Ingredients

How to make it

  • Butter a pudding basin very well and boil a large pot of water. (large enough to comfortably accomodate the basin.)
  • Simmer rhubarb with 2 tbs sugar and 100ml of water, covered, over medium heat until soft and pulpy. Mash with a potato ricer and let it cool.
  • Put all the other ingredients, minus milk into a food processor or a bowl and stand cake mixer and mix until very smoothly combined.
  • Add the rhubarb puree and pulse or whisk quickly till combined with the batter. Do not overmix. Add the milk and pulse or whisk only till incorporated. Turn the batter into the basin. Cover securely with kitchen foil.
  • Put basin into boiling pot . The boiling water should come about half way up the basin..
  • Steam for approx 2 hours, topping up with boiling water if the water level drops too low. When a skewer comes out clean from the centre of the pudding, it's done.
  • Remove from pot, cool before serving with rhubarb jam or pouring custard.
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    " It was just okay "
    Finn987 ate it and said...
    The recipe was actually devised by Nigella Lawson and it is from her book How to Eat 1998. The inspiration came from a conversation describing a school dinner called pig's bum by the pupils. Anyway, I have actually made it and found it too sweet with too little rhubarb flavour. However it had a good fluffy consistency.
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    " It was excellent "
    zena824 ate it and said...
    This is so cute.....Your a big teaser!!!!
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    " It was excellent "
    lor ate it and said...
    You are tooooo much!!! This imaginative recipe looks like something my Mother would have thought up! I LOVE it! Cheers!!!
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  • danadooley 15 years ago
    Cakelady I'd love to take credit for this one but Pig's Bum is part of the great British culinary tradition. I didn't name or create this recipe, just brought it to your attention cos I thought it was so adorable lol I have not tried this recipe as rhubarb is rather elusive over here. The picture was taken from the internet. I hope someone will try this and let me know the outcome. Thanks :)
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  • cakelady 15 years ago
    You just have the greatest names for your recipes! This one looks really fun to make. I have to brush up on my metric system and try this one....when I can find some rhubarb. Looks great. Can't wait to try it!:)
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    " It was excellent "
    neena51 ate it and said...
    I love rhubarb!! I'm gonna tell hubby he's getting pigs bum for dinner!!! lol Got my 5!!!!
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  • danadooley 15 years ago
    Ah, prettylady ;) what's a little effort, for the love of food? lol Forgive me, as accustomed as you are to lbs and ozs, I am equally accustomed to gms and kgs. What are we to do? *grin* It's those inconvenient differences that make the world that much more interesting now isn't it? Now let's see here according to my 'research' ;) roughly, 1 oz = 28 gm and 1 lb = 454 gm. So gm weight/28 = oz weight and kg weight converted to gms/454 = lb weight. Happy converting!
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  • arstielady 15 years ago
    ahhhh Danadooly you're going to force me to convert the grams. Oooo, so not nice :)
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    " It was excellent "
    waterlily ate it and said...
    Cute cute cute! I'll have to horrify my family be telling them that I'm going to serve them a pig's butt for dessert!
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    " It was excellent "
    lunasea ate it and said...
    Very clever and different, m'dear. Great post - thanks so much!
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  • wolfpackjack 15 years ago
    Thanks Dana, I'll have to give this a try. Rhubarb is always an interesting food to me. I think this may help me overcome some early childhood phobias... lol... thanks again dave
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  • catbot79 15 years ago
    Looks tangy and tasty. What do you have in store for us next? :)
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    " It was excellent "
    shirleyoma ate it and said...
    Oh yes, I love Rhubarb!! got my 5
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    " It was excellent "
    berry ate it and said...
    Yes... this is too much!!! Different and delicious!
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  • jett2whit 15 years ago
    OH MY GOODNESS!!! You are too much!
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