In Memory of...

Hi Everyone!

Well, today is a bit of a sad day for me. It would have been my mom's 64th birthday today. She passed away a year and a half ago of cancer. I am a real introvert and always struggle to express how I feel about death etc. I mainly just secretly cry on my own...

Not today though! I have decided to dedicate today's post to my mother! She was a wonderful person and a great mother. She was everything that everyone should strife to be - kind, loving, caring, compassionate and all the other great things I can't think of right now! When I think of her I can't think of anything bad.

She was also a great cook. I have decided to share one of her favorite recipes with all of you as a dedication. There's this one pudding she always used to make for us, especially for my husband. (They were/are both crazy about anything sweet!). She still made this for him a week before she passed away. I haven't made this since she passed away, because of the difficult memory. Today I'm going to make it and think of her and use it to keep her in our lives as a wonderful sweet memory! So here it is:

We call it Jan-Ellis pudding. (It is similar to malva pudding, just better!)

Batter

5 ml bicarbonate of soda
125 ml milk
200 g (375ml) self-raising flour
100 g (125ml) white sugar
2 eggs
30 ml fine apricot jam
20 g (25ml) very soft butter/margarine
1 ml salt

Sauce

250 ml water
250 ml cream
230 g (250ml) butter/margarine
200 g (250ml) white sugar
5 ml vanilla essence

Heat oven to 180 C (350 F). Spray a 2 litre ovenproof dish with non-stick spray. Dissolve the bicarb in the milk and set aside. Mix all the other ingredients for batter together and then ad the milk mixture to it. Put in dish and bake for 25-30 minutes. (Do not use a smaller dish even though it looks too little for the dish). While its baking, heat up the ingredients for the sauce in a saucepan on the stove. Heat till its boiling then take it of stove. When the pudding comes out of the oven, while its hot, pour over the sauce bit by bit and leave till the sauce has all drawn into the pudding. Serve hot with ice-cream or custard.

This pudding is so easy and absolutely delicious! Hope you enjoy!

I miss my mom soo much and am glad that I have so many great memories of her that she will never be forgotten!

Thanks for reading!