Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Chômeur Pudding



I had a crushing blow today. A professor whom I respect very much vetoed a paper idea I had calling it "too complicated" and "too difficult." I guess this is an instance where having an undergraduate degree already hurts me in this process, as the papers I'm sure he deems more acceptable and "doable" feel like grade school to me... But, as a consequence, I decided to say phooey to the French and go Quebecois tonight and drown my sorrows in "Chômeur Pudding" or literally "unemployed man's pudding."

I originally nabbed this recipe from the Post Punk Kitchen, an all vegan recipe site that I adore.
http://www.theppk.com/

Chômeur Pudding

For the cake:
  • 2 cups flour
  • 3/4 c sugar
  • 1 cup "milk" (soymilk if you're vegan)
  • 4 tablespoons melted "butter" (margarine if you're vegan, gotta love Earth Balance)
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
For the syrup:

  • 2 cups brown sugar (I use more like 1.5, and I use half light and half dark)
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 teaspoon flour
In a large glass baking dish (tonight I used my Le Creuset skillet), place brown sugar and flour from the syrup ingredients in the bottom. Add the water.

Mix dry cake ingredients. Add melted butter and milk. Mix gently. Plop in about six lumps in water. Bake at 375 degrees, 30-40 minutes.

2 comments:

  1. That looks very yummy Angel! Finally got to take a look at your blog. $250 a month? Are you serious? How do you do that!? I'll have to check into here more often. Christina.

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  2. Lately it's been more like $300. But if you pinned me down, and said I could NOT go out to eat and I HAD to keep it to $250, I could. As long as I had the time to plan. My husband can tell you. There can be nothing left but some cornmeal, some broccoli and some beans and I'll manage to make something out of it.

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