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Malva Pudding

Name: Malva Pudding
Cuisine: South Africa
Ingredients: All-purpose flour; Sugar; Eggs; Apricot jam; Milk; White vinegar; Baking soda; Butter; Cream (for sauce)

Vinegar meets baking soda inside a sticky apricot sponge soaked in cream sauce.

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The Chemistry in This Bake

Baking soda reacting with the batter's acidic components (vinegar/apricot jam) to leaven the sponge.

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Ingredients

All-purpose flour
Sugar
Eggs
Apricot jam
Milk
White vinegar
Baking soda
Butter
Cream (for sauce)

Method

Beat egg and sugar until pale, then whisk in apricot jam.
Sift in flour and alternate with milk to form a soft batter.
Stir baking soda into vinegar and fold it in as it fizzes.
Bake at 180 °C for 40 minutes until risen and golden.
Simmer butter, cream, and sugar into a warm sauce.
Pour the sauce over the hot pudding and let it soak in before serving.