Sticky toffee pudding

So, you must all see The Departed!!!! Most excellent!! In fact I believe that I will see it again. Acting was super, including Leonardo discovery(?!), Jack Nicholson was great, Matt Damon was good. Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlburg were funny. Lots of violence, however wasn't gratuitous, it fit the movie.

Fantastic! Richard thought it was fabulous too! And Marianne, whom we went with.

Richard is in the middle of dropping off car at repair place(we need a new starter, they say they will fix tomorrow) and I arranged for him to be picked up by car rental place at Starbucks. They won't drive into town as the intown place is closed on Sundays and only airport location is open.

I did some yard work, cleaned the house--Richard vacuumed. It was a productive day. Though somewhat aggravating

Recipe is as follows:
Sticky Toffee Sauce

90 mls butter 250 mls brown sugar
10 mls cinnamon 30 mls. orange juice
30 mls. rum 45 mls whipping cream (I used skim milk and seemed fine to me)

In a saucepan, melt together butter and brown sugar over medium. Heat, stirring occasionally bubbling, add cinnamon, oj, rum. Return to simmer, stirring. Remove from heat and stir in cream. Spoon 30 mls into each ramekin (or 240 mls in to bottom of corning ware) reserve rest to serve with pudding.

Pudding
425 mls pitted dates chopped coarsely (about 280 grams)
500 mls orange juice 5 mls baking soda
550 mls flour 2 mls. Cinnamon
2 mls ground ginger 2 mls. salt
90 mls butter 175 mls brown sugar
3 eggs boiling water


grease and flour 8 (140 g) ramekins. I used just a corning ware dish---I think it was 2 or 1.5 litres and it worked fine.
Simmer dates with oj, uncovered for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Let cool while preparing rest of batter.
Sift together dry ingredients except sugar.
In separate bowl cream sugar and butter. Add eggs to this 1 at a time.
Add flour mixture alternately with dates to sugar and butter mixture, starting and ending with flour mixture. Stir well after each addition.

Spoon into dishes.

Place into larger dish gffff(that's Sebastian stepping on keyboard), filled with enough boiling water to reach up at least 1 cm on side of dish(es).

Bake at 175(350) for 30-40 minutes I think I needed 1 hour with using larger dish. Or until knife inserted comes out clean.

Serve with sauce.

Very tasty, plus high fibre!