Yesterday
saw me digging around in the bottom of my frozen fruit draw. I came
across some gooseberries from 2009, maybe 1/2 lb or so. Doing the same in my
preserve cupboard, I found some 2010 Blackcurrant jam.
Wondering
what I could make as I didn't have any margarine, butter or eggs, the
fridge held the answer - reduced fat suet. That's it, a jam and fruit
roly poly!
I
weighed 4 oz S.R. Flour, 2 oz Suet and put them in a bowl with a
tablespoon sugar.
I
added enough water (just a few tablespoons) to bring it together and
rolled it out around 8” - 10” or so, and lifted it carefully onto
a silicone baking sheet.
A
layer of the blackcurrant jam was put on the pastry, leaving the edges clear for
sealing.
Then
3/4 of the jam was covered with the cooked, mashed and well strained
gooseberries.
The
outer margin was dampened with water and the whole thing rolled up,
and lifted onto a baking tray.
It
was cooked at 190 Celsius for 30 minutes, removed from the sheet (as
it had just started to boil over the edges of the silicon sheet and I
wanted to get the baking tray into soak).
We
had half of it with a little cream (after having for our main a pork
curry and rice) and tonight, we'll finish it off with a little
custard after some mushroom risotto!
To
cheer ourselves up during Sunday's appalling wet weather, I nipped out
in-between showers to pick some flowers.
Now that's what I call creative! It looks wonderful and just crying out for custard mmm...... xxx
ReplyDeleteHow great that you are using up your produce. The roly poly looks very homely and just what the doctor ordered on a dull and yuksome day!
ReplyDeleteOh I love roly poly, we used to have jam as a child and my dad often made spotted dick or should I say dog? What reminiscences this has brought back. Yours looks divine.
ReplyDeleteIt was yum, yum, yum!
ReplyDeleteThat's my kind of pud - yum!
ReplyDeleteBare kitchen cupboards and left overs are often the mother of culinary inventions.
ReplyDeleteWell done. It looks delicious! And the flowers are very nice, too.:)
A very creative way to use up the left overs :) And it looks yummy!!
ReplyDeleteThe bouquet of flowers is very sweet.
Great idea- I have some old frozen fruit I should use up.
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