Pouding chômeur
The “unemployed man’s pudding”, born in Quebec during the Great Depression: a simple sponge baked over a maple syrup that stays at the bottom like a sauce.
Ingredients
- 300 ml maple syrup
- 200 ml cream
- 100 ml water
- 200 g flour
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 100 g sugar
- 80 g butter
- 1 egg
- 150 ml milk
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
How to make it at home
- Heat the maple syrup with the cream and water until it boils, and pour it into an ovenproof dish.
- Beat the butter with the sugar and egg; add the vanilla, the flour with the baking powder and the milk.
- Drop spoonfuls of batter over the hot syrup, without mixing.
- Bake at 180 °C for about 35 minutes, until the sponge is golden.
- Serve it warm with the syrup from the bottom.
The trick: The batter floats and the syrup thickens underneath: don’t stir.