Dessert Recipes
Orange Steamed Pudding with
Orange Hard Sauce
Ingredients
Pudding
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1 1/2 tablespoons grated orange peel
- 1 1/2 tablespoons grated lemon peel
Orange Hard Sauce
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 2 teaspoons orange juice
- Confectioners' sugar
Instructions
Pudding
- In large bowl, cream butter. Add sugar, a little at a time, and continue beating until mixture is light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift flour and baking powder together and add to butter mixture alternately with orange juice. Stir in orange peel and lemon peel. Pour batter into well-greased 1-quart steamed pudding mold and cover tightly with lid. Place mold on rack in kettle with tight fitting lid. Add enough hot water to kettle to reach two-thirds up sides of mold.
- Steam pudding, covered, for 2 hours over moderate heat.
- Remove mold from kettle and let stand on rack, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
- Invert pudding onto a plate. Dust with confectioners' sugar.
Orange Hard Sauce
- Cream butter. Beat in confectioners' sugar, a little at a time. Add orange peel and orange juice and beat mixture until fluffy. Transfer to a serving bowl.