Recipe - Ginger Puffs

One half cup Margarine; softened
1/3 cup Sugar
1 lg Egg
2 cup Sifted flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1/8 teaspoon Salt
4 teaspoon Ground ginger
Three fourths cup Milk
One fourth cup Light corn syrup
Three fourths cup Drained preserved ginger
1/3 cup Golden raisins coarsely
chopped
1/3 cup Ginger marmalade; (optional)
Ginger pine cones; (opt)
Mint leaves; (optional)

Place a 1 One half quart mold on a rack in a large kettle. Hold mold and fill
kettle with water until it reached One fourth way up the side of the mold. Remove
the mold. cover the kettle and bring the water to boiling. In a medium
bowl, beat butter, sugar, and egg until fluffy. add flour, baking powder,
salt, ground ginger, milk, and corn syrup. Stir together just until
ingredients are well combined. Fold in preserved ginger and raisins.
Generously grease inside of mold with vegetable shortening or cooking
spray. Turn ginger mixture into mold. Shake to assure batter goes into the
ridges of the mold. Cover with lid or tie a double piece of foil over the
top. Carefully place in the kettle and steam until the center of the
pudding is firm when pushed gently about 2 2 One half hours Remove the
pudding to a cooling rack. Cool in mold for 5 minutes. Turn out onto
serving plate and serve warm. If desired, glaze with strained ginger
marmalade and garnish with ginger pine cones and mint leaves.

Substitute candied ginger cut into small pieces for preserved ginger if the
preserved ginger is not available
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #934 by Ken Vaughan kvaughan@ptialaska.net
on Nov 30, 1997