toffee Pudding RecipeA Tasty Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe to Make at Home
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