Recipes: A Maltese Pudding

An easy recipe in which the basic ingredients are dried fruits and bread.

  • 800g bread (Preferably maltese bread)
  • 200g flour
  • 350g sugar
  • 100g drinking chocolate
  • 50g cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond essence
  • 1 shot anisette
  • 100g coconut flakes
  • 1 shot martini
  • Peel of 1 mandarine
  • Peel of 1/2 orange
  • 50g butter
  • 200g sultanas
  • 100g chopped glazed cherries
  • Some extra butter for greasing, and some extra coconut flakes

    Method

    1. Soak all the bread in water and leave for 1 hour, afterwhich the water is drained by squeezing the bread into a sieve.
    2. Heat up the oven at 160C.
    3. Grease a 30cm X 15cm dish with butter.
    4. Mix all the ingredients together, cover with the extra coconut flakes and put in oven. Leave for 40 minutes. Enjoy the smell of the pudding being cooked!