Steamed Pudding with Golden Syrup

Ingredients

 * 1 egg.
 * 90gm butter.
 * 3 tablespoons caster sugar - fine grained white sugar.
 * 1/3 cup milk.
 * 1 cup self-raising flour.
 * 1 teaspoon vanilla.
 * 3 tablespoons golden syrup.

Directions

 * Cream the butter and sugar.
 * Beat in the egg.
 * Fold in the flour alternately with milk and vanilla.
 * Put the golden syrup in the bottom of a 4 cup pudding basin or ordinary ceramic basin.
 * Spoon the pudding mixture on to the top of the golden syrup.
 * Cover with a lid or pudding cap, or use greaseproof paper or aluminium foil fastened with string or a rubber band.
 * Put the bowl in a large saucepan with about 10cm of water.
 * The water should come halfway up the side of the pudding bowl.
 * Simmer gently for about 1½ hours.
 * Remove the water, let it rest for 5 minutes and then turn it out onto a dish. serve with cream or icecream or, more traditionally, custard (hot in winter).