Summer Pudding

This simple recipe is a great way of not only feeding a family but impressing a room full of dinner party guests.

Ingredients:

• Sliced White Bread
• Summer fruits
• Caster Sugar
• Blackcurrant Gin Liqueur 20%

Preparation:

Line a flexible pudding bowl with one layer of bread slices. Simmer together any summer fruit, including raspberries, strawberries, redcurrants, brambles, a small number of blackcurrants, with sugar to taste. Once gently softened allow it to cool then sieve off some of the juice and replace it with Blackcurrant Gin Liqueur 20% (reserve the juice in case it is needed later). Pour the Blackcurrant Gin Liqueur laced fruit into the pudding bowl. Ensure that the juice soaks into the bread, colouring it all. Add the reserved juice and any additional Blackcurrant Gin as required. Top the pudding bowl with more bread slices, cover, and weight gently. This can be frozen until needed then turned out onto a serving dish, thawed and served with pouring cream.

Anything else I should know?

The Blackcurrant Gin Liqueur 20% used can be replaced with Raspberry Vodka Liqueur 22% or Morello Cherry Brandy Liqueur 17% as preferred.