Indeed I notice some recipes suggesting that you put your Roly Poly in the oven to crisp it up slightly after steaming – so no need with the Mermaid Sleeve
The difference being that pudding contains suet and is baked, and the cake is baked. British tradition is to make a Christmas pudding, but I generally tend to opt for a Christmas cake with plenty of time to soak in booze ahead of Christmas day
For the topping, I wanted each little pie to have a snowy top, so I created a smokey spiced marshmallow topping which, when warmed in an oven, would soften and ooze over the filling
It is either steamed with a water bath on stove or done in the oven. Australia Pavlova — This meringue dessert, named after Anna Pavlova, a Russian ballet dancer is traditionally baked from egg, sugar, vinegar, cornflour and vanilla essence
Bake in a quick oven for a quarter of an hour. May be baked in one or two tins. The queen was known for her sweet tooth and gave her name to all kinds of foods apart from the said cake – from the popular plum and sponge cake we still know today but also to a variety of rhubarb, a pea and a sweet suetpudding made with apples, dried cherries and apricot jam
All sorts of ingredients could be mixed up, transferred to one of the many pudding moulds from the dazzling display of designs that lined the kitchen shelves and simmered on the stove, or in a bain-marie in the oven, for a good few hours
