Each week we’ll bring you a tasty recipe passed down by Emanuel families, from the Emanuel School Community Cookbook, The Family Meal. 

From the kitchen of  the Carpenter Family 

Easy Peach Pudding

Ingredients

For Base:
8 peaches, halved
4 tbsp caster sugar
4 tbsp water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

For Topping:
125g butter softened
125g sugar
125g self-raising flour
2 eggs

Directions

Preheat oven to 180⁰C.
For the base, bring all ingredients to a boil in a pan and simmer for 5 minutes.
For the topping, beat the butter and sugar together until creamy.
Add the eggs one at a time and combine.
Add self-raising flour.
To combine, grease a baking dish with butter and shake in some sugar.
Place the peaches and syrup into the dish. Put pudding topping on in dollops.
Bake for 30 minutes.

Serve with vanilla ice-cream.